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- A grand jury indicted a former Louisville police detective for endangering Breonna Taylor’s neighbors by recklessly firing his gun during a raid on her apartment in March—but no officer was charged with killing Taylor.
- Dr. Anthony Fauci had no patience for Sen. Rand Paul's incorrect misinformation about herd immunity at a Senate hearing today.
- Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Vibe, Deadline, IndieWire and WWD will all be under the same parent company now.
- Here's a lovely story that isn't depressing about the resiliency of New Yorkers.
- Schools, doctors offices and storage facilities are beginning to replace empty malls.
- D'oh: Facebook has suspended the accounts of several environmental organizations less than a week after launching an initiative "it said would counter a tide of misinformation over climate science on the platform."
- Officials say that White House aides improperly intervened to prevent John Bolton from releasing his memoir, "making false assertions that Mr. Bolton had revealed classified material and suggesting that they retaliated when she refused to go along."
- If you're tempted to tweet an "Ugh, MEN!" joke, maybe come up with something a bit more original.
- A factory in Vietnam was busted washing and reselling more than 320,000 used condoms to pass them off as new.
- Celebrate The Boss' birthday with this list of 326 Bruce Springsteen songs ranked.
- And finally, this is the most precious thing I've seen this week:
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