Royal Baby Watch

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It's a boy! Our sister site Racked National reports that royal couple Kate and Will welcomed a son at 4:24pm London time today. In true 21st-century fashion, the Twitterverse promptly congratulated the new parents—beating the town crier's official announcement by nearly an hour. [Racked Nat'l]