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Here Are the Alt-Right Figures Trump Thinks Are the Innocent Victims of Censorship

They are not simply “Conservative thinkers,” as Trump suggests.

Stephen Colbert Accidentally Proves Donald Trump Is Not a Typical Republican

By briefly imitating Richard Nixon.

Pets Presumed Dead in Boeing 737 That Bounced off Runway in Florida

The absence of any human deaths has been called a “miracle.”

Tyson Recalls 11.8 Million Pounds of Frozen Chicken After Reports of Metal in Chicken Strips

Six people complained of finding metal in their chicken, and three said they sustained “oral injuries.”

Portland and Denver’s Four-Overtime Game Revealed the Six Stages of Exhaustion

Perhaps the human body isn’t meant to play all that basketball.

John Kelly Joins Board of Company That Detains Migrant Children

The company, Caliburn International, operates the country’s largest facility for migrant children.

Rachel Held Evans, the Hugely Popular Christian Writer Who Challenged the Evangelical Establishment, Is Dead at 37

Evans was a forceful and winsome public voice for progressive evangelicalism.

North Korea Launches Several Short-Range Projectiles

The test may be a warning to the U.S. after denuclearization talks stalled.

Slate Money: The Eat a Hamburger Edition

Slate Money talks Herman Cain and Stephen Moore, the business of kidnapping, and Jack Dorsey.

Tuca & Bertie Is a Hoot Hoot Hoot

And it’s all an anthropomorphized joy.