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It's been an ugly election season, so please enjoy these photos of wild animals looking absurd.

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“We couldn’t elect the first female president, but we did elect the first Latina senator,” a supporter tweeted about Catherine Cortez Masto Tuesday night.

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According to his biography, the song eventually took Cohen five years to write

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