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Extra Extra: Gender Reveal Party Sparks Massive Fire, Again
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Jake Offenhartz
Published Sep 7, 2020
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- One of the many wild fires raging through California right now was sparked by a "pyrotechnic device" used during a gender reveal party, according to state officials — the country's second major blaze prompted by a gender reveal explosive in three years.
- Tennis star Novak Djokovic was booted from the U.S. Open after accidentally rocketing a ball into a line judge's throat on Sunday.
- In response to a Tucker Carlson segment on Fox News, President Trump is now seeking to defund racial sensitivity training for federal agencies, calling the workshops “un-American propaganda.”
- Rihanna is recovering from a minor injury involving an e-scooter, her representatives told People after she was spotted with a bruised face.
- Despite the pandemic, Christopher Nolan's Tenet scored $20 million at the box office this weekend.
- Janet Malcolm has a deeply fascinating new essay in the NY Review of Books about her libel trial, featuring a speech therapist and some juicy New Yorker gossip.
- Roughly half of the country's largest police departments have banned or strengthened restrictions on the use of neck restraints since the killing of George Floyd, a Washington Post analysis found.
- No one agrees on who really founded Labor Day.
- Governor Andrew Cuomo is digging in his heels and refusing to raise taxes on the ultra-wealthy to help close a $14 billion budget gap, according to the Times.
- And finally, get off the internet and go to the beach already.
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