Early Addition: NY Man Fakes Abduction & Robbery To Get Out Of Super Bowl Pool Debt
March 1, 2019, 11:21 a.m.
Because Super Bowl pools aren't playing around, check out today's midday link: 'Mockingbird' adaptations shutdown across country, new Solange, Jared Kushner's security clearance, Momo parent panic, and shameless puppy.

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- Contradicting Trump, the family of Otto Warmbier blames Kim Jong-un for the death of their son who was jailed in North Korea, and "no excuse or lavish praise can change that."
- Small theaters around the country are canceling productions of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird over legal threats from producer Scott Rudin, backed by the Lee estate, who is lead producer of Aaron Sorkin's new Broadway adaptation.
- Listen to Solange's new album When I Get Home, which features Panda Bear, Earl Sweatshirt, Tyler the Creator, Gucci Mane, Sampha, Playboi Carti, and more.
- The House Intelligence Committee intends to call the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, to testify.
- John Mulaney brought Pete Davidson with him to The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon last night because they're a package deal now.
- State police say a western New York man faked his own abduction and robbery because he was short of cash owed in a Super Bowl pool.
- The Outline has a great feature piece on the amazing punk/country band X.
- The NY Times reports that Trump ordered his chief of staff to grant his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, a top-secret security clearance last year, overruling concerns flagged by intelligence officials and the White House’s top lawyer.
- No Duh headline of the day: "How Are Kids Supposed to Learn to Be Smart Online If Adults Are Such Big Dummies?"
- Ryan Adams’s planned tour of Britain and Ireland has been cancelled two weeks after Ryan Adams was accused of sexual misconduct.
- At least eight people were injured, and one dog was killed, when a fire broke out at an Upper West Side apartment building.
- Beto O'Rourke went to a Metallica concert last night, and it was hard to miss him.
- And finally, have you no shame sir?
I am in love 🐶 pic.twitter.com/j1UsuLZ7oJ
— Puppies 🐶 (@PopularPups) March 1, 2019