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- Law enforcement officials in Florida are actively preparing for a scenario where Donald Trump gets indicted on charges brought by the Manhattan DA and has to be extradited to New York.
- This depressing breakdown on Business Insider shows that average unemployment benefits plus the federal government's weekly $300 supplement adds up to more than the minimum wage in every state in the union, and in three states, it's more than the average weekly wage.
- Trader Joe's is no longer requiring customers to wear masks inside their stores, per the CDC's new guidelines.
- Bloomberg profiled a day in the life of various Wall Street figures, from hedge fund managers to a shoe shiner to a family coffee cart business, who are all quietly returning to work.
- Political candidates ranging from a French communist to a Queens first grader are coopting Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's distinct poster design.
- An animal shelter in Chicago released 1,000 feral cats into the streets to stop a current rat crisis.
- A YouGov poll found that only 61% of American adults think they could beat a goose in a fight, and just 49% said they could take a medium sized dog.
- Vice obtained Larry Flynt's 322-page FBI file and it includes a statement from an unnamed informant saying the Hustler magazine founder had planned to blow himself up — along with all the Supreme Court justices — during a 1983 hearing.
- Ten years after her song "Gucci Gucci" debuted, rapper Kreayshawn says it gives her "an instant panic attack."
- Nicki Minaj: huge fan of The Crown!
- And finally, a bird running in real quick to grab a sandwich:
Published May 14, 2021
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