Extra Extra: Please Keep Sending Your Tupac Emails, Jerry

July 17, 2019, 5 p.m.

Don't trust FaceApp, bees bust up a music festival, you missed your chance to buy a $10 haunting, and more end-of-day links.

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• Did this $10 Victorian mansion in New Jersey fail to sell because it's so expensive to move a whole house, or because it is haunted?
• Nantucket prosecutors dropped sexual assault charges against Kevin Spacey, due to the "unavailability" of the young man who alleged Spacey groped him and questions of evidence tampering.
• The people demand to know if Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds really fired (allegedly beloved) Department of Human Services Director Jerry Foxhoven because one (1) employee complained about his Tupac-themed emails.
• Per Politico, Donald Trump's youngest daughter, Tiffany Trump, "is not expected to play any role in the [2020] campaign, apart from appearing at the occasional event," which doesn't feel like much of a change from the 2016 plan, really.
• Republican Senator Rand Paul blocked House-approved legislation to extend the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.
• In honor of National Hot Dog Day (today), Oscar Meyer will list the Wienermobile on Airbnb: Three nights only, in Chicago, get on it.
• New York is raising the smoking age from 18 to 21, both for cigarettes and vapes.
• In search of a chill vibe, probably, thousands upon thousands of "super friendly" bees swarmed a Michigan music festival, scattering attendees every which way and generally sowing chaos.
• Just an unfortunate PSA for all of you who've been beaming your faces into old age: FaceApp is owned by a Russian company that would like to use your name, location, and likeness for whatever purpose it pleases. Presumably this applies even if you've been uploading photos of young Paul Rudd to explore that Paul-Newman-in-the-salad-dressing-phase resemblance, and not to see your own future.
• Alright that's it you did it, this work week is officially half way over (for some of you):