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Early Addition: Touching grass, touching ticks
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Published Jun 23, 2025
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Good Monday morning in New York City, where they're going to start pumping carbon monoxide into tree-bed rat tunnels.
Here's what else is happening:
- New York state is teeming with ticks.
- New York City is teeming with abandoned boats.
- Gov. Kathy Hochul said New York is on "high alert" after the U.S. military attacked Iran.
- Brad Lander held a rally over the weekend with two former Andrew Cuomo staffers who've accused the ex-governor of sexual harassment. (Cuomo denies the allegations.)
- High school theater stars from around the country are hitting Broadway tonight for the Jimmy Awards.
- Here are a bunch of looks from Saturday's Coney Island Mermaid Parade.
- The BBC hunted down some of the giant Michael Jackson statues littered about Europe.
- Good for Canada.
- And finally, tubin':
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