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Extra Extra: New Jersey got another little aftershock today
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Published Apr 10, 2024
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Good Wednesday afternoon in New York City, where lawmakers want to crack down on toll evaders ... somehow.
Here's what else is happening:
- New Jersey got hit with a 2.6-magnitude aftershock today, less than a week after that 4.8-magnitude doozy.
- The Trump Organization's former Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg was sentenced today to five months in prison for lying under oath during while testifying in a civil suit against Donald Trump.
- The Bronx is getting its second Chick-fil-A.
- Employees at the Cinema Village theater in Manhattan are trying to unionize.
- Former Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told an audience at Georgetown University that he got voted out of the job "because one person, a member of Congress, wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17-year-old." (That person is Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz.)
- The swimming portion of the triathlon event at the Paris Olympics may have to be canceled if it rains too much and contaminates the River Seine.
- “Sasquatch Sunset," a new movie co-starring Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keough about Sasquatches fighting, having sex and hanging out in Central Park, opens on Friday.
- Live a little: Paint your bedroom a dusty pink.
- Live a lot: Wear leather pants to the gym.
- And finally, get this dog some chaps:
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