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- Man sues Barneys for not letting him return four pairs of $1500 skinny jeans.
- Notorious traitor Robert E. Lee was actually very into slavery and racism, and was generally bad.
- An Alberta man faces down a tornado to mow his lawn, because mowing the lawn was on his to-do list
- The Jets make some great headlines in the off-season as one of their defensive lineman had to drag his own teammate away from an argument with a woman at Governors Ball.
- Far right activists have crowdfunded 50,000 euros to pay for efforts to disrupt migrant rescue ships in the Mediterranean.
- Two members of New Jersey's House delegation who voted for the American Health Care Act also bought huge amounts of health care company stock or sold it at record highs this year.
- Former Knicks coach Derek Fisher flipped his car over in a suspected DUI in California.
- A bouncer at a Brooklyn bar was arrested for assault after allegedly punching out a patron who he said hit him first.
- And finally, we're pretty far away from Philadelphia, and that's fine 'cause I'm really starting to hate you:
Extra, Extra: Man Ignores Tornado
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