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Early Addition: Paris Is The New Brooklyn
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Ben Yakas
Published Sep 17, 2015
Modified Sep 17, 2015
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- A livery cab driver was found stabbed to death in East New York.
- Handlebar mustaches, artisanal jams, and other Brooklyny things take Paris: "That is just fake Brooklyn for French people. It’s Disneyland."
- Hillary Clinton tries to access her human side in a jokey conversation with Jimmy Fallon-as-Donald Trump.
- Now even aliens are making giant corn mazes in Taylor Swift's image.
- Here's the compelling case against ad blocking apps.
- A disturbing video shows Connecticut kids at juvenile jails put in solitary.
- A contestant got Alex Trebek to say "Turd Ferguson" on Jeopardy this week.
- Kate McKinnon's advice for people annoyed by the all-female Ghostbusters: "They should call their moms, work some stuff out."
- Watch out for this reckless, car-crashing Mr Softee driver who was spotted on the Lower East Side.
- Ice-T live tweeted the Republican debate, thinks Trump should come clean about his crack use.
- A seal was spotted surfing on top of a whale because interspecies love is TOO REAL.
- And finally, this dog has to get rid of all witnesses:
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