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- Newt Gingrich’s Nuclear ‘Detonations’ proposal in Response to Straight of Hormuz Blockade Raises Eyebrows

- Protesters in Cuba attack Communist Party office amid blackout fury

- Washington Square Park, once a hub for counterculture and political protests in the city, has now been overrun with social media influencers.

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- Today marks 150 years since Alexander Graham Bell made the first tele- phone call from his Boston lab to his assistant in a nearby room.

- Harvard researchers say AI is giving workers "brain fry."

- Two men who brought explosives to a protest outside New York City’s mayoral mansion said they were inspired by the Islamic State extremist group. (Gothamist)

- Iran’s 88-member Assembly of Experts selected Mojtaba Khamenei as the country's next supreme leader, succeeding his father, Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an Israeli strike last month. Israel and the US have indicated they would not accept Khamenei as leader. (The Dick Cheney of Iran)

- A Georgia teacher died after a good-natured prank by his students resulted in a fatal car accident.

- Colombian nationals with running a sham immigration court scheme in which they allegedly duped an untold number of "vulnerable" immigrants into handing over more than $100,000 to defendants posing as lawyers, judges and other federal officials.

- Trump says Iran operations likely to last 4 to 5 weeks, but he’s prepared ‘to go far longer’

- Shia LaBeouf says he's 'scared' of gay people in post-arrest comments