• Follow Gothamist on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here.
  • The former acting director of the CDC said he expects continued COVID-19 surges to cause more school closures this year than last year.
  • The Biden administration is revoking a Trump-era rule that required the $25 duck stamp — which all hunting license holders have to buy — to feature a reference to hunting in the artwork, and now it's a culture war brouhaha.
  • Just as food companies and chain restaurants have to publish the calorie counts for their products, major corporations could soon have to disclose the carbon footprint of what they sell.
  • The New York Times Magazine has definitely published the most pretentious essay about flossing that's ever been written.
  • This week's "Field of Dreams" baseball game between the Yankees and the White Sox will feature an "apple pie hot dog" created by Guy Fieri.
  • Vice interviewed a bunch of people who've really gone out of their way to buy a fake CDC vaccine card rather than getting the vaccine.
  • Chucky Thompson, the Bad Boy Records producer behind the Notorious B.I.G.'s "Big Poppa" and Mary J. Blige's album, My Life, has died at the age of 53.
  • If you're not a lifeguard or a student, summer is a state of mind that ends whenever you want it to.
  • And finally, a battle of wills: