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- The Economist reports that the solution to "air rage" is separate air terminals for rich people.
- Jeff Sessions today reversed an Obama-era policy intended to avert harsh sentences for small drug offenses—federal prosecutors are now instructed to charge defendants "with the most serious, provable crimes carrying the most severe penalties."
- Here is every song from Season 2 of Master of None.
- The NYC Board of Elections disqualified 78,000 paper ballot votes without telling anyone.
- The Associated Press reports that a love letter hidden in the walls of a New Jersey home finally reached a World War II veteran 72 years after it was written.
- In other wall news, a retired NYPD detective on Long Island discovered approximately 70,000 bees living inside his bedroom wall.
- Trump’s job approval rating among Republicans is still a robust 84 percent.
- The NY Times Magazine takes a sobering look at how home ownership became the "engine of American inequality."
- How one simple dish changed visionary chef Dan Barber's entire life.
- Watch a police helicopter inform a group of paddleboarders that over a dozen great white sharks are swimming in the water near them.
- Or watch a man jump onto a trampoline covered with 1,000 mousetraps:
Published May 12, 2017
Modified May 12, 2017
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