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- It may have been the biggest fireworks show in 10 years, but ratings for NBC's Macy's July 4th Fireworks Spectacular dropped this year.
- After an uproar, a real estate company is dropping their bid to use the term "SoHa" to describe South Harlem.
- The Chris Christie beach chair meme makes for an impressive sand sculpture.
- CNN's whole "uncovering the Reddit user who created the Donald Trump wrestling gif" has snowballed, of course.
- Henry Bello bought his gun legally upstate before his fatal shoot rampage at Bronx Lebanon Hospital.
- Kanye West’s lawyers claim that Tidal owes him “millions.“
- There better be stamps: Muji will open Muji Hotels in China and Japan.
- Ignore the Post's headline because this story about a man's proposal to his girlfriend and her sister is actually very sweet.
- 'Trainspotting' author Irvine Welsh live-tweets Andy Murray's Wimbledon matches and the Times is on it.
- Is America fated to become Texas?
- And here's a cut of characters from Sesame Street singing "Sabotage":
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