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• Police seek person who last saw missing Utah college student

  25-06-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Police on Tuesday issued a public appeal for a person last seen with a University of Utah student before she disappeared more than a week ago. Mackenzie Lueck was last seen being dropped off at a Salt Lake City park at about 3 a.m. on June 17 by a Lyft driver who took her there from the airport after she returned from visiting family in California, authorities said. Salt Lake City assistant Police Chief Tim Doubt also released new photos of Lueck from immediately before her disappearance showing
  
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• F-word wins in Supreme Court free speech case on trademark protection for 'immoral, scandalous' material

  25-06-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Faced with a clothing line called FUCT, the justices struck down federal bans against granting trademark protection for immoral or scandalous material
  
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• BofA commodity arm fined by DOJ for trading practices

  25-06-2019 23:59
  Bank of America Corp's commodity arm Merrill Lynch Commodities Inc has agreed to pay $25 million to resolve a probe into its trading practices, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Tuesday.
  
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• Trump awards highest military honor to Iraq War veteran

  25-06-2019 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump on Tuesday awarded the nation's highest military honor to an Iraq War veteran who took on an insurgent stronghold and allowed members of his platoon to move to safety during heavy fighting in Fallujah.The president presented the Medal of Honor to former Army Staff Sgt. David G. Bellavia, of New York.The entire thing is impossible to think about unless you're talking about the men we lost," Bellavia said after the ceremony.
  
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• Stephanie Grisham, new White House press secretary, had controversial Arizona career

  25-06-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  During her time in Arizona, Stephanie Grisham weathered controversial stints with then-Attorney General Tom Horne and House Speaker David Gowan.
  
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• Federal judges send 2020 census lawsuit back to lower court

  25-06-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  A lawsuit that alleges a 2020 census question pushed by the Trump administration violates minorities' rights will be sent back to a federal court in Maryland so new evidence can be considered, U.S. appeals judges ruled Tuesday.The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals' decision comes a day after U.S. District Judge George Hazel of Maryland suggested in an opinion that racial discrimination and partisan power plays could be the underlying motives in asking everyone in the country about citizenship status.
  
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• Mexico will not detain migrants at US border: president

  25-06-2019 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexico's president vowed Tuesday to investigate the controversial detention of migrants trying to cross the US border, saying the 15,000 troops he has deployed there have no such orders.President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a leftist who took office in December vowing to protect migrants' rights, has come under fire over an AFP journalist's images last week of heavily armed National Guardsmen forcibly detaining two women and a girl at the Rio Grande river, across from El Paso, Texas.Internation
  
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• Border Patrol chief resigns as migrant kids are sent back to Texas camp

  25-06-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  About 100 of the more than 300 migrant children who were moved Monday from a detention facility where conditions had been described as “unconscionable” were moved back to the camp on Tuesday. Around the same time, the acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, the agency that runs the much-criticized operation housing migrant children who have been separated from their parents, announced his resignation.
  
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• Relative: Gunman killed 4, self over jealousy of in-laws

  25-06-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  A man who family members in California say shot four relatives to death before taking his own life was upset his wife was able to get visas for her relatives to travel from Vietnam to the United States, a relative said Tuesday.To Van Khuat said 66-year-old Chi Dinh Ta had recently called him and told him he planned to kill his in-laws, who had recently arrived in San Jose from Asia.Ta had been seething with jealousy because he was not able to bring his own family from Vietnam, Khuat said.
  
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• US border chief quits amid outcry over child detainees

  25-06-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The acting head of the US Customs and Border Protection agency announced his resignation on Tuesday amid a public outcry over alarming detention conditions of migrant children in Texas.John Sanders, appointed to the post just two months ago, said in a letter obtained by several US media outlets that he planned to step down as acting CBP commissioner on July 5.Sanders' departure coincides with the revelation of unsanitary detention conditions for children at an overcrowded Border Patrol facility
  
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• Lyft driver says missing college student entered another vehicle after he dropped her off

  25-06-2019 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  A missing University of Utah student was last seen hopping into anotherperson's vehicle after a Lyft driver dropped her off at her destination,according to the New York Post
  
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• Best Kamado Grills From Consumer Reports' Tests

  25-06-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  For more than 30 years, the Big Green Egg was the only widely available kamado-style charcoal grill. In that time, this grill developed a cultlike following, and it’s easy to see why.  Its thick ...
  
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• Fox’s Shep Smith Torches Trump: We Treat Migrant Children Worse Than Prisoners of War

  25-06-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Fox News anchor Shepard Smith on Tuesday strongly objected to President Donald Trump’s assertion that migrant children detained in border detention centers are being treated “very well,” pointing out that the conditions these children face would be in violation of the Geneva Convention.After his acting Customs and Border Protection chief John Sanders revealed he resigned from his position amid furor over reports of squalid and filthy conditions at overcrowded detention camps, t
  
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• Baby rescued from plastic bag in Georgia

  25-06-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Georgia sheriff's office realeased dramatic body-cam video showing the rescue of a newborn girl who was found alive inside a plastic bag in the woods. (June 25)
  
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• Trump awards the Medal of Honor to David Bellavia, the first living Iraq War recipient

  25-06-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Bellavia received the Medal of Honor for "conspicuous gallantry" during the Second Battle of Fallujah, the bloodiest battle of the Iraq War.
  
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• Sheriff: Mom abused her children, boiled puppies to death

  25-06-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman beat and tortured at least some of her 15 children and forced them to watch as she brutally killed their pets, authorities said in New Mexico, the latest place where the woman and her husband have been the subject of complaints.Martha Crouch and her husband Timothy of Aztec, New Mexico, were arrested Monday following interviews with a number of their adult and young children living in different states, according to court records.It was not immediately clear if all the allegations made by
  
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• Donald Trump threatens 'overwhelming force' against Iran if it attacks 'anything American'

  25-06-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump said he would use "overwhelming force" against Iran if it attacks the U.S. again, a threat that comes days after he called off strikes.
  
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• Apple reportedly canceled quantum dot camera technology for the iPhone 11

  25-06-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The iPhones arriving this September will feature more cameras than ever, according to various leaks from the past few months. Apple is said to be bringing triple-lens cameras to the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Max, while the iPhone XR successor will get a dual-lens shooter. Apple will likely bake a bunch of extra camera features into iOS 13 to take advantage of the additional lens, but these have yet to leak.A new story from the UK, meanwhile, does mention a camera feature that Apple has abandoned b
  
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• Man slashes own throat in court during trial for murder of Tinder date

  25-06-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  A man accused of killing his roommate’s Tinder date slashed his own neck during the murder trial on Monday while screaming in the courtroom. Aubrey Trail, a 52-year-old from Nebraska, yelled “Bailey is innocent, and I curse you all” before swiping something across his neck.Deputies rushed to help Mr Trail as he lay bleeding on the floor. Mr Trail was referring to his 25-year-old former roommate Bailey Boswell when he cut himself. The two have been charged with first-degree murd
  
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• Taj Ma Garaj Collection Being Sold Without Reserve

  25-06-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The single day sale through RM Sotheby’s is set for September 28th in Ohio. Well-know late car collector, John Dixon’s, collection of more than 30 highly sought after Porsches and Volkswagens is soon going under the hammer with no reserve set in the Taj Ma Garaj Collection. The auction is happening in Dayton, OH, and will feature over 350 lots of automobila and collectibles. John Dixon’s obsession with the Porsche models started when he was passed by a 911 in his muscle ca
  
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• Driver in horrific motorcycle crash pleads not guilty as details emerge

  25-06-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  A pickup driver accused of slamming into a group of motorcycles entered a not guilty plea Tuesday in New Hampshire on 7 counts of negligent homicide.
  
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• White House says Kellyanne Conway won't testify at House hearing on Hatch Act violations

  25-06-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings plans to issue a subpoena for Conway and said she would be held in contempt if she ignores it.
  
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• Mackenzie Lueck's sorority sister on 'alarming' details of missing Utah student's disappearance

  25-06-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Ashley Fine doesn't know why 23-year-old Mackenzie Lueck would take a Lyft to a local park at 3 a.m.: 'We need to find out who she met at the park.'
  
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• The Mini John Cooper Works GP Will Be Seriously Quick around the Nürburgring

  25-06-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Mini says its latest super-hot hatchback will set a sub-eight-minute time at the 'Ring.
  
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• A Florida woman turned in her husband's guns after his domestic violence arrest. Police arrested her for theft

  25-06-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Courtney Irby was charged with grand theft and armed burglary for turning in her husband's guns while he was in jail for domestic violence.
  
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• Iran President Hassan Rouhani calls new US sanctions 'outrageous and idiotic'

  25-06-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called the sanctions against Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei 'outrageous and idiotic.'
  
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• Young Americans Are Increasingly 'Uncomfortable' With LGBTQ Community, GLAAD Study Shows

  25-06-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD released the results of its latest "Acceptance Index"
  
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• Stephanie Grisham: Melania Trump's spokeswoman named press secretary

  25-06-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  First lady announced the move on Twitter on Tuesday, but did not make clear if Grisham would be solely working for the president * Follow the latest in US politics – liveStephanie Grisham arrives at a Trump rally in Orlando, Florida, on 18 June. Photograph: Carlos Barría/ReutersStephanie Grisham has been named as Donald Trump’s new press secretary and communications director, replacing Sarah Sanders.Grisham’s current boss, Melania Trump, announced the move on Twitter on
  
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• Officials reveal cause of death for New York pizzeria owner who died in Dominican Republic

  25-06-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  A New York man who passed away last Tuesday while vacationing in the DominicanRepublic allegedly died from respiratory and heart failure, CNN reports
  
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• US border chief resigns amid outcry over treatment of migrant children

  25-06-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The acting commissioner of the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency, John Sanders, is resigning and will leave his post on July 5, amid an outcry over the treatment of detained migrant children. His departure comes amid mounting public backlash over alarmingly unsanitary conditions at an overcrowded migrant facility in Clint, Texas where the discovery of poor care and lack of access to showers or clean clothing prompted the relocation of 250 detained children. The situation ha
  
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• Rothmans Replica: 1983 Porsche 911 SC Safari

  25-06-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  While it may be a replica of the real deal, this 911 SC is ready for rallying.One of the coolest things about the 1980s was production-based racecars, which were born in order to satisfy motorsport homologation requirements. Nowadays, these vehicles are extremely valuable, due to the fact that many of them were purposefully used and driven hard.Porsche’s iconic 911 is one of these vehicles where ownership is expensive, with many examples being restoration items that are usually reserved fo
  
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• Knock Knock, Who’s There? A 1969 Chevrolet Camaro SS

  25-06-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Orange you glad it’s for sale?This 1969 Chevrolet Camaro SS in Hugger Orange is no joke, though. It’s for sale right now through Sports Car Digest (SCD) Garage in Charlotte, North Carolina with just 40,000 original miles on the odometer. The Hugger Orange paint code is GMs version of the classic racing orange found on the Z28s, Corvettes and several other ‘60s and ‘70s classic muscle cars. The “Hugger” nickname was used when marketing the vehicle in magazine a
  
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• Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro's ex-spy chief reveals new details of plot topple him

  25-06-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The former spy chief to embattled Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro has revealed new details of the plot to oust him including code names, secret meetings and a back channel to the Americans.  Gen. Manuel Ricardo Cristopher Figuera, who fled the country after the plot collapsed in May, laid bare the full scale of the plan during an interview with The Washington Post.  Mr Figuera was head of the Venezuelan intelligence police force SEBIN but became disillusioned with Mr Maduro’s
  
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• Here’s what Samsung’s Galaxy Fold 2 could look like

  25-06-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  If you rewind the clock back a bit to before Samsung's disastrous aborted launch of its Galaxy Fold smartphone that was supposed to have been in April, you may recall the company's lofty ambitious that looked beyond the first iteration of this new device. We were hearing estimates last year that Samsung wanted to start the Galaxy Fold's initial production run at a minimum of 1 million units and that the Fold also wouldn't be a one-off. That the company, in other words, was hoping to release a ne
  
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• Prosecutors outline details of congressman's alleged affairs in campaign finance case

  25-06-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Prosecutors alleged in a Monday court filing that Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., used campaign funds to carry out multiple affairs over at least seven years with congressional staffers and lobbyists.
  
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• Donald Trump says woman who claimed he raped her is 'not my type'

  25-06-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has said that a woman who claimed to have been raped by him more than 20 years ago is “not my type”.  The US president made the comment as he again denied an alleged sexual assault on the journalist E Jean Carroll.   Carroll said the incident happened in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman a luxury New York department store in the mid-1990s.  She claimed Mr Trump pulled down her tights against her will and raped her. Mr Trump has categorically denied
  
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• Jeremy Hunt rules Britain out of US-Iran war as Donald Trump and Hassan Rouhani exchange insults

  25-06-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump threatened Iran with “obliteration” after the country’s president questioned his mental health for imposing sanctions against the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader.  The exchange of insults came as Britain ruled itself out of a potential war between the two sides.  Jeremy Hunt, the foreign secretary, told the Commons on Tuesday: "The US is our closest ally, we talk to them the whole time, we consider any requests that they say carefully, but I canno
  
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• Fatal Hawaii skydiving plane crash renews NTSB's call for stricter rules: 'Accidents continue to happen'

  25-06-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  An NTSB official put the FAA on notice Monday, calling for regulations on parachute operations after a skydiving plane crash in Hawaii killed 11.
  
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• 9 Oil Stocks to Buy When Oil Prices Are Low

  25-06-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Bank of America analyst Doug Leggate recently lowered his oil price forecast for the second half of 2019 from $68 per barrel to $63, but Leggate says there are still plenty of value opportunities among oil stocks today.Here are nine oil stocks Leggate recommends.Leggate says Exxon has the strongest project pipeline of any oil major, including developments in Guyana and the U.S. Permian Basin.
  
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• Taking a Closer Look at Japan's Futuristic Attack Submarine

  25-06-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The sleek underwater warship will ensure the country is defended by the best non-nuclear submarines around.
  
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• Pickup driver pleads not guilty in fatal motorcycle crash

  25-06-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  A driver for a transport company who has a history of traffic arrests pleaded not guilty Tuesday to seven counts of negligent homicide in a collision with a group of motorcyclists on a rural highway.Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 23, was ordered to remain in preventive detention, with a judge saying his driving record poses a potential danger to the public and himself.The plea was entered by Zhukovskyy's attorney Melissa Davis in Coos County Court in Lancaster, New Hampshire.
  
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• Jeep Cherokee remains the most American car of the year, according to Cars.com

  25-06-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  As tariff threats on imported goods loom, Cars.com took a look at which automobiles are predominantly manufactured in the US. The Jeep Cherokee wins.
  
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• Houston infant dies with 90-plus fractures; parents charged

  25-06-2019 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The parents of a Houston newborn who suffered a cracked skull and more than 90 fractures just days after being brought home from the hospital were arrested in their daughter's death, according to police and Harris County prosecutors.Jazmine Robin, who was born prematurely, was 10 weeks old when she died July 15, 12 days after leaving the hospital, prosecutors said Monday."The evidence shows that Baby Jazmine fell victim to the very people who were supposed to protect her the most in this world,"
  
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• Migrant children removed from 'inhumane conditions' at overcrowded Texas detention facility

  25-06-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Attorneys who visited the Border Patrol facility said older children were attempting to care for younger ones.
  
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• The best-selling bed pillows on Amazon’s whole site are only $15 each right now

  25-06-2019 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Do you know how much better you would likely sleep if you ditched your gross, flat, sweat-stained, years-old pillows and upgraded to high-quality bed pillows? Seriously, why have you been putting it off? Most people will likely answer that they just haven't really thought about it, which is fine. Think about it right now though, especially while a 2-pack of DreamNorth Luxury Plush Gel Bed Pillows is on sale on Amazon right now. This is the best-selling pillow on Amazon's entire site, and it's on
  
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• Border Patrol chief resigns as migrant children are sent back to Texas camp

  25-06-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  About 100 migrant children who were moved Monday from a detention facility where conditions had been described as “unconscionable” were moved back to the camp on Tuesday as border chief John Sanders announced he was stepping down.
  
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• Illinois joins 10 other U.S. states in legalizing recreational marijuana

  25-06-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Illinois on Tuesday became the 11th U.S. state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana by adults after Governor J.B. Pritzker signed into law a bill that also provides for the removal of certain previous drug convictions and will generate new revenue for the financially troubled state.The Democratic governor hailed the measure, which was passed by the legislature last month, for allowing as many as 700,000marijuana-related records and convictions to be erased."This legislation will clear t
  
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• PG&E cuts down stunned homeowner's trees for fire mitigation

  25-06-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A Pleasant Hill man thought he had an agreement with PG&E to trim his trees. Here's what happened when he saw PG&E crews chopping them down instead.
  
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• Kushner: Agreement on economic pathway vital for Middle East peace

  25-06-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner said on Tuesday that prosperity for the Palestinians was not possible without a fair political solution - but that agreement on an economic way forward was a necessary precondition for Israeli-Palestinian peace.Kushner was addressing the opening of a workshop in Bahrain to showcase the economic portion of Washington's long-awaited Arab-Israeli peace plan, a $50 billion development blueprint unveiled this week that has been sharply criticised by Palestinia
  
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• The Latest: France's Macron warns against rising tensions

  25-06-2019 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  France's President Emmanuel Macron has spoken by phone with his Iranian counterpart in what his office says is an effort to avoid a "dangerous escalation" of tensions in the Persian Gulf.The French leader spoke on Tuesday with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, but his office didn't provide details of the conversation.High on the list will be discussing Iran's unraveling nuclear deal and the buildup of U.S. forces in the region.
  
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