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Extra, Extra: Rainbow Over City Hall
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Jen Chung
Published Jul 7, 2011
Modified Jul 7, 2011
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Published Jul 7, 2011
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- Aw, check out this rainbow over City Hall—obviously Mother Nature is excited for July 24!
- Hey, those tiny belly ads are SCAMS.
- Diane Sawyer interviewed kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard, who described getting pregnant at 13 by her captor and needing to watch videos about giving birth.
- Would the Middle East conflict be over if Israel had a two-day weekend, instead of a one-and-a-half day weekend?
- The Mets' deal with David Einhorn for a stake in the Amazins' still hasn't happened yet.
- Prepare to find out what happens when an isolated, sad teen Googles "hipster" relentlessly. Okay, fine: She becomes an Internet fashion darling.
- Dirty infographics in newspapers.
- Now it seems City Councilman Charles Barron got a developer to steer $3 million to a former aide's group.
- Eliot Spitzer's worst CNN moments.
- Fox News really hates Media Matters.
- Nancy Grace is doing a Casey Anthony marathon this weekend on Headline News.
- And Artie Lange agrees it would be awesome if Howard Stern returned to regular radio.
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