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- Chuck Schumer and Tish James want the Columbus statue to remain.
- Watch a beautifully shot live concert featuring The National.
- A woman interviewed 100 convicted rapists in India and here's what she learned.
- Some Floridians didn't evacuate before Irma because of fear they would lose their jobs.
- You can see the destruction of Hurricane Irma from space—it turned several Caribbean islands brown.
- As Amazon increases the number of robots they use, workers are starting to find new roles.
- The Cincinnati Enquirer sent more than 60 reporters, photographers and videographers into their communities to chronicle an ordinary week of the opioid epidemic.
- Will you be murdered by a sex doll one day? Only one way to find out.
- It's the tenth anniversary of Kanye West's excellent album Graduation.
- You should carve out some time for this excellent piece about being a Muslim NYPD officer in The New Yorker this week.
- Louis C.K. still doesn't want to talk about his sexual assault rumors, even though his new movie apparently brushes up on the subject.
- And finally, these dogs are very lucky their owner built them a three-story palace: