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Extra Extra: How The First Day Of Vaccine Rollout Went Across America


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Published Dec 15, 2020


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  • Joe Biden will nominate Pete Buttigieg to be to be his transportation secretary.
  • Here's how the first day of the vaccine rollout across the country went.
  • "Pastel QAnon" is infiltrating natural parenting groups and communities.
  • Vulture has a charming interview with Diane Keaton about her long creative partnership with Nancy Meyers.
  • The New Yorker's Isaac Chotiner remains the best political interviewer in the game, this time chatting with Mike Johnson, the Louisiana Congressman who organized the Supreme Court amicus brief in support of Trump’s election case, about how much Trump loves the constitution.
  • A 28-year-old man was sentenced to four weeks in jail after he rode a jet ski from Scotland to the Isle of Man to see his girlfriend.
  • Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard has been indicted on nine charges including racketeering and sex trafficking.
  • MacKenzie Scott, who is the world’s 18th-richest person after divorcing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, has given away over $4 billion in a four month period.
  • RIP Periscope.
  • Everyone is trying to get in on the ground floor of the "Shroom Boom."
  • A driver slammed into an outdoor dining structure in the Bronx on Monday.
  • Brooklyn Eagle reports on the abandoned storefronts of Montague Street.
  • Watch Tame Impala's music video for "Breathe Deeper," the best song from their most recent album The Slow Rush.
  • And finally, this poor pupper is very high:

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Ben Yakas was born and raised in New York, and has worked for Gothamist for over a decade, and WNYC for four years, covering literally everything. He has hung out with Dan Smith (who will teach you guitar), but still has yet to have a guitar lesson with him.

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