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- An off-duty cop was slashed during his daughter's First Communion party.
- A 37-year-old man jumped off the Verrazano Bridge and died early this morning.
- Martin Shkreli is now permanently banned from Twitter.
- A golf writer who visited a Trump golf course and shared a golf cart with Eric Trump recalls the Trump son casually telling him that Russian banks funded all of their golf course construction right after the recession.
- Our own John Del Signore says this New Yorker article on exploitation at a chicken plant "should be required reading for anyone who eats chicken or knows how to read."
- New French president Emmanuel Macron might have planted fake emails for hackers to steal in order to undercut the effectiveness of mass hacked email dumps.
- Who is stealing New York City's garbage bins? Turns out it might be scrap metal thieves.
- Wow, a horse won the Kentucky Derby.
- And finally, the new Cayetana is here! Let's celebrate with a song:
Published May 7, 2017
Modified May 8, 2017
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