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Andy Borowitz | Alabama Loses Yet Another Fight to Remain in Eighteenth Century

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Andy Borowitz | Alabama Loses Yet Another Fight to Remain in Eighteenth Century 
Chief Justice Roy Moore of Alabama, who ordered defiance of a same-sex marriage ruling, once fought to keep a Ten Commandments marker in a judicial building. (photo: Jeff Haller/NYT)

Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "On Monday, the state of Alabama lost yet another fight to remain in the eighteenth century, extending a losing streak that dates back to the nineteenth century."
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US Prosecutors Weigh Criminal Charges Against HSBC as Warren Turns Up the Heat
Paul Lewis, The Guardian
Lewis writes: "The US Department of Justice is considering bringing criminal charges against HSBC and its executives as part of its investigation into whether the bank's Swiss subsidiary helped US clients evade taxes."
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn Barely Had Time to Squeeze in 4 Sex Parties a Year
Jessica Roy, New York Magazine
Roy writes: " While on trial in France for 'aggravated pimping as part of a group,' DSK told the court that he was attending sex parties like, four times a year."
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Insured, but Not Covered
Elisabeth Rosenthal, The New York Times
Rosenthal writes: "When Karen Pineman of Manhattan received notice that her longtime health insurance policy didn't comply with the Affordable Care Act's requirements, she gamely set about shopping for a new policy through the public marketplace."
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India's Lethal Contraception Culture
Raksha Kumar, Al Jazeera America
Kumar writes: "Sterilization camps like the one Suryavanshi visited are regularly organized all across rural India, where hospitals are few and far between, and equipment scarce."
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We Dream About Drones, Said 13-Year-Old Yemeni Before His Death by a CIA Drone Strike
Chavala Madlena, Hannah Patchett and Adel Shamsan, The Guardian
Excerpt: "A 13-year-old boy killed in Yemen last month by a CIA drone strike had told the Guardian just months earlier that he lived in constant fear of the 'death machines' in the sky that had already killed his father and brother."
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The California Desert Is Now Home to the World's Largest Solar-Power Plant
Helen Regan, TIME
Regan writes: "The world's largest solar-power plant officially opened in the Riverside County desert, in California, on Monday."
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