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- Brooklyn saw pro-NYPD demonstrators marching through Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights, resulting in verbal clashes with counter-protesters. Here's a thread from counter-protesters in Bay Ridge.
- In India, which has the third highest coronavirus cases in the world, famed Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan tested positive for COVID.
- Blake Neff, the head writer for "Tucker Carlson Tonight,” is now looking for work after CNN unearthed his racist online diatribes. Fox News says Carlson will address the incident on Monday.
- New York Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman is now the third Bronx Bomber to test positive for COVID-19.
- The list of candidates vying for the New York City Comptroller post just got shorter.
- The NY Times explores the heartbreaking story of Dr. Lorna Breen, the NYC ER doctor who died by suicide during the height of the pandemic.
- That gun-toting St. Louis couple seen pointing a semi-automatic toward protesters has a long history of not backing down.
- Desus & Mero get a lesson from hotdog champion Joey Chestnut on the right way to eat a hotdog.
- We're setting the record straight, living Civil Rights icon Rep. John Lewis is still with us, contrary to what the Internet's telling you.
- And finally, let's send some get-well wishes to this furry friend:
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Published Jul 11, 2020
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