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Extra Extra: If they didn't call your group yet, sit down
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Good Wednesday afternoon in New York City, where Dyker Heights also does Halloween decorations.
Here's what else is happening:
- New Jersey's famed Star-Ledger newspaper said it'll stop publishing a print edition next February.
- American Airlines is cracking down on people who try to board the plane before their group is called.
- The revisionist history takeaway from the new Netflix Martha Stewart documentary: The FBI's James Comey might've done her dirty.
- Trump Media stock is plummeting.
- But the U.S. economy is booming.
- The illegal tarantula trade is also booming.
- How accurate is the Rainforest Cafe's depiction of an actual rainforest's biodiversity?
- Get me on this train.
- And finally, hangin':
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