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- The Secret Service has gone broke protecting President Trump and his family.
- An Italian man got lost on Staten Island, then shot.
- A vast plastic garbage patch bigger than Mexico has been discovered in the South Pacific.
- Taylor Swift is upstaging the eclipse.
- Vanity Fair looks at how Stephen Miller "rode white rage" into the West Wing.
- A tiki torch company has been working hard to distance itself from white supremacists after their torches were used in a racist march in Charlottesville, Virginia.
- Maybe opening more casinos isn't the key to economic recovery?
- Science-fiction spacesuits, ranked.
- The Fresco News startup was doing great until investors like Ashton Kutcher stopped throwing money into an unprofitable money pit.
- Whoa, is there an eclipse happening today?
Published Aug 21, 2017
Modified Aug 21, 2017
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