Extra, Extra: Trump Won't Shake Hands With Leader Of The Free World

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Published Mar 17, 2017

Modified Mar 17, 2017

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Ben Yakas

Published 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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