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Barack Obama, 57, has got a lot of time left in the role of former president so he decided to adopt a new role yesterday at a children's hospital in Washington. Because what else is a former president going to do on a Wednesday?
German reporter messes with Fergus Falls. Now, he’s out of a job
Looking back now, it should have been obvious that Claas Relotius was ginning up his stories for the German magazine Der Spiegel, stories for which he won award after award until he was fired on Wednesday.
Slim pickings on list of 2018’s good men
We suppose it says something about the state of men that one of the men who made Naomi Fry's list of good men in 2018 isn't a man at all: it's a thing of some sort.
It's unlikely the Bayfield County (Wis.) Sheriff's Office will get much help in its search for the hunters who cleaned and gutted deer, then tossed the carcasses on a road in Cable on Saturday. These kinds of hunters tend not to associate with the decent folk.
A war with child soldiers
There are hardly words left to say after reading the Associated Press' investigation revealing that rebels in Yemen are going door to door to grab children to fight as soldiers.