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- The Atlantic takes a look back at the year 1987 (in photos).
- Families of 9/11 victims are suing Saudi Arabia, claiming the Arab country knowingly facilitated the terror attacks.
- The New Yorker on how the White House got James Comey so wrong.
- Word up! Here is the story behind the NY Times' greatest tweet.
- Plagiarist Benny Johnson was suspended from the Independent Journal Review after allegedly pushing an unfounded conspiracy theory about Obama.
- Trump has set his lawyers upon some teens who made a silly website where cats punch his face.
- Some very rich people (including George Soros and Steven Rockefeller) wrote a letter to Cuomo telling him to raise their taxes.
- First We Feast has a ranking of fast-food chicken tenders.
- Here's a good column on dealing with mansplainers at the office.
- Ivanka is getting her own West Wing office.
- Speaking of nepotism, take a look at the renderings of Jared Kushner's 666 5th Avenue tower.
- The FBI apparently bugged Trump Tower a few years ago as part of a Russian mafia sting.
- And finally, a baby bat gets its first taste of fruit:

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