Name: Punch the Monkey Cuddles up With New Girlfriend at the Zoo
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It is time for the highs and lows of the week, and

Adverbs of degree

our first high goes to just how far we've come with our good pal Punch, the internet's favorite baby Japanese macaque.

Adverbs of manner

As documented extensively here, Punch won fans around the world after appearing to be bullied by other monkeys at a zoo outside of Tokyo that adopted him when he was abandoned by his mom.

The zoo first gave him a now-famous IKEA stuffy so he'd have a friend.

Then he started to go on some playdates with real-life friends.

Well now the 8-month-old appears to have a real-life girlfriend.

New video shows Punch cuddling up with a female macaque named Momo Chan.

Punch and Mo hugging, playing together, even a little kissing.

A full-on situationship there in the enclosure.

Our first low goes to those absolutely punishing hours-long security lines brought to you completely unnecessarily this week by your United States Congress.

They are the longest security lines in TSA history, winding their way through the nation's busiest airports.

The president deployed ICE agents to some of them, including to Newark Airport in New Jersey, where one traveler from Central Casting went viral for his very New York reaction.

As long as they can check my bags and get me on my flight, I'm good to go.

I want to get I want to get to the Bahamas.

Meanwhile, officials at America's busiest airport, Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson, attempted anyway to ease tensions, bringing in a soothing violinist to play for the frustrated travelers standing in those long lines.

A nice thought, but a little free chick-fil-A from those nearby T-gates?

Our next high goes to the extraordinary woman who once worked at a prestigious hospital as a janitor, now returning there as a doctor.

That is Shay Taylor Allen, learning she matched into the residency program for anesthesiology at Yale New Haven Hospital.

The 32-year-old was born at that hospital and worked as a custodian there for 10 years.

After high school, she postponed college, mopping floors and emptying trash at Yale New Haven to earn money for her family.

She continued to work there during her college years, and

now Shay is graduating from Howard University Medical School and will be working as a doctor in the residency program at Yale.

Our final low goes to a Michigan woman who treated her Zoom court hearing like a trip to the drive-thru at Wendy's.

That is our defendant, Kimberly Carroll, in a debt collection hearing with Judge Michael McNally in Woodhaven, Michigan.

After joining Zoom court late, Kim turned on her camera to reveal she clearly was in the driver's seat of a moving vehicle.

How would you be on the left-hand side if you're a passenger in the front seat?

Judge McNally pressed his case, asking to, uh-oh, Kim, see the driver.

Now I have to ask their I have to ask their permission.

Now just kind of walking around a gas station looking for the other driver there, Kim.

The judge had no further questions for the defendant and swiftly entered a default judgment.

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