1. NYC Mayor: Get a COVID Test if You’ve Been Near Sarah Palin

ALASKA VARIANT?

The former Alaska governor was spotted eating out at a restaurant after her positive test.

U.S. NEWS

2. Passenger Sentenced to 6 Months for Groping Flight Attendant

GROUNDED

Enio Socorro Zayas was found guilty after grabbing a flight attendant’s thigh and buttocks as she placed a snack pack in his lap.

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SCOUTED

4. Man Allegedly Told Vote Worker: Hope Your Kids Get Molested

JUST SICK

The suspect allegedly made four threatening calls one day after the Capitol riot last year.

POLITICS

5. Judge Blocks Biggest Ever Drilling Lease for Sake of Climate

‘HUGE VICTORY’

The ruling said the federal government underestimated how badly the Gulf of Mexico site could hit the environment.

U.S. NEWS

6. Dyson’s New Vacuum Lets Me Clean My Home Using Lasers

SUCK IT UP

The vacuum is the best one Dyson has ever made. Here’s why.

SCOUTED

7. Probation for Parents Who Took Kids on Fatal Flood Joy Ride

NOT YOUR PLAYMATE

An Arizona couple who gave into the whims of their children’s pleas to drive through a flooded river, where they died, have been sentenced to probation.

U.S. NEWS

8. Trump Admin’s Secret Vax Priority List Was Predictably Cruel

SH*THOLE

Moderate- and lower-income nations were placed third in priority on a secret list of international vaccine recipients, after U.S. allies like Israel.

POLITICS

9. Bumble Date Is Cooperating With Death Investigation: Lawyer

MYSTERY MAN

Matthew LaFountain woke up next to an unresponsive Lauren Smith-Fields, who wasn’t breathing.

U.S. NEWS

10. Jesse Watters: Kamala’s Having a ‘Typical Female Problem’

‘JESSE, JUST STOP IT’

The Fox News host said “They say the first female vice president comes in there, and every single article is about her feelings.”

MEDIA

11. Thief Leaves Entire Severed Finger Behind With Wedding Ring

RED-HANDED

A friend of the thief reportedly returned to the scene to ask for the finger back.

WORLD

12. Georgetown Law Exec Deletes ‘Appalling’ Tweet on SCOTUS Pick

‘LESSER BLACK WOMAN’

“We’ll get lesser black woman,” Ilya Shapiro wrote in a pair of tweets that he later deleted and called “inartful.”

POLITICS

13. Nicki Minaj’s Husband Clocked Concert Security Chief: Suit

PINK (HAND)PRINT

Thomas Weidenmuller accused Kenneth Petty of breaking his jaw, which required extensive surgery.

ENTERTAINMENT

14. Death Row Inmate in Oklahoma Executed by Lethal Injection

‘I GOT THIS’

Despite double murderer Donald Grant’s request to be executed by firing squad.

U.S. NEWS

15. Hiker Falls 700 Feet to Death While Taking Selfie in Arizona

‘VERY TRAGIC ACCIDENT’

Richard Jacobson, 21, had been camping with a friend on top of a mountain peak when he went to the edge of a trail for a photo, authorities said.

TRAVEL

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