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• Hiker Who Survived Being Lost in Montana Wilderness for Days Speaks Out

  19-08-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Sunday marks a week since Kaden Laga went missing in Montana. He and his wife Arden, who are expecting their first baby, were out visiting family when a normal hike turned into a search and rescue.
  
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• Man pees in sink behind Starbucks counter and douses merchandise, Penn. cops say

  19-08-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Pennsylvania police are looking for a man suspected of peeing in a Starbucks sink and onto merchandise in the store.
  
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• US court convicts far-right members over clashes with leftists

  19-08-2019 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Two members of a far-right group were convicted Monday of brawling with anti-fascist demonstrators in New York, as tensions between white supremacists and leftists simmer in the United States.Maxwell Hare, 27, and John Kinsman, 39, members of the Proud Boys group, were found guilty of several counts of attempted assault and rioting by a Manhattan court.A jury decided the pair assaulted four members of Antifa, an anti-fascist group, who were protesting outside an event that Hare and Kinsman had a
  
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• Customs & Border Patrol agent charged with murdering her husband, deputies say

  19-08-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  A Customs and Border patrol agent in Palm Beach County was arrested on murder charges in connection to the death of her husband, a charging affidavit shows.Palm Beach County sheriff deputies charged Marcia Thompson, 39, with second-degree murder with a firearm after authorities say she intentionally shot her husband Terry, 52, with her service weapon nine times.
  
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• Women 'absolutely terrified' of Donald Trump giving Afghanistan deal to the Taliban

  19-08-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump administration's haste to pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan could risk the progress on Afghan women's rights since 2001: Our view
  
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• Johnson tells EU he wants Brexit deal but without backstop

  19-08-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wrote Monday to EU President Donald Tusk reaffirming his desire to conclude a Brexit deal as well as his opposition to the controversial "backstop" on Ireland.The so-called backstop is a mechanism that would keep the UK in EU customs arrangements to prevent a hard border between the British province of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, an EU member state.Brussels says the backstop is needed as a fallback option to preserve the integrity of Europea
  
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• Hillary Clinton zings Trump over new voter conspiracy theory

  19-08-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Clinton shot back on a claim that Google manipulated votes in her favor in 2016.
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein’s Will Leaves $577 Million to Mysterious Trust

  19-08-2019 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSJeffrey Epstein signed his last will and testament on Aug. 8—two days before the 66-year-old sex-offender killed himself in his Manhattan jail cell.According to the document, which was first revealed by the New York Post, the mysterious money-manager left behind $577,672,654 in personal property.Epstein is giving all of his property to the “acting Trustees of The 1953 Trust,” though the members of the trust weren’t named in the document.The will names Epstein&rsquo
  
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• Bill Gates Adviser ‘Shocked’ Jeffrey Epstein Named Him in Will

  19-08-2019 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSJeffrey Epstein signed his last will and testament just two days before he killed himself in his Manhattan jail cell—naming as his backup executor a former adviser to Bill Gates who doesn’t even want the job.Epstein’s longtime lawyers, Darren K. Indyke and Richard D. Kahn, were named as primary executors of the estate and are slated to receive $250,000 of the $577 million fortune for their efforts.But the document shows the disgraced money-manager also selected an altern
  
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• China accused of using Twitter, Facebook against Hong Kong protests

  19-08-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Twitter and Facebook said Monday they had uncovered a campaign by China to use the social media platforms against pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong."We are disclosing a significant state-backed information operation focused on the situation in Hong Kong, specifically the protest movement and their calls for political change," Twitter said in an online post.Facebook said a tip from Twitter led to the removal of pages, groups and accounts originating in China and involved in "coordinated inauthe
  
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• NYPD fires officer 5 years after Garner's chokehold death

  19-08-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  After five years of investigations and protests, the New York City Police Department on Monday fired an officer involved in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, the black man whose dying gasps of "I can't breathe" gave voice to a national debate over race and police use of force. Police Commissioner James O'Neill said he fired Daniel Pantaleo, who is white, based on a recent recommendation of a department disciplinary judge. O'Neill said he thought Pantaleo's use of the banned chokehold as h
  
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• Regime advance cuts off Turkish convoy in northwest Syria

  19-08-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Rebel-backer Turkey said its forces were targeted by an air strike, while the Syrian regime accused Turkish forces of backing "terrorists".The convoy had entered Idlib province before heading towards a key town where Russian-backed regime forces are waging a fierce battle to retake the area from jihadists and rebels.Turkey claimed an air strike hit its convoy, killing three civilians, though a war monitor said a Russian air raid took the lives of three rebels in the surrounding area.
  
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• US sued over Honduran man's suicide after family separation

  19-08-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A new lawsuit blames the Trump administration's family separations for the death by suicide of a Honduran father after being separated from his 3-year-old child.The widow of Marco Antonio Muñoz sued the U.S. government and South Texas' Starr County, which operated the local jail where he died.The Texas Civil Rights Project, which announced the lawsuit Monday, said it was the first known lawsuit that linked a person's suicide to the zero-tolerance policy enacted last spring and ended amid
  
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• FEC chair Ellen Weintraub on Trump claims: 'No evidence of rampant voter fraud in 2016'

  19-08-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  FEC chairwoman Ellen Weintraub said no one has found any evidence of "rampant voter fraud in 2016 or really in any previous election," despite assertions to that effect from President Donald Trump.
  
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• US negotiators trying to end the Afghanistan war are frustrated that Trump keeps giving the Taliban a stronger hand

  19-08-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump sees himself as a powerful negotiator, but in Afghanistan his desire to withdraw forces his negotiator to work with "one hand behind his back."
  
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• Mountain lion attacks Colorado hunter armed with just a pocket knife, officials say

  19-08-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  A Colorado man was scouting spots to hunt elk earlier this month when he became prey himself, according to state wildlife officials.
  
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• Avenatti says he did nothing wrongful in Nike extortion case

  19-08-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Michael Avenatti, the lawyer and critic of U.S. President Donald Trump, on Monday said he did nothing "wrongful" in dealing with Nike Inc, and asked a federal judge to dismiss the criminal extortion case against him.Avenatti, 48, made his request in Manhattan federal court five days after saying the government's case should also be dismissed because it was a "vindictive and selective prosecution" stemming from his "feud" with Trump.A spokesman for U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman, whose office is p
  
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• Joe Lieberman says feud between Israel and Reps. Omar and Tlaib is a quagmire for US-Israeli relations

  19-08-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. relationship with Israel should not be a partisan issue, says former Sen. Joe Lieberman, former Democratic vice presidential nominee.
  
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• Saudi-Led coalition attacks military targets in Houthi-controlled Sanaa: Saudi TV

  19-08-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen launched an attack on Monday on military targets in the capital Sanaa, which is controlled by the Houthi movement, Saudi state TV reported.The Iran-aligned movement's Al-Masirah TV reported at least six airstrikes by the coalition in Sanaa and said the strikes were ongoing.
  
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• Couple who ran a home for troubled boys charged with trafficking children, forced labor

  19-08-2019 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  A husband and wife who ran a home for troubled boys in Texas have been arrested a year after the home was raided and eight boys were removed, reports say.
  
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• Waiter shot dead by customer who waited too long for sandwich in France, witnesses say

  19-08-2019 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  The unidentified customer shot the waiter in the shoulder with a handgun. The restaurant is in the Paris suburb of Noisy-le-Grand.
  
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• Mom held as sex slave for month after she and baby kidnapped from driveway, NC cops say

  19-08-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  The man tased her, sexually assaulted her and held her at gunpoint, according to police.
  
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• California high school students filmed giving Nazi salutes and singing Nazi war song

  19-08-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  A group of around a dozen Orange County, California high school students were filmed giving Nazi salutes at a sports award ceremony.
  
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• 'Ticking time bomb': Violence surges amid guard shortage, lockdown at Mississippi prison

  19-08-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  As a lockdown at this Mississippi prison enters its seventh month, violence is rampant. It's "not a sustainable situation," ACLU official says. Others agree.
  
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• Planned Parenthood Refuses Title X Funding in Response to Trump Administration Restrictions

  19-08-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Planned Parenthood will refuse all Title X funding rather than comply with the Trump administration's restrictions governing the discussion of abortion at clinics that participate in the program, the group announced Monday.Planned Parenthood decided to abandon Title X, which accounts for roughly 15 percent of its overall federal funding each year, in response to a Trump administration rule barring clinics that participate in the program from referring women to abortion providers.“When you
  
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• Independence in the air in south Yemen after Aden clashes

  19-08-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Colourful flags emblazoned with a red star are being held aloft in Aden, reflecting the independence ambitions of southern Yemen after a separatist takeover of the city.Last week, fighters from the Security Belt Forces ousted unionist troops loyal to President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi from what was the capital of the formerly independent south.Both the separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) and government forces have been fighting the Iran-aligned Huthi rebels in a years-long war that has
  
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• Salvador clears rape victim of killing baby: lawyer

  19-08-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  An appeals court in El Salvador on Monday acquitted a 21-year-old rape victim accused of killing her stillborn baby, in a case closely watched by rights groups.The court in San Salvador overturned a 30-year sentence imposed on Evelyn Hernandez, who was convicted under the Central American country's strict anti-abortion laws in 2017.Hernandez gave birth in April 2016 in the bathroom of her home in the central Cuscatlan region.
  
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• A father wanted to finish his poker game — so he left his toddler home alone, cops say

  19-08-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Anthony Macchi may have been on a hot streak during a poker game Saturday night, but he had to take care of some personal business first, according to Pasco County deputies.
  
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• Visa critical of India's move towards no-fee debit card transactions

  19-08-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Global card payments group Visais critical of the Indiangovernment's decision to boost adoption of electronic payments by requiring banks and card payment networks to offer no-fee debit card transactions, a senior Visa executive said.Last month, India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that businesses with annual turnover of 500 million rupees will not have to pay a merchant discount rate on debit card and other digital modes of transactions, excluding credit cards.The discount rate is p
  
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• Pentagon conducts 1st test of previously banned missile

  19-08-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. military has conducted a flight test of a type of missile banned for more than 30 years by a treaty that both the United States and Russia abandoned this month, the Pentagon said.The Trump administration has said it remains interested in useful arms control but questions Moscow's willingness to adhere to its treaty commitments.The Pentagon said it tested a modified ground-launched version of a Navy Tomahawk cruise missile, which was launched from San Nicolas Island and accurately struck
  
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• Rape victim facing 40 years in prison after suffering stillbirth is cleared by court

  19-08-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  A rape victim who faced up to 40 years in prison after she suffered a stillbirth has been cleared at retrial.Evelyn Hernández was sentenced to 30 years in prison for aggravated homicide by a court in El Salvador in July 2017. She was prosecuted under the Central American country's strict abortion laws.
  
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• Man accused of killing Nia Wilson to enter plea today

  19-08-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The man accused of stabbing and killing 18-year-old Nia Wilson at the MacArthur BART Station in July 2018 is expected to enter a plea in the case.
  
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• British woman accused of illegal silicone buttock implant killing extradited to US

  19-08-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  A British woman accused of killing an American woman by injecting her with illegal silicone implants has been extradited to the United States to stand trial.Donna Francis, a former hairdresser from Loughton, Essex, is charged with criminally negligent homicide and unauthorised practice of a profession in the death of Kelly Mayhew, who died in 2015 after receiving a basement injection of silicone buttock implants from Ms Francis in New York. Detectives say Ms Mayhew received the injections in a b
  
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• The Latest: Mayor says justice served in firing of officer

  19-08-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  De Blasio said Monday he hopes Commissioner James O'Neill's decision to fire Officer Daniel Pantaleo "brings some small measure of closure" to the family of Eric Garner.Garner's death in 2014 after Pantaleo tried to arrest him was captured on a cellphone video that caused widespread outrage.
  
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• New planet discovered in orbit of young Milky Way star

  19-08-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  A second planet has been discovered circling Beta Pictoris, a fledgling star in our own galaxy offering astronomers a rare glimpse of a planetary system in the making, according to a study published Monday."We talking about a giant planet about 3,000 times more massive than Earth, situated 2.7 times further from its star than the Earth is from the Sun," said Anne-Marie Lagrange, an astronomer at France's National Centre for Scientific Research and lead author of a study in Nature Astronomy.Like
  
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• ‘I Believe in Capitalism’: Kamala Harris Courts Big Donors in the Hamptons

  19-08-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Teslas and Maseratis lined the street as Kamala Harris greeted guests sipping drinks from plastic cups with her name on them and eating cinnamon sugar donuts from Dreesen’s at a fund-raiser hosted by movie executive Jamie Patricof and his wife Kelly as the summer of Democratic fund-raisers rolled on in East Hampton.The senator and former California prosecutor assured donors “I believe in capitalism” during a jam-packed weekend of pitching her plan to save the mid
  
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• Ex-Gov. Kathleen Blanco dies, led Louisiana through Katrina

  19-08-2019 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Even after Hurricane Katrina ended her political career and as cancer ate away her strength, former Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco still described her life as "charmed." With strength in her faith and her family, the state's first elected female governor time and again refused to wallow in disappointment or disaster.Blanco called it an "honor and blessing" to lead Louisiana through the fury and destruction of Katrina.A pioneering woman in Louisiana politics, Blanco died Sunday in hospice care in
  
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• Plans detailed for first U.S. mission to land on moon since Apollo

  19-08-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  The first American spacecraft expected to land on the moon in nearly 50 years will be an unmanned robotic lander built by closely held Astrobotic Technology Inc and launched in two years by United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket, the companies told Reuters on Monday.Astrobotic was one of nine companies chosen in November to compete for $2.6 billion to develop small space vehicles and other technology for 20 missions to explore the lunar surface over the next decade.Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic pi
  
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• Foreigners arrested with ivory bracelets at Kenyan airport

  19-08-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  A Spanish woman has become the second foreigner in a week to be arrested at Kenya's international airport for wearing an ivory bangle, the wildlife service said Monday.Spaniard Maria Pich-Aguilera, 50, was arrested on Sunday evening and pleaded guilty, paying a fine of one million shillings ($9,800) for illegal possession of ivory.The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said in a statement she was "arrested at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport with an ivory bangle," while travelling from Nairobi to T
  
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• Detained immigrants sue over conditions, medical care

  19-08-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Immigrants held in U.S. detention facilities filed a lawsuit Monday decrying what they called shoddy medical care and a failure by authorities to provide accommodations for disabilities.In the suit filed by disability and civil rights advocates in U.S. District Court, immigrants said they're placed in isolation as punishment and denied recommended medical treatment and surgery.The problems harm disabled immigrants and threaten anyone in one of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's more than 50,0
  
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• Elizabeth Warren apologizes for 'harm I have caused' at Native American forum in Iowa

  19-08-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  "I have listened and I have learned a lot, and I am grateful for the many conversations that we’ve had together," Warren said Monday morning.
  
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• Mexican man facing voter fraud trial in Sacramento. He’s a Trump supporter

  19-08-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  For years, President Trump has claimed that millions of noncitizens voted in the 2016 presidential election, unfairly skewing his vote as Democrat Hillary Clinton won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College.
  
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• A woman tries to rob Family Dollar — and the cashier responds: ‘Not today,’ cops say

  19-08-2019 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Employees at the Family Dollar in the 5000 block of 14th Street West thwarted a robbery attempt just after 9 p.m. on Sunday, according to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office.
  
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• It looks like the Russians are trying to hide the truth about that nuclear accident in Nyonoksa

  19-08-2019 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Evidence is mounting that Russia may be covering up a tragic nuclear accident after a mysterious blast killed seven at a military-weapons testing site.
  
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• IG report on Russia probe will be a 'blockbuster,' former US attorney predicts

  19-08-2019 19:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Former U.S. Attorney Guy Lewis says DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report on the Russia probe will make Robert Mueller's look like a book report.
  
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• Trump is 'not happy' with Fox News over poll results

  19-08-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  After a series of unfavorable polls from Fox News’ polling unit, President Trump has stepped up his complaints about the network, which he no longer considers a reliable ally.
  
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• Major retailers including Nordstrom, Macy's, and JCPenney reportedly joined Victoria's Secret in using a modeling agency with ties to Jeffrey Epstein

  19-08-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  In the wake of Jeffrey Epstein's death, discoveries of his wide-ranging ties to the retail industry only continue to grow.
  
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• Former GOP Rep. Amash dumped Trump, and now Michigan district may dump Amash

  19-08-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Hundreds of President Trump supporters protested outside the office of Rep. Justin Amash, the first Republican on Capitol Hill to say Congress should begin impeachment proceedings against the president.
  
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• Macron, Putin see chance on Ukraine but clash on Syria

  19-08-2019 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Bormes-les-Mimosas (France) (AFP) - French President Emmanuel Macron and Russia's Vladimir Putin on Monday agreed changes in Ukraine had bolstered the chances of peace in its east but clashed on Syria, as the Russian leader made a rare bilateral visit to a key EU power.Macron, who hosted Putin at his summer residence in southern France, made clear he wanted to keep contacts with Moscow alive on a range of issues even at a time of spiralling tensions with the West.Speaking as their talks got unde
  
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• U.S. attorney general shakes up prison bureau after Epstein death

  19-08-2019 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Monday shook up the leadership at the federal Bureau of Prisons, removing its acting chief following the suicide of financier Jeffrey Epstein in a New York City jail.Kathleen Hawk Sawyer, a veteran of the Bureau of Prisons, will return to the agency to serve as its director, Barr said.The Bureau of Prisons has about 37,000 employees and oversees 122 facilities, which house about 180,000 inmates.
  
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