Extra Extra: Verdict’s in — free will is an illusion

It’s Friday afternoon in New York City, so of course it’s raining.

Here’s what else is happening:

• Tim Pearson, a retired NYPD officer and top adviser to Mayor Eric Adams, got into altercations at two different migrant shelters on Tuesday, after trying to enter each location while refusing to show ID, according to witnesses.
• Crypto influencers are filling the seats at Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial in Manhattan.
• Former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio had a hot date in SoHo last night.
• East Hampton Village police may be looking for a man who allegedly “walked out of the Sweet Spot, the new ice cream place on Newtown Lane, without paying for his milkshake.”
• Robert Sapolsky, a Stanford neurobiologist and MacArthur “genius” who’s been studying free will for the past four decades, recently concluded that we don’t really have it. (Oh well.)
• Ed Droste, the former frontman of the rock band Grizzly Bear, is now a therapist in Los Angeles.
• If you get one of the 12-foot skeletons they sell at Home Depot, make sure you secure it to the ground.
• This 157-piece Le Creuset set can be yours for $4,500, courtesy of Costco.
• And finally, get yours: