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- The trial for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who's facing a second-degree murder charge for the killing of George Floyd, begins Monday.
- International Women's Day (which is today) started with a suffragist-led labor strike in 1907.
- Meghan Markle told Oprah in a 2-hour interview last night that members of the British royal family had "concerns and conversations about how dark [her son's] skin might be when he is born."
- The New York Post obtained 225 pieces of hate mail sent to Gov. Andrew Cuomo back when the governor's "intolerable" meddling pushed Andy "Train Daddy" Byford to leave the MTA.
- "Do I need to train tomorrow or should I just continue to drink?": Boston Marathon champ Des Linden and other sports figures gave an oral history of those few days last March when the NBA — and then all sports — shut down.
- The final version of President Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package does not include money for fixing the bridge between New York and Ontario, Canada.
- A Missouri pastor has gone on leave after referring to Melania Trump as "the epic trophy wife of all time" during an all-around misogynistic sermon about wives.
- Melania Trump's husband in was in town last night, alone, for reasons unkown.
- German airline Lufthansa is working with the state railway, Deutsche Bahn, to promote train travel within the country as an alternative to flying, which has a much higher carbon footprint.
- This week's issue of The New Yorker opens with a nice meditation on New York City's year as a pandemic epicenter.
- Put your hips into it:
Published Mar 8, 2021
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