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- FBI agent Peter Strzok rigorously and righteously defended himself during a chaotic hearing in Congress.
- Sacha Baron Cohen's latest character Dr. Billy Wayne Ruddick, proprietor of the site Truthbrary.org, demanded an apology from Sarah Palin after she demanded an apology from him.
- You deserve to treat yourself and watch this solo Stephen Malkmus acoustic performance.
- Conservatives are sticking by Jim Jordan amidst an abuse scandal, just like they stuck with Roy Moore and Donald Trump.
- A man cut his 31-foot fingernails in NYC after 66 years, and the photos are truly gnarly.
- Marvel has finally found their director for the Black Widow solo movie: Australian Cate Shortland.
- A central New York man was in a for a surprise when a large snake fell from his bedroom ceiling and landed on him while he slept.
- A Business Insider columnist defiantly resigned after a bad column she wrote about Scarlett Johansson's decision to play a transgender character was taken down.
- The NYPD is trying to identify a man who was found unconscious with trauma to his head in Chinatown.
- The bro-tastic owner of Bustle has bought Gawker.com.
- Facebook: still very, very bad at fighting fake news.
- Will Smith has officially won the "In My Feelings" challenge, at least until a different celebrity tries to do this atop the Brooklyn Bridge.
- And finally, a pianist performs classical music for a blind elephant:
Published Jul 12, 2018
Modified Jul 12, 2018
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