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Monday, February 16, 2026 7:16 AM ET

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The DHS Shutdown Is On. Don't Expect It to End Anytime Soon. -- Ironically, the shutdown over ICE won't impact immigration enforcement, but it will hurt FEMA, TSA, and the Coast Guard.

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What We Know About the Nancy Guthrie Missing-Persons Case -- "I wanted to say to whoever has her or knows where she is, it's never too late," Savannah Guthrie said in a new video.

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The Film Independent Spirit Awards Loved Train Dreams -- And Adolescence, but what awards body doesn't?

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Every TV Show Canceled in 2026 So Far -- The CW defunded Good Cop/Bad Cop.

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FBI Searches Home Nearby Nancy Guthrie's Residence -- No arrests were made.

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Wasserman Agency Is Up For Sale -- After more than a dozen artists called for Casey Wasserman's removal.

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Charli XCX Does a Perfect 180 on Wuthering Heights -- The album is just as committed as Emerald Fennell is to melding old and modern worlds but it's much less devoted to popping eyeballs.

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The Olympics Has Reportedly Run Out of Condoms -- Somebody has severely underestimated the horniness of 3,000 young athletes bopping around Milan.

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Love Story Showrunner Wanted Distance From the Real Kennedy Clan -- Connor Hines is standing by the decision not to contact a single Kennedy.

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Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas Is Cooler Than Awards Season -- "It's not a real competition. We made something months ago, and now we're putting it in a pot, and somebody's going to choose one."

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Yaaaay! The Muppet Show Revival Is a Ratings Success. -- We're wiggling our arms, Kermit style, in triumph.

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The 'Sinister' French Skating Duo Who Took Home Olympic Gold -- Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron were driven together by controversy. On Wednesday, they won the free-dance program.

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Happy Birthday to Hudson Williams's Slutty Little Tie -- The Heated Rivalry star spent his last night being 24 dancing with Lola Tung and his mom.

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Looks Like the Pride Flag Is Back at Stonewall -- A group of elected officials and protesters reinstated the flag after the Trump administration had it removed.

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Pizzagate Was Not Real. Right? -- In the latest tranche of Epstein materials, "pizza" appears to mean whatever you think it does.

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The 5 Wildest Anecdotes From the WSJ Report on Kristi Noem -- A new report revealed new details of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's chaotic tenure, including a claim that she fired a pilot over a missing blanket.

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The Georgia Election Raid Was Even Worse Than It Seemed -- Newly unsealed documents reveal just how far the Justice Department is willing to go to will Trump's election fraud fantasies into existence.

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The Singularity Is Going Viral -- AI insiders and outsiders are both feeling helpless about the same thing.

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When Are Federal Immigration Agents Leaving Minnesota? -- Border czar Tom Homan announced the end of Operation Metro Surge, saying that an ongoing drawdown of immigration officers will continue next week.

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The Prediction-Market Scandals Are Getting Bleaker -- An arrest of an IDF reservist for allegedly using insider information on a military wager on Polymarket shows the dark side of betting on everything.

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Guy Who Wrote Viral AI Post Wasn't Trying to Scare You -- Matt Shumer on the overwhelming reaction to his artificial-intelligence cri de coeur.

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Did Bondi Spy on Lawmakers' Epstein Search History? -- At her congressional hearing, the attorney general was seen with a document listing a Democrat's searches of the DoJ's Epstein files.

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Melania Movie, Explained: Box Office, Reviews, What She Made -- Why did the notoriously private First Lady film a Brett Ratner–directed documentary? It might have something to do with the $28 million paycheck.

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The Homeschooling Hack - Looking for an edge in college admissions? Just pull your kid from school. podcast

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How Much Ground Has Trump Lost on Immigration in the Polls? -- Surveys taken in the aftermath of the Minnesota killings show a complicated picture.

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Pam Bondi Refuses to Apologize to Epstein Victims at Hearing -- The attorney general shouted and insulted lawmakers during her House testimony on the DOJ's botched Epstein-files rollout. Here, the wildest moments.

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Why Did the FAA Suddenly Close El Paso's Airspace? -- According to reports, the closure stemmed from the military's plan to move ahead with the testing of anti-drone technology without consulting the FAA.

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Beware Pillion's Slutty Little Glasses -- Alexander Skarsgård's tantalizing wire frames are one of the most lethal weapons in romantic warfare.

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A Trip Into Tiffany's 180-Year-Old Watch Vault -- How the archives inspired the jeweler's new timepieces.

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This Week's Sex Diary: The Woman Firing Her Fancy Matchmaker -- In this week's story, a divorced 56-year-old hits it off with a much more interesting guy at a party.

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The Best Street Style From New York Fashion Week -- See our favorite looks from outside this season's shows.

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The Cut's NYFW Party at the Blond -- Lindsay Peoples hosted a "Spring Fashion" issue fête with Jenna Lyons, Rachel Zegler, Christopher John Rogers, and a Sensodyne-powered reset lounge.

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45 Years of Michael Kors -- The anniversary show was an exemplary display of know-how and timing.

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Bernard James Turns Custom Rings Into a Therapy Session -- The Brooklyn jeweler on reading people, refusing replicas, and designing love stories down to the stone shapes.

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The Best Presidents' Day Sales on Amazon -- From Dyson to Medicube.

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What You Need From the Gap x HFR Collaboration -- The brands team up for an all-denim collection.

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What Angelina Jolie and Alex Consani Wore This Week -- New York Fashion Week is all about the great accessories.

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Dating on My Own - Now that having a boyfriend is embarrassing and being alone is cool, is there any reason to go to a singles night? podcast

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The Executive Dysfunction Puzzle -- 23-Across, Three Letters: Tuber mentioned in Kendrick Lamar's "King Kunta"

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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Recap: Flea Bottom's Up -- The flashback serves two purposes: an origin story for Duncan and to underscore the growing instability of the Seven Kingdoms under the Targaryens.

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Industry Recap: Kompromat -- Whitney Halberstram's constructed identity is finally falling apart — and he's determined to take everyone down with him.

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Stephanie Pratt Criticizes Spencer Pratt's L.A. Mayoral Run -- "A vote for him is a vote for stupidity."

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Hudson Williams Hard Launches Girlfriend on Valentine's Day -- She's been dating him since at least the Old Spaghetti Factory.

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The 17 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend -- Let's get freaky.

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Cinematrix No. 691: February 15, 2026 -- Can you name a Rami Malek movie released between 2005 and 2026?

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James Van Der Beek's Brother Is Heartbroken Over Loss -- "There is a feeling of devastation and pain that runs so deep in the heart, I didn't know it would hurt so badly."

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Our Favorite Target Sheets Are Just $33 for Presidents' Day -- They're made of 400-thread-count cotton in a smooth sateen finish.

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The Best Presidents' Day Car-Seat and Stroller Deals 2026 -- Including travel strollers, double strollers, and car seats for kids of all ages.

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There Are a Lot of Great Fashion Deals This Weekend -- I found the best deals for men and women, including sale-on-sales at Madewell and J.Crew and limited-time deals on styles at Muji and Everlane.

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This Noodle Strainer Brings Order to My Chaotic Kitchen -- And helps me get dinner on the table faster.

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The Best Butt Plugs, According to Sex-Toy Experts -- Including options for beginners and experienced users, and even one with a bunny tail.

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Welcome to Sex Week -- We're answering all the questions you may have been too shy to ask.

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It's Blundstone Weather, and I Found Several Styles on Sale -- Lugged winter boots and comfy clogs are 25 percent off.

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The 12 Best Prostate Massagers -- With options for beginners, couples, and more.

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What Jean Smart Can't Live Without -- "I live alone, so I do eat popcorn in bed."

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The $51 J.Crew Sweater Pants One Editor Owns in 3 Colors -- They're half High Sport, half sweatpant and up to 70 percent off.

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I've Tested 200 Sex Toys for Men. This Is My Favorite. -- It's so heavy it was considered a weapon by TSA.

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Valentine's Gifts Under $25 That Look Like You Tried -- Steal their heart without draining your bank account.

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The Best Gifts for Every Type of Home Cook -- Spectacular tools and ingredients for people who spend most of their time in the kitchen.

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Why Is Areaware Closing? -- "What was already a fragile business model just collapsed."

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All the Strategist-Approved Sex Toys on Sale Right Now -- Two dozen discounted vibrators plus condoms and more to cap off Sex Week.

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Shop the New York Classifieds -- This just in: a vintage Shaker rocking chair and an antique wine press.

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The Chipotle Collectors' Market -- The chain's plywood-and-steel Frank Lloyd Wright homage is becoming a highly sought-after design object.

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The Look Book Goes to a Snow Day at the Park -- The day after a record-breaking downfall, sledders, tubers, and snowboarders enjoyed a fresh foot of snow in Prospect Park.

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The Musician Dorms of Midwood -- On Ocean Avenue, there's a klezmer singer on the third floor, a saxophonist below, a trumpeter above, and a pair of trombonists across the street.

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I Miss My Black Brooklyn -- A notable number of Black residents are leaving the city — no longer able to afford it. I might be one of them.

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A Rave in a Bronx Castle? -- The city is betting that Kingsbridge Armory, closed for 30 years, could become LiveNation's uptown Madison Square Garden.

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Mamdani Takes on the Self-Storage Wild West -- A new suit filed by the city alleges price hikes seem to have "no correlation to any market conditions or costs."

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Why the Kennedy Center Was an Easy Target for Trump -- Few loved the building, even as it became D.C.'s defining cultural institution.

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An East Village One-Bed With Great Light and a Spa Bathroom -- And a two-bed in Bed-Stuy with a balcony and extra half-bath.

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Bonhams Comes to Billionaires' Row -- The auction house's new location will also reintroduce the Steinway Hall rotunda to the public for the first time in a decade.

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When the Ashtray Was Everywhere -- A new show at the International Museum of Dinnerware Design invokes a pre-Bloombergian moment.

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This Old Sea-Biscuit Factory -- The poet Paul Muldoon and the novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz wanted to live in the 19th century, architecturally speaking, so they relocated to Fidi.

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The Kickstarter Office Is Now a 'Soho House for Creators' -- A grown-up hype house for wellness influencers and video podcasters opens in Greenpoint.

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'The Most Amenitized Building Brooklyn Has Seen' -- The new owner of the Bossert Hotel promises a pool, a Pilates studio, and a private dining room, among other perks.

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The Dig-Out King of New York City -- A chat with an unemployed tech worker making thousands by liberating cars from their icy graves.

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New York Didn't Know What to Do With Isamu Noguchi -- The sculptor's rejected playgrounds and plazas come back into view at his namesake museum.

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I Want to Buy a Brownstone With My Best Friend -- And have no idea where to start. Please tell me everything.

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Bites on Parade -- Cove and Saga are the latest spots to be seduced by the hushed seriousness of the tasting menu — and the latest to be stymied by the worn-out format.

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The $20 Side Dish Is Here -- Restaurant menus have crossed a once-unthinkable price barrier.

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Where to Eat in February -- The best restaurants for right now.

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Where to Eat Sizzling Sisig and Sing ABBA at 1 a.m. -- Gayang is a half-Thai, half-Filipino late-night haven.

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This Pizza Has Claws -- Our critic says the Maine import Il Leone is a worthwhile addition to the city's packed pizza scene.

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All of Our 'Cheap Eats' Picks, Mapped -- We wanted to make it even easier to try everything on the list.

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Why the Pumpernickel Bagel Is Disappearing -- At shops around town, a once-standard flavor has become an endangered species.

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Chef Telly Justice's 'Grub Street Diet' -- "I order everything on the menu and proceed to get into a very serious conversation."

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The Return of Cheap Eats -- The Dominican smashburgers, swordfish tortas, and mortadella bagels in this story all cost less than anything from Carbone.

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What Really Happened to Horses -- When the controversial L.A. restaurant closed, everyone began pointing fingers.

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Golden Steer Goes All in on Retro Vegas Glam -- A famous western steakhouse opens inside a famous downtown space this week.

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Reporter Max Tani's Grub Street Diet -- "They seat us in the back of the restaurant in a booth adjacent to the dog-influencer mom."

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Mixue, the World's Largest Restaurant Chain, Opens in NYC -- Are $1 soft serve and sold-out peach oolong tea worth braving the lines?

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How Veganism Got Cooked - Plant-based eating was supposed to be the future. Then meat came roaring back. podcast

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Industry's Ken Leung Doesn't Need to Know What's Next For Eric

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How Should We Talk to Our Kids About Epstein?

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'The Brontë Sisters Are Rolling in Their Graves'

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LEGO Just Announced Its First-Ever Snoopy Set

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Revoking Climate-Change Regulation May Be the Worst Thing Trump Has Done

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The Nondescript Condo Building Where Jeffrey Epstein Kept His Victims

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Your Weekly Horoscopes by Madame Clairevoyant: February 15–21

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Cinematrix No. 692: February 16, 2026

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A Star-Studded Stink Bomb Lands in Berlin

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Maya Hawke's Stranger Things Co-Stars Packed her Valentine's Day Wedding

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'The Superhuman President'

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Lessons From My Me Too

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Life on Peptides Feels Amazing

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Trump May Have Already Signed His Last Big Piece of Legislation

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The Robot Posters Aren't Alive ... Yet

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USAID's Last Funds Are Paying for Vought's Security Detail

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Parents Are Feeding Their Babies So Much Butter

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Proenza Schouler After Proenza Schouler

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Now That's How to Be an Olympic Boyfriend

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Was Her Family a Social Experiment?

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Your Daily Horoscope by Madame Clairevoyant: Feb. 16, 2026

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Telematrix No. 103: February 16, 2026

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Obama Walks Back 'Aliens Are Real' Statement on Podcast

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The Traitors' Candiace Is Rooting for 'Everybody But Rob'

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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

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All Creatures Great and Small

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The Answer Is Always You

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You Can Call Me ... Myki!

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Shiny People, Shiny Problems

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12 Things That Delighted Us Last Week: From Twisted Tapers to Sex Pillows

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106 Presidents' Day Deals on Couches, Dining Tables, Lamps, and More

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This Week's Worth-It New York City Apartment Listings

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The Bleak Scene at Polymarket's 'Free Grocery Store'

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A Modernist House in Weston With a 'Puppy Spa'

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The Grub Street Diet

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Just a Dash Star Michelle Rabin's Grub Street Diet

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Dimes Square Is Really Dead (For Now)

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Would You Wait 8 Hours for This Waffle?

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Madeline Cash Is Avoiding Lamb

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Ambassadors Clubhouse Opens in New York

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'Gourmet' Co-Founder Sam Dean's 'Grub Street Diet'

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