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Extra, Extra: Should We Just Split An UberYACHT?
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Ben Yakas
Published Apr 28, 2016
Modified Apr 28, 2016
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- Who is the real @realDonaldTrump?
- Watch Key & Peele try to answer questions while eating increasingly hot chicken wings.
- Toxic contamination found on parts of the tracks in Penn Station, but Amtrak says you shouldn’t worry.
- Trump fans are also mad about the closed primary in NY.
- A German city has started installing traffic lights on the ground for smartphone-using walkers.
- A local dry cleaner claims in a lawsuit that Madison Square Garden put it out of business.
- Uber is launching its own luxury yacht service with UberYACHT.
- Speaking of billionaires, a lot of rich people are pooling their resources together to harness fusion power.
- Here's a rundown of Donald Trump's many relationships with mobsters over the years: "I've known the people that make the politicians look like little babies."
- Inside the cop-killing music video controversy that almost destroyed the Bronx Defenders.
- How many celebrities have the Illuminati murdered and/or cloned?
- And finally, these cats love a good beard:
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