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Early Addition: Brooklyn Dad Overdoses On Heroin To Teach Son A Lesson
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Ben Yakas
Published Jun 2, 2017
Modified Jun 2, 2017
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- Pence just can't understand why liberals are so hung up on all this climate change stuff.
- A Sheepshead Bay dad was so angry when he found his heroin addict son’s stash that he shot it up himself and almost died of an overdose, all to teach him a lesson.
- Radiohead released a new music video for their lost song, "I Promise."
- Putin is just making fun of the American media now, saying even children could hack the election.
- Free medical advice: maybe don't put ground up wasp nests up your vagina.
- Rick Moranis is coming out of retirement for charity.
- Jim Carrey defended Kathy Griffin: "I think it is the job of a comedian to cross the line at all times—because that line is not real."
- Engineer Geoff Emerick talks about the making of Sgt. Pepper's.
- The NY Times Magazine has an all-cartoon issue this weekend.
- Politico reports on how the world's most interesting man befriended the world's most powerful man.
- Drew Barrymore uses the subway as her mirror.
- And finally, this rhino calf might not have horns yet, but he is already practicing using them:
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