It's a Danish territory, Michael. What could it cost, $10?
 THE BIG STORY
 "It made me really feel like the law is nothing but another racket," said Harry Schmidt, who said he had to sell many of his possessions to cover his mounting legal bills and stay out of prison after being wrongfully accused of faking the theft of his truck. Ross Mantle for BuzzFeed News STAYING ON TOP OF THIS
Trump's new immigration policy could make American children less healthy Earlier this week, the Trump administration announced a new and complicated policy denying green cards to immigrants who use some public benefits.
Immigration advocates and researchers worry that the fear around that rule will have a huge impact on the lives of the very people who even Trump's anti-immigration staff say shouldn't be affected — American citizens and, in this case, children.
Immigrant families with US citizen children, advocates said, might mistakenly forgo enrollment or disenroll their children from essential health and food benefits because they mistakenly fear that their kids' getting the benefits would destroy their own chances at staying in the country and would tear their families apart.
👉ICE is detaining thousands of immigrants who have passed a test showing fear of persecution or torture. SNAPSHOTS
Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar were barred from a planned trip to Israel-annexed East Jerusalem and the West Bank. The ban was made public shortly after Trump tweeted that Israel would "show great weakness" in allowing their visit. Israel's Interior Ministry later said Tlaib will be allowed to visit her grandmother in the West Bank after she promised not to promote a boycott against Israel while on her trip.
A prison guard drove a truck through a group of Jewish ICE protesters, injuring several. The protesters from Never Again Action, a group of young Jews calling for ICE and immigrant detention centers to be shut down, had been protesting outside a detention facility in Rhode Island Wednesday. Several people were struck by the truck, with two being brought to the hospital as a result, an organizer for the group said.
The California woman caught dumping newborn puppies in the trash is going to jail. Deborah Sue Culwell, who in April was caught tossing seven 3-day-old puppies into a trash can in Coachella, pleaded guilty to all counts of animal cruelty on Wednesday. A judge sentenced her to 365 days in county jail, 90 of which will be under a work release.
The hosts of the popular podcast Crime Junkie are accused of quietly deleting episodes over plagiarism. Multiple episodes of the podcast hosted by Ashley Flowers and Brit Prawat have vanished after fellow podcasters and a former journalist accused the hosts of ripping off their work without credit.
Trump is reportedly considering buying Greenland, which, sure why not. Yes, the whole thing, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The territory is mostly self-ruled, but its foreign policy and security decisions are made in Denmark. The US has considered purchasing Greenland before, including as recently as 1946. Might as well get it while there's still some ice left.  These stunning photos show a "major melting event" hitting Greenland's ice sheet. Large rivers of melting water form on an ice sheet in Western Greenland and drain into moulin holes that empty into the ocean from underneath the ice. Here's what the rest of the world looked like during this July, the hottest month ever recorded. Caspar Haarløv, Into the Ice via AP NOT SO MARVELOUS
A Marvelous Mrs. Maisel promo included 30-cent gas and people in LA almost sold their first born
COMMENCE HUNKERING
Grab a hot beverage and settle in, it's longreads time Kardashian BFFs Are Here Today And Gone Tomorrow. From Kylie Jenner to Jordyn Woods — and now Stassie Edwards — the Kardashians have always been good at monetizing friendships between women. Zan Romanoff goes deep on the implications of the relationships: "There's also an extent to which the Kardashians display their hot bodies and the hot bodies of their friends the same way straight men show off the women in their lives: as desirable objects, proof of the power they wield."
Before I Loved Girls, I Loved Barbie. A good thing about owning Barbies if you're a little queer girl is that you can look at their naked bodies and not feel like anyone will say anything weird to you for it, Kristen Arnett writes. "Barbie is the exact kinda woman I wanna chase. Barbie is my secret high school girlfriend. Barbie is beautiful and kind of cold. … I want Barbie to tell me she loves me, but even the Barbie with the speaker in her stomach will only play whatever prerecorded message she's designed to love more than me."
Brad Pitt Is A Character Actor Trapped In A Movie Star's Body. Pitt's one of the most movie star–looking movie stars out there. But his best performances, from Fight Club to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, have been in scene-stealing supporting roles, Alison Willmore says. "It's not that Pitt seems at war with his looks — a lot of those supporting roles, including his latest, revel in them. But the interesting thing about his career has been the context in which he's seemed most comfortable deploying them."
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