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  • John Bolton is out as national security adviser, after Trump said in tweets that he “disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions."
  • Insider spoke to someone who has been inside Jeffrey Epstein's "island temple."
  • Men are apparently reporting women on Tinder for not liking them.
  • There's a board game that will take on the gender pay gap: Ms. Monopoly.
  • The owners of Book Culture on the Upper West Side are split over a new lending program.
  • Influential photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank has died at the age of 94.
  • Gene Clark's masterpiece No Other is getting a massive reissue in November—and so is Prince's classic 1999, which includes 24 unreleased tracks from the Vault and two live shows.
  • Maybe we should turn every football stadium into a living forest.
  • Kevin Durant opens up about coming to the Nets, his frustrations with the NBA, and how he made his free agency decision: "He didn’t even speak to the Nets before his decision, he says. He didn’t need a PowerPoint. He’s always felt big love as a visiting player at Barclays Center, he says, and he wondered what it might be like if he were on the home team. Plus, the Nets offered the opportunity to join his 'best friend in the league,” Kyrie Irving.'"
  • A new study has found that an occasional nap appears to cut in half people's risk of heart attack, strokes and heart disease, compared with folks who never nap.
  • Lisa Bloom's memo to Harvey Weinstein about discrediting Rose McGowan is pretty damning.
  • Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker will star in a Broadway-bound revival of Plaza Suite.
  • Cops released the names of two of the three bandits who they say stuck up a Diamond District jewelry store in a brazen, broad-daylight heist.
  • The New Yorker has a long read on the perils of semi-legal poker.
  • Stimulating headline of the day: "New Electric Eel Is Most Shocking Yet."
  • The Magnetic Fields, and various other Stephin Merritt side projects, will be taking part in a residency at Symphony Space later this fall. Get tickets while they're still available.
  • And finally, who even knows how this happened: