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Published Jun 19, 2021

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Sophia Chang

Published Jun 19, 2021

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The Bidens announced the death of their elder German Shepherd, Champ, with moving testimonials to what a good boy he was: “Even as Champ’s strength waned in his last months, when we came into a room, he would immediately pull himself up, his tail always wagging, and nuzzle us for an ear scratch or a belly rub.”
A hacker got into the highly sensitive files of New York City’s Law Department via a single employee’s compromised email account, the New York Times reports.
The Washington Post reports that the One America Network reporter who is relentlessly covering the “Arizona GOP-led audit of the 2020 presidential vote in Maricopa County” has also donated money to the audit and worked with Republicans in Arizona to try to find evidence.
The Tokyo Olympics organizers have cancelled public viewing parties in Japan and will turn those spaces into vaccination sites instead.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell tried to pivot to mask manufacturing during the pandemic, lost a lot of money, and now owns millions of unwanted cloth masks, telling the Daily Beast “I can’t give them away...I tried to. No one wants the things anymore.”
Emergency officials fear another intense wildfire season out west as an extreme heat wave hit California, Nevada and Arizona this week.
As a Black Army Private, Ozzy Fletcher of Brooklyn was overlooked for the Purple Heart after being wounded during the Battle of Normandy in World War II. He finally received the medal during a ceremony at Fort Hamilton Friday, the New York Post reported.
Indie, a Upper West Side dog who ran away from her dogwalker three months ago, has been discovered living in a Long Island City warehouse with stray cats after she was seen darting around traffic in the Midtown Tunnel this week.
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