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Early Addition: Big day for the dog mayor
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Published Oct 19, 2023
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Good Thursday morning in New York City, where tweens are going through it.
Here's what else is happening:
- Douglass Mackey, a "meme war" troll who posted disinformation during the 2016 election to aid Donald Trump, was sentenced to seven months in prison by a federal judge in Brooklyn yesterday.
- A court worker who said she wanted to "support" Trump was arrested yesterday during the former president's fraud trial in Manhattan for getting up in the middle of someone's testimony and trying to approach him.
- Mitt Romney says in a new book that in the '90s, when he was cultivating political donors, he visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago because he was down for a "memorable, low-stakes, and deeply weird" experience.
- Congrats to Britain's Decca Records on winning the global bidding war to sign 19-year-old South Korean piano sensation Yunchan Lim.
- Tony Colombo, a 37-year-old Sicilian singer who's widely known as one of the mafia's favorite musicians, was arrested this week as part of a big crackdown on the Neapolitan mob.
- The Stomp-Clap-Hey-aissance is underway in Vermont.
- Sally Long Dog, New York City's dog mayor, is touring City Hall today.
- "Good Morning America" staffers are worried that when ABC moves to the new Disney office downtown (across the street from WNYC and Gothamist's office), they won't get to tape the show in Times Square with all those giddy tourists in the background (but maybe I'll go stand in the background?).
- And finally, training camp:
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