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- A fact checker on President Donald Trump's RNC speech.
- Ghislaine Maxwell was the "first federal inmate in NYC to receive in-person visit since start of pandemic," reports the Daily News.
- The Jetsons promised us flying cars in the future, and Japan is finally delivering.
- Yes, George Stephanopoulos asked the pool boy in the center of the Jerry Falwell Jr. scandal how things worked after Falwell's wife asked for a tryst with her husband present.
- A child on a unicorn float—hundreds of yards into the sea—was successfully rescued in Greece.
- At least 40 dolphins have died near a Mauritius oil spill. "Environmentalists have demanded an investigation into whether the dolphins were killed as a result of the spill from a Japanese ship," Reuters reports.
- Sunday is the 5th anniversary of Kanye West announcing his 2020 presidential run at the VMAs. And in September, it's the 21st anniversary of Gothamist's John Del Signore crashing the VMA stage.
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- There are dogs in this video, but they aren't the stars of the show:
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