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• Trump’s race playbook: Excoriate the left and enthrall his base

  29-07-2019 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Reigniting his racially divisive rhetoric, Trump is testing whether an amped-up version of his 2016 strategy can deliver victory again in 2020.
  
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• California has strict gun laws. Here's how the Gilroy gunman evaded them

  29-07-2019 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  US lawmakers renew calls for federal gun reform after shooter purchased weapon legally in NevadaPolice officers escort people from Christmas Hill Park following the shooting. Photograph: Noah Berger/APCalifornia has some of the most stringent gun laws in the country, including a ban on the type of rifle that a shooter used to kill three and wound 15 at the garlic food festival in Gilroy on Sunday.But the gunman had legally purchased the “assault-type rifle”, in the style of an AK-47,
  
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• 5 dead, 2 injured in residential shootings in Wisconsin

  29-07-2019 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  A shooter killed three family members at a home in a small Wisconsin town, then went to a residence in a nearby community and opened fire on more people, sheriff's officials said Monday.The shootings some 9 miles (14.5 kilometers) apart in northwestern Wisconsin left a total of five people dead, including the suspect, and two others wounded, authorities said.Authorities found the shooter and another person dead while responding to a 911 call in Lake Hallie in about 10:30 p.m. Sunday, Sheriff Jam
  
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• New Jersey crash leaves car pinned in near vertical position

  29-07-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The crash happened at 12:30 p.m. between exits 82 and 81 in the southbound lanes of the Garden State Parkway.
  
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• Trump deepens war of words with leftist black leaders

  29-07-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Rejecting criticism that he is stoking America's smouldering racial divisions, Trump attacked African-American civil rights activist Al Sharpton.Over the weekend, Trump described Baltimore as a "rat and rodent infested mess" unfit for humans and blamed this on Elijah Cummings, the Democrat who represents much of the city in Congress.
  
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• Boris Johnson Issues Ultimatum to EU Over Brexit Talks as Pound Slumps

  29-07-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Boris Johnson will not start talks with European Union leaders over Brexit unless they first agree to his demand to reopen the divorce deal they struck with his predecessor, Theresa May, his office warned Monday. So far, EU leaders have refused.The pound fell to its lowest in two years on growing fears the new premier will steer Britain into an economically damaging no-deal split. Johnson stepped up the government’s preparations for leaving the EU without an a
  
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• Family cries foul play as teen who accused Indian politician of rape battles for life after accident

  29-07-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman who accused an Indian politician of rape was fighting for her life on Monday after a car crash which her family claim was part of an assassination plot. The woman, who accused Bharatiya Janata Party legislator Kuldeep Singh Sengar of raping her in 2017, was in a critical condition in hospital alongside her lawyer, who was also injured in the crash. Two of her aunts died in the collision between their car and a lorry. Relatives of the 19-year-old woman, who cannot be named for legal reaso
  
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• Tennessee woman finds snake in hotel bed

  29-07-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  A Tennessee woman got the kind of wake-up call no one ever wants during a recent hotel stay.
  
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• Trump billionaire friend aimed to profit from Mideast nuclear deal: Democrats

  29-07-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Tom Barrack, a billionaire friend of U.S. President Donald Trump, pursued a plan to buy Westinghouse Electric Corp even as he lobbied Trump to become a special envoy to promote the building by the firm of nuclear power plants in Saudi Arabia, said a congressional report released on Monday.While Barrack failed in both efforts, the report provides fresh evidence of the ease with which some corporate and foreign interests have gained access to Trump and other senior members of his administration.Do
  
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• Follow the law, get pulled over: Why a police plan to 'ticket' drivers backfired in Arizona

  29-07-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Tempe Police Department started a "Positive Ticketing Campaign" initiative to hand out Circle K drink coupons for following traffic laws.
  
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• Climate change blamed for deaths of 200 Arctic reindeer

  29-07-2019 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Two hundred reindeer have been found dead from starvation in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard during an annual census of the wild reindeer population, the Norwegian Polar Institute said Monday, pointing the finger at climate change. Ashild Onvik Pedersen, head of the census, told AFP that "climate change is making it rain much more. The rain falls on the snow and forms a layer of ice on the tundra, making grazing conditions very poor for animals." In winter, Svalbard r
  
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• 15 memes about student loans for when you're in debt and need to laugh it off

  29-07-2019 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Congrats graduates! Your student loan debt might be forgiven if, and only if, you are left-handed, live in Iowa, apprentice under a wizard, and it's the third cycle of the fifth blood moon. So in the mean time, we might just have to fork over the cash every month. It can be hard to be slapped with an adult-sized bill when you still feel like an exhausted child, except taller and with the ability to drink alcohol. Who gave us this responsibility of tens of thousands of dollars for the next f
  
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• Trump Pals Pushed Nuke Firm That Wanted to Undercut Protections Against a Saudi Bomb

  29-07-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photos GettyTwo of President Trump’s closest advisers pushed hard for a firm trying to circumvent the safeguards meant to keep Saudi Arabia from building a nuclear weapon. That’s one of the many conclusions of a year-long investigation by the House Oversight Committee, which found that Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and former inaugural committee chair Tom Barrack worked to enrich themselves and their colleagues in the nucl
  
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• Hong Kong Police Strain Under Pressure to Solve Political Crisis

  29-07-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- When thousands of black-clad protesters flooded a Hong Kong suburb Saturday to express anger over mob violence on their fellow activists, the police found themselves under attack.Mask-wearing demonstrators surrounded a police van, breaking a window while officers were still trapped inside. They spray-painted “dirty cops” and the names of local triad gangs on the vehicle before some protesters eventually convinced the crowd to let it escape.The tense episode in the nort
  
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• President Trump's Attacks on Baltimore Came as Elijah Cummings Quietly Built Effective Investigations Into the Administration

  29-07-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump's Twitter tirade against Elijah Cummings highlighted the effectiveness of the Congressman's oversight strategy
  
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• Mitch McConnell: Top Trump ally angrily hits back at 'modern-day McCarthyism' amid row over election security and Russia

  29-07-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has angrily hit out at critics who accused of him ignoring threats to US elections from Russia, claiming the “unhinged smears” amounted to “modern-day McCarthyism”.Last week, Mr McConnell, a leading Republican ally of the president, blocked two measures designed to strengthen election security.He claimed the bills, proposed by Democrats, were being tabled for the party’s political benefits. But a number of people accused of ign
  
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• Harris, AOC partnering on climate-justice bill

  29-07-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  The California senator and the Green New Deal co-sponsor join forces on legislation to help low-income communities.
  
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• Strengthening Tropical Storm Erick forecast to approach Hawaii by week's end

  29-07-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Tropical Storm Erick is gaining strength in the eastern Pacific Ocean and is forecast to approach Hawaii by the weekend, forecasters announced Monday.
  
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• McConnell accuses media outlets of 'modern-day McCarthyism'

  29-07-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  McConnell also defended his opposition to the election security bill.
  
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• IMF: Venezuela's economic decline among most severe globally

  29-07-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The cumulative decline of the Venezuelan economy since 2013 will reach 65%, among the deepest five-year contractions around the world over the last half century, the International Monetary Fund said Monday.Alejandro Werner, director of the IMF's Western Hemisphere Department, said the Venezuelan decline is historic because it is unprecedented in the hemisphere and also because it is the only one among top global five-year contractions that is unrelated to armed conflicts or natural disasters.The
  
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• Accused of racism, Trump blasts black congressman as racist

  29-07-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Facing growing accusations of racism for his incendiary tweets, President Donald Trump lashed out at his critics Monday and sought to deflect the criticism by labeling a leading black congressman as himself racist.In the latest rhetorical shot at lawmakers of color, Trump said his weekend comments referring to Rep. Elijah Cummings' majority-black Baltimore district as a "disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess" where "no human being would want to live" were not racist."His radical 'oversight' i
  
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• Health officials warn of deadly mosquito-borne virus found in Florida chickens

  29-07-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Florida health officials say several chickens recently tested positive for a mosquito-borne virus that causes fatal brain infection and swelling.
  
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• Woman who dated suspect in Ole Miss student Ally Kostial's murder: 'That could have been me'

  29-07-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman who briefly dated the man suspected of killing Ally Kostial says she fears she may not be here if she continued seeing him. 
  
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• UPDATE 1-Canadian air force joins search for fugitive murder suspects in remote area

  29-07-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Canada's air force has been called in to a tiny community in northern Manitoba, where two teens suspected of three murders were thought to have been last seen, police said on Monday, as the chase entered a second week.Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, were believed to have been seen on Sunday outside York Landing, a First Nations community of less than 500 people, 90 km (56 miles) south of Gillam, Manitoba, where search efforts were previously concentrated.The Royal Canadian Mounted Pol
  
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• Dan Coats resignation: Trump values leaders who protect him over those who defend America

  29-07-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  By pushing John Ratcliffe to replace Dan Coats, Trump is signaling, again, that he values leaders who protect him over those who defend America.
  
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• Mosquitos carrying deadly, brain-swelling virus detected in Florida

  29-07-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A potentially deadly mosquito-borne virus known to cause brain swelling hasbeen detected in Florida, according to the state's health department
  
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• Coalition says strike kills 5 IS jihadists in Syria

  29-07-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A US-led coalition air strike killed five jihadists in eastern Syria on Monday, a spokesman said, in the first such raid since the collapse of the Islamic State group's "caliphate"."Coalition forces conducted a strike against a Daesh cell near Busayrah", a town in Deir Ezzor province, said coalition spokesman James Rawlinson, using an Arabic acronym for IS.The five jihadists were all Syrian, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor.
  
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• New video from Iran shows Revolutionary Guard warning away U.K. warship

  29-07-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  In new video and audio released Monday, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard officer is heard telling a British warship not to interfere or put their “life in danger” as the paramilitary force, using speedboats and a helicopter, seized a U.K.-flagged commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz earlier this month.
  
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• Cory Booker Qualifies To Join Third Round Of Democratic Debates

  29-07-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Presidential candidate Cory Booker has qualified to participate in the third round of Democratic debates, according to his campaign.Booker, a New Jersey senator, passed the threshold of 130,000 unique donors, his campaign said Monday, CNN reported. He had already met the polling requirements for the September debate.More than a quarter of the donors came after the first debate in June, his campaign said.“We’re building this campaign the right way, brick by brick from the gr
  
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• School Shooter Dies in Car Crash, 21 Years After Opening Fire at Arkansas Middle School

  29-07-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Drew Grant and a friend shot and killed five people at Westside Middle School in 1998
  
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• Deputy who plays bailiff on courtroom TV show hurt in weekend shooting that killed his wife

  29-07-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The deputy, who also does acting work, was hurt in the shooting that killed his wife in southeast Houston.
  
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• No 'Made in Israel' label for settlement wines: Canada court

  29-07-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Canada's Federal Court had been asked to rule in the case of David Kattenburg, the child of Holocaust survivors who disagreed with a decision by the Canadian government's Food Inspection Agency to allow the labels.Kattenburg, who criticized Israel's policies towards the Palestinians, argued that such labeling "facilitates Israel's de facto annexation of large portions of the West Bank," according to the court ruling.
  
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• Whither Evangelical Purity Culture? Thoughts on the Legacy of a Lost Pastor

  29-07-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  If you don’t live in Evangelical-world, you probably missed this news. An influential Evangelical author and pastor named Joshua Harris announced on Saturday that he was in the process of “deconstruction.” His statement was clear. “By all the measurements I have for defining a Christian,” he said, “I am not a Christian.” He apologized to the LGBT community for not affirming gay marriage and for the ways that his writing and speaking “contributed to
  
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• He wrote the Christian case against dating. Now he's splitting from his wife and faith.

  29-07-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Joshua Harris, author of "I Kissed Dating Goodbye" and a former megachurch pastor,  wrote that he "lived in repentance" for his prior teachings.
  
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• US officials: Afghan soldier kills 2 US troops

  29-07-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  An Afghan soldier shot and killed two American service members in Afghanistan, U.S. officials said Monday.The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak on the record about details that have not yet been made public.U.S. Central Command confirmed that two U.S. troops were killed, but provided no details.
  
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• New York reduces penalties for marijuana possession

  29-07-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  New York's governor signed a bill Monday that softens penalties for possessing small amounts of marijuana and allows for the expungement of some past offenses.The law changes an unlawful possession of marijuana statute into a violation that's similar to a traffic ticket, instead of a criminal charge.The law also requires that records tied to low-level marijuana cases be automatically sealed and creates a process for expungement.
  
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• Italy judge: teen claims he knifed officer in self-defense

  29-07-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  An Italian judge says one of the two American teenagers jailed in Rome for the slaying of a police officer has stated he stabbed the plainclothes officer because he feared he was being strangled, according to an order obtained by The Associated Press.
  
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• Trump's intelligence pick is attempt to 'neutralise' spy agencies, say ex-officials

  29-07-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  John Ratcliffe’s nomination follows announcement Dan Coats will leave after disagreements with Trump over policy and intelligenceJohn Ratcliffe listens as Robert Mueller testifies in Washington DC, on 24 July.Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty ImagesDonald Trump’s nomination of an inexperienced but loyal partisan to become the director of national intelligence (DNI) is an attempt to “neutralise” US spy agencies as an independent and objective voice on global affairs, former
  
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• Venezuela Faces the Loss of Citgo -- and Desperately Needed Dollars

  29-07-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Venezuela could lose its largest U.S. asset after a court allowed a Canadian gold miner to seize shares of Citgo Petroleum Corp.’s parent to satisfy an arbitration award.A U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday that Crystallex International Corp. may seize U.S.-based stock of Citgo’s parent, which is part of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, to cover a $1.4 billion award over the nationalization of gold fields.Unless reversed on appeal or blocked by the Trump admi
  
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• 'Pink Lady Bandit' and her accomplice arrested in Charlotte

  29-07-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Circe Baez, 35, and Alexis Morales, 38, were arrested in connection with multiple bank robberies in three different states.
  
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• South Carolina deputy shoots homeowner through window, body camera shows

  29-07-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The Greenville County Sheriff's Office initially said the South Carolina homeowner was shot after he opened the door and pointed his gun at deputy.
  
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• Trump Ends Prison Term for Arkansas Man Backed by Mike Huckabee

  29-07-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump ended the prison sentence of an Arkansas man convicted of bribery, whose cause had been taken up by one of the president’s close political allies, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.Trump awarded a commutation to Ted Suhl, who operated a “faith-based behavioral healthcare treatment center for juveniles” in the state, according to a White House statement. An appeals court had affirmed Suhl’s conviction and sentence in March 2018, according t
  
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• Trump Makes Tone-Deaf Joke About Stage Collapsing Under First Responders During 9/11 Bill Signing

  29-07-2019 19:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Carlos Barria/ReutersJust before signing into law a permanent extension of the 9/11 victims compensation fund on Monday, President Donald Trump jokingly told the 9/11 first responders in attendance that they shouldn’t worry if the Rose Garden stage collapsed underneath them because they wouldn’t fall “very far.”After suggesting that he was directly involved with the cleanup efforts at Ground Zero immediately after the Sept. 11 terror attacks—a claim that has been di
  
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• Donald Trump faces wave of criticism over 'bigoted and racist' attack on Baltimore

  29-07-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump called a Maryland district ‘disgusting’ and ‘dangerous’, sparking pushback from the Rev Al Sharpton and others proclaiming WeAreBaltimoreDonald Trump faced a chorus of criticism on Monday from high profile figures including the Rev Al Sharpton and the mayor of Baltimore over his racist attacks on Democratic congressman Elijah Cummings.Addressing a press conference in Baltimore, Baptist minister and activist Sharpton accused Trump of attacking the city in “the
  
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• Israelis cleared of rape to sue British accuser in Cyprus

  29-07-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli tourists released from custody in Cyprus after having been cleared of gang rape charges plan to sue the British woman who accused them, their lawyer said Monday.Twelve Israeli youths were arrested on July 12 after a 19-year-old British tourist said she was raped in a hotel in the resort town of Ayia Napa, in southeast Cyprus.Five of the accused were released last Thursday and the other seven on Sunday, as a police source said the Briton was "facing charges of giving a false statement ove
  
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• House Republicans plan to hold one of their biggest annual meetings in Baltimore, a city which Trump says is 'dangerous' and 'filthy'

  29-07-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump described Baltimore as a "very dangerous & filthy place." His party will hold a major yearly meeting in the city in September.
  
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• Gunman who killed 3 at Gilroy Garlic Festival identified as Santino William Legan, 19

  29-07-2019 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A manhunt is underway for a possible accomplice after Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting in California. Three died, including a 6-year-old boy.
  
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• Gilroy Garlic Festival shooter is 19-year-old Santino Legan, police confirm

  29-07-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Law enforcement officials say they have yet to find a motive or confirmation of a second suspect in their investigation into the deadly shooting at California's Gilroy Garlic Festival.
  
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• New video from Iran shows Guard warning away UK warship

  29-07-2019 19:34 via news.yahoo.com
  In new video and audio released Monday, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard officer is heard telling a British warship not to interfere or put their "life in danger" as the paramilitary force, using speedboats and a helicopter, seized a U.K.-flagged commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz earlier this month. The video includes a shot apparently filmed on the day of the July 19 incident from above the British warship Foxtrot 236 that was in the vicinity of the U.K.-flagged Stena Impero, showing the
  
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• Suspect arrested in case of innocent 62-year-old woman killed while riding in SUV

  29-07-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  A 19-year-old man has been found in Mississippi and arrested, days after he was charged with the murder of an innocent 62-year-old woman.
  
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