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The publicist, reading. On the podium, the client’s jar — the client, on advice of counsel, did not attend. (Staff photo)
Grand Rapids · The Disavowal

Brain Worm Distances Itself From Kennedy’s Michigan Remarks: “I Ate a Portion. I Did Not Write the Speech.”

GRAND RAPIDS - The parasite Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said once ate part of his brain announced Tuesday it “wants no part of” his Monday address to the Kent County GOP, which claimed 500 million Arabs don’t produce science or literature and don’t win Nobel, Fields or Wolf prizes.

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Washington · Common Ground

Reunited: Nation’s Two Parties Find Common Ground, Provided It’s Far From Their Homes

America’s warring political camps, who agree on almost nothing, have achieved a rare moment of unity in a new CNBC survey. It is the kind of reconciliation that has a certain 1970s disco duet playing faintly in the background. Peaches & Herb, at least, would approve.

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Las Vegas · The Retraction

Liberace Tribute Guild Demands Clinton Retraction; Elvis Impersonators Join the Fight

The Liberace Tribute Guild on Tuesday demanded a full and unqualified retraction from former President Bill Clinton, whose description of the paved-over White House Rose Garden as looking like “the entrance to Liberace’s bathroom” the Guild called “an actionable insult to the bathroom.”

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From the Archive

Federal agents with butterfly nets in a Toledo garden
ICE Raids Ohio Garden in First Operation of Butterfly-Tracking Program

Four hundred pings from one lavender patch. Fourteen butterflies detained, then released. “Hatching here makes them citizens, technically.”

White House physician at a briefing podium
Trump Cancels Livestreamed Execution; Medical Team Blames ‘Acute Case of Temporary Sanity’

The episode lasted four hours. Symptoms included reading a full briefing and asking what the victims’ families might want. He has since recovered.

Corrections

An earlier edition of this newspaper reproduced a presidential map in which a hand-drawn circle labeled “Stockholm” appeared over Finland. The circle was the President’s. Finland is not Stockholm. Sweden is the yellow one in the middle. We regret nothing.

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