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Garrison Keillor | A Good Vacation, Now Time to Head Home 
Garrison Keillor. (photo: WPR)
Garrison Keillor, Garrison Keillor's Website
Keillor writes: "I missed out on the week our failing president, Borderline Boy, got depantsed by the news coverage of crying children he'd thrown into federal custody and a day later he ran up the white flag with another of his executive exclamations, meanwhile the Chinese are quietly tying his shoelaces together."
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Supreme Court Upholds Trump Travel Ban
By Ariane de Vogue and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN
Excerpt: "The Supreme Court has upheld President Donald Trump's travel ban. The ruling was 5-4 along partisan lines, with Chief Justice John Roberts writing for the conservative majority."
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Reality Winner Pleads Guilty to Leaking Classified Report to News Outlet
Associated Press
Excerpt: "A woman accused of leaking US secrets to a news outlet pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Georgia."
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. (photo: Getty Images)
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. (photo: Getty Images)

Dahlia Lithwick | Supreme Court Rules That California Can't Make Crisis Pregnancy Centers Reveal What They Are
Dahlia Lithwick, Slate
Lithwick writes: "In a 5-4 decision on Tuesday in NIFLA v. Becerra, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a challenge to a 2015 California law that required reproductive health clinics in California to provide certain information to clients."
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions. (photo: Getty Images)
Attorney General Jeff Sessions. (photo: Getty Images)

What Really Happens When We Charge Opioid Dealers With Murder
Paul Blest, Splinter News
Blest writes: "In the case of our most immediate drug crisis, the opioid epidemic, Donald Trump has vaguely talked about the need to help addicts and their families - but is short on any real monetary investment to combat the crisis."
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Ten Rohingya men were detained on September 1 at the village of Inn Din. The next day, Myanmar soldiers and Buddhist villagers shot or hacked them to death. The photo was obtained from a villager and authenticated by Reuters. (photo: Reuters)
Ten Rohingya men were detained on September 1 at the village of Inn Din. The next day, Myanmar soldiers and Buddhist villagers shot or hacked them to death. The photo was obtained from a villager and authenticated by Reuters. (photo: Reuters)

Tip of the Spear: The Shock Troops Who Expelled the Rohingya From Myanmar
Simon Lewis, Zeba Siddiqui, Clare Baldwin and Andrew R.C. Marshall, Reuters
Excerpt: "In early August last year, a young lieutenant named Kyi Nyan Lynn flew to Rakhine State, with hundreds of other Myanmar soldiers. They were about to launch a campaign that would drive hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from their homes and leave the region in flames."
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Crews work to clean up cars from the BNSF railway after a 31-car derailment dumped crude oil into the Little Rock River on Friday, June 22, 2018, in Doon. (photo: Bryon Houlgrave/The Register)
Crews work to clean up cars from the BNSF railway after a 31-car derailment dumped crude oil into the Little Rock River on Friday, June 22, 2018, in Doon. (photo: Bryon Houlgrave/The Register)

Derailed Train Spills 230,000 Gallons of Crude Into Flooded Iowa River 
Danielle Gehr, Des Moines Register
Gehr writes: "Rock Valley felt prepared this time around, when the city faced its second flood in four years. Then, crude oil was added into the mix." 

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