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- Coincidence alert: Rudy Giuliani was also planning to fly to Vienna around the same time his two business associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, were arrested at Dulles Airport with one-way tickets for the Austrian city.
- Here is a sentence from the Times: "Even as he worked with Mr. Parnas’s company, Fraud Guarantee, Mr. Giuliani increasingly relied on Mr. Parnas to carry out Mr. Trump’s quest for evidence in Ukraine that would undercut the legitimacy of the special counsel’s investigation." (Fruman's company goes by the somewhat subtler Mafia Rave.)
- CNN Anchor Chris Cuomo has apologized after making a bone-headed pronoun joke during last night's LGBTQ candidate town hall.
- Some Staten Islanders aren't pleased with the new speed cameras installed in their borough: "For every baby born on Staten Island with the name Joseph, we get a new speed camera."
- Is a fall nor'easter on the way?
- Lazarus, a clawless otter abandoned as a pup, is learning how to hunt again.
- Georgia Republicans think more racism might've helped the Braves avoid playoff elimination.
- The Times has a nice meditation on the relaxing, weird, beautiful 14th Street busway.
- Have you met the Mayor of Minneapolis?
- And finally, Big Thief has a stellar new album out today. Watch them perform the single "Not" on Colbert last night.
Published Oct 11, 2019
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