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  • Tribune journalists have formed a Project Mayhem team to desperately find another bidder and stave off the plans of vulturous hedge fund Alden Global Capital, which already owns half the company’s publicly-traded shares, to fully acquire the chain of newspapers by May 21st.
  • House Democrats are poised to pass the DC statehood bill Thursday afternoon, leaving the fate of our possible 51st state up to the Senate.
  • American coal will need to disappear for the country to achieve President Joe Biden’s goal of slashing carbon emissions in half by 2030.
  • The president and chief executive of Planned Parenthood Federation of America wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times about reckoning with the famed nonprofit’s founder Margaret Sanger’s racist and eugenicist thinking.
  • The remains of two children killed in 1985 when Philadelphia city officials bombed an entire city block to drive out a cult have gone missing, Billy Penn/WHYY reported. Instead of being returned to their families, the remains had been kept in a cardboard box at University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, where one researcher waved their bones around in an online teaching video. The remains were then taken to Princeton University by another researcher but now Princeton says the school doesn’t have them.
  • A 24-foot totem pole carved by Lummi Nation tribal members as a gift to President Biden will take a cross-country road trip from Washington state to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.
  • Someone rented a house in the Hamptons for $2 million for the summer, as demand has far outstripped supply.
  • The Times has a gripping rundown of the 48-hour rise and fall of the Super League.
  • And finally, butting heads takes on another meaning: