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Extra, Extra: Japanese Superstar Cat Maru Is Okay
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Jen Chung
Published Mar 11, 2011
Modified Mar 12, 2011
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Published Mar 11, 2011
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- Adorable Japanese cat Maru, who is super popular on Youtube, is safe.
- Reverend Billy and others performed an exorcism at JPMorgan Chase.
- President Obama wants Republicans to stop picking on Head Start and PBS and get working on a budget.
- Oh, and Obama stands by the allegedly cruel treatment of Wikileaks source Bradley Manning.
- The probe into the dead finch situation at Gramery Park has hit a wall—obviously we need Hercule Poirot on the case.
- The Bloomberg administration says the state won't restore funding to a program for the homeless.
- Rupert Murdoch is 80 years old.
- Another cat missing from the February 19 Flatbush fire was found!
- Pregnant poet—and singer and yodeler-Jewel was hit by a fire truck in Texas, but luckily she and the baby are okay!
- Portlandia explains bike lanes.
- Scarlett Johansson, 26, and Sean Penn, 50, were really making out during their quick trip to Mexico, according to a gossip magazine.
- A Fishs Eddy employee stole customer credit card numbers and sold them for $25 a pop.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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