Extra Extra: Gender Reveal Party Sparks Massive Fire, Again

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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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