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:
it's a party
(suncrestgoldenretrievers IG) pic.twitter.com/r3vkboZ5mG— Humor And Animals (@humorandanimals) May 6, 2019