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- The White House is sending federal law enforcement officials over to Haiti to help investigate the assassination of the country's president.
- While 84-year-old Pope Francis lays low at the Vatican as he recovers from intense colon surgery, Catholics of various political persuasions are all feeling anxious about what the post-operation pontif has in store.
- The head of the Tokyo Olympics, who was herself an Olympic speedskater and cyclist, said she's worried that empty stadiums are going to cause the athletes to under-perform.
- About 10 little boys in Greenpoint have been participating in a parent-sanctioned "fight club" in McGolrick Park, and other parents who take their kids to the park are not happy about it.
- Taking tiny hits of the active chemical in ayahuasca — during the middle of the work day — is now a thing.
- NASA is funding a search for alien megastructures.
- Chelsea Handler told the New York Times that she no longer identifies as a Cuomosexual.
- The boy band 98 Degrees is putting out its first non-Christmas music in eight years.
- In 1987, two guys in Cincinnati used a cicada to scare away a cashier and rob $25 from a restaurant's cash register.
- And finally, a very patient pony:
Published Jul 9, 2021
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