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- Associated Press photographer Burhan Ozbilici recounts capturing yesterday's assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey.
- Buried in this New Yorker piece about life at Trump Tower is a timely reminder that the Naked Cowboy is and has always been the worst: "My wife’s a Mexican immigrant. She still doesn’t have her papers. Maybe she’ll be the next to be deported, who knows? I don’t think he’d do that. But if he does, hey, that’s fate. Plus, it’s a nice thing to have hanging over her head—you know, 'Do the dishes, or else.'"
- The Outline recut Westworld into a single timeline.
- Alec Baldwin talks about his Trump impression to the Times: “I see a guy who seems to pause and dig for the more precise and better language he wants to use, and never finds it," he said. "It’s the same dish — it’s a grilled-cheese sandwich rhetorically over and over again."
- Freelance adventurer Casey Neistat and friends built a drone powerful enough to lift him off the ground and carry him through the sky.
- Gramercy Park will open its gates on Christmas Eve to all us regular plebs!
- Thom Yorke’s longtime partner, Rachel Owen, has died from cancer.
- A White Supremacist was sentenced to 30 years for an anti-Muslim death ray plot.
- Check out some previews of Portlandia season 7.
- Are these the best Star Wars moments?
- And finally, a cat finds bliss with a heating lamp:
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