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Andy Borowitz | Military Refuses to Participate in Trump's Parade, Citing Bone Spurs 
Members of the United States Marine Corps Marching Platoon march along Pennsylvania Avenue during the annual Emancipation Day Parade on Wednesday, April 16. (photo: Halid Naji-Allah/Washington Times)
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "The Pentagon has turned down Donald J. Trump's request for a grand military parade in Washington, D.C., citing a sudden outbreak of bone spurs that would prevent men and women in uniform from participating."
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Elliott Broidy and his wife, Robin Rosenzweig. (photo: Alex J. Berliner/Shutterstock)
Elliott Broidy and his wife, Robin Rosenzweig. (photo: Alex J. Berliner/Shutterstock)

GOP Fundraiser Under Investigation for Alleged Effort to Sell Government Influence
Carol D. Leonnig, Devlin Barrett, Ellen Nakashima and Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "The Justice Department is investigating whether longtime Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy sought to sell his influence with the Trump administration by offering to deliver U.S. government actions for foreign officials in exchange for tens of millions of dollars, according to three people familiar with the probe."
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Georgia voters fill out their ballots. (photo: Getty)
Georgia voters fill out their ballots. (photo: Getty)

Georgia Election Board Plots Jim Crow-Like Assault on Black Voting
Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress
Millhiser writes: "A Georgia election board proposed shutting down seven of the nine polling locations in an overwhelmingly black rural county. It's the sort of blatantly illegal idea that would have been swiftly dismissed by federal courts in an age when an openly racist president was not appointing judges to the federal bench."
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Kofi Annan was awarded the Nobel peace prize for his humanitarian work with the UN. (photo: Allison Joyce/Reuters)
Kofi Annan was awarded the Nobel peace prize for his humanitarian work with the UN. (photo: Allison Joyce/Reuters)

Kofi Annan, Former UN Secretary General, Dies
Chris Johnston, Guardian UK
Johnston writes: "The former UN secretary general Kofi Annan, has died at the age of 80 after a short illness, his family and foundation announced on Saturday."
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Protester holds a sign with Eric Garner's final words 'I can't breathe.' (photo: Stephen Lam/Reuters)
Protester holds a sign with Eric Garner's final words 'I can't breathe.' (photo: Stephen Lam/Reuters)

Why Is New York Still Paying Eric Garner's Killer Six Figures?
Raven Rakia, The Appeal
Rakia writes: "July marked the fourth anniversary of Eric Garner's death. The city of New York is still paying NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo - the man who put Eric Garner in a chokehold - six figures."
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Some houses affected by Hurricane Maria remained covered in tarps or missing roofs as recently as June in San Juan, Puerto Rico's El Gandul neighborhood. (photo: Carlos Giusti/AP)
Some houses affected by Hurricane Maria remained covered in tarps or missing roofs as recently as June in San Juan, Puerto Rico's El Gandul neighborhood. (photo: Carlos Giusti/AP)

FEMA Wants Puerto Rico to Start Paying for Part of Its Recovery
Adrian Florido, NPR
Florido writes: "Eleven months after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has said that the island's emergency is over. And because of that, the agency has begun scaling back its financial assistance to the island."
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The tide rushes in as dusk falls on the San Onofre Generating Station on March 25, 2014. (photo: Allen J. Schaben/LA Times)
The tide rushes in as dusk falls on the San Onofre Generating Station on March 25, 2014. (photo: Allen J. Schaben/LA Times)

California's San Onofre Nuclear Plant Is a 'Fukushima Waiting to Happen'
Steve Chapple, Los Angeles Times
Chapple writes: "Southern California Edison is keeping 3.6 million pounds of lethal radioactive waste at the shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant in San Clemente."
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