Early Addition: Nikki Haley Resignation Creates Job Opening For Kanye West

Oct. 9, 2018, 11:55 a.m.

Because Nikki Haley is out, check out today's midday links: Kanye West going to White House, #HimToo Twitter meme, Trump ignores climate change, Taylor Swift inspired people to register to vote, Liam Neeson's horse love, and puppy play.

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  • President Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, has mysteriously decided to resign.
  • Kanye West is scheduled to have lunch with Trump and Jared Kushner at the White House on Thursday, so he'll probably be the new UN ambassador.
  • Would it shock you to learn that Trump doesn't give a shit about the U.N.'s extremely alarming climate change report?
  • #HimToo became a hilarious Twitter meme this week, but the Navy vet son of the mom who started it is super embarrassed: "It doesn’t represent me at all,” he said. "I love my mom to death, but boy...I’m still trying to wrap my head around all this."
  • Trump apologized to Kavanaugh "on behalf of our nation" last night, and much of the nation responded by saying, "we never asked you to do that."
  • A Honduran teen was reunited with her mom after a Manhattan judge ordered her release from a child detention facility.
  • After Taylor Swift's political Instagram post yesterday, there have been "65,000 registrations in a single 24-hour period."
  • Richard Linklater directed an anti-Ted Cruz attack ad in which a Texan man has a good laugh over Cruz calling himself "Tough as Texas."
  • Learn about the world's rarest perfume ingredient.
  • The love story of our time: Liam Neeson says the horse in his new film The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs knew him from another movie.
  • Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Janet Jackson, the Cure, Kraftwerk, MC5, Rufus & Chaka Khan, LL Cool J, and the Zombies have been nominated again for the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, along with first-time nominees Devo, Roxy Music, Stevie Nicks, Todd Rundgren, John Prine, and Def Leppard.
  • And finally, don't stop, don't stop, wait stop: