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- Maybe there is still some use for the neck gaiter during the pandemic.
- NBC reports that the Republican and Democratic chairmen of the Senate Intelligence Committee made criminal referrals of Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, Erik Prince and Sam Clovis to federal prosecutors in 2019, "passing along their suspicions that the men may have misled the committee during their testimony."
- Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who has been highly criticized for his financial ties to a company that does business with the Postal Service, received $1.2 million to $7 million in income last year from that firm.
- Don't go to this anti-mask dance party in Toronto unless you are okay with someone threatening you with a chainsaw.
- Cuba Gooding Jr. has been accused of raping a woman twice in 2013 in Gooding’s NYC hotel room after meeting the woman at a Greenwich Village lounge.
- Notre Dame says it is canceling in-person classes and moving them online for at least two weeks after 147 students tested positive for the coronavirus; those cases have been linked to off-campus parties.
- The New Yorker has a longread on the difficulties of contact tracing at an Atlanta prep school following graduation parties.
- A new study has found that flushing a urinal can cause an “alarming upward flow” of coronavirus-laden particles.
- Former employees at make-up company Glossier have accused management of fostering an "insidious culture of anti-Blackness, transphobia, ableism and retaliation."
- Hasan Minaj announced that his Netflix series Patriot Act has ended.
- Listen to "Waving, Smiling," the new single from Angel Olsen.
- And finally, a heartwarming interspecies friendship between a dog and a crow:
Published Aug 18, 2020
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