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- About two-dozen House Republicans stormed a closed-door deposition in secure House Intelligence Committee spaces to rail against the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry, bringing chaos, pizza, Chick-fil-A, and their phones into the secure (no-phones-allowed) space.
- Earlier today, Trump and other Republicans were arguing that there couldn't be any quid pro quo because the Ukrainians did not know the assistance had been blocked. But it turns out they did know.
- Trump's attorney argued today that Trump can't be criminally prosecuted, even if he hypothetically shot someone on Fifth Avenue.
- BREAKING NEWS: scientists have taught rats to drive tiny rodent-sized cars!
- The old Output space in Williamsburg will soon become "a ballroom, a Japanese restaurant, a cocktail bar and a rooftop terrace."
- The future of the bodega looks like it may be aesthetically different.
- Watch a new Bill Callahan music video.
- An unhinged man attacked three elderly women on an Upper East Side bus.
- Deadspin interviewed the coolest guy in the world about his viral stunt drinking videos.
- The New Yorker reports on Mark Zuckerberg's congressional testimony today—he was left befuddled by AOC's questioning in particular.
- Chance the Rapper is hosting SNL this weekend, but first he's carving pumpkins.
- A New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to smuggling more than 1,000 box turtles that were illegally collected in Oklahoma.
- And finally, what a total floof:
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