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Andy Borowitz | North Korean Government Reassures Citizens it Has Deep Bench of Brutal Madmen
Kim Jong-un. (photo: Reuters)
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "As the mystery surrounding the absence of dictator Kim Jong-un deepens, the North Korean government on Wednesday issued an official statement reassuring its citizens that it had 'a deep bench of brutal madmen.'"
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GOP Voter ID Law Gets Crushed: Why Judge Richard Posner's Ruling Is so Amazing
Brad Friedman, The Brad Blog
Friedman writes: "If you read just one top-to-bottom dismantling of every supposed premise in support of disenfranchising Photo ID voting restrictions laws in your lifetime, let it be this one."
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Registers at 1,200 Kmart Stores Infected With Malware That Collected Card Info for a Month
BBC News
Excerpt: "In a statement, Kmart said the security breach was discovered on 9 October and that the malware had been operating since early September."
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St. Louis Protests Tensions Run High
Chris McGreal, Guardian UK
McGreal writes: "Frustration and anger among young black Americans at an older generation’s apparent failure to adequately respond to the killing of Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson upended a key event at a weekend of mass protest on Sunday."
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Kurds Describe Fierce Battles on Streets of Kobani
Ryan Lucas, Associated Press
Lucas writes: "They have been battered by tanks shells and mortars, and picked off by snipers using American-made rifles. They have no answer for the heavy weapons that Islamic State fighters have looted from Iraqi and Syrian army bases."
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Left-Wing Israeli Public Figures Urge British Parliament to Recognize Palestine
Tovah Lazaroff, The Jerusalem Post
Lazaroff writes: "Some 363 Israeli left-wing public figures including former Knesset members called on the British Parliament to recognize the state of Palestine when it debates the matter in London on Monday."
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Leonard Pitts Jr. | Public's Rights Getting Slowly Pared Back
Leonard Pitts Jr., Miami Herald
Pitts writes: "One’s sense of righteous vindication is tempered by the fact that police felt free to try this absurd stratagem in the first place -- and by the fact that this was hardly the only recent example of police using the Constitution for Kleenex."
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