Covering NY again at @AP. Previously: @nypost, @brooklynpaper, @wweek, @crikey_news. I wrote a book about coffee ⬇️
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A candidate disappeared months ago after an ocean swim.
Can he still win?
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Five months ago, the NYPD claimed the teen in the below photo – 15 year old Camden Lee – was behind the mass shooting at the West Indian Day Parade.
They were wrong. A few days later, detectives privately told Lee's family it was a mistake. But... (1/4)
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BREAKING: A federal judge rejected the sale of the conspiracy platform Infowars to The Onion satirical news outlet after Alex Jones claimed that a recent bankruptcy auction was fraught with illegal collusion. apnews.com/article/infowars-…
This upstate village loves its mute swans. New York state... not so much. apnews.com/article/manlius-m…
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The kids who as first graders survived the Sandy Hook shooting are graduating from high school today.
@DaveCollinsAP spoke with five of them:
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Engaged Sun teammates Alyssa Thomas and DeWanna Bonner find work-life balance in the WNBA (from @AP) apnews.com/article/2225df424…
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Getting food delivered in New York is simple. For the workers who do it, getting paid is not apnews.com/article/uber-eats…
Come for @jangelooff's great deep-dive into the mystery that has "improbably remained unsolved" for a whole year... apnews.com/article/flaco-owl…
... stay for this flashback to a time when people were just beating up animals at the zoo in the 1970s nytimes.com/1974/03/13/archi…
Sounds to me like 600 *competed*
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Today in 1906 Coney Island held its first baby show with 1,200 infant contestants, 600 of whom judges ultimately named 'most beautiful baby' #thisdayinhistory
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Park Slope telescope guy speaks, calls for more telescopes in streets @catalinagonella gothamist.com/news/astronomy…
🧵 In 1975, Australia's ABC launched two successful new radio stations.
One went on to become Triple J.
But the other, 3ZZ — where both my parents worked — was forcibly closed by the government two years later, with the help of federal police.
For most of my life, they and their former colleagues didn’t know for sure why this happened — Cabinet documents are kept secret for 30 years.
The files were finally found recently in an incorrectly-labelled folder in the National Archives.
My mum and another ex-colleague just published a report on what they found inside... abcalumni.net/2023/08/24/sec…
Hot summer trend: Sex and the City and What We Do in the Shadows are both doing “NYC Comptroller election” storylines.
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In the 2000s, Barbie briefly had an Australian boogie boarder boyfriend called Blaine, who loved hip hop. Cruelly he was discontinued in 2006 when Barbie got back together with Ken.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is not quoted in his high school yearbook calling the rapper behind the 1992 hit “Baby Got Back” “Sir-Mixes-a-Lot.” The quote was added to an image of his real entry in the book that has been circulating online. apne.ws/u89CVmr
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