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- W.W. Norton is stopping shipments of its long-awaited Philip Roth biography by Blake Bailey after multiple women said he raped them, with some saying that he started grooming them when they were in middle school.
- New York City is suing big oil companies like ExxonMobil for deceptive marketing practices.
- The Rev. Al Sharpton delivered a eulogy for Daunte Wright: "The absence of justice is the absence of peace. You can't tell us to shut up and suffer. We must speak up when there is an injustice."
- The NY Post looks at City Council Member Brad Lander's speeding tickets and traffic violations.
- The Dave Matthews Band has planned a 40-city tour this year.
- A hospital worker in southern Italy got paid while skipping work for—checks notes—15 years.
- Also on the working hard/hardly working front, a couple in Taiwan got married four times and divorced three times to enjoy paid marriage leave programs.
- Would you bowl a perfect game if you filled your bowling ball with your father's ashes?
- Kevin Spacey did a song and dance routine during one of his depositions in a sexual assault lawsuit.
- I would definitely give these red pandas all the piggyback rides they want:
Jen Chung / Gothamist
Published Apr 22, 2021
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