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Garrison Keillor | When a Red State Gets the Blues 
Garrison Keillor. (photo: /WPPB)
Garrison Keillor, The Salt Lake Tribune
Keillor writes: "Conservatives blanch at spending additional billions to subsidize health care for the needy, but a truckload of cash for Texas? No problem. It makes me think that we Minnesotans should get a few billion in federal aid for recovery from the upcoming winter. It is going to be cold."
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Facebook Says It Sold Political Ads to a Russian "Troll-Farm" During 2016 Election
Carol D. Leonnig, Tom Hamburger and Rosalind S. Helderman, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Representatives of Facebook told congressional investigators Wednesday that the social network has discovered that it sold ads during the U.S. presidential campaign to a shadowy Russian company seeking to target voters, according to several people familiar with the company’s findings."
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A Funeral of 2 Friends: CIA Deaths Rise in Secret Afghan War
Adam Goldman and Matthew Rosenberg, The New York Times
Excerpt: "On a sweltering day earlier this summer, operatives with the Central Intelligence Agency gathered at Arlington National Cemetery to bury two of their own."
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Trump Gets Millions From Golf Members. CEOs and Lobbyists Get Access to President
Brad Heath, Fredreka Schouten, Steve Reilly, Nick Penzenstadler and Aamer Madhani, USA Today
Excerpt: "Dozens of lobbyists, contractors and others who make their living influencing the government pay President Trump’s companies for membership in his private golf clubs, a status that can put them in close contact with the president."
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Several States Sue Trump Administration Over DACA Repeal
Eleanor Sheehan, Splinter News
Sheehan writes: "Fifteen states and DC have launched a legal challenge against President Trump's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program."
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Harvey's Victims: Prisoners Drink Toilet Water in a Fight to Survive Under Lockdown
Left Voice
Excerpt: "These men have no voice in there. All they have is their family to depend on to get this story out so the suffering and mistreatment can stop. They feel forgotten about in there. They are giving up hope. I can tell by the way my husband sounded."
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Hurricane Irma, One of the Most Powerful in History, Roars Across Caribbean
Associated Press
Excerpt: "Hurricane Irma lashed Puerto Rico with heavy rain and powerful winds late Wednesday, leaving nearly 900,000 people without power as authorities struggled to get aid to small Caribbean islands already devastated by the historic storm."
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