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Early Addition: Don't let your pets play with raccoons
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Published Jan 28, 2025
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Good Tuesday morning in New York City, where Trump is planning to nominate a congestion pricing enemy to lead the Federal Transit Administration.
Here's what else is happening:
- "When a bullet carves a highway of death in your community and it hits someone, it's not a Democrat or Republican," Mayor Eric Adams told Stephen A. Smith shortly before calling out sick.
- President Donald Trump is arguing that his broad criminal immunity should free him from having to pay the $83 million he owes E. Jean Carroll for defamation.
- The MTA said it plans to implement 25 new "rush" bus routes in Queens by Labor Day.
- After dead raccoons and several live ones that tested positive for Canine Distemper Virus were found on a Long Island estate in recent weeks, officials are warning locals to protect their pets.
- Milltown, New Jersey, is once again cancelling its beloved Groundhog Day celebration because the town's old groundhog died — and they're not allowed to import a new one due to state laws meant to protect against rabies.
- Google Maps is really going to change the name to "Gulf of America."
- CVS is testing an app that would let customers unlock in-store cases themselves.
- Wario Phoenicia Diner returns in "Severance" season 2.
- And finally, how to disarm a raccoon:
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