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WSJ.com 

Libeskind Looks Back on Ground Zero

Daniel Libeskind, founder and principal architect of Studio Libeskind, discusses the Ground Zero site in a conversation with WSJ's Dennis Berman.

TheRepublic.com 

Judge temporarily halts daily fantasy sports merger

BOSTON — A federal judge has temporarily halted the planned merger between daily fantasy sports companies FanDuel and DraftKings. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia approved a temporary restraining order that was agreed upon Tuesday by the two companies and the Federal Trade Commission. Without the order,

Yonhap News Agency (en) 

Retired actress hospitalized for unknown cause

SEOUL, June 21 (Yonhap) -- A former actress has been hospitalized for an unidentified reason, local media reported Wednesday, amid rumors that she may have taken a large dose of sleeping pills. Shim Eun-ha, once a popular TV and movie celebrity in

New York Post 

Snake slithers out of the hood of man’s truck on Texas highway

Two men in Texas had a creepy encounter when a snake slithered out of the hood of a pickup truck while they were driving down the highway. Swade Moyers wrote on Facebook on Monday he and his friend Zakary Wyatt were driving to Levelland with a bullsnake popped its head out of the hood of...

The Economist 

The hope for Democrats after special-election losses

EVEN though Donald Trump has spent the first five months of his presidency mired in self-sabotage, Democrats still seem unable to win. Because Mr Trump poached four Republicans from the House of Representatives to fill senior posts in his administration, their successors must be decided by special election.

BusinessInsider.com 

The architects of the US torture program say the CIA called them 'pussies' when they tried to stop

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One of the two military psychologists who created the "enhanced" interrogation techniques used by the CIA in the years after 9/11 testified earlier this year that CIA officials called them "pussies" when they wanted to stop waterboarding detainees, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. 

The two psychologists, Drs. John Bruce Jessen and James Mitchell, are currently being sued by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of some of the former detainees. 

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