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Extra, Extra: Trump Won't Shake Hands With Leader Of The Free World
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Ben Yakas
Published Mar 17, 2017
Modified Mar 17, 2017
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- Former Us Weekly editor-in-chief Janice Min throws some serious shade at Rolling Stone and Jann Wenner in this BuzzFeed listicle.
- The Secret Service is scrambling to find a stolen laptop that may contain Trump Tower floor plans, Clinton email investigation info.
- Here is a Terrence Malick profile you'll want to read.
- Trump once allegedly kicked One Direction out of his hotel for refusing to meet his daughter.
- Jane Mayer goes deep on Robert Mercer, the man who helped fuel (and fund) Trump's presidential campaign.
- Vice is trying to pit Millennials against Generation Z.
- Your Times Brunch Hate Read for the weekend, as summarized by Gloria Pazmino: "I was raised in a suburb, I fled to city, gentrified it, now I’m back to suburb life and look at how cute I am."
- Trump refused to shake hands with German chancellor Angela Merkel during a meeting at the White House today, and it was awwwwwwwkward.
- Jake Tapper is sick and tired of Trump's embarrassing, outlandish, and wholly unverified claims of wiretapping.
- A Reuters review found that at least 63 individuals with Russian passports or addresses have bought nearly $100 million worth of Trump property in Florida.
- MTV offers a timely reminder that certain male magazine writers have a chauvinistic way of writing about female celebrities.
- Preet Bharara was apparently overseeing an investigation into stock trades made by the president’s health secretary, Tom Price, before he was fired last week.
- The New York Times public editor rebuked a Times employee for an innocuous Twitter joke because a Pizzagate troll complained loudly.
- And finally, puppies have complex relationships with couches:
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