Early Addition: [SPOILER] HBO Kills Off 'Game Of Thrones' Coffee Cup

May 7, 2019, 11:27 a.m.

Because what is latte will never die, check out today's midday links: White House refuses to release Trump tax returns, Sandra Bland video, Rolling Stone launching music charts, space coffee, and a dog party.

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  • What is latte will never die: HBO has scrubbed the errant coffee cup out of the latest episode of Game Of Thrones.
  • In other coffee news, here's how astronauts drink coffee in space.
  • The White House is still refusing to turn over Trump's tax returns to the House, with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin saying the demand "lacks a legitimate legislative purpose."
  • Mayor de Blasio has reportedly pushed back announcing his campaign for president in 2020.
  • Beth Carvalho, a singer and songwriter known in Brazil as the “godmother of samba,” died on April 30th in Rio de Janeiro. She was 72.
  • Check out the first trailer for The Farewell, one of the breakout films from this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
  • Cellphone video recorded by Sandra Bland, the black woman who was found dead in a Texas jail in 2015 following a traffic stop, shows her perspective as a white state trooper draws his stun gun and points it at close range while ordering her out of the car.
  • The New Yorker reports on how well-meaning donations end up fueling an unproven, virtually unregulated two-billion-dollar stem-cell industry.
  • Rolling Stone is launching its own music charts, challenging Billboard's long-held position as the unquestioned chart authority.
  • How worried should Democrats be over whether Trump will concede if he loses the 2020 election?
  • A female train operator was punched in the face in an unprovoked, random attack on Monday.
  • And finally, you can't come to the party unless you have an invite: