Extra Extra: Are You Crying Or Are Bees Just Living In Your Eyes?

April 9, 2019, 5:37 p.m.

Because you don't have bees living in your eyes, check out today's end-of-day links: Fox News lies, 'George' magazine oral history, #YachtCocaineProstitutes, 'Grease' prequel, Jack Dorsey's wellness tips, and doggy dad greets pup.

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  • Trump once again falsely stated that the Obama administration had a child separation policy.
  • Here is a nuts story about a man whose mother disappeared when he was three. He accused his father of killing her, but wasn’t believed...until he won the family house in a wrongful death suit & found his mom’s bullet-fractured skull buried in the backyard. And now his father is on trial for murder.
  • Here is a terrifying headline: "Woman's infection turns out to be bees living in her eye, feeding on her tears."
  • Hmm, based on his "wellness" tips, Jack Dorsey may need an intervention.
  • Is the great yogurt boom over?
  • Here are stories about people whose family members were "transformed" by the lies of Fox News.
  • Hollywood Reporter has an oral history of George magazine.
  • Here's a brief history of everyone who has told Bill de Blasio not to run for president.
  • Republican Rep. Devin Nunes is suing his hometown paper for running a story titled, "A yacht, cocaine, prostitutes: Winery partly owned by Nunes sued after fundraiser event." So of course #YachtCocaineProstitutes is now trending.
  • ProPublica reports that Congress is on the verge of banning the government from offering free online tax filing.
  • The New York State Nurses Association told its 10,000 members that they have reached an agreement to prevent an imminent strike at Montefiore Health System, Mount Sinai Health System, and New York-Presbyterian. The nurses were asking for more staffing to maintain safe nurse-to-patient rations. You can read more of our coverage on the issue here.
  • Listen to J Mascis's cover of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ "Don’t Do Me Like That."
  • Apparently there is going to be a Grease prequel tentatively titled Summer Loving, and hopefully John Travolta can reprise his role for it.
  • And finally, where have you been I've been worried sick: