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- New music Thursday: listen to new singles from The War On Drugs and Arcade Fire, as well as the entire Buckingham/McVie album.
- Cosmopolitan reports on what happens when pregnancy dreams become IVF nightmares.
- Putin compared hackers to patriotic painters.
- The NY Times has a longread on a forgetful 80-year old mobster, and a crime he is accused of committing in 1991.
- This millionaire thinks aliens are already here on Earth.
- Passengers at La Guardia are being hit with an apocalyptic swarm of mosquitoes.
- NY Magazine shows what happens before and after plastic surgery.
- Elon Musk has quit two of Trump's business advisory councils because he withdrew from the Paris Agreement.
- Kenneth Branagh shows off his impressive mustache in the first trailer for Murder On The Orient Express.
- This is just a wonderful Seussian headline: "Less Tweeting, Lawyers Beg. ‘Covfefe,’ the President Says."
- And finally, this dog settles in for a well-deserved nap:

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