The White House budget office released its midyear economic forecast yesterday, and is predicting that unemployment will remain at 9% next year, and won’t return to the more comfortable 5% range until 2017. [NYT]
Kiss star Gene Simmons will finally marry Sharon Tweed. [P6]
UN peacekeepers routinely pressured underage girls for sex in exchange for food and shelter in the Ivory Coast, according to explosive new information uncovered in a US Embassy cable released by WikiLeaks. [AP]
One of the backup dancers in Rebecca Black's "Friday" is attempting to also reach Internet fame/embarrassment. [Gawker]
A kid in Williamsburg is putting dirt in a test tube and selling it as art from Brooklyn for $24. [Gothamist]
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