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Everything you need to know about Beyoncé’s new album out today, and why you are paying "kitchen appreciation" fees on your restaurant bill. Plus, how Freya the walrus has become an instant celebrity this summer. 

🐝 Beyoncé's new album is out! Here are all the ways you can listen.

Let the "Renaissance" begin! Beyoncé's new 16-song album officially dropped overnight, and here's how you can listen to it. The superstar singer also penned an open letter to fans and shared a rare photo of her with her three children to celebrate the release of "Renaissance." She dedicated the new album to her children and husband Jay-Z, releasing a candid shot of her kids sleeping alongside her in bed while describing her newest work. "It was a beautiful journey of exploration," she wrote on her website.

✈️ JetBlue has agreed to buy Spirit Airlines in a deal that would create the nation's 5th-largest airline. 

JetBlue has agreed to buy low-budget airline Spirit for $3.8 billion in a deal that would create a new major airline if approved by U.S. regulators. Yesterday's agreement came after a potential merger between Spirit and fellow budget airline Frontier fell apart. The combined JetBlue-Spirit airline would have a fleet of 458 aircraft.

What's a 'kitchen appreciation' fee on your restaurant check and why are you paying it? 

With some restaurant owners rolling out surcharges to benefit their employees, there have been items like a "kitchen wellness" charge added to the check. Thomas P. Farley, a.k.a. Mister Manners, spoke with restaurant owners about the reasoning behind the surcharges, and shared how you should approach them as a customer. 

Her foot went numb while driving. It turned out to be a mass the size of a watermelon in her pelvis.

New York woman Natalie Suflita shared how numbness in her foot while driving led doctors to ultimately find a watermelon-sized mass in her pelvis that several doctors believed was cancer. It turned out to be a large fibroid, a benign tumor on her uterus, which she had removed in a surgical procedure that allowed her to avoid having a hysterectomy. TODAY's own Jill Martin also shared her experience with fibroids earlier this year. 

Achieve your life goals with this easy tip.

The benefit of these 10 chest exercises from personal trainer Stephanie Mansour is more than just increased strength. They can also improve your posture and eliminate any dreaded armpit flab. The maneuvers focus on bodyweight exercises and dumbbell exercises with light weights and higher repetitions to build lean and long muscles. 

Allow us to do the meal-planning for you.

Give some classic salads a summer makeover with these two recipes from chef Anthony Scotto of New York City's Fresco by Scotto restaurant. His grilled shrimp salad (above) is easy to prepare and topped with a strawberry vinaigrette, while his grilled Caesar salad with sirloin steak features grilled lettuce that brings some smokiness and char to an old favorite. You also can swap in flank steak, salmon or shrimp for the sirloin. 

A little pick-me-up before you go.

Where is Freya? That's a question heard across Norway this month as Freya enjoys her hot walrus summer, sunbathing and sleeping where she pleases in coastal areas around the country. The marine mammal has become a national celebrity despite occasionally sinking small, empty boats with her 1,300-pound body. She clambers aboard the boats, which can't hold her weight, to sleep and digest her food because they remind her of Arctic ice floes, a veterinary medicine scientist told NBC News. "We have been in contact with the insurance company, and they probably do not cover walrus damage," one boat owner told Norwegian TV after an encounter with Freya. 

CORRECTION: Yesterday’s newsletter incorrectly stated that federal court documents alleged a Hawaii couple are accused of being Russian spies. Walter Glenn Primrose and Gwynn Darle Morrison have been charged with identity theft, making false statements in application and use of a passport, and conspiracy to commit an offense against the U.S., according to court documents.

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Written by Scott Stump | Edited by Bryanna Cappadona

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