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Good Friday afternoon in New York City, where we could soon lower the speed limit.
Here's what else is happening:
- Newark's 11 p.m. curfew for minors goes into effect tonight. (It was supposed to begin last month but officials postponed the start date.)
- President Joe Biden is giving Presidential Medals of Freedom to failed Democratic presidential candidates Michael Bloomberg, Al Gore and John Kerry, as well as Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky and others.
- People on TikTok are claiming that women need more sleep than men, which is not scientifically accurate — but it is true that women are more likely to get up in the middle of the night or early in the morning to deal with sleepless children.
- Climate change is about to prompt a mass migration of venomous snakes to parts of the world that aren't necessarily prepared for it.
- A Pennsylvania man claims his emotional support alligator was kidnapped in Georgia and released into a swamp.
- The Queens County Farm Museum’s 13th annual Sheep Shearing Festival is returning on May 11.
- Grand Mo the First has not-great odds of winning the Kentucky Derby tomorrow, but has pretty great odds of having the best name in the field.
- Consider the raindrop.
- And finally, civilized fellas:
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