Meet the Men Who Risk It All to Have Their Balls Cut Off

By Mark Hay

The Daily Beast got an unprecedented look at the world of backstreet castrations where people desperate to have genitalia altered or removed undergo risky, illicit operations.

By Hallie Golden

The 17-year-old mom said she spoke to the friend watching her child over video a day earlier, and he had a runny nose and his lips were turning blue.

By Cheyenne Roundtree

The family has long utilized their popular reality show to address situations they wouldn’t elaborate on in real time, instead waiting for the dust to settle to have the final say.

By Laura Bradley

This season, Lavinia has been embracing her wildness and her weirdness—and her sensuality. Who knew that journey would climax with an unforgettable dance scene set to a metal song?

By Margaret Carlson

All it took for Republicans to fall back in line is the threat of death-by-primary, since for so many of them, political death is more frightening than the real thing.

By Kevin Fallon

Everything we can’t stop loving, hating, and thinking about this week in pop culture.

By Ana Lucia Murillo

“When the dust settles, people deserve answers and accountability,” Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo said Friday.

By Megan Frye

In truth, it is a surprising place: unapologetically flamboyant and brimming at the seams with Mexican culture and history. And it is, unequivocally, stunning.

1. BAD INFLUENCES

Jones and Stone have denied encouraging the violence on Jan. 6, but law enforcement is investigating whether they may have influenced the rioters.

2. SUB PAR

Giuliani once again showed how awful he is.

3. ‘ACTS OF PERSECUTION’

Friedrich Karl Berger admitted he guarded prisoners so they could not escape a concentration camp near Meppen, Germany.

4. ‘FROM THE JUNKYARD’

“I’ve never seen a dog in the White House like this,” said Greg Kelly, who seemed to have run out of material with which to attack the human occupant of the White House.

5. PROBING

The summons went to the New York City Tax Commission, possibly indicating the DA is scrutinizing the values Trump reported for assets vs the taxes he paid.

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