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Andy Borowitz | Foreigners Unsure Why Anyone Would Want to Travel to US at This Point 
Supreme Court of the United States. (photo: Olivier Douliery/AP)
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "Shortly after the United States Supreme Court upheld Donald J. Trump's controversial travel ban, millions of people from other countries expressed puzzlement that anyone would want to travel to the United States at this juncture."
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Paul Manafort, former campaign manager for U.S. president Donald Trump. (photo: Brian Snyder/Reuters)
Paul Manafort, former campaign manager for U.S. president Donald Trump. (photo: Brian Snyder/Reuters

Manafort Had $10 Million Loan From Russian Oligarch: Court Filing
Reuters
Excerpt: "In an affidavit attached to the July 2017 application, an FBI agent said he had reviewed tax returns for a company controlled by Manafort and his wife that showed a $10 million loan from a Russian lender identified as Oleg Deripaska."
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The sun sets on Guantanamo's detention center. (photo: Emily Michot/McClatchy)
The sun sets on Guantanamo's detention center. (photo: Emily Michot/McClatchy)

Congress Snubs White House, Won't Fund New Prison for Geriatric Inmates at Guantanamo
Carol Rosenberg, McClatchy DC
Rosenberg writes: "In a setback to President Donald Trump's promise to make Guantanamo a permanent detention center, Congress has refused to pay for construction of a new $69 million prison for the alleged 9/11 plotters and other former CIA captives."
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A Honduran family seeking asylum wakes up on the Mexican side of the Brownsville-Matamoros International Bridge after spending the night there because U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers denied them entry near Brownsville, Texas, on June 25. (photo: Loren Elliott/Reuters)
A Honduran family seeking asylum wakes up on the Mexican side of the Brownsville-Matamoros International Bridge after spending the night there because U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers denied them entry near Brownsville, Texas, on June 25. (photo: Loren Elliott/Reuters)

They Came Seeking Asylum. Now They Want Their Children Back.
Daniella Silva and Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News
Excerpt: "After criminals killed his uncle and cousin and warned that he was next, Jose fled Honduras fearing for his life. He crossed Mexico with his 3-year-old son and arrived in mid-May at the Hidalgo Port of Entry on the U.S. border to claim asylum."
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Tampa Bay Buccaneer quarterback Jameis Winston has twice been accused of sexual assault. (photo: Cliff Welch/Getty)
Tampa Bay Buccaneer quarterback Jameis Winston has twice been accused of sexual assault. (photo: Cliff Welch/Getty)

The Sports World Needs Its #MeToo Moment
Will Leitch, New York Magazine
Leitch writes: "It is perhaps not surprising that Epstein's op-ed was, on the whole, completely ignored, by the NFLPA, by the NFL, and by most of the sport's fan base. But it is telling. Much has been made about how little the #MeToo movement has touched the world of sports."
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A rally in support of legalizing marijuana in Toronto. (photo: Randy Risling/Getty)
A rally in support of legalizing marijuana in Toronto. (photo: Randy Risling/Getty)

Canadians Who Smoke Legal Weed Could Be Banned From the US for Life
Jason Lemon, Newsweek
Lemon writes: "Marijuana will be legal for recreational use in Canada on October 17, but despite legalization, Canadians who admit using cannabis could be banned permanently from entering the U.S."
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Response crews battle fire on BP-operated oil rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico on 21 April 2010. (photo: Getty)
Response crews battle fire on BP-operated oil rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico on 21 April 2010. (photo: Getty)

Deepwater Horizon Disaster Altered Building Blocks of Ocean Life
Oliver Milman, Guardian UK
Milman writes: "The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster may have had a lasting impact upon even the smallest organisms in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists have found - amid warnings that the oceans around America are also under fresh assault as a result of environmental policies under Donald Trump."
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