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- The Marine Corps is delaying the use of President Biden's new Marine One helicopter because the intensity of the spinning rotors and engine exhaust could cause the White House lawn to burn.
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is suing Martin Shkreli for continuing to maintain a monopoly on a life-saving toxoplasmosis drug while in prison.
- The white guy who has made it his life's mission to get New York City streets renamed for historic Black figures has rubbed some people the wrong way.
- NPR published a handful of great pictures from Chinatown Pretty, a new book of fit pics featuring very well-dressed seniors in Chinatowns across North America.
- Amazon this week tweaked the design of its app so it no longer looks like Hitler.
- This BBC video about Pterosaurs, the prehistoric, flying creatures that were the size of airplanes, asks the important question: Could you ride one, and if so, how?
- The Texas Tech men's basketball team let its student manager play in a game for a few seconds last night, and he seized the opportunity to stand in the paint and take a charge.
- A South Carolina swimmer was attacked by a shark ... and lived to write about it in a five-star review of the J.Crew swimsuit she was wearing at the time.
- And finally, marone!:
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