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- We have no idea when this strange subway video was taken, but that is one gigantic reptile.
- A devastating fire in a London high rise killed at least six residents in an inferno that one nurse described as "the worst incident that I have ever seen."
- Marine biologists upstate are trying to save a species of fish that swam with dinosaurs.
- Author Margaret Atwood annotates the first season of The Handmaid's Tale TV adaptation.
- A New Jersey High School student was suspended after someone noticed that a yearbook photo she submitted had artwork in the background featuring a racial slur.
- A piercing subway track siren blared for three days on an elevated platform in the Bronx before the MTA got around to shutting it up.
- Meanwhile, two MTA workers were severely burned after their welding equipment malfunctioned during track repairs.
- On prom day, Diego was hiding in a closet as immigration officers pounded on doors outside.
- Gyms are turning down the lights at night and turning up da CLUB.
- Finger kaleidoscope finger dance, everybody:

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