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Newark Mayor Ras Baraka speaks at the groundbreaking celebration for a new development in the city on April 26, 2022. Bennett Raglin/Getty Images hide caption

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Opinion: The city that fell for a hoax

The fact it was hoodwinked into sisterhood with a fictional city means that Newark, N.J., is more trusting and innocent than one would think.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka speaks at the groundbreaking celebration for a new development in the city on April 26, 2022. Bennett Raglin/Getty Images hide caption

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Opinion: The city that fell for a hoax

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Activists light candles outside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion that launched the Iraq War in 2003. Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Win Without War hide caption

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Iraq vets reflect on a war Americans have largely put behind them

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Unknown Mortal Orchestra takes on family and the free breeze of '80s-oriented rock on new double album, "V." Juan Ortiz-Arenas/Unknown Mortal Orchestra hide caption

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Unknown Mortal Orchestra's Ruban Nielson on the family-inspired new album 'V'

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