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- The Ringer's story about the Philadelphia 76ers' president of basketball operations Bryan Colangelo and his secret Twitter accounts is bananas.
- A New Jersey couple admitted to stealing more than $1.4 million from Hurricane Sandy victims and spending the cash in Atlantic City casinos and on luxury items.
- Pusha-T absolutely destroyed Drake on new song "The Story of Adidon"—and he used a photo of Drake in blackface (which was Drake's idea, according to the photographer) for the artwork.
- After her show was cancelled yesterday, Roseanne continued spiraling on Twitter, blaming her racism on Ambien, among other things.
- The NY Times did a much-needed fact check on Trump's lies during his latest pep rally.
- A new survey of Puerto Rico residents finds a much higher death toll from Hurricane Maria than previously reported—putting it on par with one of the worst natural disasters in recent American history.
- Belle & Sebastian announced a four-day cruise and music festival next summer.
- Plastics and papers from dozens of American cities and towns are being dumped in landfills after China stopped recycling most “foreign garbage.”
- Women are more likely to wait longer for a health diagnosis and to be told it’s "all in their heads"—and with tens of thousands of diagnostic errors, that can be deadly.
- The NY Times Magazine goes deep on the Nxivm cult and how leader Keith Raniere convinced women to follow him.
- And finally, have you ever heard such a beautiful singing voice?

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