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Early Addition: Trump's Debts Are The Best, Nobody Owes More Money Than Trump
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Ben Yakas
Published Dec 12, 2016
Modified Dec 12, 2016
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- Donald Trump is in debt for at least $713 million.
- Aziz Ansari joins Billy Eichner to yell at people about how we are living in a golden age of television.
- A Pennsylvania judge shot down Jill Stein's recount effort, calling her request “later than last minute” and saying her suspicions of a hacked election “borders on the irrational.” Yep.
- It sounds like the powers that be may be able to convince Daniel Craig to come back for another Bond movie.
- Can't wait for three years of traffic jams due to a possible NY-NJ train tunnel project.
- The Times has a big story on how the Twinkie made the superrich ever richer.
- The best and worst branding of 2016.
- McDonald's holiday cups are super sexy this year.
- A teen girl saved her father when she was able to use "crazy strength" to lift a burning car off of him.
- Read an interview with America's first penis transplant recipient.
- Teen Vogue is good now.
- And finally, cats trying to catch snowflakes:
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