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- Norm MacDonald gets the NY Times Magazine profile treatment.
- Vanity Fair counts down the 30 best animated shows since The Simpsons.
- Actress Vanessa Marquez, who was on ER in the '90s, was shot and killed by police in Pasadena.
- Check out Hugh Jackman as Gary Hart in the first trailer for The Front Runner.
- Have you ever tried the pot? The NY Times will publish your riveting first-hand account of the experience.
- This cat ban in New Zealand would mean residents would not be allowed to replace cats when they die.
- Headline of the day: "EAT CHEESE LIVE FOREVER EAT CHEESE NEVER DIE."
- State Senate candidate Julia Salazar's mother and brother contradicted and questioned Salazar's stated origin story.
- Jeff Goldblum is quite comfortable with you calling him daddy.
- J.R. Smith turned himself in for allegedly tossing a fan's phone into a construction site outside a popular Chelsea nightspot last month.
- Ian M. Smith, a Department of Homeland Security analyst who resigned this week after he was confronted about his ties to white nationalist groups, attended multiple immigration policy meetings at the White House.
- And finally, I hope you get this relaxed this weekend:
i felt like sharing this video of my dog straight chillin pic.twitter.com/7PbHb5vExW
— gustavo📌 (@capnsaveahood) August 25, 2018