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Worth a Click: 13 Stories You Should Read Today

By DNAinfo Staff | September 13, 2016 2:58pm | Updated on September 13, 2016 4:38pm

 Hillary Clinton speaks at Industry City in Brooklyn on Saturday, April 9, 2016.
Hillary Clinton speaks at Industry City in Brooklyn on Saturday, April 9, 2016.
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The Freak-Out Over Hillary Clinton’s Health

Salon takes a look at the hysteria over the presidential candidate’s pneumonia diagnosis, and why it’s unfair to target Clinton for merely getting sick.

“The fact is that politicians get sick,” the author writes. “Indeed,  presidents get sick. George W. Bush fainted in the White House just sitting on a couch eating pretzels. His father famously caught the flu while traveling, grew faint and vomited on the prime minister of Japan‘s lap.” [Salon]

NCAA Pulls Events from North Carolina Over Transgender Law

The NCAA has decided to move seven championship events out of North Carolina this school year because of the state’s law that limits civil rights protections for the LGBT community. The move follows the NBA’s decision in July to move its 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte. [NPR & New York Times]

The Officer Whose Chokehold Killed Eric Garner Has Gotten a Huge Pay Boost

During two years of modified duty following the death of Eric Garner, Daniel Pantaleo — the officer who put Garner in the fatal chokehold — has seen a sharp increase in overtime pay, bringing his total compensation to $119,000. [POLITICO New York]

Outliving 10 Minutes of Heart-Stopping Viral Video, and What Happens After

The Washington Post checks in with Diamond Reynolds, the former girlfriend of Philando Castile, weeks after the man’s shooting death at the hands of police that she filmed with her cellphone and livestreamed. Reynolds received messages from more than 6,000 people in the first week after the shooting, many offering the woman advice about what comes next. But ultimately, Reynolds packed up Castile’s things alone after being forced out of the apartment they’d shared. [Washington Post]

Paralympians Outran an Olympics Gold Medalist

Paralympians are outdoing their Olympic counterparts at the games this month in Rio. A visually disabled man, Algeria’s Abdellatif Baka, set a world record for the men’s 1,500-meter race, running faster than the Olympic gold medalist Matthew Centrowitz. The next three runners up in the Paraylmpics also outpaced Centrowitz. [Quartz]

GOP Voters in Rochester Area Urged to Vote for Dead Assemblyman

Republican leaders are urging GOP voters in the Rochester area to cast their ballots for Assemblyman Bill Nojay, even though he fatally shot himself last week. If he posthumously wins the 133rd Assembly district seat, local GOP party leaders would choose a replacement to run as the general election candidate. Nojay took his own life hours before he was scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court for potential fraud charges related to his work outside the legislature. [New York Times]

A Rape Victim Questions the Policy of Privacy

Writer Sophia Dembling’s piece in the Dallas Morning News explores this central question: “What is courageous about saying that I was the victim of a crime?” Her essay offers an interesting and unusual perspective on how the way media treats incidents of rape ties into the culture of shame that victims grapple with. [Dallas Morning News]

Photos of Overdosed Parents with Child in the Car Go Viral

An Ohio police department released photos of a mother and father passed out in their car of an apparent heroin overdose last week. Their son, who was taken into the custody of children’s services, is pictured in the back seat and both his parents are slumped over in the front seats. The police department released the photos and a statement saying they thought it necessary to show the realities of the drug. The department has taken heat for releasing the photos without blurring out the child’s face. [WKBN]

Why Schools Feel Like Prison

Researchers argue that high-security is predominantly urban schools — with black and Latino students — throughout the country that rely on police surveillance, metal-detectors and cameras create an environment that tells kids that “the city sees them as less than or as criminal out the gate.” Many insist that there are other ways to create and maintain safe learning environments without the rigid security methods. [The Atlantic]

Reflections on O.J. Simpson from Ta-Nehisi Coates

Following months of O.J. Simpson-related look-backs — including FX’s drama “The People v. O.J. Simpson” and ESPN’s five-part documentary “O.J.: Made in America” — writer Ta-Nehisi Coates is weighing in on Simpson’s legacy, particularly when it comes to the black community. The essay is a necessary read, particularly for those who caught the O.J. bug this year. [The Atlantic]

Strangers Raise Money for 90-Year-Old Popsicle Vendor

More than $136,000 has been raised for a 90-year-old man who sells paletas, a type of popsicle, on Chicago’s Near West Side. Fidencio Sanchez spent years peddling the icy goods and retired, but went back to the business soon after his daughter died. A customer launched a GoFundMe campaign for Sanchez, and it raised more than $110,000 in one day. [DNAinfo Chicago]

Welcome to Camp Midlife Crisis!

Color wars, cabins — and of course yoga — are part of Camp Grounded’s “digital detox” for adults. More than a million adults went to some kind of camp last year, you know, to make growing up a little less hard. [GQ]

Why We Just Can’t Get Enough of Ikea Furniture

Ikea, which has 387 stores in almost 50 countries, is continuing to saturate the global market. It’s even said that one in 10 Europeans is conceived in an Ikea bed, according to the New York Times Magazine’s look at the Swedish furniture giant that’s evolving its style and designs, while keeping prices affordable. [New York Times Magazine]

This column was compiled by DNAinfo reporters Emily Frost, Shaye Weaver, Nikhita Venugopal, Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska, Gwynne Hogan, Jeanmarie Evelly, Eddie Small, Rachel Holliday Smith, Camille Bautista, Irene Plagianos, Carolina Pichardo, Noah Hurowitz and Dartunorro Clark.