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mistakes Coroner says two rugby players who overdosed on heroin 'did not mean to buy drug' Mark Frauenfelder

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cured with what is right Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Jason Weisberger

History ROM image of ultra-rare Atari arcade game dumped and released for MAME Rob Beschizza

crime 5 dead and 5 police officers shot in Illinois mass shooting; gunman also dead Rob Beschizza

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fake news Stevie Wonder’s vision restored, O.J. Simpson’s hookers, and Hugh Hefner didn’t have to die, in this week’s tabloids Peter Sheridan

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fake news Hillary Clinton’s a Russian spy, Jennifer Aniston’s sex swap shame, and own your own alien – in this week’s tabloids Peter Sheridan

books The best young adult literature from 1967 Joshua Glenn

law Federal judge blocks Indiana abortion restriction Rob Beschizza

History The fascinating and ego-killing existence of human wormholes Ryan Holiday

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Copyfight Obama's new Librarian of Congress nominee is a rip-snortin', copyfightin', surveillance-hatin' no-foolin' LIBRARIAN Cory Doctorow