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Good Wednesday morning in New York City, where there’s a way to tell if that bang is from a gun or fireworks.
Here’s what else is happening:
- More than 1,400 people showed up at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens last month for tryouts to become a ball-getter at this year’s U.S. Open. 500 elite scramblers made the cut.
- Staten Island has recorded a spike in overdoses from Xylazine, an animal tranquilizer that’s sometimes mixed with fentanyl to make the high last longer.
- At a Pride concert in New York City last weekend, someone allegedly booed JoJo Siwa, who responded, “Who the living f**k just booed me? Where the f**k did that come from? Which one of you? Respectfully, f**k you.”
- Climate change is making New Jersey especially hot.
- A flight from Detroit to Amsterdam had to land at JFK Airport yesterday after passengers were served spoiled food.
- Donald Trump‘s sentencing in his New York hush-money case, which was previously scheduled for July 11, has been delayed after the Supreme Court ruled that presidents have immunity from prosecution for certain official acts.
- President Joe Biden is saying jet lag made him forget what he was talking about during last week’s debate.
- The CEO of Ford is urging Americans to stop obsessing over “monster vehicles” and “get back in love” with smaller cars because the former are too heavy to operate as electric vehicles.
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is denying claims that he ate a barbecued dog, saying it was, in fact, a goat.
- And finally, looking out for sharks: