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- Trump used a doctored Hurricane Dorian forecast map to back his false claim that Alabama was in its path (it wasn't).
- Taco aficionado LeBron James is apparently trying to trademark "Taco Tuesday."
- A community of Orthodox Jews are prospering by selling products on Amazon.
- Good luck trying to keep your parents' skull after they die—The Atlantic reports it’s nearly impossible to get permission to decapitate and de-flesh a relative’s remains under US law.
- The Trump administration announced they are rolling back requirements for energy-saving light bulbs, "a move that could contribute to the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change."
- Google and its YouTube subsidiary will pay $170 million to settle allegations that YouTube collected personal information from children without their parents' consent.
- For four years, the woman whose Stanford University sexual assault case against Brock Turner caused a public outcry, has been known only as “Emily Doe.” Her real name is Chanel Miller, and she's ready to tell her story.
- Mike Pence is not very popular in Ireland.
- Hey, are teens going to Stanford just to network, raise capital and drop out?
- Co-screenwriter Adele Lim has left the Crazy Rich Asians sequels over pay parity—the studio offered her a fraction of what they offered her male co-screenwriter.
- There's a tomato growing in the East River and no one knows why.
- Jalopnik has an ode to the beloved NPR program Car Talk.
- All of Missy Elliott's songs, ranked.
- What happens between consciousness and death?
- And finally, this is true jealousy:
Published Sep 4, 2019
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