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  • Yesterday was another intense news day, so let's start with something fun: Bruce Springsteen is back with a new album Letter To You, which was recorded in five days live with the E Street Band. Listen to the title track here.
  • A couple more takeaways from Bob Woodward's upcoming book: Donald Trump is reportedly incapable of expressing empathy with Black people, and he repeatedly denigrated the U.S. military and his top generals.
  • Trump released a nightmare list of 20 potential new Supreme Court picks, which includes Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton.
  • Here's what's going on with the wildfire crises out west: "In any given year, each of these individual events might be newsworthy. Together, they suggest that extreme weather is becoming more commonplace—an outcome climate scientists have long warned will be a result of climate change."
  • Are you willing to wait on line far more now than you ever would have before?
  • A New Jersey business is facing a backlash after displaying a sign that reads “Speak English or Pay $10 Extra.”
  • A Long Island man has been arrested and charged with threatening the life of a federal judge believed to be Emmet Sullivan, the judge who declined to immediately dismiss the case against former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn.
  • Defector has launched today, and here is a great summary of everything that led to this.
  • Dame Diana Rigg, who played Emma Peel in TV series The Avengers, Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones, and Tracy Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, among many roles, has died. She was 82.
  • Listen to "One More Second," a new single from The National's Matt Berninger.
  • And finally, this is the strangest looking bunny I've ever seen: