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Extra, Extra: FLOTUS Tells Kids 'Be Best,' Drugs Worst
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Ben Yakas
Published May 7, 2018
Modified May 7, 2018
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- Who's winning the self-driving cars race?
- The New Yorker FINALLY covers vaping and Juul, which teens have turned into a new kind of bad habit.
- Transparent will end after season five.
- Read an acid-fueled '60s Paul McCartney anecdote.
- Rick Moranis is briefly coming out of retirement for The Goldbergs.
- Melania Trump unveiled her "Be Best" campaign, which may be beyond parody.
- Here’s why humans love babies in glasses.
- The Pagans and the Hells Angels may be beefing in NJ.
- Bruce Springsteen toasted to Stevie van Zandt and his many scarves at the NJ Hall of Fame ceremony.
- Brooklyn is apparently turning into the Bitcoin capital of the country.
- And finally, the piggies are going shopping:
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