Early Addition: Prop Gun Fired By Alec Baldwin In Fatal Shooting May Have Had "Live Round"

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Published Oct 22, 2021

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Director of photography Halyna Hutchins, 42, was killed, and director Joel Souza, 48, was injured when Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun on the set of Rust in New Mexico. The union says the gun had a live round in it.
Essentially nobody appears to be using the QR code feature on New York's Excelsior Pass proof-of-vaccine app, which cost the state millions of dollars to engineer.
Because we live in a globally integrated world and China and Japan are both hungry for coal, guess what: Coal production is booming in the United States.
Scores of election officials in Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania are quitting the job because Donald Trump has been name-checking them at rallies, prompting his supporters to start sending them people death threats.
"Ah, sorry, a slight distraction – would you mind repeating that question?" said New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern when an earthquake hit in the middle of her press conference this morning.
Disgruntled Philadelphia 76ers star Ben Simmons is selling his 10,000-square-foot house that appears to be in the middle of a field outside Camden. (Asking price is $5 million.)
Some of the actors who are in every Wes Anderson movie spoke to the Times about why they're so excited to be in every Wes Anderson movie.
Go inside the subculture of men who love Mazda Miatas.
ABBA, which is the Mazda Miata of bands, released a new song this morning called "Just a Notion."
And finally, this guy's pals really did him dirty:

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