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- About 39 million American families with kids will start seeing $250 or $300 checks (per child) hitting their bank accounts on July 15th, courtesy of the Feds.
- The strongest cyclone western India has seen in over two decades is headed toward the COVID-battered state of Gujarat.
- A recent survey found that 42% of Americans couldn't name a single prominent Asian American.
- AT&T has sold off WarnerMedia — which includes HBO and CNN — to Discovery, signaling that the telecom giant tried and failed in the content creation business.
- Between general Hawaiian pride, the island's violent colonial history, and the glut of talented athletes that have to be crammed onto the U.S. squad, Hawaiian surfers are bummed that they can't compete in the Tokyo Olympics under their own state flag.
- Macy's and Target have both pulled Chrissy Teigen's cookware line from their websites after a tweet surfaced showing that Teigen had encouraged another model to kill herself.
- Andrea Meza, a Mexican software engineer, has been crowned the 69th Miss Universe.
- Eva Longoria is producing a biopic about Richard Montañez, a former Frito-Lay janitor-turned-marketing executive who claims that he invented the Flamin' Hot Cheeto, something that Frito-Lay denies.
- Wave at the end of your Zoom calls, it's fine.
- And finally, a bird made out of cat toys:
Today might be rough, so take this kitten discovering a bird made out of cat toys. pic.twitter.com/lQhOXHAVth
— John Wiswell (@Wiswell) May 14, 2021
