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Andy Borowitz | The Fact-Checked Adventures of Brian Williams

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Andy Borowitz | The Fact-Checked Adventures of Brian Williams
NBC News anchor Brian Williams. (photo: Robert Deutsch/USA TODAY)

Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowtiz writes: "The fact-checking department at NBC News has verified that the following anecdotes told by Brian Williams actually happened."
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Claims Against Saudis Cast New Light on Secret Pages of 9/11 Report
Carl Hulse, The New York Times
Hulse writes: "A still-classified section of the investigation by congressional intelligence committees into the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has taken on an almost mythic quality over the past 13 years - 28 pages that examine crucial support given the hijackers and that by all accounts implicate prominent Saudis in financing terrorism."
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Juan Cole | Is ISIL's 'Shock and Awe' More Awe-ful Because One Victim?
Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "The Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) burning of a captured Jordanian pilot alive produced justified revulsion globally, resulting in the terrorist organization being termed 'barbarous' and similar epithets. Why did it behave this way?"
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Tim Dickinson | The GOP's New War on Obama: Meet the Men Doing the Dirty Work
Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone
Dickinson writes: "Despite the party's newfound swagger, Republicans remain in a precarious position to actually govern the country."
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Feds Say Marijuana Has No Medical Value. Obama's New Surgeon General Seems to Disagree.
German Lopez, Vox
Lopez writes: "The nation's top doctor on Wednesday told CBS News that 'marijuana can be helpful' for some medical conditions and symptoms."
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'A Line in the Sand' in Fight to Release Thousands of Photos of Prisoner Abuse
Cora Currier, The Intercept
Currier writes: "A federal judge is demanding that the government explain, photo-by-photo, why it can't release hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of pictures showing detainee abuse by U.S. forces at military prison sites in Iraq and Afghanistan."
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Great Barrier Reef Set for Surprise Electoral Win
Michael Slezak, New Scientist
Slezak writes: "The Great Barrier Reef might emerge as the winner this week in an election in Queensland, Australia. Early indications are that voters have chosen to throw out the state government, which has been criticized for its attitude of 'development at all costs.'"
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