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Early Addition: Dr. Fauci Says Trick-Or-Treating Is Back On This Year
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James Ramsay
Published Oct 12, 2021
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- In light of extreme home prices and their mountains of student debt, Millennials who really want to be homeowners are increasingly pooling together their money with roommates or other people they're not married to in order to afford houses.
- Dr. Fauci said it's okay for kids to go trick-or-treating this year.
- California passed a law requiring big chain stores that sell kids' stuff to have sections of merchandise labeled as gender neutral.
- An elk that had been wandering around Colorado with a tire around its neck for two years is now free after wildlife officials shot the animal with a tranquilizer dot, cuts its antlers off, and squeezed the tire over its head.
- Sally Rooney is refusing to have her latest novel translated into Hebrew by an Israeli publisher in protest of the Israeli government's treatment of Palestinians.
- The creator of Chucky, Don Mancini, spoke to the Times about the gay storyline in the upcoming TV reboot of what's already long been considered the queerest major horror franchise.
- This week's issue of the New Yorker includes a profile of Paul McCartney, who's now a 79-year-old billionaire and gradually getting over his hang-ups about John, Yoko, and being viewed as the Beatles' dumb balladeer.
- After Dave Chappelle came under fire for "hateful" jokes about trans people in his new standup special, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos defended him, saying, "There will always be content on Netflix some people believe is harmful." Netflix then suspended a trans employee—who happened to criticized Chappelle on Twitter—who crashed an internal Netflix meeting in which managers discussed how to handle the controversy.
- Kanye West is selling a very large ranch in Wyoming.
- And finally, don't forget to stretch:
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