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Extra Extra: Who better to emcee the debut of a new Trump musical than Michael Cohen?
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Emily Nadal
Published Feb 15, 2024
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It’s Thursday afternoon in New York City, where two recent violent incidents in Times Square have left some in the local community on edge.
Here’s what else is happening:
- The director of a public library in New Jersey has a vintage wedding dress collection she keeps in the back and allows people to borrow dresses for free if they wish.
- A Medicaid program in New York that allows family members to get paid for caring for their loved ones is being touted on TikTok as an easy way to “get rich quick.”
- The Doughnut Project, known for unique doughnut flavors like black pepper, is closing after nine years in business.
- Joey Graziadei of “The Bachelor” said Malta, a country first populated around 5900 B.C., has an “old school vibe" — after he confused Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the woman just released from prison for her involvement in her mother’s murder, with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the late Supreme Court justice.
- There is a whole industry dedicated to rescuing cats from trees.
- A new Monmouth University poll found that about one in three Republicans believe in a baseless conspiracy theory that Taylor Swift is involved in a plot to help Joe Biden win the 2024 presidential election.
- Michael Cohen emceed a press preview of a new Off Broadway musical on Donald Trump and five women in his life.
- And finally, I can see clearly now:
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