Early Addition: Woodstock 50 May Still Happen At Upstate Harness Track & Casino

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• Woodstock 50 may still happen...at an upstate New York harness track and casino, where people say the brown poker chips are not specifically too good.
• Trump denied assaulting E. Jean Carroll more than 20 years ago by using one of his favorite horrible insults: "No. 1, she’s not my type. No. 2, it never happened. It never happened, O.K.?"
• The Times did some soul-searching of their own about their "overly cautious" handling of the latest rape allegations against Trump.
• We finally know how many squirrels live in Central Park: 2,373.
• Meryl Streep, James Corden, Nicole Kidman, Ariana Grande, Awkwafina, Keegan-Michael Key and Andrew Rannells will star in Ryan Murphy's Netflix adaptation of the Tony-nominated stage musical The Prom.
• Iranian president Hassan Rouhani said the White House is “afflicted by mental retardation” after the Trump administration imposed sanctions on the country’s supreme leader.
• The Outline thinks we are living in a golden age of assholes.
• Politico reports that Trump is getting tired of Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, but he probably doesn't want to go through another search for a new chief of staff.
• How did Alex Rodriguez get popular again? Sports Illustrated profiles the resurgent A-Rod.
• Professional cornhole is my new favorite sport.
• Robert Freeman, the longtime head of a NY state committee that fought for government transparency, was fired this week amid an investigation that found he behaved in a "sexually inappropriate manner" toward a female reporter.
• And finally, look, I am only human, I cannot deny a dog/baby video like this one despite the terrible music: