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Andy Borowitz | Ivanka and Jared Vacationing in Moral Vacuum
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. (photo: Andrew Milling/Alamy)
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "After many noticed their silence amid the calamitous events of the past several days, Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, confirmed on Wednesday that they have been enjoying a late-summer vacation in a moral vacuum."
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Steve Bannon Goes Full Mooch in Bizarre, Unplanned Interview
Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect
Kuttner writes: "I was a little stunned to get an email from Bannon's assistant midday Tuesday, just as all hell was breaking loose once again about Charlottesville, saying that Bannon wished to meet with me."
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Trump Lawyer Forwarded Email Praising Robert E. Lee, Trashing Black Lives Matter
The Daily Beast
Excerpt: "John Dowd, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, forwarded an email on Wednesday to conservative journalists and others that praised Confederate general Robert E. Lee and trashed Black Lives Matter as 'totally infiltrated by terrorist groups.'"
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Settlement Reached in ACLU Lawsuit Against CIA Interrogation
Nicholas K. Geranios, Associated Press
Geranios writes: "A settlement was announced Thursday in a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against two psychologists involved in designing the CIA's harsh interrogation program used in the war on terror. The terms were not disclosed."
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Charges Dropped Against Marijuana Activist Who Gave Out Joints in Front of Capitol
Perry Stein, The Washington Post
Stein writes: "On April 20, an unofficial holiday for marijuana users, Capitol Police arrested eight protesters for handing out marijuana joints on land near the U.S. Capitol under local jurisdiction."
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Malala Yousafzai Has Been Accepted to Study at Oxford University
Helen Regan, TIME
Regan writes: "Pakistani human-rights and education advocate Malala Yousafzai has been accepted to study at the University of Oxford in the U.K."
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Greenpeace Activists Interrupt Operations at an Arctic Oil Drilling Site
Greenpeace
Excerpt: "Peaceful activists, including one American, from a Greenpeace ship, the Arctic Sunrise, have stalled Statoil's oil operations in the Barents Sea off the Norwegian coast."
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