Early Addition: How One Manhattan School Was Torn Apart By A Hitler Joke

Sept. 5, 2018, 11:07 a.m.

Because you want to make homemade ice cream truck treats, check out today's midday links: Hitler joke tears apart Manhattan school, Trump criticizes libel laws, new dictionary words, every Van Halen song ranked, Kanye apologizes to Drake, and pupper hitches a ride.

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  • A Hitler joke made by a teacher has torn apart Friends Seminary in Manhattan.
  • After being described in Bob Woodward's new book as unstable, uninformed and having the mental development of "a fifth-or-sixth grader," President Trump renewed his criticisms of current libel laws, which is just the thing someone who is unstable, uninformed, or mentally a fifth grader might do.
  • Goop has agreed to pay $145,000 to settle allegations it made unscientific claims about the benefits of three products, including two kinds of vagina eggs.
  • Merriam-Webster has added over 800 new words to the dictionary, including tent city, self-harm, TL;DR and GOAT.
  • Chuck Klosterman ranks every Van Halen song.
  • A former Daily Caller editor, Scott Greer, wrote for white nationalist website Radix under a pseudonym while also working at the Caller, surprising no one.
  • Kanye apologized to Drake for all the "negative energy" and "Jedi level" beefing.
  • Special Counsel Robert Mueller will reportedly accept some written answers from President Trump on questions about his campaign's involvement in Russia's attacks on our elections.
  • Over a dozen men who were in the vicinity of Ground Zero on 9/11 have been stricken with breast cancer.
  • Here are some tips on how to make chocolate eclairs, firecrackers, bomb pops and ice cream sandwiches at home.
  • A woman is accused of killing her husband by poisoning him with eyedrops...two years after the police said she shot him in the head with the crossbow by accident.
  • And finally, help out a friend in need this week: