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Early Addition: The right way to load your spoons in the dishwasher
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Published Apr 10, 2024
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Good Wednesday morning in New York City, where Muslim bus drivers are threatening to walk off the job because they didn't get Eid al-Fitr off.
Here's what else is happening:
- Some pro-Trump residents of a New Rochelle luxury tower are scrambling to stop the condo board from removing "Trump Plaza" from the building's facade.
- A Manhattan federal court judge sentenced a Florida woman to a month in prison and three months of home arrest on Tuesday for stealing and selling Joe Biden’s daughter's diary to a conservative activist group.
- NPR's chief news executive, Edith Chapin, defended the organization's journalistic principles after business editor Uri Berliner wrote an essay for Bari Weiss' website accusing NPR of lacking "viewpoint diversity."
- An exhibition in Pennsylvania will display 34 antique clocks restored by John B. McLemore, the late Alabama timepiece repairer made famous outside horological circles by the podcast "S-Town."
- Only 18% of American school districts currently offer paid parental leave, forcing many teachers to cash out sick days when they have babies. Some states are trying to change that.
- World Athletics, the governing body for track and field, will use money it receives from the International Olympic Committee to give $50,000 prizes to athletes who win gold medals at this summer's Paris Olympics, creating controversy with the IOC, which doesn't give out prize money.
- Today I learned that you're not supposed to let your spoons spoon when you load them in the dishwasher.
- "The Brooklyn literary power throuple" is thriving.
- And finally, stay grinding:
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