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AP’s Today in History for June 27th

U.S. air and naval forces ordered into the Korean War; John Dean testifies about the Nixon White House’s ‘enemies list’; Stonewall riots spark the modern gay rights movement; Actor Jack Lemmon dies.

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• Chile shifts left to rewrite Pinochet-era constitution, as Goldman Sachs eyes its copper reserves
  BEN NORTON

• FBI Feared Pennsylvania Would Seize Fabled Civil War Gold: Affidavit
  Michael Rubinkam

• ‘Horrible and Unconscionable Betrayal’: Biden DOJ Backs Trump Line 3 Approval
  JESSICA CORBETT

• When a President Lies
  DAVID ROSEN

• Onward, Marxist Soldiers: Critical Race Theory Comes to the Pentagon
  CHARLES PIERSON

• Sick of dangerous city traffic? Remove left turns
  VIKASH V. GAYAH

• No Comparison: Thoughtcrime Reflections on the Latest Imperial Smackdown of the Nation’s Best Congressperson
  PAUL STREET

• South Florida cops used facial recognition in ‘horrifying’ scheme to target peaceful protesters: newspaper
  Ray Hartmann

• Remember to Forget the Alamo
  DAVID SWANSON

• Doctors Without Borders Calls on BioNTech to Share Vaccine Tech With World
  Andrea Germanos

• Orwellian Hellscape v. Neoliberal Caretakers: American Politics in the “Post-Trump” Era
  ANTHONY DIMAGGIO

• A Court Ruled Rachel Maddow’s Viewers Know She’s Not Offering Facts
  Glenn Greenwald

• Nine Points of Difference: A Response to Noam Chomsky on American Fascism
  PAUL STREET

• Ringo Starr’s Battle With Ring O Sex Toy Company Reaches Climax
  David Moye

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Scientists Announce Successful Experiment To Bankrupt Mouse That Can’t Afford Cancer Drug

The Onion

BALTIMORE, MD—Heralding the trial as a major step forward in the field of medicine, scientists at Johns Hopkins University announced Thursday the first successful experiment to bankrupt a mouse that couldn’t afford a cancer drug. “Today is a landmark day in cancer research as we were able, for the first time, to give a mouse cancer and then successfully soak it for all its worth, driving it into insolvency,” said lead researcher Dr. Martin Lang, adding that their experimental successes gave the researchers hope that they could one day drain a human being’s savings for all common and rare types of cancer. “Scientific advances in treating some of the more common cancers can actually make it harder to put people in debt they never come back from, so this is a really significant breakthrough. To treat the mouse, we subjected it to chemotherapy, radiation, immunotherapy, and the most expensive combinations of all three. This mouse saw its debt skyrocket quickly, since we made sure to control for only treatment that was outside of its insurance network, and that was even before we sold the debt to a third-party collector. Most promisingly, we were able to replicate our findings on other mice as well, by completely and irreparably wrecking their credit scores in all cases.” The researchers added that their findings would also be useful in future experiments to test whether a mouse that died from its cancer could pass its debt to its family.