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Lincoln Chafee Out, Obama Vetoes Defense Bill, Paul Strategist Acquitted of Corruption Charges: A.M. Links

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 10.23.2015 9:00 AM


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  • President Obama used his veto pen for the fifth time yesterday, dismissing a defense authorization bill. 
  • Facebook has improved its search feature to make current news—and your old public posts—easier to search for. 
  • Former Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chafee is leaving the Democratic presidential race. 
  • Former Rand Paul Super-PAC strategist Jesse Benton was acquitted of corruption charges. 
  • Meet China's best Obama impersonator. 
  • Brothels are legal in the the U.K., but politicians are considering a bill that would make it an offense "to publish, or distribute, an advertisement of a brothel" or prostitution in any way. 
  • The Marshall Project interviewed Obama about the death penalty and when he'll get to pardoning more people. 
  • The louder the monkey, the smaller its balls.

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown is a senior editor at Reason.