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2:48 P.M. Weird New Details About Trump’s Infamous Escalator Ride Four years later, Trump’s campaign launch sounds even stranger. But at least Michael Cohen’s call for elephants and bikini-clad women was scrapped.
2:30 P.M. Supreme Court Dashes Virginia GOP Hopes in Gerrymander Case An unusual 5-4 majority held that Virginia’s GOP legislature did not have standing to sue to overturn a gerrymandering decision that helped Democrats.
12:34 P.M. Harris and Booker Lagging in Must-Win South Carolina The two major African-American candidates in the Democratic primary are struggling to chip away at Biden’s strong support from black voters.
12:06 P.M. A Gas-Tank Playground? Dueling Ideas for Bushwick Inlet Park An inventive scheme to reuse (rather than demolish) industrial structures in a new park faces local opposition.
11:53 A.M. Democrats Unite Warring Factions With Historically Bad Tweet The Democrats have found a strategy to counter factionalism: awful tweets.
11:16 A.M. You Should Really Make All Your Venmo Transactions Private A computer science student scraped data from millions of transactions without even needing the app.
10:22 A.M. McConnell: Jon Stewart Is ‘Bent Out of Shape’ For Nothing The Senate majority leader says 9/11 first responders will be taken care of and Stewart is “looking for some way to take offense.”
10:12 A.M. U.S. Security Officials Still Consider Trump a Security Risk The Mueller report focused on criminal matters, not counterintelligence. Whether Russia has leverage over Trump is a huge, unresolved question.
10:01 A.M. The Mini-BOT: One Weird Trick for Leaving the Euro? The Italian government has floated the idea of a new national quasi-currency. But it’s not the answer to the country’s financial problems.
7:00 A.M. Everything You Need to Know About the Abortion Debate We’re facing the biggest threat to abortion rights in decades. If you haven’t been following the debate closely, it’s time to brush up on the basics.
1:34 A.M. Trump: Media Treats Me Worse Than Abe Lincoln Was Treated And other highlights from the president’s interview with George Stephanopoulos.
10:37 P.M. Trump Team Fires Pollsters After Leak of Polls Bad for Trump A lesson in shooting the messenger.
9:00 P.M. America Loves the Idea of Family Farms. That’s Unfortunate. Every four years, presidential candidates fall over themselves to praise family farming — propping up a hard, unsustainable agricultural practice.
6:16 P.M. Trump Says His Supporters Might ‘Demand’ More Than Two Terms It’s the fourth time Trump has expressed interest in violating the 22nd Amendment, exacerbating worries that he won’t step down in 2020 or 2024.
June 16, 2019 The Fed Just Released a Damning Indictment of Capitalism The true “extremists” in American politics are those who insist that our economic system is working just fine.
June 16, 2019 The Last Residents of the Hotel Bossert What’s it like to live in a nearly abandoned building?
June 15, 2019 Trump’s Iran Accusations Put U.S. Credibility on the Line Perhaps Iran really did attack two oil tankers. But experts are skeptical, and if the administration is crying wolf there could be dire consequences.
June 14, 2019 Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Governor of Arkansas? It’s Possible. If the daughter of former governor Mike Huckabee does run for his old job, as Trump suggested, she’d be formidable but not necessarily unbeatable.
June 14, 2019 Eric Garner Killed Himself by Being Obese, Claims Lawyer Daniel Pantaleo’s defense team is essentially arguing that the 43-year-old black man killed himself.
June 14, 2019 Alan Dershowitz, Trump Defender, ‘Could’ Vote Biden in 2020 Trump’s favorite attorney has previously raised concerns about being shunned by liberal elites. Just don’t ask him about that Jeffrey Epstein stuff.

2:46 P.M. Love How Much Laura Dern on Big Little Lies Loves Being Rich She will NOT not be rich.
2:40 P.M. Nicholas Sparks Says He’s Sorry for Those Anti-LGBTQ Emails He says the emails in which he attempted to bar an LGBTQ club at his private school were written “in haste.”
2:37 P.M. Alex Mill Opens First Pop-up in Soho Get your easy summer pieces on Greene Street.
1:55 P.M. Why Do Americans Keep Dying While in the Dominican Republic? Authorities are now investigating whether anti-freeze–laced bootleg liquor could be causing the deaths.
1:49 P.M. The Way Men’s Media Cover Dieting Is … Weird Are straight men okay?
1:30 P.M. This Fragrance Founder Thinks Happiness Smells Like Vanilla And baking a cake.
1:14 P.M. This Tidying Drama Is Extremely Messy Linda “The Beverly Hills Organizer” Koopersmith is claiming Marie Kondo stole her signature folding method.
12:52 P.M. Artist and Style Icon Gloria Vanderbilt Has Died at 95 Her son, Anderson Cooper, delivered an obituary on CNN this morning. gallery
12:34 P.M. Big Day for Royal Hats The royals went all out for Garter Day.
12:19 P.M. Accessories For Aggressively Enjoying Summer Like Leonardo DiCaprio, but make it fashion.
11:26 A.M. Taylor Swift and Katy Perry Are Somehow Still Making Up Their drawn-out reconciliation might go on for longer than their feud ever did.
11:20 A.M. U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Responds to Critics With Golf Clap A few days after they were admonished to “tone down” their celebrations.
11:00 A.M. I Think About This a Lot: Mitt Romney and Michigan’s Trees Little puzzled journalists as much as the presidential candidate saying that the state is where “the trees are the right height.”
10:32 A.M. Are Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin Headed for a Breakup? Unpacking some recent tabloid rumors.
10:20 A.M. I Could Watch Meryl and Reese Insult Each Other All Day They keep sparring on Big Little Lies, to incredible effect.
10:00 A.M. Every Girl I Knew Was On It Why some women are questioning hormonal birth control.
8:33 A.M. Man Blackmailed Bella Thorne With Nudes, So She Posted Them “For too long I let a man take advantage of me over and over and I’m fucking sick of it.”
8:30 P.M. The Product Manager Who Would Sleep With Every Person in NYC This week’s sex diary.
8:00 P.M. Madame Clairevoyant: Horoscopes for the Week of June 17 Cancer season begins this week.
June 14, 2019 You Should Pay Attention to Jessica Cisneros’s Campaign The 26-year-old progressive wants to oust one of the most conservative Democrats in Congress.

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2:21 P.M. Drake and His Personal Plane Celebrate NBA Championship Even Kawhi Leonard looks like he’s having fun.
2:00 P.M. Every Nirvana Song, Ranked Thirty years after the band’s debut album, we look back at their entire catalogue.
1:18 P.M. Nicholas Sparks Says He Is ‘Supporter’ of LGBTQ Rights “Ironically, as a writer I should have understood the power and enduring nature of my words.”
1:11 P.M. Taylor Swift’s ‘You Need to Calm Down’ Video Easter Eggs More fodder for the Kaylor truthers awaits.
1:07 P.M. What It’s Like to Write for Late Night Right Now On this week’s Good One podcast, writers from every late-night show that shoots in New York talk shop.
12:14 P.M. Are You Ready for the Summer of Hot Emma Thompson? Let the rest of the world beat their brains out for a white boy of the month. It is Emma Thompson o’clock! Please dress accordingly.
11:47 A.M. Put on Your Mockingjay Pins: Hunger Games Prequel Is Coming Suzanne Collins announced her return to the series.
11:31 A.M. GLOW Season 3 Trailer: Let’s Get Lost in Vegas And Geena Davis is there!
11:10 A.M. Jessica Jones Series Finale Recap: Do the Right Thing Jess might say she thinks being a hero is a crappy job, but it’s her crappy job, and she knows it.
11:09 A.M. Eric Dane Was ‘Willing to Do Anything’ for Euphoria Scene “I just don’t see how you shoot a scene like that without showing nudity.”
10:55 A.M. Jim Jarmusch Believes in the Teens, But Not Joe Biden The Dead Don’t Die director speaks with Vulture about zombies, Taylor Swift, and the ecological endgame that’s “coming for everybody.”
10:37 A.M. Drake the Celebrity Has Fully Eclipsed Drake the Rapper He just can’t stop getting in his own way.
10:01 A.M. John Oliver Breaks Down Why It’s Time to Impeach Trump “Every asshole succeeds until finally they don’t.”
9:41 A.M. First Look: The Gangs Are All Here in West Side Story Led by Ansel Elgort’s Tony and Rachel Zegler’s Maria.
9:33 A.M. Let the Power of Meryl Streep’s Crucifix Compel You To backing the hell away from her.
9:33 A.M. Franco Zeffirelli, Romeo and Juliet Director, Dies at 96 He died peacefully in his home.
9:11 A.M. A Conversation With Taffy Brodesser-Akner and Tom Perrotta “I don’t think it’s a very useful rule for novels: ‘This is a woman’s story, so a woman should write it.’”
9:10 A.M. Marvel on Netflix: What Went Wrong? The superhero TV experiment that was a victim of its own success.

1:42 P.M. The New East Wind Snack Shop Has an Unexpected Specialty Dragon’s beard candy is being made at the dumpling shop’s third location.
10:13 A.M. Everything You Need to Know About LaCroix’s Recent Troubles It’s been a wild nine months for the seltzer brand, which seems to be losing its cult status among consumers.
9:00 P.M. Crown Shy Brings Uncommon Finesse to Fidi Chef James Kent’s precise, seasonal brand of cooking is on display at this deceptively ambitious new restaurant.
June 14, 2019 Restaurant Power Rankings: Where to Eat Right Now It’s our weekly ranking of the city’s most important restaurants.
June 14, 2019 Author Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Grub Street Diet “It makes me feel like a million bucks.”
June 13, 2019 On the Trail of New York’s Nutcracker Kings How a brain-numbing street cocktail became a multimillion-dollar uptown hustle.
June 13, 2019 The Grub Guide to the Summer’s Can’t-Miss Food Festivals A massive food market in the Bronx, a festival dedicated entirely to cider, the latest edition of an Afrocentric jollof competition, and more.
June 12, 2019 A Secret Downtown Star Will Get a New Forum for His Cooking Efrén Hernández quietly took over hot-spot-gone-cold Mimi, and now the team is expanding with Babs.
June 12, 2019 Kraft to America’s Parents: Give Your Kids ‘Salad Frosting’ This country had a good run, folks.
June 12, 2019 The Absolute Best Veggie Burgers in New York From vegan restaurants to newfangled burger stands, here’s where to get the best meat-bomb alternatives.
June 11, 2019 Flynn McGarry Will Close His LES Tasting Room for the Summer The 20-year-old plans to spend ten weeks traveling and cooking here and abroad.
June 11, 2019 Amazon Will Kill Its Restaurant Delivery Service After four years, the tech company is shutting down Amazon Restaurants.
June 11, 2019 Can Restaurants Be Fixed From the Inside? The industry is grappling with ideas to save its workforce.
June 10, 2019 Find Killer Lamb Ribs and ‘Grandma Kitschiness’ at Apollonia The new Mediterranean restaurant from the Walter Foods crew opens in East Williamsburg.
June 10, 2019 This New Laffa Is Serious Must-Order Bread A new restaurant from Breads Bakery owner Gadi Peleg brings homey Middle Eastern cuisine to NoMad.
June 10, 2019 The Power Lunch Is Officially Dead The Four Seasons will close for good, less than a year after reopening.
June 10, 2019 L&B Spumoni Gardens Is Expanding to Dumbo The square-slice icon will open a second location across the street from rival pizza spots Juliana’s and Grimaldi’s.
June 7, 2019 Everything You Need to Know About the All-new Pastis Keith McNally’s seminal bistro reopens this weekend — can it possibly recapture the magic of the original?
June 7, 2019 Designer Sandy Liang’s Grub Street Diet “Keanu is so hot!”
June 6, 2019 Michelin Trolled Los Angeles — and It Worked Why did America’s most forward-thinking food city fall for the tire guide’s tired publicity tricks?

2:28 P.M. Just a Few Hours Left of Wayfair’s Big Summer Clearance Sale We spy some over-70%-off Cuisinart.
2:26 P.M. What Strategist Readers Are Buying: Lip Balm and Bug Spray Plus: no-show socks, Dopp kits, and more.
11:30 A.M. The Best Couches Under $2,000, As Tested by the Strategist Interior designers recommended 80 options; we narrowed it down to seven — and sat on them.
10:51 A.M. Cuisinart Dutch Ovens Are Over 40 Percent Off Right Now An excellent dupe for more expensive French enameled cast-iron cookware for under $100.
10:00 A.M. We Tested Ten Sofas-in-a-Box These start-ups want to be Casper but for couches.
June 14, 2019 Nobody at My Wedding Knew My Dad’s Tux Cost $200 on Amazon Looking at us, you really couldn’t tell who spent hours with a tailor (me), and who basically threw his tux on straight off the rack (him).
June 14, 2019 The 6 Best LSAT Prep Books, According to Tutors and Lawyers Including textbook-style prep books, practice tests, and specific books to prep for the test’s three sections.
June 14, 2019 This (Cruelty-Free) Bronzer Gives Me a Perfect Sun-Free Tan It makes me look as if I spent just the right amount of time outside (even on days when I never leave the house).
June 14, 2019 What Lisa Brennan-Jobs Can’t Live Without “Now I’ll leave my phone locked for as long as I can. For a few hours it can feel like the nineties.”
June 14, 2019 27 Things on Sale You’ll Actually Want to Buy Including stuff that’s 80 percent off.
June 13, 2019 How to Make Better Ice at Home, According to Bartenders No more cloudy ice that smells like leftovers.
June 13, 2019 51 Last-Minute Gifts That Will Arrive by Father’s Day From an Areaware flask to a toiletry kit and standing-desk converter.
June 13, 2019 The 13 Best Things to Buy During Snowe’s Anniversary Sale Spend $250 and get 15 percent off Strategist favorites including side-sleeper pillows and sheet sets.
June 13, 2019 The Best Things Under $100 From Coach’s Summer Sale Including bags, shoes, and accessories.
June 13, 2019 What’s the Best Black T-shirt for Men? For the gym, for the weekend, and even for wearing with a suit.
June 13, 2019 These French Sneakers Are Like Converses But More Flattering And they’re on Amazon.
June 13, 2019 This On-Sale Neck Massager Will Arrive by Father’s Day. It’s been a longtime Strategist best seller.
June 12, 2019 Ask Chris Black: What Are You Getting Your Dad? Plus: A good graduation gift for a Brown grad, and Chris’s travel outfit.
June 12, 2019 The Best Drawer Organizers, According to Declutterers “I put these in my underwear drawer 13 years ago and it has been immaculate ever since!”
June 12, 2019 13 Things That’ll Almost Definitely Sell Out Including Vans’ long-awaited Harry Potter collab.

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