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Denmark’s Leaders Mock Trump and His Dream of Buying Greenland

“Trump lives on another planet.”
Everything We Know About the Mackenzie Lueck Murder Case

Ayoola Ajayi, the suspected killer, is now facing charges in connection with the kidnapping and sexual abuse of another woman.
Celebrities on Instagram Fall Prey to Instagram Hoax

Another day, another copypasta.
Trump Cancels Denmark Meeting Because He Can’t Buy Greenland

High-level diplomatic genius.
Lawsuit Alleges Epstein Arranged for Sex With Teenagers While on Work Release

According to three lawsuits filed Tuesday, Epstein coerced multiple young women — including a teenager — during his work release from jail in 2008.
Trump Insults Several Million American Jews

But don’t expect any Republican condemnation of the president’s offensive remark.
Trump’s Greenland Fantasy Wasn’t a Joke to His Administration

Despite the obvious stupidity of the president’s wish to buy Greenland, the administration reportedly drew up a rough plan to pursue the deal.
Harvey Weinstein Wants Trial Moved Out of NYC

Attorneys claim media pressure may affect jurors.
California’s New Use-of-Force Law Is Still Deadly Vague

A new law strengthens California’s guidelines for police use-of-force. But it does not go far enough.
A Victim of Jeffrey Epstein Alleges He Forced Her Into Marriage

She claims Epstein forced her to marry one of the female recruiters working in his sex-trafficking operation.
UK Tax Filings Show Trump Inflated Value of Scottish Resorts by $165 Million

According to numbers from balance sheets filed in the U.K., the president’s resorts in Scotland aren’t doing as hot as he says they are.
Trump Can’t Have It Both Ways on the Economy

The president wants us to believe that the economy is both booming and fragile.
Should Biden’s Competitors Make His Age a Bigger Issue?

Intelligencer staffers discuss how Democratic candidates should handle a major vulnerability for the front-runner.
Planned Parenthood Just Lost $60M in Funding. What Does That Mean for Women?

The organization announced yesterday that it will withdraw from Title X over abortion restrictions.
Facebook Exacerbates One Problem by Trying to Solve Another

In reintroducing human editors, Facebook is making it easier for bad-faith critics to claim bias.
Di Fara Pizza Has Been Seized by Tax Authorties

The iconic Brooklyn pizzeria has been closed since this morning.
Jill Biden to Democrats: If You Want to Beat Trump, Settle for Joe

You might like another candidate better, but Jill Biden says Democrats should “swallow a little bit” and vote for her husband.
Trump Assures Public He Isn’t Mulling Middle-Class Tax Cut to Stop Recession

Trump’s team denies that it’s mulling a payroll tax cut to preempt a recession, insisting that it’s only considering new tax breaks for the rich.
September Democratic Debates Should Feature Less Crowded Stages

Looks like at least 11 will qualify for the third round of Democratic debates. That probably means two events with fewer participants than before.
Woman Sued After Allegedly Binging ‘Astounding Hours’ of Friends at Work

So no one told you life was gonna be this way.

11:50 A.M. Trump Demands Right to Detain Migrant Children Indefinitely It’s mostly symbolic, since the judge who set the 20-day limit on detention of children is unlikely to approve it, but the new policy sounds tough.
10:37 A.M. Denmark’s Leaders Mock Trump for Trying to Buy Greenland “Trump lives on another planet.”
9:42 A.M. Trump: Why Don’t Jews Love Me, I’m Almost Literally Jesus Trump can’t understand why stiff-necked Jews forsake his brand of blood-and-soil authoritarian demagoguery.
9:30 A.M. Racism Has Always Thwarted America’s Ideals, and Still Does Instead of complaining about greater recognition of racism in American history, conservatives should realize it has been their enemy, too.
8:00 A.M. A Tennis History Lesson With the Oldest Grand Slam Champ “You could travel the world and live like a king. And you didn’t make any money,” says 95-year-old Vic Seixas.
6:00 A.M. Equinox and SoulCycle Workers Need a Union After the Stephen Ross controversy, they have an unusual amount of leverage now in a profitable business. They should use it.
12:47 A.M. Trump’s Greenland Fantasy Not a Joke to His Administration Despite the obvious stupidity of the president’s wish to buy Greenland, the administration reportedly drew up a rough plan to pursue the deal.
11:25 P.M. Epstein Trafficked Teenager While on Work Release: Lawsuit According to three lawsuits filed Tuesday, Epstein coerced multiple young women — including a teenager — during his work release from jail in 2008.
9:14 P.M. California’s New Use-of-Force Law Is Still Deadly Vague A new law strengthens California’s guidelines for police use of force. But it does not go far enough.
8:57 P.M. Trump Cancels Denmark Meeting Because He Can’t Buy Greenland High-level diplomatic genius.
6:54 P.M. Trump Inflated Scottish Resort Value by $165 Million: Report According to numbers from balance sheets filed in the U.K., the president’s resorts in Scotland aren’t doing as hot as he says they are.
6:44 P.M. Trump Can’t Have It Both Ways on the Economy The president wants us to believe that the economy is both booming and fragile.
6:37 P.M. Should Biden’s Competitors Make His Age a Bigger Issue? Intelligencer staffers discuss how Democratic candidates should handle a major vulnerability for the front-runner.
6:10 P.M. When CEOs Promise a Kinder Capitalism, Watch Your Wallet The Business Roundtable’s embrace of “corporate responsibility” is an attempt to evade democratic accountability.
5:23 P.M. Steven Holl’s Subtle ‘Reach’ Humanizes the Kennedy Center The architect has managed to strike an impossible balance in his addition to the venerable icon.
5:02 P.M. Trump Insults Several Million American Jews But don’t expect any Republican condemnation of the president’s offensive remark.
4:46 P.M. GOP Suspects Economic Sabotage Because They Did It to Obama Trump and his allies assume Democrats are trying to induce a recession. It’s classic projection.
4:11 P.M. Trump’s New Attempt to Skew Redistricting After SCOTUS halted a citizen question in the 2020 Census, the administration is collecting data states can use to base redistricting on citizenship.
3:37 P.M. Facebook Exacerbates One Problem by Trying to Solve Another In reintroducing human editors, Facebook is making it easier for bad-faith critics to claim bias.
1:25 P.M. Jill Biden to Democrats: Settle for Joe You might like another candidate better, but Jill Biden says Democrats should “swallow a little bit” and vote for her husband.

11:54 A.M. Who Is Ready for Trench Coat Season? Burberry’s new ad campaign sets the mood.
11:09 A.M. Oh My — Don’t Trust the B Accurately Predicted the Future What else did the beloved sitcom get right?
10:42 A.M. “There Are a Lot of Clothes Out There” Mickey Drexler and his son on their upstart company Alex Mill.
10:34 A.M. Gigi Hadid Took Tyler Cameron to Dine With Serena Williams The model and Bachelorette star got dinner with Serena in NYC.
10:00 A.M. Everything We Know About the Mackenzie Lueck Murder Case Ayoola Ajayi, the suspected killer, is now facing charges in connection with the kidnapping and sexual abuse of another woman.
9:53 A.M. How Combat Boots Stomped Back to the Catwalk Their ubiquity on the fall runways (Dior, Bottega Veneta, and the Row) could be a sign, at long last, that sneaker fatigue has set in.
9:41 A.M. Ghislaine Maxwell’s Twin Sisters Have Their Own Wild Stories Do Maxwell’s siblings know where she is?
8:48 A.M. The Chicago Coyote Guy on the Story Behind That Viral Video “That’s really odd to see a coyote pup out in broad daylight in an open area at 2 p.m.”
8:30 A.M. Meet the Unfluencers Notes on the people ruining vacations, golden lattes, and wide-leg pants everywhere.
8:00 A.M. Reconciling With My Body After a Mastectomy What do you wear when your body no longer resembles itself?
6:00 A.M. Ask Polly: ‘I Can’t Stop Oversharing!’ Recognize when it’s caused by an anxious need to please others.
8:51 P.M. Jeffrey Epstein Victim Says He Forced Her to Marry Associate She claims Epstein forced her to marry one of the female recruiters working in his sex-trafficking operation.
6:46 P.M. Adam Brody Says It’s Not Weird That He Married Blair Waldorf But I still think it’s weird.
6:38 P.M. What The Hell Is Butt-Con? The convention, which is coming to New York City, bills itself as “Comic-Con… but with way more butts!”
5:24 P.M. Planned Parenthood Just Lost $60M in Funding The organization announced yesterday that it will withdraw from Title X over abortion restrictions.
5:21 P.M. Shopping in New York Is Still Cool At Café Forgot, there’s still an opportunity for discovery.
4:06 P.M. The New Celine Perfumes Smell Like What Now? Apparently Hedi Slimane’s new scents smell like a “vulnerable-feeling man in liquid form.”
2:45 P.M. You Can’t Keep a Bad Man Down for Long In some prominent cases, women were no match for the power of sycophancy.
2:25 P.M. How I Joined the Cult of Cauliflower Gnocchi Extremely beige and incredibly bland.
12:51 P.M. Jhené Aiko’s Face Has a New Job It’s for a foundation and animals love it.

11:58 A.M. A Pop-Culture Guide to Pose Season Two What to watch, listen to, and read after every episode to more fully experience the rich history of NYC’s ballroom scene in 1990.
11:50 A.M. My Northern-Irish Family Reviews Derry Girls “If you grow up somewhere war-torn, it’s quite different from what you would imagine, especially for young people.”
11:28 A.M. Ozark’s Julia Garner on Her Memorable, Unconventional Roles “I get cult members. I get pregnant Mormon girls. I get cannibals. I got a girl who was in love with a KGB secret agent.”
11:04 A.M. Pose Ends Season Two in Endearingly Messy Fashion “In My Shoes” caps off a meandering season that too often prioritized incident over the more life-sized drama that makes the series special.
10:37 A.M. Lonely Batman Is the Hero We Deserve “Am I lonely? Sure. But everybody’s lonely nowadays. Thanks, Twitter.”
10:32 A.M. Hannah B. and … Sean Spicer Join Dancing With the Stars This is normal.
10:05 A.M. Tom Hiddleston Won’t Be Discussing Taylor Swift at This Time Even if you’re the New York Times!
9:55 A.M. Spider-Man’s MCU Future Is Shaky As Disney, Sony Butt Heads Marvel Studios producer Kevin Feige is stepping away from the Spidey franchise.
9:49 A.M. Celebrities on Instagram Fall Prey to Instagram Hoax Another day, another copypasta.
9:42 A.M. Bill Burr’s New Netflix Special Debuts Next Month Prepare for Paper Tiger on September 10.
9:10 A.M. How One Guy Played Charles Manson in Mindhunter and OUATIH Australian actor Damon Herriman capped off a whirlwind year of creeps by playing Charles Manson twice.
9:07 A.M. Bachelor in Paradise Recap: The Girlfriend Experience Seeing the whole cast welcome Demi’s girlfriend, Kristian, to Paradise is as heartwarming as it is narratively confusing.
8:50 A.M. Into the Dark Renewed for Another Year of Holiday Scares The horror anthology series will remain in production through September 2020.
12:46 A.M. Demi Lovato Cast in Will Ferrell’s Comedy Eurovision From Camp Rock to Europe’s largest reality-singing competition.
10:00 P.M. RHOC Recap: The Train Has Left the Station For a “friend of,” Vicki sure is doing a lot of the heavy lifting of creating Housewives drama this season.
9:59 P.M. Harvey Weinstein Wants Trial Moved Out of NYC Attorneys claim media pressure may affect jurors.
8:43 P.M. Antlers Trailer Features a Beast Terrorizing Keri Russell Produced by Guillermo del Toro.
6:00 P.M. A First Look at the Ferns from Between Two Ferns: The Movie And according to Scott Aukerman, we can expect many sequels.
6:00 P.M. Twitter Drama: Theater Snobs Teach Etiquette to YouTube Fans Today in Twitter in feuds.
5:47 P.M. Mindhunter Recap: Family Matters An outstanding midpoint episode pivots on the human moments when our heroes can’t help bringing themselves into their work.

9:59 A.M. De Blasio Will ‘Do Anything’ to Help Di Fara Open Again The iconic pizzeria was seized by state tax authorities.
8:40 A.M. The Absolute Best Ice-Cream Sandwiches in New York Cups and cones are well and good, but the quintessential New York ice-cream delivery system is the sandwich.
3:02 P.M. Di Fara Pizza Shuttered Due to Unpaid Taxes The iconic Brooklyn pizzeria reportedly owes more than $160,000.
12:18 P.M. The Best Moments From Twitter’s Chicken Sandwich War Popeyes versus Chick-fil-A: the nihilistic brand squabble we need.
Aug. 20, 2019 A New Competitor Has Entered Manhattan’s Heated Slice Fights The pizzeria is run by the co-owner of sandwich favorite Regina’s Grocery.
Aug. 20, 2019 How I Joined the Cult of Cauliflower Gnocchi Extremely beige and incredibly bland.
Aug. 19, 2019 It Took 20 Months for Eataly to Remove Mario Batali The 58-year-old chef has now been removed from his two most significant business ventures.
Aug. 19, 2019 Your New Favorite Meatballs Might Be in New Jersey “I like frying the meatballs hard, and then we go right in the sauce.”
Aug. 19, 2019 New York Taste Returns October 21 Chefs from Maison Yaki, KĀWI, Adda Indian Canteen, Hunky Dory, and more are on this year’s bill.
Aug. 19, 2019 Will Bean-Free Coffee Be the New Meat-Free Burger? At least one Seattle-based company thinks so.
Aug. 16, 2019 Restaurant Power Rankings: Where to Eat Right Now It’s our weekly ranking of the city’s most important restaurants.
Aug. 16, 2019 Cookbook Author Lazarus Lynch’s Grub Street Diet “The uglier the better for me.”
Aug. 15, 2019 Ghislaine Maxwell Reportedly Spotted at an In-n-Out Burger While eating alone and reading The Book of Honor: The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives.
Aug. 15, 2019 Why Does This Cup of Coffee Cost $10? In the East Village, one cup of Joe costs as much as a month of Apple Music.
Aug. 15, 2019 Pastry Chef Defends Warren’s Strawberry-Shortcake Post “…since this involves cake, I feel it’s relevant to say a few words.”
Aug. 15, 2019 Where to Find NYC’s Neighborhood Gems, According to 37 Chefs Kitchen pros spill the beans on their favorite places to eat in the areas they call home.
Aug. 14, 2019 Are You Ready for the Cheesepocalypse? European cheese might soon cost twice as much in America. Here’s everything you need to know.
Aug. 14, 2019 Four Loko Makes Hard Seltzer Now. It’s Bonkers. It is, of course, the “hardest seltzer in the universe.”
Aug. 14, 2019 Thank God for Stuffed Crust Pizza I was a sex-deprived teenager. This pizza was my wingman.
Aug. 13, 2019 Momofuku Donated Profits From All NYC Restaurants to Charity The move came a day after founder David Chang issued a stern rebuke to investor Stephen Ross for supporting President Trump.

12:03 P.M. 13 Things That’ll Almost Definitely Sell Out Including a very in-demand cutting board, some washable silk shirts, and a SpongeBob slow cooker.
11:00 A.M. This $850 Mattress Is As Comfortable As My Casper Casper is worth every penny. But this one is genuinely comparable if you’re watching your budget.
10:17 A.M. This (Renewed) Smart Vitamix Blender Is on Sale It’s got all the bells and whistles and is even cheaper than a brand-new entry-level Vitamix.
10:00 A.M. The Amazon Flatware I’m Buying Until I Can Afford Christofle The $15 sets are such a dupe for my mom’s Perles collection that she uses them as a supplement when she has overflow company.
9:43 A.M. How Combat Boots Stomped Back to the Catwalk Their ubiquity on the fall runways (Dior, Bottega Veneta, and the Row), could be a sign, at long last, that sneaker fatigue has set in.
6:22 P.M. The Best Window Fans, According to Hardware Store Owners You could say they’re big … fans.
6:07 P.M. These Shoes Simulate Running Barefoot—Without the Bare Feet They allow me to hit the ground the same way I would if barefoot — meaning centered on my feet, letting me more explosively take each new stride.
4:20 P.M. Welcome to Dupes Week Because you don’t need to spend the most money to have the best things.
3:00 P.M. The Best Athleisure Dupes, According to Fitness Pros They may feel like Lululemon or look like Patagonia, but they cost much less.
2:00 P.M. This Brow Pen Works Better for Me Than Microblading The felt tip of the pen paints hairlike strokes onto the brows and lasts for several hours, even with my oily skin.
1:06 P.M. I Felt Like I Slept at a Fancy Hotel on These $115 Sheets After a single wash, they developed a smooth, silky texture, and the more you wash them, the softer they get
Aug. 20, 2019 The Apple Dongle Dupe Recommended by the Apple Store Guy The employee will remain anonymous, but the dongle he suggested does more than Apple’s and costs less than half the price.
Aug. 20, 2019 Patagonia Better Sweaters Are on Sale at Backcountry From the official uniform of finance bros.
Aug. 20, 2019 Everything You Need to Throw a Dog Birthday Party Get ready to paw-ty.
Aug. 20, 2019 How Did This Become Everyone’s Favorite Selfie Mirror? It’s flattering, it’s $10,000, and Bella Hadid just bought one.
Aug. 20, 2019 This $26 Candle Smells Exactly Like Diptyque’s Figuier Its notes include olive leaves, polar, and fig, and to my average nose, it smells identical to Figuier. Except it costs $26.
Aug. 20, 2019 These Very Good Speakers Are on Sale for $70 They look retro, but they’ve still got a lot of bass.
Aug. 20, 2019 My Mom Found a Dupe for My Outdoor Voices Tee at Costco To achieve the same effect, just go a size up.
Aug. 19, 2019 The Best Body Lotions for Dry Skin, According to Experts Including everyday options, lotions for dry sensitive skins, and specific products to treat inflamed dry skin and dryness caused by eczema.
Aug. 19, 2019 I Cheat on My Japanese Chef’s Knife With This Ceramic Set I thought that the best thing about them would be the fun colors. But the chef’s knife has turned out to be sharper than my fancy Japanese blade.

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