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Gitmo, Like All Of Your College Friends, Is Really Into The Idea Of Chicago Right Now
- Illinois' Thomson Correctional Facility, 150 miles outside of Chicago, has won all the Guantanamo detainees! Thomson can choose to receive the prisoners in a lump sum or in installments paid out over the next forty years. [Washington Post]
- China will not let any other country keep tabs on its carbon emissions, which is a thing that, according to the US, prohibits the US from signing off on an international accord. [New York Times]
- A bomb exploded outside the former vice president of Afghanistan's house, killing eight non-former-vice-president-of-Afghanistan people. [CNN]
- A bomb exploded outside a lawmaker's house in Pakistan, killing 22 non-this-specific-lawmaker people. [AP]
- Baseball's Hideki Matsui, literally the sport's "most valuable player," was actually valued at $6.5 million a year, according to his new adoptive family the Los Angeles Angels. [WSJ]
- The GOP is hoping that Hawaii's no-runoff, winner-take-all, idiosyncratically charming bordering on cloying weird special election will result in a loss for Democratic Rep. Neil Abercrombie. [The Hill]
