Extra Extra: Paulie Walnuts Has Nothing On This North Dakota Squirrel

Sophia Chang

Published Oct 2, 2021

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Two young girls bop each other with inflatable bowling pins in a street fair.

Sophia Chang

Published Oct 2, 2021

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David Lee Roth says he’s hanging up his chaps and retiring after one last show in Vegas in January.
Turns out Legoland wasn’t immediately a slamdunk for the residents of Goshen in upstate New York.
After the roof of a mail processing center in Kearny, New Jersey collapsed during Tropical Storm Ida, the U.S. Postal Service is saying mail service will be delayed in parts of New York and New Jersey.
A lone red squirrel industriously packed away 42 pounds of black walnuts inside a Fargo man’s Chevy Avalanche.
The Washington Post looks at how a right-wing nonprofit is quietly funding the pushback against mask policies in schools.
If I were you, I’d stop doling out unsolicited advice.
This is how United Airlines convinced almost all of its 67,000 employees in America to get vaccinated, in what the New York Times calls “one of the largest and most successful corporate efforts of the kind during the pandemic.”
Meanwhile, many Americans are itching to travel and snapping up Thanksgiving and Christmas bookings.
This presentation of movies that take place at the same time in history is kinda mesmerizing.
And finally, happy Fat Bear week:

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Sophia Chang

Sophia Chang is a former WNYC and Gothamist reporter.

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