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Andy Borowitz
| Bush Creates Painting of What He Imagines Iraq Is Like Today
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "Talking to reporters at the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas, the President said he did not read the news before composing his latest work."
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Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "Talking to reporters at the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas, the President said he did not read the news before composing his latest work."
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US House Backs
Limits on Obama's Authority
Donna Cassata, Associated Press
Cassata writes: "The Republican-led House on Friday overwhelmingly approved a $570 billion defense bill that halts any Guantanamo transfers for a year in the furor over the American-for-Taliban swap and pulls back government spying."
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Donna Cassata, Associated Press
Cassata writes: "The Republican-led House on Friday overwhelmingly approved a $570 billion defense bill that halts any Guantanamo transfers for a year in the furor over the American-for-Taliban swap and pulls back government spying."
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Pakistani
Woman Raped, Killed and Hanged from Tree: Police
Reuters
Excerpt: "A 20-year-old woman has been gang-raped, killed and hanged from a tree in Pakistan in a case with a chilling resemblance to a double rape and murder that caused outrage in neighbouring India last month."
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Reuters
Excerpt: "A 20-year-old woman has been gang-raped, killed and hanged from a tree in Pakistan in a case with a chilling resemblance to a double rape and murder that caused outrage in neighbouring India last month."
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Albuquerque
Protesters Put Police Chief 'On Trial'
Associated Press
Excerpt: "Hundreds of protesters, including some who brought children, marched from Roosevelt Park with signs and a makeshift coffin inscribed with names of people killed by Albuquerque officers in recent years."
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Associated Press
Excerpt: "Hundreds of protesters, including some who brought children, marched from Roosevelt Park with signs and a makeshift coffin inscribed with names of people killed by Albuquerque officers in recent years."
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50 Years On,
Mississippi Still Burns
Dexter Mullins, Al Jazeera America
Mullins writes: "Saturday marks 50 years since James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were murdered while trying to help African Americans in Mississippi register to vote during the 'Freedom Summer' of 1964."
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Dexter Mullins, Al Jazeera America
Mullins writes: "Saturday marks 50 years since James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were murdered while trying to help African Americans in Mississippi register to vote during the 'Freedom Summer' of 1964."
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5 Links
Between Higher Education and the Prison Industry
Hannah K. Gold, Rolling Stone
Gold writes: "American universities do a fine job of selling themselves as pathways to opportunity and knowledge. But follow the traffic of money and policies through these academic institutions and you'll often wind up at the barbed wire gates of Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and GEO Group, the two largest private prison operators in the United States."
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Hannah K. Gold, Rolling Stone
Gold writes: "American universities do a fine job of selling themselves as pathways to opportunity and knowledge. But follow the traffic of money and policies through these academic institutions and you'll often wind up at the barbed wire gates of Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and GEO Group, the two largest private prison operators in the United States."
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Oil Wells
Linked to Oklahoma's Stunning Increase in Earthquakes
Polly Mosendz, The Wire
Mosendz writes: "Between 1978 and 2008, Oklahoma had just two earthquakes with a magnitude over 3.0. In 2014, thus far, there have been around 200 such earthquakes there, more even than the highly unstable state of California."
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Polly Mosendz, The Wire
Mosendz writes: "Between 1978 and 2008, Oklahoma had just two earthquakes with a magnitude over 3.0. In 2014, thus far, there have been around 200 such earthquakes there, more even than the highly unstable state of California."
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