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- Three students were suspended for re-enacting the death of George Floyd--with one of the students wearing blackface and a white student with his knee on the student's back--and posting a photo of it on Snapchat.
- Olympic gold medalist gymnast Chellsie Memmel, now 32 and a mother of two, will compete for the first time since retiring in 2012, having carefully chronicled her training on YouTube.
- Speaking of comebacks, 80s British band Duran Duran released a new single, "Invisible," which will be followed by a new album this year.
- An app has been developed to help track the progression of those pesky cicadas after being underground for 17 years.
- Marijuana growers in New York and New Jersey say demand is high (no pun intended) but supply is low after legislators in each state voted to legalize recreational weed this year.
- An 87-year-old man living in a Bronx nursing home has been charged with killing a fellow 83-year-old resident.
- The walls appear to be closing in on Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, whose ex-girlfriend is reported to be cooperating with authorities in a federal investigation into a sex trafficking scheme involving Gaetz.
- Federal authorities have confiscated $90,000 from a self-described journalist who was inside the U.S. Capitol on January 6th and sold footage to news outlets of a woman fatally shot by police during the riots there.
- And finally, a live animal video is taking a backseat today for this optical illusion paying tribute to our four-legged friends:
Jake Dobkin
Published May 22, 2021
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