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The US will allow eight countries, including several Asian partners, to keep buying oil from Iran after it reimposes sanctions. 1/16

The national security adviser says he looks forward to watching the governments fail in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. 2/16

One of the Koch brothers joins "a left-right coalition" to end the US military’s involvement in the Saudi-led war on Yemen. 3/16

GQ assigned Rosecrans Baldwin to spend a month on a “life cleanse” in Los Angeles—but getting his personality reprogrammed was never part of the plan. 4/16

Related: See more of TMN’s favorite long reads. 5/16

The Wall Street Journal's shameless "Mansion" section "shows inequality at its most grotesque." 6/16

Canada looks to admit about 350,000 immigrants annually by 2021. 7/16

A fun short film covers turf battles between British ice cream vendors. 8/16

Urban cycling is dangerous in part because most of the cyclists are men. 9/16

As of 2016, golf, horse racing, and figure skating have the oldest audiences in TV sports. The youngest? Professional soccer. 10/16

"Antarctica is not all death and chaos," but much of it is unraveling and disappearing, thanks to climate change. 11/16

One of the New York TImes’ better headlines: “We Have to Save the Planet. So I’m Donating $1 Billion.” 12/16

Florida was selling 550 lottery tickets per second last week. The common explanation: Low-income Americans are crazy. Wrong. 13/16

Speech patterns can show signs of psychosis. E.g., never using “yesterday,” “lately” or “nearby” suggests a detachment from reality. 14/16

From 1939, the remarkable story of a 12-year-old boy who spent nearly two weeks lost in the Maine woods. 15/16

Scientists recently discovered the world’s largest-ever octopus gathering. 16/16


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