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• Here's why Lori Loughlin is facing up to 40 years in prison in the college-admissions scandal while Felicity Huffman, who pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 14 days

  13-09-2019 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin were both indicted in March as part of the college-admissions scandal.
  
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• Pence goes after Biden for saying 'I'm the vice president' at the Democratic debate

  13-09-2019 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  So let me be clear, I am the vice president of the United States,” Pence told a group of Republicans at the GOP retreat in Baltimore.
  
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• Zimbabwe's Grace Mugabe regains prominence for husband

  13-09-2019 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The controversy swirling around the burial of Zimbabwe's founding leader, Robert Mugabe, centers on his widow, Grace, who has remained dramatically cloaked behind a heavy black veil as she succeeded in getting the country's president to scrap his plans for the ex-leader to be buried in a simple plot alongside other national heroes and instead build a grand new mausoleum for her husband.Known as a strong-willed woman with political ambitions, Grace Mugabe has made the most of her role as the grie
  
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• Nicaragua group says 17 govt foes from countryside killed

  13-09-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  A Nicaragua human rights organization said Friday it had documented the killings of 17 government opponents from the rural north this year.The victims were opponents of President Daniel Ortega and had participated in protests that roiled Nicaragua last year, a report by her group said.All victims were from rural areas of northern Nicaragua and were shot to death, the report said.
  
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• U.S. Justice Gorsuch sees value of immigration through wife's eyes

  13-09-2019 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch on Friday extolled the value of immigration and said his wife's experience as a naturalized U.S. citizen from Britain has helped give him a greater appreciation of the American system of government.Gorsuch made the remarks at a time when President Donald Trump, the Republican who appointed the conservative jurist to a lifetime job on the court in 2017, has made hardline policies toward immigration a centerpiece of his presidency and 2020 re-election bid.Attendi
  
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• MIT Students and Alumni Call for President L. Rafael Reif to Step Down Over Epstein

  13-09-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Brian Snyder/ReutersWith any hope of plausible deniability over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal dissolving, MIT President L. Rafael Reif is facing down his own illustrious institution and alumni as current and former students call for him to step down. In a statement Thursday, Reif revealed that senior MIT administration members knew that the Media Lab had accepted money from Epstein’s foundation as recently as 2017. Reif also disclosed that MIT’s own investigation surfaced a 2
  
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• Another tropical storm is developing in the Atlantic. Here's when it could hit Florida

  13-09-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The system headed toward Florida, now "Tropical Depression Nine," will almost certainly become Tropical Storm Humberto within next 24 hours
  
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• Pick up a joint instead: Vaping illnesses highlight flawed marijuana regulations

  13-09-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  People are dying from vaping-related lung illnesses. And it's highlighting a growing concern: There's no federal regulation of marijuana products
  
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• AG Barr has received draft report on FISA abuse allegations

  13-09-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  DOJ Inspector General Horowitz sent draft report to attorney general to review; Catherine Herridge reports.
  
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• O'Rourke's 'hell yes' vow to take away rifles worries U.S. lawmakers pushing for gun limits

  13-09-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Former U.S. Representative Beto O'Rourke did not hesitate during Thursday night's Democratic presidential debate when asked whether he would confiscate assault-style weapons from Americans."Hell yes, we're going to take away your AR-15, your AK-47," he said, instantly creating a viral moment – and potentially a fresh headache for lawmakers trying to persuade reluctant Republicans to pass new gun limits in Washington.Opinion polls have found that tackling gun violence is increasingly a top
  
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• ABC says 14 million viewers watched the third Democratic presidential debate

  13-09-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  About 12.9 million viewers watched the debate on ABC, and 1.1 million on Univision.
  
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• Neil Gorsuch Says Supreme Court Justices Aren’t Liberal, Conservative

  13-09-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch said he doesn’t view the justices as liberal or conservative, characterizing his “originalist” approach toward the Constitution as a nonpolitical way to keep personal preferences from influencing rulings.Gorsuch, the first of President Donald Trump’s two Supreme Court appointees, said during an interview Friday in his Washington chambers that originalism is supported by people of “all kinds of different politica
  
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• Felicity Huffman reacts to 14-day prison sentence: 'There are no excuses'

  13-09-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Felicity Huffman appeared in a Boston court on Friday, where she was sentenced to 14 days behind bars.
  
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• Politico Doubles Down on Fake Turnberry Scandal

  13-09-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  It's tough to be an investigative reporter. Everybody who feeds you a tip has an axe to grind. Or, alternatively, you find yourself going, "I wonder if . . . ?" You put in your research, you talk to lots of people, you accumulate a huge pile of information, but you still haven't proved your hypothesis. A wise reporter says to herself either "I don't have the story yet" or "I guess this didn't pan out." In either event, she doesn't publish. More likely, since reporters always think they have the
  
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• Democratic senators seek to block Trump administration end-run on ICE funding

  13-09-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  As Congress prepares for its annual round of budget negotiations, a large contingent of Senate Democrats are seeking to impose more oversight on the Department of Homeland Security’s budget to prevent the Trump administration from unilaterally moving appropriations around to fund immigration detention and border enforcement operations.The letter, first obtained by Yahoo News, charges that “over the course of the past year, the Trump administration has thumbed its nose at Congress&rdq
  
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• Venezuela 'ready' to defend itself after US invokes defence pact: foreign minister

  13-09-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuela is "ready" to defend itself, Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said Friday, after Washington invoked a regional defence pact that might justify such a move."We are ready to protect ourselves, we are ready to react," Arreaza told a news conference after meeting in Geneva with UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet.On Wednesday, the US invoked a regional defence pact with 10 other countries and Venezuela's opposition in response to "bellicose" moves by President Nicolas Maduro's regime.
  
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• Trump declares himself unimpeachable, based on 'perhaps the greatest economy' ever

  13-09-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  "How do you impeach a President who has helped create perhaps the greatest economy in the history of our Country?" Trump asked on Twitter.
  
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• Zimbabwe's Mugabe to be buried in 30 days, at new mausoleum

  13-09-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The burial of Zimbabwe's founding president, President Robert Mugabe , will be delayed for at least a month until a special mausoleum can be built at a prominent spot at the national Heroes' Acre monument, the latest turn in a dramatic tussle between his family and the country's current leader, a once-trusted deputy who helped oust Mugabe from power.The decision to build a new resting place for the ex-leader, who died at age 95 in Singapore last week, came after consultations with influential tr
  
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• Booker: ‘Demagogues’ Are ‘Fear-Mongering’ about Police Confiscating Assault Weapons

  13-09-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker on Friday criticized what he called "fear-mongering" about police showing up to confiscate legally owned assault-style weapons such as the AR-15 rifle."I hate when Democrats use the language that Republicans try to use to scare people away as opposed to the sort of pragmatism and practicality of this," the New Jersey senator said during an interview with CNN. "We’ve seen around this world, countries that have said enough of these assault rifles
  
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• The Latest: Huffman says she accepts college scam punishment

  13-09-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  "Desperate Housewives" star Felicity Huffman says she takes full responsibility for her role in the college admissions scandal and deserves her punishment. A federal judge in Boston sentenced the actress on Friday to 14 days in prison, a $30,000 fine, 250 hours of community service and a year's probation. Huffman was stoic in court, telling U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani she "betrayed" her daughters and her actor husband, William H. Macy.
  
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• John Bolton gets back into political game after leaving White House

  13-09-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The former national security adviser had disagreements with President Donald Trump leading up to his departure. He is throwing $50,000 at five republican incumbents
  
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• Israel's F-35s Are the Uncontested Kings of the Middle East's Skies

  13-09-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel's enemies can't even see them coming.
  
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• Marine Tackles High School Students During Brawl

  13-09-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A school fight in Stockton came to an unexpected end. A video shows a Marine, who was on the California high school's campus to help with military recruitment, sprinting toward two students mid-brawl and tackling the pair to the ground.
  
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• Liberty students protest in wake of reports about Falwell

  13-09-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Students at Liberty University in Virginia gathered Friday to protest in the wake of news reports containing allegations that school president Jerry Falwell Jr. improperly benefited from the institution and disparaged students in emails.Students joined together at the private evangelical university known for being an influential hub in conservative politics and held up signs calling for accountability and an investigation.Elizabeth Brooks, a junior majoring in politics and policy, told The Assoc
  
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• US in danger of losing measles-free status, a 'mortifying' effect of anti-vaxx movement

  13-09-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  If a measles outbreak continues in New York, he U.S. could lose its measles elimination status in part thanks to the anti-vaccination movement
  
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• 'Difficult to see' if Iran breached Syria oil sale agreement, Gibraltar chief minister says

  13-09-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Gibraltar’s leader attempted to deescalate the crisis with Iran over the fate of an oil tanker on Friday, saying it was “difficult to see” whether Tehran breached an agreement not to sell its oil to Syria. Iran made assurances to a court in Gibraltar that it would not deliver the seized supertanker’s two million barrels of crude oil to the Syrian regime in order to secure its release. After it was freed on Aug 18, the renamed Adrian Darya 1 sailed around the eastern
  
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• Every top Democrat can beat Trump. Their unique strategies will determine who gets that shot

  13-09-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Each of the five leading 2020 Democratic candidates can beat the president in a general election, according to the latest national match-up polls. But first, they will need to secure the party’s nomination in a hotly contested primary season that started with more than two dozen hopefuls. They're each using very different tactics to do so.Those five candidates — Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg — joined each other on Thursday night f
  
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• Father of Colorado State student in blackface says his daughter is 'not a racist'

  13-09-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Les Kaplan said his daughter, Leana, has been fired from her job, received death threats since an Instagram post of her wearing blackface went viral.
  
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• People are already getting arrested at Area 51, and of course they're YouTubers

  13-09-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  With only a week to go until the widely memed Area 51 raid, two hopefuls were already arrested for trying to storm the Air Force base. Unsurprisingly, they're both vloggers.Eager to "see them aliens" -- as the original Facebook event put it -- Dutch YouTubers Ties Granzier, 20, and Govert Sweep, 21, ignored the "Do Not Enter" signs and entered anyway. According to a video posted by the Nye County Sheriff's Office, the two were caught when the deputies responded to a report of "foreign natio
  
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• Felicity Huffman Gets Prison Time in College Admissions Scandal

  13-09-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Getty ImagesBOSTON—When Felicity Huffman finally received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2012, she and husband William H. Macy were bookended by their grinning blonde daughters, Sophia and Georgia.Seven years later Huffman’s star came crashing down when she was caught trying to cheat Sophia’s way into college as part of the nation’s largest ever higher education bribery scheme, dubbed “Operation Varsity Blues” by the FBI. The resulting scandal froze
  
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• Court revives suit alleging Fox News inflicted 'emotional torture' on Seth Rich family

  13-09-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal appeals court on Friday revived a lawsuit against Fox News brought by the parents of slain Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, concluding there are plausible claims that the network was party to a “campaign of emotional torture.”
  
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• Tax Cut 2.0 Looks Different to Trump Than to GOP Lawmakers

  13-09-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- One of President Donald Trump’s favorite political promises is a second tax cut. But lawmakers in Congress -- who would need to develop and pass another reduction -- are more focused on making their first tax cut permanent.Trump on Thursday promised House Republicans another middle-class tax cut that he said would be “very substantial” and “very, very inspirational,” without giving details. Republican leaders say they support the idea, but they haven&
  
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• NRA board gathers for meeting at crucial time for gun debate

  13-09-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  With the country at a critical juncture in the gun debate, a normally routine meeting of the National Rifle Association has taken on greater significance as its board of directors gathers near the nation's capital this week.President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress are weighing stricter gun measures in the aftermath of mass killings in Texas and Ohio.Corporate America also has been increasingly pushing back against the NRA.
  
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• Venezuela investigates Guaido over photo with suspected Colombian criminals

  13-09-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuela's state prosecutor's office said on Friday it would open an investigation into Juan Guaido after the interior minister presented photos on state television showing the opposition leader in the company of two suspected members of a Colombian drug-trafficking group.Guaido on Friday said the two men had asked to take a photo with him when he secretly crossed into Colombia from Venezuela in February via an informal border route after a Venezuelan court had barred him from leaving the count
  
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• US officials warn of danger of feral hogs heading across the border from Canada

  13-09-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  US officials have warned that feral hogs heading across the border from Canada may pose a danger to the local environment. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported that sightings of the feral animals on the US-Canadian border have increased in recent years.  At least eight of the wild animals have been sighted just north of Lincoln County, Montana, this summer, officials said.  Several agencies, including Wildlife Services, the Montana Invasive Species Council, the National Fer
  
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• NJ mayor says he was asked whether he met with terrorists upon return from Turkey

  13-09-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Mohamed Khairullah, the longtime mayor of Prospect Park, New Jersey, was questioned at JFK Airport, and his phone was seized and held for 12 days.
  
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• Church sex abuse 'far-reaching' in Missouri: attorney general

  13-09-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  The attorney general in the US state of Missouri on Friday accused the Catholic Church of turning a blind eye to church sex abuse and referred a dozen former clergymen for criminal prosecution."Sexual abuse of minors by members of Missouri's four Roman Catholic dioceses has been a far-reaching and sustained scandal," said the Midwestern state's top prosecutor, Eric Schmitt, after a year-long investigation."For decades, faced with credible reports of abuse, the church refused to acknowledge the v
  
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• Beto O'Rourke is running for president in 2020. Here's everything we know about the candidate and how he stacks up against the competition.

  13-09-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Beto O'Rourke, the former Texas congressman, narrowly lost a bid for the Senate to Ted Cruz in 2018.
  
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• Felicity Huffman sentencing: William H. Macy accompanies wife to court for first time

  13-09-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Former 'Desperate Housewives' star Felicity Huffman was set to be sentenced in Boston on Friday, and William H. Macy was by her side.
  
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• Biden campaign calls Julian Castro's attack a 'cheap shot' as both campaign off Democratic debate feud

  13-09-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Joe Biden and Julián Castro had a viral exchange at Thursday's debate where Castro tried to take Biden to task for his health care plan.
  
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• Veteran dies covered in ant bites in a VA nursing home

  13-09-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Sen. Johnny Isakson said he was "horrified" after Joel Marrable, a Vietnam War veteran, was covered in ant bites and died days later.
  
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• US-trained bomb-sniffing dogs sent to Jordan are living in horrible conditions and dying from improper care

  13-09-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  More than 10 have died in recent years from potentially preventable health issues. Others were found to be living in "disturbing" conditions.
  
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• Yes, They Are Coming for Your Guns

  13-09-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  At the Democratic-primary debate in Houston last night, Beto O’Rourke formally killed off one of the gun-control movement’s favorite taunts: The famous “Nobody is coming for your guns, wingnut.” Asked bluntly whether he was proposing confiscation, O’Rourke abandoned the disingenuous euphemisms that have hitherto marked his descent into extremism, and confirmed as plainly as can be that he was. “Hell yes,” he said, “we’re going to take your AR
  
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• Tomi Lahren: We Need Guns to ‘Defend Ourselves’ From Immigrants

  13-09-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Fox Nation host Tomi Lahren declared on Friday that Americans need guns in order to potentially fight off unlimited immigrants coming into the United States, adding that citizens need the ability to “defend ourselves” because “we don’t know” who is coming into the country.Appearing on Fox Business Network’s Varney and Co., the conservative firebrand reacted to Democrats’ calls for stricter gun control in the wake of several mass shootings. Specifically,
  
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• Venezuelan opposition leader denies ties to criminal gang

  13-09-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó rejected allegations Friday that he has ties to an illegal armed group in Colombia, as officials launched an investigation based on photos appearing in social media purportedly showing him posing with members of the gang.The pictures were allegedly taken in late February when Guaidó crossed into Colombia and made a surprise appearance at a concert organized by billionaire Richard Branson aimed at helping deliver humanitarian aid to Venezuela
  
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• US Navy sails ship close to islands claimed by China

  13-09-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  The US Navy said that one of its destroyers had sailed close to the Chinese-controlled Paracel Islands in the South China Sea on Friday, asserting international freedom of navigation rights in the contested waters.The USS Wayne E. Meyer guided-missile destroyer passed through the area of the Paracels east of Vietnam and South of China's Hainan Island without requesting permission from Beijing, or from Hanoi or Taipei, which also claim ownership of the archipelago.The move could add to the tensio
  
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• US couple 'abandon 11-year-old daughter' and move to Canada

  13-09-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Indiana prosecutors have charged a couple with abandoning their adopted daughter in 2013 and moving to Canada, renting an apartment in Lafayette for the then-11-year-old girl but otherwise leaving her to fend for herself.Prosecutors in Tippecanoe County, where Lafayette is located, have filed neglect charges against 45-year-old Kristine Elizabeth Barnett and 43-year-old Michael Barnett.
  
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• 2020 Vision: A burning AOC offers a scary preview of next year's attack ads

  13-09-2019 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  In a likely preview of Republican messaging for the 2020 election, an ad from a GOP PAC that aired during Thursday night’s Democratic debate showed a photograph of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with her face engulfed in flames.
  
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• California boat fire: six crew members were asleep when fatal blaze erupted, report finds

  13-09-2019 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  All six crew members were asleep when the fatal boat fire in California erupted, according to preliminary findings released on Thursday.There were 39 people aboard the 75-foot Conception when it set off for a weekend dive trip to the Channel Islands in Southern California.
  
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• California woman in semicomatose state after Mexican skin cream gives her mercury poisoning

  13-09-2019 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  A California woman is now in a semi-comatose state after she used a Mexican skin cream that was tainted with methylmercury.
  
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