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Extra Extra: NJ Lottery warns against putting scratch-offs in kids' stockings
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Published Dec 13, 2023
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It's Wednesday afternoon in New York City, where this shop-local holiday gift guide from "The Brian Lehrer Show" has you covered.
Here’s what else is happening:
- The Queens businessman behind the "Invisible Mask" — a lapel badge containing a pouch of ions that allegedly protected against COVID-19 — has settled with the Federal Trade Commission over charges of making deceptive claims. (New York City Sheriff Anthony Miranda, who promoted the bogus product before Mayor Eric Adams appointed him to his current job, isn't named in the federal complaints.)
- Now two decades after Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced the Atlantic Yards megaproject, the area has the Barclays Center and some apartments but also a large, still-barren rail yard.
- The New Jersey Lottery is reminding people not to put scratch-offs in their kids' Christmas stockings because minors' brains aren't fully developed, which makes them particularly susceptible to developing gambling addiction problems.
- "It was a great picture": Convicted Brooklyn mobster Ralph DiMatteo declined to be shamed during his sentencing over a picture of himself shirtless in a Florida pool.
- Black and white cookie-flavored Oreos are coming to a shelf near you in 2024.
- The former London townhouse of poet Lord Byron is for sale for $37.7 million.
- Researchers now believe songbirds are constantly singing because if they stopped, they'd have a hard time starting up again.
- In other singing news, Taylor Swift claims she rehearsed for her current tour by singing the entire setlist while on the treadmill, which — according to this ultrarunner — sounds impossible.
- And finally, power stance:
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