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Andy Borowitz | Forgotten Man Seeks Attention 
Former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani, who said President Obama 'doesn't love America.' (photo: CLTampa.com)

Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "A largely forgotten man sought attention on Wednesday night before returning to obscurity on Thursday, according to reports."
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Bill O'Reilly Has His Own Brian Williams Problem
David Corn and Daniel Schulman, Mother Jones
Excerpt: "After NBC News suspended anchor Brian Williams for erroneously claiming that he was nearly shot down in a helicopter while covering the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly went on a tear."
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Eva Golinger | Behind the Coup Attempt in Venezuela
Eva Golinger, ZNet
Golinger writes: "The Venezuelan opposition is led by an elite, super-rich class that ruled the country for decades, and accumulated much of their wealth through corrupt business practices and siphoning oil industry profits, leaving a majority of the country in poverty and the country's infrastructure in tatters."
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Patrick Cockburn | A Fight to the Death for Mosul, Iraq
Patrick Cockburn, CounterPunch
Cockburn writes: "The Iraqi government is threatening that it will soon send its army north to recapture Mosul, a city of two million, the loss of which last June was the first in a string of victories by ISIS."
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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: "In its first week back in session, Congress pushed bills to greenlight the Keystone XL pipeline and to roll back taxpayer protections against Too Big to Fail banks."
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Hospital Prices Always Go Up. But This Year, They Went Down
Sarah Kliff, Vox
Kliff writes: "New federal data shows that the price of hospital care in the United States fell between this January and a year prior - the first time the government has seen a year-over-year drop since it started keeping track in 1998."
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The Department of the Interior Says There's a 75 Percent Chance of an Oil Spill in the Arctic - and It's Willing to Take That Chance
Brian Palmer, onEarth
Palmer writes: "The Department of the Interior reported last week that drilling in the remote Chukchi Sea in the Arctic would likely cause a major oil spill, which could kill polar bears and ringed seal pups, as well as threaten populations of loons, Pacific brant, murres, puffins, and bowhead whales."
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