Early Addition: Putting Cops On Roller Skates Is One Kind Of Police Reform

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Published Jun 22, 2021

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James Ramsay

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A new analysis commissioned by the CDC determined that the dangerous Delta variant of COVID-19 will become predominant in the U.S. within the next few weeks.
The police department in Karachi, Pakistan, is trying to repair its public image by deploying a coed force of 20 cops on roller skates around the city.
The New Yorker has a thorough and very stressful account of the unregulated world of expensive baby sleep consultants.
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"The most R-rated G you will ever see in your life": The team behind Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame explained the editing tricks that scored a G rating for the children's animated film about an archdeacon's lust for a Romani woman.
At a 25th anniversary screening of Fargo at the Tribeca Festival, the movie's stars said the town where they rented the infamous wood chipper is so proud that residents still drag the device through the streets during their annual 4th of July parade.
Christian rock star Avril Lavigne joined TikTok this week with a video of herself and Tony Hawk reenacting her 2002 hit "Sk8er Boi."
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