LONDON (AP) — For sale: The world’s most valuable toilet,
a lavatory literally worth its weight in gold.

Sotheby’s announced Friday that it will auction off the solid
gold cistern, a sculpture by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan
entitled “America.”

The auction house calls it an “incisive commentary on the
collision of artistic production and commodity value.” It’s
also a fully functional toilet, identical to one that gained
global fame when it was stolen in an audacious heist from
England’s Blenheim Palace in 2019.

The starting price at the Nov. 18 auction in New York will be
the price of the just over 101.2 kilograms (223 pounds) of
gold used to make it – currently about $10 million.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s request to add
a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal
voter registration form cannot be enforced, a federal judge
ruled Friday.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington, D.C.,
sided with Democratic and civil rights groups that sued the
Trump administration over his executive order to overhaul U.S.
elections.

She ruled that the proof-of-citizenship directive is an
unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers.

On October 31, 1517, legend has it that the priest and scholar
Martin Luther approached the door of the Castle Church in
Wittenberg, Germany, and nailed a piece of paper to it
containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin
the Protestant Reformation.

In his theses, Luther condemned the excesses and corruption
of the Roman Catholic Church, especially the papal practice
of asking payment—called “indulgences”—for the forgiveness
of sins.

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