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Early Addition: A CBS cop show staged a fake student protest at Queens College, angering actual student protesters

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Published Jul 24, 2024

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Published Jul 24, 2024

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Good Wednesday morning in New York City, where they're saying this is the Summer of Possibility.

Here's what else is happening:

• The FBI yesterday raided the Long Island home of a former deputy chief of staff to Gov. Kathy Hochul for reasons that have not been publicized.
• The city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has quietly ended its naloxone and contraception vending machine program after rolling out only four of the planned 10 machines across the five boroughs.
• The Legal Aid Society is calling for an investigation into the death of a 23-year-old Rikers Island detainee who was repeatedly denied medical help for possible scarlet fever.
• A fake student protest encampment was recently staged on the Queens College campus for an episode taping of CBS' "FBI: Most Wanted." Students who'd participated in actual pro-Palestinian demonstrations took offense.
• You might be able to see the Northern Lights in parts of New York tonight.
• Paper checks won't die.
• Snakes in a "mega den." (On a livestream.)
• Here's the hot New York Metro Weather guy in Gucci.
• And finally, we comin:

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