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- This is where self-driving cars go to learn the ways of the world.
- The president of Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. accused Boy Scouts of America of trying to undercut the organization through a “covert campaign to recruit girls.”
- America is apparently on the verge of a Ratpocalypse.
- Congressional investigators have unearthed an email from a top Trump aide that referenced a previously unreported effort to arrange a meeting last year between Trump campaign officials and Vladimir Putin.
- Check out the trailer for Richard Linklater's new film, Last Flag Flying.
- Michael Bolton sings his own version of the GoT theme.
- Clay Travis, the Alex Jones of the sports world, has brought chaos upon ESPN.
- There's a new Beck song, "Dear Life," that sounds like Elliott Smith circa Figure 8.
- The best conspiracy theory of the day: does Tom Cruise wear a fake butt in movies?
- Trump "has widened an extraordinary rift with his own party" as he threatened a government shutdown over his long-promised border wall.
- And finally, the Brooklyn Cat Cafe uses rats to help care for their kittens:

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