Extra Extra: Ghislaine Maxwell is teaching yoga in prison

James Ramsay

Published Jun 27, 2022

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James Ramsay

Published Jun 27, 2022

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Good Monday afternoon in New York City, where not a lot of people voted early in the gubernatorial primary. Here's what else is happening:

Ahead of Ghislaine Maxwell's sentencing tomorrow, a fellow inmate at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn sent a letter to the court claiming that Maxwell is a nice person who taught other inmates yoga.
The NYPD's bee squad had to remove thousands of bees from Times Square yesterday after they swarmed an outdoor dining shed.
The "slap" that Rudy Giuliani took from a grocery store employee on Staten Island over the weekend was... not a slap.
A play about Robert Moses starring Ralph Fiennes is coming to The Shed in October.
The art of falconry is alive and well in Ocean City, N.J., where the predator birds are keeping the boardwalk free of pesky seagulls.
WNBA star Brittney Griner appeared in public today in a Russian court, where a judge ordered her to remain in detention during her trial for which a date hasn't yet been set.
Wedding season is here and it's expensive as hell.
Thank you to this Texas man for kindly releasing the 200-pound, 150-year-old alligator snapping turtle he accidentally caught while fishing on Father's Day.
Thank you to Socca Mommy for the new music.
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And finally, what a smooch:

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