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• Portland: Bear spray, shields, metal poles seized at Oregon protests

  17-08-2019 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Right-wing groups and counterprotesters gathered in downtown Portland, Oregon, on Saturday and authorities set up concrete barriers and closed streets in an effort to contain the groups.
  
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• The Latest: At least 4 arrests in Portland protests

  17-08-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  At least four people have been arrested in Portland, Oregon, during demonstrations by right-wing groups and anti-fascist counterprotesters.The demonstrators were met by a huge police presence of more than two dozen local, state and federal agencies.Police used concrete barriers and closed bridges to try to keep the rival groups separated.
  
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• Mom aims head-on at a tanker to kill herself, sons. When truck dodges, she doubles back

  17-08-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Police say a Gainesville, Florida, mom of two young boys told a friend she was going to kill herself and her sons by crashing her car with everyone inside.
  
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• Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Permit Employment Discrimination Against Transgender Workers

  17-08-2019 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  DOJ argued that Title VII does not protect transgender people
  
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• More than 40 charged in federal court from Mississippi ICE raid, but no company officials

  17-08-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  So far, more than 40 arrest warrants have been filed in federal court resulting from the Aug. 7 immigration raid.
  
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• Patterson Fire is fully contained, while Cottage Fire is nearly so

  17-08-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Firefighters in California have mostly contained two of the wildfires threatening parts of Northern California this week, according to Cal Fire.
  
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• Not 'invaders': Some Hispanic families in the Southwest predate the US entirely

  17-08-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  In the Southwest U.S., some Hispanics can trace their families back generations. The region once belonged to Mexico, Spain and Native Americans.
  
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• Italy's Salvini agrees to let 27 minors off migrant ship

  17-08-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Italy's hard-line interior minister buckled under pressure Saturday and agreed to let 27 unaccompanied minors leave a migrant rescue ship after two weeks at sea, temporarily easing a political standoff that has threatened the viability of the populist government.In recent days, Premier Giuseppe Conte had written to Interior Minister Matteo Salvini demanding that minors be allowed off the boat.After initially refusing, Salvini wrote back Saturday with a three-page missive of his own saying he wou
  
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• Mayor of Canadian capital city Ottawa comes out as gay

  17-08-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Montreal (AFP) - The mayor of Ottawa revealed Saturday that he is gay, an announcement that comes on the eve of gay pride week in the Canadian capital city.
  
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• Mormon church issues warnings on fancy coffee drinks

  17-08-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has issued a warning to members that coffee is prohibited no matter how fancy the name, that vaping is banned despite the alluring flavors and that marijuana is outlawed unless prescribed by "competent" doctors.
  
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• Persona 5 Western Release Window Announced

  17-08-2019 21:50 via gamespot.com
  
  Atlus has announced that Persona 5 Royal, an updated version of the critically acclaimed RPG, will be available for the PS4 in western territories from Spring 2020. The announcement was made during the Atlus Art Show in LA, where Shigenori Soejima appeared on a panel to discuss his work as an artist on the Persona series and Catherine.A short trailer shown after the panel ended with the confirmation of the release window. As of yet, it's quite a broad window, but fans of the game eager to check
  
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• Persona 5 Royal Western Release Window Revealed

  17-08-2019 21:50 via gamespot.com
  
  Atlus has announced that Persona 5 Royal, an updated version of the critically acclaimed RPG, will be available for the PS4 in western territories from Spring 2020. The announcement was made during the Atlus Art Show in LA, where Shigenori Soejima appeared on a panel to discuss his work as an artist on the Persona series and Catherine.A short trailer shown after the panel ended with the confirmation of the release window. As of yet, it's quite a broad window, but fans of the game eager to check
  
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• Persona 5 Royal Western Release Window Announced

  17-08-2019 21:50 via gamespot.com
  
  Atlus has announced that Persona 5 Royal, an updated version of the critically acclaimed RPG, will be available for the PS4 in western territories from Spring 2020. The announcement was made during the Atlus Art Show in LA, where Shigenori Soejima appeared on a panel to discuss his work as an artist on the Persona series and Catherine.A short trailer shown after the panel ended with the confirmation of the release window. As of yet, it's quite a broad window, but fans of the game eager to check
  
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• White House to Proceed With Ending Some Foreign Aid Payments

  17-08-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The Trump administration will move forward within days with a plan to cancel certain foreign aid payments authorized by Congress, setting up a fight with lawmakers opposed to the move.A senior administration official confirmed that the so-called rescissions package would be announced early next week.Some of the funding being zeroed out was for projects like installing solar panels in the Caribbean and creating safe spaces in Ireland for people upset about Brexit, said the administ
  
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• The Latest: Dozens killed or wounded in Kabul wedding blast

  17-08-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  An Afghan official says dozens of people have been killed or wounded in an explosion that ripped through a wedding hall in Kabul while hundreds were thought to be inside.Interior Ministry spokesman Nusrat Rahimi tells The Associated Press the blast occurred at the Dubai City wedding hall in western Kabul, a part of the city that many in the minority Shiite Hazara community call home.The explosion shattered more than a week of calm in the Afghan capital.
  
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• Warren, Sanders get personal with young, black Christians

  17-08-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren framed their Democratic presidential bids in personal, faith-based terms Saturday before black millennial Christians who could help determine which candidate becomes the leading progressive alternative to former Vice President Joe Biden.Sanders, the Vermont senator whose struggles with black voters helped cost him the 2016 nomination, told the Young Leaders Conference that his family history shapes his approach to President Donald Trump's rhetoric and the rise
  
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• The car was moving when the woman fell onto I-95. Police want to know how it happened

  17-08-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  After a night out at a popular Brickell bar, a woman fell out of a moving car on Interstate 95 near Little Haiti early Saturday, police say.
  
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• ‘A good 100 kills would be nice.’ Another Florida man arrested for mass shooting threats

  17-08-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  In the weeks following the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, Florida has seen a fair share of mass shooting threats — from Walmarts to schools.
  
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• AOC Laughs Off Trump’s Suggestion She’s Jealous of Squad Sisters

  17-08-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded by “crying with laughter” at President Donald Trump’s suggestion that she feels overshadowed by other members of the cohort of female, left-leaning first-term Democrats known as the Squad.Trump tweeted late Friday that Representatives Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota are becoming the face of the Democratic Party, adding, “Cortez (AOC) is fuming, not happy about this!”The Trump twee
  
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• Steel mill sorry for spill that killed fish, closed beaches

  17-08-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A steel company apologized for a spill of cyanide and ammonia that led to a fish kill and prompted the closure of beaches along Lake Michigan.The National Park Service closed the Portage Lakefront and Riverwalk beach areas at Indiana Dunes National Park and waters out to 300 feet (91 meters).
  
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• Netanyahu dismisses Hezbollah warning

  17-08-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday he was "unimpressed" by a speech from Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in which the Lebanese Shiite leader warned of his movement's military strength.Nasrallah spoke in a TV broadcast Friday marking the anniversary of a 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel.Nasrallah said that the 2006 war had helped Hezbollah develop "a military system to defend our villages, towns and cities".
  
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• Advocates already see fallout from immigration rule change

  17-08-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Doctors and public health experts warn of poor health and rising costs they say will come from sweeping Trump administration changes that would deny green cards to many immigrants who use Medicaid, as well as food stamps and other forms of public assistance.President Donald Trump's administration trumpeted its aggressive approach this past week as a way to keep only self-sufficient immigrants in the country, but health experts argue it could force potentially millions of low-income migrants to c
  
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• French waiter shot dead for being 'too slow with sandwich'

  17-08-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  A customer shot a waiter dead at an eatery on the outskirts of Paris, apparently enraged at being made to wait for a sandwich, a source close to the investigation said Saturday. The waiter's colleagues called police after he was shot in the shoulder with a handgun in the Noisy-le-Grand suburb east of Paris on Friday night, the source said. The gunman, who a witness said lost his temper "as his sandwich wasn't prepared quickly enough", fled the scene.
  
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• Yemen rebel drone attack targets remote Saudi oil field

  17-08-2019 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Drones launched by Yemen's Houthi rebels attacked a massive oil and gas field deep inside Saudi Arabia's sprawling desert on Saturday, causing what the kingdom described as a "limited fire" in the second such recent attack on its crucial energy industry.The attack on the Shaybah oil field, which produces some 1 million barrels of crude oil a day near the kingdom's border with the United Arab Emirates, again shows the reach of the Houthis' drone program.Shaybah sits some 1,200 kilometers (750 mil
  
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• Portland gears for dueling rallies amid fears of violence

  17-08-2019 18:50 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump said Saturday that the city of Portland, Oregon is being monitored closely as it hosts a far-right rally amid fears of clashes with leftist counter-demonstrators."Portland is being watched very carefully.Hopefully the Mayor will be able to properly do his job!," Trump tweeted.
  
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• Epstein died by suicide using his jail bed sheet while his guards slept, according to report

  17-08-2019 18:47 via news.yahoo.com
  While in federal custody at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, Jeffrey Epstein used his jail bed sheet to commit suicide.
  
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• Migrant children have been molested in federal care, according to families, and the government could end up paying $200 million for it

  17-08-2019 18:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Migrant families are suing the government for millions of dollars after their children were allegedly hurt or molested while in federal care.
  
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• Shell workers in Pennsylvania say they were told to either attend a recent Trump event, or not get paid

  17-08-2019 18:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Workers at a new Shell plant in Pennsylvania were told they had to attend a speech by President Donald Trump in order to get paid.
  
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• Small plane makes emergency highway landing in Croatia

  17-08-2019 17:59 via news.yahoo.com
  A small plane made an emergency landing Saturday on a main highway in Croatia after its engine failed, surprising drivers but causing no injuries.The pilot of the single-engine Cessna 150 said he had a choice either to land on a field or on the highway after the engine malfunctioned.A video from the scene made from a driving car showed the plane landing heavily on the highway, swaying left and right with one wing apparently scraping the road before stopping on the emergency lane near a metal bar
  
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• New video shows dramatic escape from Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s burning plane

  17-08-2019 17:58 via news.yahoo.com
  A man can be seen pulling Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s infant daughter out of the plane as smoke and flames billow from the Cessna.
  
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• Sen. Markey faces 2 challengers; now some pushing for a 3rd

  17-08-2019 17:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Some Massachusetts voters see Sen. Edward Markey as potentially vulnerable to a primary challenge, and one group is even trying to persuade U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy to run for his seat.Markey, a Democrat, has represented Massachusetts in Congress for decades — first in the House before winning John Kerry's former Senate seat in 2013 — but the state saw an incumbent lose just last year as Democrats elected more women and minorities.Ayanna Pressley defeated longtime incumbent U.S. Rep. Mi
  
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• Hundreds of strangers queue for El Paso shooting victim’s funeral after husband feared no one would show up

  17-08-2019 17:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Just about every morning for the past two weeks, Antonio Basco has risen before dawn to buy as many floral bouquets as he can fit in his car and carried them to a makeshift memorial for the victims of the mass shooting in El Paso.He places the flowers one by one around the white wooden cross for Margie Reckard, his wife. This is his solemn ritual, born of grief and unmooring: tending her garden.“She loved any kind of flowers. I could walk down the street and find flowers that had been run
  
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• Iranian tanker to leave Gibraltar soon despite US pressure

  17-08-2019 17:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The shipping agent for an Iranian supertanker caught in a diplomatic standoff says the vessel is ready to depart Gibraltar on Sunday or Monday, as the U.S. made a last-minute effort to seize it again.The head of the company sorting paperwork and procuring for the Grace 1 oil tanker in the British overseas territory said the vessel could be sailing away in the next "24 to 48 hours," once new crews dispatched to the territory take over command of the ship."The vessel is ongoing some logistical cha
  
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• Roller coaster malfunction causes cars to collide; multiple kids taken to hospital

  17-08-2019 17:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Five people were taken to the hospital Friday night after malfunctioning roller coaster failed to stop in Ocean City, Maryland.
  
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• Heavy downpours wreak havoc in Istanbul, flooding historic Grand Bazaar

  17-08-2019 16:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Strong rains in Istanbul on Saturday flooded several neighbourhoods, as well as the Grand Bazaar, while officials said one person was found dead in the city. Rain started early in the day in parts of Istanbul and picked up pace around noon. Footage from parts of the Grand Bazaar showed shopkeepers, ankle-deep in water, clearing the water out of their stores and the halls.
  
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• ‘We’ve been bullied out of the water by the sharks’: Rise in great white numbers triggers panic on US beaches

  17-08-2019 16:26 via news.yahoo.com
  A rise in great white shark sightings is causing panic on beaches on the US east coast, according to reports.Authorities in Cape Cod have put up warning signs and shut down beaches dozens of times in response to an increasing number of sightings.Between July and the first week of August, there have been at least 59 beach closures due to shark sightings on Cape Cod and Islands, in southeastern Massachusetts, according to the Boston Globe, with some 42 beach closures occurring in the first week of
  
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• Trump to drop out of 2020 race within months, former aide Scaramucci claims

  17-08-2019 16:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump will quit the 2020 race and not seek re-election, according to a former top aide.Anthony Scaramucci, the short-lived White House communications director, said the president will likelu quit the race in March to avoid the humiliation of defeat.“He’s gonna drop out of the race because it’s gonna become very clear. Okay, it’ll be March of 2020. He’ll likely drop out by March of 2020. It’s gonna become very clear that it’s impossible for him to
  
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• Trump administration says transgender workers aren't protected by civil rights, Supreme Court filing reveals

  17-08-2019 16:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump's administration has told the Supreme Court that transgender workers are not protected by federal civil rights law and can be fired because of their gender.The US government is arguing workers should only be protected from discrimination based on their “biological sex”, court filings have revealed.A Supreme Court ruling in favour of the administration’s position would set a legal precedent, marking a major setback for LGBTQ rights since the Obama administration.The
  
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• Iran tanker in limbo off Gibraltar as US issues warrant

  17-08-2019 16:12 via news.yahoo.com
  A last-minute US warrant to seize an Iranian oil tanker preparing to leave Gibraltar after weeks of detention cast doubt over its departure on Saturday, prolonging a diplomatic spat between Tehran, London and Washington.The US Justice Department alleged the ship was part of a scheme "to unlawfully access the US financial system to support illicit shipments to Syria from Iran by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps," which Washington has designated a foreign terrorist organisation.There was no c
  
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• Barack Obama appears to be wading into 2020 politics

  17-08-2019 15:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Sean Duffy and Rachel Campos-Duffy weigh in on reports from the New York Times that former President Obama tried to talk Joe Biden out of a White House bid.
  
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• Epstein's last days were spent emptying vending machines with his lawyers in a private meeting room, avoiding suicide watch, and paying other inmates' commissaries

  17-08-2019 15:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Before he died of suicide by hanging, The New York Times reports Epstein used his wealth to try and manipulate his circumstances in federal custody.
  
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• The New York Times reports Barack Obama tried to talk Joe Biden out of a White House run

  17-08-2019 15:33 via news.yahoo.com
  After staying on the sidelines, former President Barack Obama appears to be wading into 2020 politics.
  
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• Israel's interior minister says Rep. Tlaib's request to visit her grandmother was 'provocative'

  17-08-2019 15:27 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump suggests there was a 'setup' after Rep. Rashida Tlaib rejects Israel's invite as he praises the country for acting 'appropriately.'
  
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• Sudan generals, protest leaders sign transition deal: AFP

  17-08-2019 15:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Sudan's military council and protest leaders on Saturday signed a hard-won "constitutional declaration" that paves the way for a transition to civilian rule.The agreement was signed by Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, deputy chief of the military council, and Ahmed al-Rabie, representing the Alliance for Freedom and Change protest umbrella, an AFP reporter said.Heads of state, prime ministers and dignitaries from several countries -- including Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Egypt's premier Mustaf
  
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• Donald Trump is touting voter ID laws as an issue in the 2020 election. Here’s why.

  17-08-2019 15:09 via news.yahoo.com
  As Donald Trump ramps up his reelection for 2020 he is resurfacing a controversial gripe held over from 2016: That voter fraud cost him support.
  
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• Appeals court sides with Trump administration on asylum rules

  17-08-2019 14:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Acting CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan weighs in on a federal appeals court's decision to limit the number of people who can cross the border and claim asylum.
  
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• Everything you need to know about Scott Borgerson, the tech CEO who has been tied to Jeffrey Epstein's alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell

  17-08-2019 14:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Here's everything you should know about Scott Borgerson, his company CargoMetrics, and the CEO's alleged connection to Ghislaine Maxwell.
  
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• Several injured in Kashmir in clashes with Indian police

  17-08-2019 13:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Indian security forces injured at least six people on Saturday in Srinagar, the main city in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir, as several protests broke out against New Delhi's revocation of the region's autonomy last week.In New York, the U.N. Security Council held its first meeting in almost 50 years on Kashmir, a majority Muslim region claimed by both India and Pakistan - which controls its western third.Two police officials and eyewitnesses said clashes had begun on Friday evening.
  
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• Mormons ban vaping, green tea and any drinks ending in 'ccino'

  17-08-2019 13:55 via news.yahoo.com
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints wants to make clear that vaping, green tea and fancy coffee drinks are off limits under the religion's dietary code, which is meant to keep members from consuming unhealthy substances.Mormon leaders pointed to an article in its youth magazine New Era which reminded readers that the Word of Wisdom prohibits “hot drinks”, understood to mean tea and coffee, and harmful or habit-forming substances.E-cigarettes are highly addictive, “i
  
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• Unprecedented heatwave 'kills thousands of fish' in Alaska

  17-08-2019 13:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Climate change and warming rivers may have caused the mass death of salmon in parts of Alaska, scientists say.Large numbers of salmon died prematurely in some Alaskan rivers in July according to local reports, and scientists believe the cause could be the unprecedented heatwave that gripped the state last month.“Climate change is here in Alaska. We are seeing it. We are feeling it. And our salmon are dying because of it,” said Stephanie Quinn-Davidson, a biologist specialising in sal
  
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