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• The Latest: Ex-tenants say building confused them, too

  27-09-2019 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The former building residents testified Friday after the now-former officer, Amber Guyger, took the stand in her own defense. Guyger is charged with murder in the fatal shooting of 26-year-old Botham Jean last September.
  
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• Purple Heart recipient dies saving 3-year-old granddaughter

  27-09-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  A Purple Heart recipient has died saving his 3-year-old granddaughter from a house explosion in Oklahoma.
  
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• Could Elizabeth Warren end up the real winner from the Trump impeachment inquiry?

  27-09-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Elizabeth Warren could be unintentionally benefit from the impeachment inquiry as claims over her Democratic presidential rival Joe Biden’s activities in Ukraine dominate the headlines, polling experts have predicted. The US senator for Massachusetts has enjoyed a remarkable surge in the polls of who Democrats want as their White House candidate at the 2020 election and is now neck-and-neck with Mr Biden, long seen as the front-runner.  Despite the impeachment probe targeting Donald T
  
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• Exclusive: Hedge fund D.E. Shaw to push for break-up of Emerson - sources

  27-09-2019 23:33
  Hedge fund D.E. Shaw & Co is building a stake in Emerson Electric Coand is planning to push for changes, including a potential split-up of the U.S. industrial conglomerate, people familiar with the...
  
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• North Carolina Detective Fired After Allegedly Sending Inappropriate Messages to Women Whose Rape Cases He Handled

  27-09-2019 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Paul G. Matrafailo III was fired in May from the Fayetteville Police Department for allegedly writing inappropriate messages to rape victims.
  
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• Democrats have a long list of possible witnesses in Trump impeachment inquiry

  27-09-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The list of people Democrats may seek information from regarding President Trump's attempt to obtain dirt on Joe Biden seems to grow by the minute.
  
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• Pakistan warns of Kashmir bloodbath, India silent

  27-09-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has denounced terrorism but avoided any mention of India's crackdown in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir. Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan denounced India's crackdown and warned of a "bloodbath." (Sept. 27)
  
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• Bogota in photos row over Venezuela at UN

  27-09-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Colombian President Ivan Duque said he handed the UN photographic evidence this week proving Venezuela was sheltering ELN rebels, but the images were duds.The pictures were contained in a 128-page dossier he handed to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres at the General Assembly in New York on Thursday.One purportedly shows guerrillas carrying out "indoctrination" of rural schoolchildren in the Venezuelan state of Tachira in April 2018.
  
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• Nearly 100 countries have military drones, and it's changing the way the world prepares for war

  27-09-2019 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  30 more countries have military drones than a decade ago. "I think drones will be a ubiquitous presence on future battlefields," an expert said.
  
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• The Latest: Education Department responds to ACLU letter

  27-09-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  A letter sent Friday by the American Civil Liberties Union urged Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to revoke a threat to cut grant funding to the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies unless it revises its programs.The ACLU says the Education Department is abusing grant rules to push its own viewpoint.
  
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• 12 candidates, one night: Here's who has made the October debate

  27-09-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and billionaire Tom Steyer are additions to this stage from the September debate, where only 10 candidates faced off.
  
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• Hong Kong’s ‘Frontliners’ Say They’re Ready to Die for the Movement

  27-09-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Fung, a 24-year-old doctor, seems an unlikely candidate to stand on the front line of Hong Kong’s most violent civil unrest in half a century. Before this year, he never took part in a protest, and during Hong Kong’s last major pro-democracy uprising, the 2014 Umbrella Movement, he only stopped by to take photos.Now, Fung is part of a cell of 20 protesters who face off each weekend against police on the streets of Hong Kong in clashes that have escalated from peaceful
  
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• Saudi Arabia: As kingdom opens up to tourists, will people visit?

  27-09-2019 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Those who study international tourism say a combination of geography, history and culture could make the kingdom an attractive tourist destination.
  
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• General Motors strike approaches third week

  27-09-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Representatives from General Motors and the United Auto Workers are expected to negotiate through the weekend as the two sides aim to avoid a third week of striking.Nearly 50,000 US auto workers have been on strike since September 16 as the biggest US auto company and the UAW spar over wages, health benefits, temporary workers and job security."We are still working," said UAW spokesman Brian Rothenberg, adding that talks would continue into the weekend.
  
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• Democratic debate No. 4: What you need to know

  27-09-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Twelve of the 20 Democratic candidates will gather together for one night in Ohio for the fourth debate of the 2020 presidential campaign
  
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• Rudy Giuliani: How a 9/11 hero became Trump's conspiratorial Ukraine fixer

  27-09-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  There is a celebrated photograph taken the day after the 9/11 attacks, of Rudolph Giuliani at his very best.Wearing a deep-navy baseball cap, and a matching bomber jacket, the image shows him lowering his face mask in order to console Anita Deblase, whose son James was suspected to be buried beneath the debris. “He’s at the bottom of the rubble,” she told Mr Giuliani, as he clasped her hands with his and lowered his head.
  
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• Half of California voters have considered leaving over housing costs, politics: poll

  27-09-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  More than half of California voters have thought about moving out of the nation's most populous state, citing the high cost of housing, taxes or it's political culture, according to a University of California, Berkeley poll released on Friday.The survey of 4,527 registered California voters conducted by the university's Institute of Governmental Studies found that 52% had given "serious" or "some" consideration to leaving - with most citing some of the highest housing costs in the nation."Howeve
  
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• Joseph Wilson, U.S. diplomat who spoke out on Iraq War, dies at 69: NYT

  27-09-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Wilson's ex-wife, Valerie Plame, a former CIA officer now running for Congress, told the Times his cause of death was organ failure.Wilson died at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Times reported.Wilson served in several diplomatic posts during a 23-year career that began in 1976.
  
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• AOC Wants to Launch a New War on Poverty

  27-09-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  "In some parts of the country, that new poverty line might even exceed the US median household income of $63,179 in 2018."
  
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• Poland's EU commission candidate secures fraud reprieve

  27-09-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  The European Union's anti-fraud agency said it would not take disciplinary action against Poland's candidate for the next European Commission, following a probe into expenses he had filed.The agency, OLAF, said on Friday it had finished its investigation into Janusz Wojciechowski, who has been put forward as the commissioner responsible for agriculture in the next EU executive from 2019 to 2024.OLAF had looked into possible abuse of Wojciechowski's travel and subsistence expenses from his time a
  
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• Trump calls out CNN for missing punctuation mark as impeachment looms

  27-09-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  An impeachment inquiry is looming, and the revelations in the whistleblower scandal pop up hour by hour, but President Trump took CNN to task on Friday over the use of the word “liddle.”
  
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• Don't let your guard down: Hurricane season 2019 has hit some records. And it's not over yet

  27-09-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  We're still in the middle of hurricane season 2019, and that means coastal residents should stay prepared for possible more record-breaking storms
  
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• Rudy Giuliani claims he's 'the real whistleblower' and that no one will know the real story on Trump and Ukraine 'if I get killed'

  27-09-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Giuliani told Politico he believes he deserves whistleblower protection, but his attempts to defend himself have only further incriminated him.
  
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• Family sues Best Buy after the death of a 75-year-old woman who police say was bludgeoned and set on fire by a man delivering her washing machine

  27-09-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Evelyn Udell's family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Best Buy and two delivery contractors.
  
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• ACLU argues pregnant women wrongly returned to Mexico

  27-09-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Civil rights groups are demanding an investigation by Homeland Security's watchdog into the practice of sending pregnant women back over the U.S.-Mexico border to wait out their asylum claims.Pregnant women have been forced to sleep on the floor and were provided inadequate food and water in U.S. custody, only to then be sent to Mexico, where their medical needs are largely ignored unless they are in labor, according to the complaint filed Friday by the American Civil Liberties Union and Texas C
  
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• Man who released Canadian PM's brownface photo says he has no political affiliation

  27-09-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The man who gave Time magazine the photo of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wearing brownface at a school event said on Friday he had no political affiliation nor did he receive any payment for releasing the image.Vancouver businessman Michael Adamson said in a statement he was motivated solely by the belief that "Canadian public had a right" to see the photo.The photo was taken at a gala dinner of British Columbia private school West Point Grey Academy (WPGA) in 2001, when Trudeau was a
  
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• Climate change threatens first peoples, body and soul

  27-09-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  When global warming swallows up the postage stamp island of Warraber, forcing its 300 residents to find a new home, "it will not just be the loss of our land, but also a piece of us that is washed away," says Kabay Tamu.Tamu, 28, is likely to see that traumatic transition during his lifetime, according to a landmark UN report on oceans and Earth's frozen regions, released this week."We see first-hand the impact of climate change in rising sea level, coastal erosion," Tamu told AFP phone from New
  
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• Forget the Galaxy Fold, Motorola’s foldable Razr will launch before the end of the year

  27-09-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  The Galaxy Fold was just released on Friday, that is, if you can find one in stores -- and if you want to buy a $2,000 device that's incredibly easy to render unusable. The Fold is five months late, and 2019 no longer looks like the year of the foldable device. Huawei's Mate X is also delayed and, unsurprisingly, the Motorola Razr foldable device that we expected to see in stores this summer is a no-show. However, Motorola plans to at least unveil the handset this year, although it might not be
  
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• Investigations touch Illinois powerbroker's confidants

  27-09-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  One of the nation's most powerful state legislators has for decades tended to shrug off the latest scandal involving Illinois politicians, but the sight of FBI agents hauling bags of evidence from an office on the Democratic side of the Capitol building this week may have startled the normally unflappable Mike Madigan.Madigan, the longest-serving state House speaker in modern American history and the head of the Democratic Party in Illinois, hasn't been accused of wrongdoing.Court papers mistake
  
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• CDC Says for First Time That THC Could Be Behind Vaping Deaths and Illnesses

  27-09-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  During a press briefing on Friday, the Center for Disease Control (CDC), said that Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) containing products plays a role in the recent cases of reported illnesses associated with vaping or e-cigarette use
  
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• Donald Trump-Ukraine whistleblower battles to keep identity secret amid Republican attacks

  27-09-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  The whistleblower at the heart of the Trump-Ukraine scandal was facing an uphill battle to keep their identity hidden on Friday amid fierce attacks from the US president and biographic details emerging in the media. Intelligence figures, Democrats and the whistleblower’s own lawyers insisted it is right that the person's anonymity is protected after their detailed complaint lodged about Donald Trump's behaviour was made public on Thursday.  But Republicans from the White House down ha
  
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• 18 Transgender Killings This Year Raise Fears of an 'Epidemic'

  27-09-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  ATLANTA -- In the most recent killing of a transgender woman, her body was found inside an abandoned car, burned beyond recognition. In another case, the woman was pulled from a lake at a Dallas park. And in a third, she was found dead near a golf course, just weeks after she survived a brutal beating that was captured on video.In the United States this year, at least 18 transgender people -- most of them transgender women of color -- have been killed in a wave of violence that the American Medi
  
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• Hundreds of 'abused' captives freed from Nigeria Islamic school

  27-09-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Police in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna have rescued more than 300 male students being held at an Islamic school where many had been tortured and sexually abused, a police spokesman said Friday.Officers raided a building in the Rigasa area of the city on Thursday where the victims including adults and minors were kept in "the most debasing and inhuman conditions in the name of teaching them the Koran and reforming them", Kaduna state police spokesman Yakubu Sabo told AFP."We found around
  
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• 2020 Vision: Impeachment is gaining in the polls — and so is Warren

  27-09-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  How Trump impeachment is polling, Warren's continued rise, Gabbard qualifies for the fourth debate, and campaign cash troubles plague some Democrats.
  
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• UPDATE 2-Road map for Puerto Rico's exit from bankruptcy filed in U.S. court

  27-09-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Puerto Rico would reduce a major portion of its debt by more than 60% under a long-awaited restructuring proposal the bankrupt U.S. commonwealth's federally created financial oversight board filed in court on Friday.The so-called plan of adjustment covering $35 billion of bonds and claims and more than $50 billion of pension liabilities would allow Puerto Rico to exit a form of bankruptcy that commenced in May 2017 if it wins U.S. District Court approval."This is the beginning of the end of Puer
  
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• TV reporter responds to stranger who kissed her during live broadcast: 'It is not OK'

  27-09-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  A Kentucky TV reporter is speaking out after a stranger kissed her during a live broadcast last Friday. 
  
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• Masses surge to Dakar for inauguration of Senegal's mega-mosque

  27-09-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Hundreds of thousands of people from across Senegal converged on the capital Dakar on Friday for the inauguration of a huge mosque, claimed to be the largest in West Africa.The mosque has been built by the Mouride Brotherhood -- part of the Sufi strand of Islam that predominates in Senegal, a country with a long tradition of religious tolerance.
  
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• Here's who will be onstage for the October 15 Democratic debate hosted by CNN and The New York Times, what time it'll start, and how to watch

  27-09-2019 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The debate, which will feature 12 candidates all debating on one stage, will be hosted at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio.
  
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• From 'America's mayor' to Trump's pit bull: Rudy Giuliani emerges as central figure in Ukraine firestorm

  27-09-2019 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Rudolph Giuliani, Donald Trump's chief public defender, is a central figure in the Ukraine firestorm that has triggered an impeachment inquiry.
  
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• Hong Kong protesters denounce police ahead of flashpoint weekend

  27-09-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  By candlelight -- and cellphone light -- thousands of protesters took to Hong Kong's harbourside ahead of what's expected to be a weekend of demonstrations leading up to the 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China.The rally was one of a series of protests that have united activists denouncing Chinese rule.Demonstrators gathered at a park on reclaimed land in front of central government offices on Friday night (September 27) calling for an investigation into the remote San Uk Ling camp
  
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• Karen Pence was reportedly so mad at Trump's election she refused to kiss Mike Pence

  27-09-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Mother didn't like this.Vice President Mike Pence is pretty darn close with his wife Karen Pence, the woman he reportedly calls "mother" and refuses to meet other women alone without. But when Pence buddied up with President Trump, whom Karen Pence reportedly despised, her displeasure culminated in the ultimate diss on Election Night 2016, Tom LoBianco reports in his forthcoming book Piety and Power: Mike Pence and the Taking of the White House.It's been reported before that Karen Pence was not
  
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• Why President Trump's best impeachment defense is destroying Mike Pence

  27-09-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  At least 35 Republican senators would vote to remove President Trump from office in an impeachment trial, former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said Thursday -- if the vote were anonymous. Flake is hardly the only one to suggest something like this; reports abound that GOP lawmakers privately despise the president but feel publicly obliged to support him to curry favor with their voter base.For many of those Republicans, ousting Trump would be made all the more attractive by the prospect of the eleva
  
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• Once Again, Progressive Anti-Christian Bigotry Carries a Steep Legal Cost

  27-09-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Last summer, in the days after the Supreme Court decided Masterpiece Cakeshop on the narrow grounds that Colorado had violated Jack Phillips’s religious-liberty rights by specifically disparaging his religious beliefs, a bit of a skirmish broke out among conservative lawyers. How important was the ruling? Did it have any lasting precedential effect?For those who don’t recall, the Supreme Court ruled for Phillips in large part because a commissioner of the Colorado Civil Rights Commis
  
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• Ex-Cop Amber Guyger Sobs at Her Murder Trial: ‘I Am So Sorry’ for Killing Botham Jean

  27-09-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Jeremy Lock/ReutersFormer Dallas cop Amber Guyger took the stand at her murder trial Friday, breaking down in tears as she testified about the night she killed her black neighbor, 26-year-old Botham Jean, whom she says she shot after mistaking his apartment for her own. “I hate that I have to live with this every single day of my life. I’ve asked God for forgiveness,” the 31-year-old said in court, her voice quivering. “I feel like I don’t deserve a chance to be wit
  
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• The Latest: Jury convicts ex-athlete of rape

  27-09-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  An ex-University of Delaware baseball player has been convicted of raping a woman whom he met online.Jurors found 23-year-old Clay Conaway guilty Friday after 10 days of testimony and arguments.A 21-year-old woman told authorities Conaway raped her after she drove to his house in June 2018.
  
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• 'Lawyer up': DOJ veterans have one piece of advice for Trump and Giuliani amid the Ukraine whistleblower scandal

  27-09-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  An unprecedented whistleblower complaint puts Trump and others involved in legal jeopardy on at least four fronts, former prosecutors say.
  
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• Saudi Arabia Agrees to Limited Cease-Fire in Yemen War

  27-09-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Saudi Arabia has agreed to a limited cease-fire in several areas of Yemen including the capital Sana’a, which is controlled by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, as part of broader efforts to end a four-year conflict that has threatened to escalate into regional war.A Yemeni government official and a diplomat said attempts were underway to expand the truce. Saudi officials couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.Last week, the Houthis announced a unilateral halt to the
  
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• Trump Impeachment Is a Market Nothingburger—for Now

  27-09-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Subscribe to What Goes Up on Apple PodcastsSubscribe to What Goes Up on Pocket CastsSubscribe to What Goes Up on Spotify House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to open a formal impeachment inquiry over President Donald Trump’s attempt to get Ukraine to dig up dirt on former Vice President Joseph Biden exploded in the news this week, sending a shudder through America’s political foundation. For investors though, it triggered a sim
  
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• A deadly mosquito-borne virus killed two wolf pups at a zoo in Michigan, and domestic cats and dogs could be at risk too

  27-09-2019 19:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, is experiencing its biggest outbreak in decades. Both humans and animals are susceptible.
  
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• Parents arrested in death of boy who had begged not to be returned to them

  27-09-2019 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The parents of a 4-year-old boy who had begged not to be returned to them have been arrested in his death.
  
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