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TRICKED: Readers of realistic-looking Washington Post editions. They were handed out in D.C., filled with anti-Trump stories. Under the headline “Unpresidented,” the lead story said Trump had resigned, via Oval Office napkin, and decamped for Yalta, in the Crimea. The “Yes Men” pranksters later owned up.
TICKED: An Australian snake. The carpet python named Nike had more than 500 ticks removed from its body, and was suffering anemia. The snake was getting care and a full recovery was fairly likely, the BBC reports. Ticks feed off blood and can cause anemia, which is a deficiency in red blood cells.
TOO HAPPY: A planned sculpture of Satan in the Spanish city of Segovia. Some say the depiction in the bronze statue (a tribute to a local legend) is too friendly. A judge looked into whether it’s offensive, but said it’s OK. The “jovial” devil is holding a phone, smiling as he takes a selfie.
TOO GAY: Some ballet dancers, according to dancer Sergei Polunin. Polunin has been disinvited to be the lead in the Paris Opera Ballet’s “Swan Lake,” the Daily Telegraph reports, after he recently insulted gay dancers on Instagram, including telling male dancers to “man up.”
GIVING: Kraft Heinz Co., to federal workers in Washington. The food giant is opening a store for a few days where civil servants not receiving pay can fill a bag with company products. The announcement came with the government shutdown midway through its fourth week.
TAKING BACK: An inflated estimate of a vandal’s damage, by the Denver Art Museum. It now estimates the damage done Dec. 9 at less than $100,000, down from the nearly $2 million it had reported to police. An 18-year-old was arrested. It turns out most Chinese and Mayan artifacts were repairable.
SPINNING: An unusual ice formation in the Presumpscot River in Maine. The spinning ice disk has been likened to to an alien spacecraft and a carousel. It’s believed to have formed naturally through a kind of whirlpool effect, but now on social media has gone spiral.
HANGING TIGHT: NBA player Enes Kanter. Amid reports that Turkey has requested his arrest and extradition, Kanter has denied all charges of criminal and “terrorist” links to exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen. The Knicks centre tweeted: “The only thing I terrorize is the rim.”