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Early Addition: Would You Jump Into The Hudson River For TikTok Clout?
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Ben Yakas
Published Aug 17, 2020
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- Rob Sheffield looks back at the 50 year anniversary of the end of The Beatles.
- A week of protests has followed a rigged election in Belarus where chaos and state-deployed violence is terrorizing the citizens—here's a report from someone who was imprisoned there this month.
- A Long Island 20-year-old jumped into the Hudson River near the Statue Of Liberty for TikTok clout, and she lived to get a few thousand more followers.
- A new New York state restaurant survey found that nearly 90 percent of restaurants say they won’t be able to make any profit in the next six months without government aid.
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- John Oliver talked about Republicans' increasing obsession with conspiracy theories, and took a look at why people of color are routinely excluded from becoming jurors on Last Week Tonight.
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