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Extra, Extra: Tuberculosis Breaks Out On Skid Row

- The CDC is responding to the TB outbreak downtown
- A straight student complains that he was bullied and called "gay" in his high school yearbook
- Nate Silver attempts to predict the Oscars
- The artist formerly known as Jermaine Jackson changed his name (slightly)
- Visual effects workers are going to fly a banner over the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood
- Jimmy Kimmel vs. toddler
- Thanks to young women, the Mormon Church is really going to grow
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