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- A New Jersey firefighter has been accused of selling oxycodone.
- Montana's special election for an open House seat has lessons for how to approach and win independent voters.
- Chuck Schumer went on CNN and said that Democrats won't vote for a new FBI director without the appointment of a special prosecutor to look into the whole Russia thing.
- Although they might be able to just appoint one of their own if this potential Democratic tsunami wins them back the House. Who knows though.
- Rosario Dawson's family is involved in some kinda shady land deal involving a former squatter's building in the East Village.
- "The truth of the matter is that our press is far less I.F. Stone than Derek Zoolander: It is congenitally incapable of making a left turn."
- Trying to physically flee the specter of news about American politics and Donald Trump is harder than it sounds. For one person anyway. Your results may vary.
- Islanders goalie Thomas Greiss is on...thin ice...after smashing that "Like" button on an Instagram post comparing Hillary Clinton to Hitler.
- And finally, Southern California, let's go! There's room for us all:

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