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- President Obama is giving Jay-Z some parenting tips: "I made sure that Jay-Z was helping Beyonce out [with baby Blue Ivy Carter] and not leaving it all with mom and the mother-in-law."
- A Canadian burlesque dancer living in Brooklyn has earned herself an “extraordinary ability” green card.
- Hamster drunk driving: a hamster was taken into “protective custody” by Oregon cops after its owner was caught driving it around while allegedly drunk.
- Good Samaritan fatally stabbed while trying to break up a fight in the Bronx.
- Check out some excerpts from a new book about The Boss, involving his mid-80s romances.
- What caused that mysterious shaking in New Jersey yesterday?
- Housewife claims she was raised by capuchin monkeys in the jungle for five years.
- A true Big Blue fan made a 1/32nd model of the old Giants Stadium.
- Police are searching for two suspects wanted in connection with a Metro PCS worker who was found dead in Manhattan.
- TSA's sexy body scanners to be switched out for cartoony image ones.
- And finally, this is a very excited (and adorable) puppy:
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