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- Nine people overdosed—four fatally—from opioids in a 24-hour span in NYC this week.
- If you're contemplating a career in politics in this dirty town, the NY Times has some basic instructions for you. Good luck!
- And if you hold racist views, you may one day be forced off your local Community Board for arguing that only illegal immigrants use bike lanes.
- More NYPD officers will begin wearing body cameras next month, with over 1,000 cops getting the cameras by fall of this year.
- Some NYC jiu jitsu practitioners have been holding monthly subway battles as part of a "Secret Roll Club."
- A reporter for The Guardian was the first western journalist to file a dispatch from the site of the Syrian chemical attacks that killed over 70 people.
- Hillary Clinton emerged from the forest to demand an independent investigation into Russia's role in the election.
- The DOT has revealed plans for the new two-way bike path coming to Delancey Street at the base of the Williamsburg bridge.
- I couldn't find any cute animal videos on the YouTube.com, so let's do this:

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