- Follow Gothamist on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here.
- Trump administration officials said that they want to ban the sale of most flavored e-cigarettes in the wake of a mysterious vaping-related illness.
- True love will find you in the end: the great and influential cult singer/songwriter Daniel Johnston has died at 58.
- Kristin Cavallari fired a social media staffer after an insensitive post about 9/11 went viral.
- Sigh: the White House was directly involved in pressing a federal scientific agency to repudiate the weather forecasters who contradicted Trump’s claim that Hurricane Dorian would probably strike Alabama.
- Check out some of the finalists for the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards.
- Eater looks at the rise of the word "hangry."
- Mike Schur reflects on how 9/11 influenced his writing on SNL, The Office and Parks & Recreation.
- Abel Cedeno said he had suffered years of abuse because he was gay—he was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 14 years in prison after fatally stabbing a classmate at their Bronx high school in September 2017.
- A Staten Island college student has been arrested for allegedly transporting drugs into Russia after she carried some medical marijuana through a St. Petersburg airport while on vacation.
- Dirty politics: North Carolina House Republicans called a surprise vote and overrode Gov. Roy Cooper’s budget veto while he and other Democrats were at a 9/11 memorial event.
- Have you tried the ill-advised new teen trend?
- And finally, it feels like summer outside today, so go run in a fountain:
Published Sep 11, 2019
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