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- Catch up on everything that happened today during the impeachment hearings.
- Trump was heard on a recording made at a dinner during the Trump International Hotel telling associates he wanted the then-U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch fired: "Get rid of her!" a voice that appears to be Trump’s is heard saying. "Get her out tomorrow. I don't care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out. OK? Do it."
- John Mulaney explained his conception of heaven and hell to Stephen Colbert.
- Quibi CEO Meg Whitman apologized for comparing journalists to sexual predators, after she reportedly compared the way journalists cultivate sources to the tactics used by child predators to “groom” victims at an all-hands meeting.
- Pete Tomlin, the engineer that outgoing NYC Transit president Andy Byford recruited to spearhead the resignaling of the subway system, is reportedly following his boss out the door.
- The restoration of the Ghent Altarpiece has left a lamb with permanent Zoolander face.
- The Times reports that the EPA has made it easier for cities to keep dumping raw sewage into rivers "by letting them delay or otherwise change federally imposed fixes to their sewer systems."
- Pete Buttigieg is apparently quite popular on the Upper West Side.
- Chance The Rapper will now become Chance The Punk'd Reboot Host.
- A cat who has been dubbed the "world's worst cat" is up for adoption.
- Jezebel reports on Jeanine Cummins reading from her controversial novel American Dirt at a Barnes & Nobles in the city this week.
- Read this anniversary piece on Warren Zevon's late-period masterpiece Life'll Kill Ya.
- And finally, a little snack time before the weekend:
Published Jan 24, 2020
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