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Bad News For Ostriches

Remember two months ago when your Friday author provided you freshly snapped personal photographs of ostriches living in splendor at the mansion of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych outside Kyiv? Imagine my horror on seeing the report that Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign manager who also worked for Yanukovych, has paid $15,000 for an ostrich-skin suit. Your Signal team is working overtime to verify whether our friend the Ukrainian ostrich paid for this outfit with his life.

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