• Follow Gothamist on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here.
  • Nothing to see here, just a now-deleted photo of presidential advisor Kellyanne Conway posing with Jeffrey Epstein's pilot in late 2016.
  • And: NBC unearthed footage of Donald Trump partying with Epstein and the Buffalo Bills cheerleaders at Mar-a-Lago in 1992. Watch Trump whisper in Epstein's ear about how "hot" the women are and make the financier double over in laughter.
  • Chance the Snapper, Chicago's newly captured and "very healthy" alligator mascot, received some advice from his namesake (and Chicagoist owner) Chance the Rapper: "Keep your head up. They got you locked down; they can have your body, but they can't have your mind."
  • Border patrol agents in El Paso, Texas, reportedly made a 3-year-old Honduran girl choose which of her parents would remain with her in the U.S. as her family navigates the asylum process, and which would be sent to Mexico.
  • Beyoncé released a music video for "Spirit," her new song from The Lion King, and be warned: it includes a preview of the movie's scariest scene. (Hyenas, man.)
  • A barefoot, gearless Nebraska woman scaled Mount Rushmore, scrabbled right up between George Washington and Thomas Jefferson's faces and nearly made it to the top before park officials forced her down.
  • Chimps, like humans, seem to bond over a shared love of the cinema.
  • Warning, you won't be able to unread what you're about to read, but! A Kentucky man got a tick in/on his eyeball, and when his optometrist removed it, said tick reportedly made "a little popping sound." Barf.
  • I'm so sorry for that last link, I hope this makes up for it: