Early Addition: They Really Got Trump This Time!
Jan. 18, 2019, 12:12 p.m.
Because BuzzFeed has another big Trump scoop, check out today's midday links: Jack Dorsey interview, new Future album, corn allergies, ancestry DNA kit skepticism, UWS CBD love, obstruction of justice, and shark carpet attack.

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- BuzzFeed reports that that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has evidence proving that Trump personally directed his longtime attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.
- White House press secretary Hogan Gidley refused multiple times to say whether the BuzzFeed report is true or false.
- Also, this news is particularly notable considering that a few days ago, Senator Amy Klobuchar asked attorney general nominee William Barr about this exact topic, and whether he would consider it an act of obstruction of justice (he would).
- Future has a new album you can stream now, and he performed his single "Crushed Up" on Stephen Colbert.
- Is corn the worst food allergy to have (because corn...is in everything)?
- Based on this interview with HuffPost, I now am convinced Jack Dorsey is a robot.
- A Siena College survey found that 45 percent of women in New York have experienced sexual harassment at some point in their life.
- Speaker Nancy Pelosi had to cancel plans for a commercial flight to Afghanistan after the White House leaked the details of her planned trip.
- Here's a good CBC story about why you should be skeptical about ancestry DNA kits.
- Former de Blasio top aide Kevin O'Brien was quietly forced to resign after complaints of sexual harassment filed by two female city employees were substantiated.
- Here is a choice quote from West Side Rag's piece about a new CBD bar on the UWS: "CBD is becoming the Prozac of the Upper West Side."
- Stephen Malkmus's electronic-tinged album Groove Denied will finally be released in March!
- And finally, shark attack!
"My dog became a shark when I bought new carpet." pic.twitter.com/j6TEAvdzKz
— Puppies 🐶 (@PopularPups) January 18, 2019