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- The first all-female spacewalk is underway, with astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch replacing a power controller on the International Space Station. Here's the livestream from NASA.
- An EMT who was responding to a crash on the BQE suffered a stroke, and then another EMT responding to the incident suffered an aneurysm. Both are in the hospital in critical condition.
- Emails show that Mayor de Blasio enlisted City Hall staff to help with his presidential run.
- In a story about his unacceptable use of the n-word, Slate says that Governor Cuomo "lets his sense of ethnic victimhood run away with him."
- A billionaire has been secretly buying up the Cayman Islands.
- It was the end of CC Sabathia's pitching career in last night's Yankees' loss to the Astros.
- Let's talk about that viral photograph of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pointing at Donald Trump.
- Pam and Jim are still together, according to Pam.
- A second person has been arrested in the case of the six people who were living in a Dutch farmhouse's basement for years.
- Do you have your Halloween costume picked out?
Published Oct 18, 2019
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