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  • Florida now has more COVID-19 cases than most countries in the world.
  • Many Republicans are still planning to go to the GOP convention in Florida next month, because, “It’s a risk you have to take."
  • I haven't done this in a long time, let's see if I still got it: Is Connecticut the new Manhattan?
  • The Hamptons is "buzzing" again, and that includes lots of parties without much social distancing: “It is the ultimate Prohibition-style thing,” one Hamptons resident who asked not to be named said. “People are doing it. And if you do it, you don’t talk about it.”
  • A body has been found at the Southern California lake where actress Naya Rivera went missing last week.
  • Ghislaine Maxwell apparently thought that putting tinfoil on her phone would keep the FBI from being able to track her.
  • Forget about Christopher Nolan's movie Tenet being released this summer—will it even be released this year?
  • Eater reports that Sqirl, the L.A. company known for its ricotta toast with jam, is under fire for "allegedly selling moldy jam and harboring a secret kitchen."
  • Racial tensions in Catskill, NY have been exacerbated after village trustees rejected having a Black Lives Matter painting on their Main Street.
  • An Ohio Army vet who refused to wear a face mask because he didn’t want to buy into “that damn hype” has died of coronavirus complications.
  • Chicago unveiled the "Census Cowboy" today and yeah, the announcement was even more bizarre than that.
  • And finally, I would not want to casually run into this bear: