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Early Addition: Trump Asked Bill Gates To Explain Difference Between HIV & HPV
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Ben Yakas
Published May 18, 2018
Modified May 18, 2018
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- Jordan Peterson is an absurd little man who is trying to keep the patriarchy alive, and Nellie Bowles artfully exposes him for who he is in her NY Times profile.
- Bill Gates says that in both meetings he had with Trump, Trump asked if HPV and HIV were the same thing.
- Tucker Max doesn't think he has anything to apologize for, and is very defensive about that.
- A three-story townhouse partially collapsed in Brooklyn yesterday.
- Some people are taking MDMA wrapped in cheese—a.k.a., "brieing."
- Courtney Barnett performed "Nameless, Faceless" on The Tonight Show.
- At least two people were injured in a Texas school shooting this morning.
- A Queens mailman was busted for delivering a 10-pound parcel of pot.
- And finally, it's a husky puppy feeding frenzy:
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