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    Extra, Extra: A Backpack Full Of Human Arms

    by Claire Lampen
    Published November 11, 2019
    This is a photo of a tabby cat lying at the entrance to the Seventh Avenue subway station.
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    • Two people were killed in Toms River yesterday, when an airborne Porsche smashed through the second story of a commercial building.
    • Sad: Don Jr. can't even get a hell yeah from the MAGA crowd.
    • Neil Young believes his application for U.S. citizenship has stalled because the government knows he's been smoking the reefer — a moral failing, in ex-Attorney General Jeff Session's estimation — and suspects he may have to decamp to Canada while he awaits the verdict.
    • Turns out you can't legally rent out a NYCHA apartment on Airbnb.
    • Report: Laid-Back, Cool Dude In Especially Loose Mood
    • These upsetting graphics will help you visualize just how badly Big Tech is doing in the hey-maybe-let's-hire-some-people-who-aren't-white-men department.
    • A Russian history professor reportedly confessed to murder after police pulled him from the Moika River and discovered a pair of severed human arms in his backpack. Severed human arms! In his backpack! And then the rest of the body stashed in his home.
    • So, yes, it appears former Mayor Bloomberg will once again have to confront a pretty fundamental problem with his presidential bid, which is that no one really wants him to run.
    • The ongoing clash between Hong Kong protesters and police continues to escalate at a fatal rate, with a third demonstrator shot during a fiery citywide strike on Monday.
    • A Virginia OB/GYN is suspected of performing hysterectomies on patients without their consent.
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