Early Addition: Bourdain's LES Episode Of Parts Unknown Will Air This Fall

Aug. 2, 2018, 12:05 p.m.

Because deer love pool hopping, check out today's midday links: More Russian journalists murdered, de Blasio reported for jury duty, saying goodbye to MoviePass, and much more.

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• The New Yorker's Amanda Petrusich gets wistful about MoviePass: "Will we look back on the halcyon days of the Pass and shake our heads at just how good we had it?"
• Pope Francis has changed the Catholic Church's stance on the death penalty to fully reject it.
• De Blasio reported for jury duty and got dismissed.
• A deer caught swimming in a backyard swimming pool in New Jersey was rescued, not fatally shot.
• The $5 billion awarded through Cuomo’s touted economic development program has gone to mostly white communities.
• Three Russian journalists were murdered while investigating a private security firm dubbed "Putin's private army."
• The final season of the late Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown will air in the fall, with an episode featuring the Lower East Side and East Village.
• A New Age YouTube spiritual guru named Teal Swan faces a backlash after one former student died by suicide.
• Remember The Joggers? Great band. Yakas is back next week.