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- Faced with the impending release of a key government report on the reality of climate change, will Trump continue to call it a hoax?
- Cops tasered a knife-wielding ice cream thief in midtown.
- Kendrick Lamar opened up to Rolling Stone about working with Bono, creating DAMN, and being inspired by Nelson Mandela.
- The Atlantic looks back at the moral history of air conditioning.
- The NY Times Magazine on what a fraternity hazing death revealed about the painful search for an Asian-American identity.
- Trump aides are now telling people not to take his statements seriously.
- EW has a big cover spread on Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, including pieces about Rey's relationship with Luke, Snoke's personal guards, and the adorable new creatures the Porgs.
- The fired Google guy gave an interview to an Alt-Right YouTuber, which is definitely going to convince people he is a good guy.
- Noisey has an amazing shit-talkin' Liam Gallagher interview.
- GQ has a very good, very fecal-focused profile piece on the elusive Robert Pattinson.
- And finally, if the pup doesn't want to leave the park, the pup isn't leaving the park: