Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - May 26, 2020

Stupidity: Telemundo reports a trio of Bolivian boys, aged 8 10 and 12, were hospitalized earlier this month after they were tending goats when they spotted a black widow spider. Then, believing it would give them super powers like Spider Man, they poked the black widow with a stick and let it bite them. Returning home with symptoms including muscular pain, sweating, fever and general tremors, their mother had to take them to a local health center, and when they didn't improve, on to a hospital where they were given a serum, and were released a week later.

J.K. ROWLING has written a new children’s book, called "The Ickabog," and says she'll be releasing it for free online, chapter by chapter, over the next few months. The chapters will be out today (Tuesday), and Rowling says she's going to release at least one chapter every weekday through July 10th.

However, she did take pains to say "this is not a Harry Potter book," but a book for children who are in lockdown to read --or have their parents read it to them. The actual book will be published in November, and she says at that point, she'll be donating the royalties to groups that have been hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Shocker from QUEEN guitarist BRIAN MAY, who revealed Friday in an Instagram post that he "could have died" after being rushed to hospital following a "small" heart attack earlier this month. Brian, who's 72 years old, says he found out that he had three arteries that were partially blocked after he was out gardening, bent over and thought he'd ripped his glutes. Then, thinking he might have had a heart attack, he called his doctor, who drove him to hospital for tests, which revealed the problem, and he had to have three stents placed in the arteries. "I thought I was a very healthy guy," he said, but "I walked out with a heart that's very strong now, so I think I'm in good shape for some time to come."

Looks like "American Idol" judge RANDY JACKSON has rejoined the band JOURNEY. NEAL SCHON said over the weekend that drummer NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN has also rejoined the group after the group fired their longtime bassist ROSS VALORY and drummer STEVE SMITH when they attempted a “malicious and very ill-conceived” coup and a lawsuit to gain control of the group’s copyright away from Schon and JONATHAN CAIN. Rolling Stone reports fans will have to wait to see the new lineup --the group canceled their summer tour with the Pretenders due to the coronavirus. In case you were wondering, Jackson previously served as Journey’s bassist in the mid-Eighties, appearing on the band’s 1986 LP Raised on Radio.