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• Raytheon and United Technologies announce merger

  09-06-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Raytheon and United Technologies announced on Sunday that they will merge, creating a behemoth American aeronautics and defense company.The new company, Raytheon Technologies Corporation, will be created via an exchange of shares between the two firms, with the merger expected to conclude in the first half of 2020, they said in a joint statement.Raytheon is best known for its Patriot air defense systems, which gained fame during the first Gulf War, and its Tomahawk cruise missiles, often the fir
  
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• George Conway to Trump: 'You would have been fired from any other job by now'

  09-06-2019 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Outspoken Trump critic George Conway on Sunday said the president “would have been fired from any other job by now,” after Trump, in a series of tweets, lambasted media reports that devalued his deal with Mexico.
  
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• Make Joe Biden what again?: Today's Toon

  09-06-2019 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
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• Johnson Woos Hard Brexiters as Gove Eclipsed by Cocaine Woes

  09-06-2019 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Johnson, who also said he would scrap the Irish border backstop and withhold 39 billion pounds ($50 billion) owed to the European Union until an agreement is reached, was helped by the discomfort of Environment Secretary Michael Gove, who saw his campaign submerged under revelations that he used cocaine decades ago.“Yes, it was a crime, it was a mistake, I deeply regret it,” Gove told the BBC as he tried to switch attention away from his past drug use toward his plans to cut sales ta
  
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• United Technologies and Raytheon poised for merger

  09-06-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Raytheon and United Technologies, two major American aeronautics and defense groups, are poised to announce as early this week plans for a massive merger, according to US media.The Wall Street Journal revealed on Saturday, citing an anonymous source, that talks have been under way between the two pillars of the aeronautics and defense industries worldwide.Unless the negotiations break down, a deal is expected to be announced in the coming days, a source close to the matter told the Journal.
  
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• Senators hope to force vote on arms sales to Saudi Arabia

  09-06-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Opposition to President Donald Trump's Saudi Arabia policy and use of executive power is building in Congress, where senators have introduced more legislation aimed at blocking the sale of weapons to the kingdom.Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, a Democrat, and Sen. Todd Young of Indiana, a Republican, said in a statement Sunday they hope to force a vote on U.S. security assistance to Saudi Arabia, including arms sales, after a review of the kingdom's human rights record.Anger has been mounting
  
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• Senators make bipartisan push to halt arms sales to Saudi Arabia

  09-06-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The senators want to restore “congressional oversight” to arm sales.
  
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• Family in UK targeted on social media after being mistaken for animal abusers at US farm

  09-06-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  A family-run farm in Sussex has received hundreds of death threats on social media after being mistaken for a US farm at the centre of an animal cruelty video. Fair Oak Farm in Mayfield, East Sussex, came under fire this week when Twitter, Facebook and Instagram users mistook it for Fair Oaks Farms dairy farm in Indiana. The latter has come under intense scrutiny after undercover footage released by an animal rights group revealed newborn calves being abused by employees. The video shows th
  
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• Michigan Hotel Offers Free Lodging for Women Traveling to the State to Get an Abortion

  09-06-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Shelly O'Brian wanted to do something to help women unable to seek abortions in their home states
  
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• Cocaine use should disqualify you from becoming an MP, majority of the public believe

  09-06-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  More than half the public believe the admission of previously taking cocaine should disqualify people from being an MP, says a survey that will be a blow to Michael Gove’s hopes of weathering the storm over his drug revelation. The YouGov poll of 1,677 people shows 56 per cent of the population believe it is not acceptable for someone who has ever taken cocaine to be a member of Parliament. The research suggests that even if Mr Gove manages to persuade MPs to back him for Prime Minister an
  
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• Boeing's 'New' AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter Might Just Be a 'Re-Run'

  09-06-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  The new Block II Compound would increase aircraft speed to 185 kts, increase payload to 5,900 pounds hover-out of ground effect (HOGE) on takeoff, and increase the range to 460 nm.Boeing has released concept footage of a high-speed Apache attack helicopter during the Vertical Flight Society’s 75th Annual Forum & Technology Display- and it looks awfully familiar.(This first appeared last month.)Known as the Advanced AH-64 Block 2 Compound, the concept will serve as an interim solution i
  
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• Body of missing Kemah PD Chief Chris Reed found near Texas City Dike

  09-06-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  His body was recovered at 7:54 a.m. by the Galveston County Marine Unit Boat Crew.
  
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• Democrats to call Watergate witness for Mueller Report hearing as pressure mounts on Trump

  09-06-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats are calling a witness from the Watergate era as they prepare for a hearing on Robert Mueller’s Russia report, the latest attempt to intensify pressure on Donald Trump.Politicians on Capitol Hill had hoped both Mr Mueller and former White House counsel Don McGahn would give testimony before the House judiciary committee.But because the two men have declined to appear, Democrats will instead question John Dean, 80, who served as counsel to Richard Nixon, and who served time in jail
  
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• Police detail man's threat behind panic at DC LGBTQ parade

  09-06-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  A man threatened another person with a BB gun during an LGBTQ pride parade in the nation's capital and set off a panic that sent hundreds of people, who mistakenly believed gunshots were fired, running in fear, police said Sunday.Aftabjit Singh, 38, was arrested on weapons possession and disorderly conduct charges after Saturday evening's incident in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C., where thousands of people packed the streets to celebrate in the city's annual pride parade.Alt
  
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• GOP Senators Exhale After Considering Crossing Trump on Tariffs

  09-06-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump had threatened to impose 5% import duties on Mexican products starting Monday, with the levies set to rise each month to a potential peak of 25% in October if Mexico didn’t stem the flow of illegal migrants to the U.S. to the president’s satisfaction.There was even talk of a vote to curtail Trump’s power to levy tariffs that prompted the president to suggest senators don’t understand tariffs and they would be “foolish” to oppose him.Crossing the presiden
  
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• Puerto Rican Day Parade honors arts, culture trailblazers

  09-06-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  With Puerto Rican pride on full display along New York City's Fifth Avenue, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday he's returning to the island to help rebuilding efforts after Hurricane Maria.Speaking at the National Puerto Rican Day Parade, Cuomo said he's also appointing a commission to oversee the construction of a memorial, located in Manhattan's Battery Park City, to victims of the 2017 storm.Cuomo, a Democrat, said more than 300 students from state-run colleges will travel to Puerto Rico over
  
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• Xbox E3 live stream: Watch the Xbox E3 2019 press conference live right here

  09-06-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  With Sony sitting E3 out for the first time this year, Microsoft has the opportunity to dictate the narrative of the show. This is, by default, the biggest press conference of E3 2019, and the Xbox team is expected to take full advantage of that with game reveals, discussion of next-generation consoles, and demos of new technology.The Xbox E3 2019 Briefing begins on Sunday, June 9th at 1 PM PT / 4 PM ET, and although you can get free stuff by watching on Mixer, we've also embedded the stream at
  
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• The Polaris ACE 900 XC Is the Ultimate Bug-Out Buggy

  09-06-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Whether you consider it an ATV with a steering wheel or a single-seat side-by-side, the ACE 900 is a lot of fun on the trails.
  
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• Kroger recalls some of its frozen berries after FDA warns about possible Hepatitis A contamination

  09-06-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Kroger said Friday it's recalling three varieties of Private Selection frozen berries due to possible Hepatitis A contamination.
  
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• The SIG P210 Gun: Quite possibly the Most Accurate Service Pistol in the World?

  09-06-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  There the story of the P210 ends, for now. Produced by four different companies: the original SIG, Swiss Arms, SIG Sauer GmbH, and SIG Sauer Inc, the pistol remains one of the most accurate in the world today.The SIG P210 is quite possibly the most accurate service pistol in the world.(This first appeared last month.)Designed to Swiss Army specifications to replace the Swiss variant of the Luger, the design saw service in multiple national militaries and has been produced in three different coun
  
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• The Cost of a Clean Brexit

  09-06-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Two new complications will now likely distract commentary on the Brexit saga. One, Prime Minister Theresa May has resigned her office pending the Conservative Party’s decision on a new leader later this summer. Two, European Union parliamentary elections have created a more polarized political environment within the union. As tempting as it is to see in these events changing the face of Brexit, it would be a mistake to exaggerate their significance. The fundamental disputes that have thwar
  
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• The Iran Pressure Plan Will Fail

  09-06-2019 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  In early May, officials from Iran and the United States intensified their rhetoric and the two archenemies seemed to be on the course to engage in a military confrontation. The Trump administration decided not to renew the waivers it had previously granted to a few countries to import Iranian oil and Tehran responded by suspending some of its commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)/nuclear deal. Furthermore, the Islamic Republic was accused of being behind mysterious att
  
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• Sunday marks moment for 2020 prospects to show Iowa strength

  09-06-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  In five-minute chunks of speaking time, nearly 20 Democratic presidential candidates are getting the chance to make their case before hundreds of party leaders at an important testing ground in early-voting Iowa.Absent from Sunday's event is Joe Biden, who leads in early polling, and that promises to give the gathering the look of an audition for the former vice president's would-be top challengers heading into the summer campaign season in the leadoff 2020 caucus state.The high-profile campaign
  
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• US-Mexico immigration accord likely to increase demand for smugglers' services: experts

  09-06-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  The immigration agreement between Mexico and the United States that averted US tariffs on Mexican imports has a clear beneficiary, experts say: human traffickers.Under the pact reached Friday night, Mexico will deploy its recently created National Guard along the border with Guatemala, as well as dismantle groups that smuggle people across borders.
  
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• New Huawei phones won't have Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram pre-installed, report says

  09-06-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Facebook has stopped letting its apps come pre-installed on Huawei smartphones in order to comply with government restrictions.
  
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• Renault rift with Nissan widens over governance, casts shadow on alliance

  09-06-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  TOKYO/PARIS (Reuters) - The two-decade-old partnership of Renault SA and Nissan Motor Co was plunged into fresh crisis on Monday, as the French automaker's demand for a greater say in Nissan's new governance system drew rare public censure by the Japanese firm.Renault, which owns 43.4% of the Japanese firm, signaled it would block Nissan from formally adopting an overhauled governance structure at a June 25 shareholder meeting - unless Renault received representation on new Nissan committees.
  
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• Potterheads: Vans x Harry Potter shoe and clothing line is here

  09-06-2019 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Vans promised a collaboration with Harry Potter creators. See the new shoes and apparel items .
  
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• Four Democratic presidential candidates reach double digits in new Iowa poll

  09-06-2019 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Talk radio hosts John Hancock and Richard Eeds weigh in on the growing field of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates.
  
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• Key poll in early voting state has five US Democrats emerging

  09-06-2019 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  As the two dozen Democrats aspiring to the US presidency struggle for attention, a new survey in the first state to vote in 2020 shows five of them, led by former vice president Joe Biden, emerging with early leads.The CNN/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll of Iowa voters comes a full eight months before they convene in caucuses to pick a favorite, but it carries weight since Iowa's early voting status helps shape voter impressions nationwide.Virtually tied with Sanders are Senator Elizabeth Warr
  
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• On Mexico border, Republican business owners oppose Trump's tariff threat

  09-06-2019 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  A lifelong Republican, Russ Jones supports President Donald Trump and agrees he needs to take action to deal with an immigration crisis on the border with Mexico.Jones also has a customs brokerage business to run, however, and says Trump's lingering threat to impose tariffs on imports from Mexico unless its government stems the flow of Central American migrants across the U.S.-Mexico border is terrible policy.Trump, infuriated by a surge of illegal immigrants in recent months, had threatened to
  
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• OPINION: If President Trump is impeached, VP Pence is in trouble as well

  09-06-2019 19:52 via news.yahoo.com
  We now have President Pence plus Trump's criminality, obstruction, aspiring authoritarianism and reliance on us to subsidize his family and businesses
  
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• Iran unveils new air defence system as it warns Europe to normalise ties

  09-06-2019 19:34 via news.yahoo.com
  An increasingly isolated Iran unveiled a new “domestically produced” air defence system on Sunday, hours after urging European countries to uphold commitments made under the nuclear deal, or face the consequences. The new system, the Khordad 15, can trace six targets at the same time – including fighter jets, bombers and drones – and destroy them with missiles. "Iran will increase its military capabilities to protect its national security and inte
  
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• Iran gears up for high-stakes diplomacy amid tension with US

  09-06-2019 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  As its nuclear deal with world powers unravels amid heightened tensions with the U.S., Iran will see a week of high-stakes diplomacy capped by the first visit of a Japanese prime minister to Tehran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.Shinzo Abe will arrive on Wednesday in Iran after earlier meeting with President Donald Trump, whose maximalist approach toward the Islamic Republic has seen America re-impose sanctions once lifted by the 2015 accord and create far-reaching newer ones.German Foreign M
  
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• Mother calls for investigation after she says officer pulled gun on her black son

  09-06-2019 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  A mother wants an independent investigation Friday after she says a Utah police officer pointed a gun at her 10-year-old son's head in what she calls a racially motivated incident.
  
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• Sanders on bills with Hyde Amendment: 'Sometimes ... you have to vote for things you don't like'

  09-06-2019 19:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The senator from Vermont went on to emphasize his support for abortion rights.
  
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• 'No credit!': Trump compares himself and his 'record-setting economy' to President Obama

  09-06-2019 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump compared his record to that of former President Barack Obama while defending his new deal with Mexico to reduce illegal immigration, and in Trump’s opinion, it’s no contest.
  
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• ‘All I have done, no credit!’ Enraged Trump defends US-Mexico migrant deal

  09-06-2019 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  President tweets ire at New York Times and opponents as agreement to avoid tariffs comes under scrutiny Donald Trump supporters stand near the border during a rally as Trump visits the U.S.-Mexico border in Calexico, California, on 5 April 2019. Photograph: Sandy Huffaker/ReutersThe Trump administration was forced to defend its immigration agreement with Mexico on Sunday, amid reports that key provisions in the deal, forged under the threat of trade tariffs, were mostly old commitments agreed to
  
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• Chris Christie: Trump’s Staff ‘Served Him Poorly’ With Ingraham Interview at D-Day Cemetery

  09-06-2019 18:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie took some shots at the White House on Sunday morning when he claimed President Trump’s staff did not serve him well by allowing him to sit down with pro-Trump Fox News host Laura Ingraham for an interview that featured him blasting his political rivals with the Normandy D-Day cemetery as a backdrop.During a panel discussion on ABC’s This Week, Christie—who served as a Trump surrogate in the 2016 election and was briefly part of the Trum
  
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• Mexico Has 'Dignity Intact' After Avoiding U.S. Tariffs, Chief Negotiator Says

  09-06-2019 18:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexico Has 'Dignity Intact' After Avoiding U.S. Tariffs, Chief Negotiator Says
  
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• Trump still hangs tariff threat over Mexico despite deal

  09-06-2019 18:39 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump on Sunday dangled renewing his tariff threat on Mexico if the U.S. ally doesn't cooperate on border issues, as Democratic challengers criticized a deal reached to avert the tariffs as overblown.It included a commitment from Mexico, for instance, to deploy its new National Guard to the country's southern border with Guatemala.Mexico, however, had already intended to do that before Trump's latest threat and had made that clear to U.S. officials.
  
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• American Airlines cancels 737 MAX flights through September 3

  09-06-2019 18:31 via news.yahoo.com
  American Airlines has canceled all scheduled flights with Boeing 737 MAX jets through September 3, extending the grounding of its fleet after two crashes involving the same aircraft model killed 346 people.The airline had previously canceled all 737 MAX flights through August 19 as it awaited recertification of the aircraft in the wake of the crashes.The extension means that American Airlines will have canceled 115 flights since grounding its 14 737 MAX aircraft.
  
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• Senate GOP to meet with Trump White House on spending bills

  09-06-2019 18:15 via news.yahoo.com
  The meeting is to be held Tuesday.
  
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• Trump lashes out after New York Times casts doubt on his Mexico tariff deal

  09-06-2019 18:03 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump ripped into the New York Times after the newspaper questioned his new deal with Mexico to avoid the tariffs he threatened to impose in retaliation to illegal immigration.
  
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• Joe Biden’s lead slips as Elizabeth Warren surges, Iowa poll shows

  09-06-2019 18:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Former VP at 24% and Sanders second on 16%, but Massachusetts senator and Buttigieg close behind as race tightens Presidential Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden.Photograph: Dominick Reuter/AFP/Getty ImagesOn the heels of a major Iowa poll which showed a big slip in his big lead over the Democratic field, Joe Biden was conspicuous by his absence from the guest list for a big party event in the state on Sunday. Nineteen candidates for the presidential nomination are due to speak at the Democratic P
  
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• Despite Trump Administration Request Denials, U.S. Embassies Are Displaying Pride Flags Around the World

  09-06-2019 17:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump's State Department has denied requests by U. S. embassies around the world to fly rainbow flags on embassy flagpoles
  
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• Sanders: 'I don't think anybody' will get 50 percent in Iowa caucuses

  09-06-2019 17:15 via news.yahoo.com
  A new poll out Saturday showed former Vice President Joe Biden in first place with 24 percent support, an 8-point lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders.
  
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• Democrats start public airing of Mueller report

  09-06-2019 17:13 via news.yahoo.com
  House Democrats have scheduled a series of hearings this coming week on the special counsel's report as they intensify their focus on the Russia probe and pick up the pace on an investigative "path" — in the words of Speaker Nancy Pelosi — that some of them hope leads to impeachment of the president.
  
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• DOJ set to reveal new documents on origins of Russia probe

  09-06-2019 17:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Former 2016 Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page says the more transparency we get the better.
  
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• Trump accuses Twitter of gagging conservatives

  09-06-2019 17:06 via news.yahoo.com
  US President Donald Trump took to Twitter once again Sunday to accuse the messaging platform of gagging conservative voices -- a "Giant Mistake!" that he said runs counter to freedom of expression."Twitter should let the banned Conservative Voices back onto their platform, without restriction," he wrote."It’s called Freedom of Speech, remember.
  
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• Four men arrested in attack on two LGBT women who refused to kiss on London bus

  09-06-2019 16:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Melania Geymona, one of the victims, says she shared the gruesome image on Facebook to show how common violence is towards marginalized groups.
  
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