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• Puerto Rico disaster agency boss sacked over discovery of unused Hurricane Maria supplies

  18-01-2020 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The head of Puerto Rico’s emergency agency has been sacked following the discovery of a warehouse filled with supplies dating back to Hurricane Maria.Governor Wanda Vazquez said the goods had sat unused since the September 2017 disaster, which killed an estimated 3,000 people.
  
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• 'Brazen and unlawful': Trump team attacks House impeachment effort in first formal response

  18-01-2020 23:11 via politico.com
  
  The president's initial reply comes on the same day House managers previewed their own opening arguments.
  
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• In impeachment document, Democrats say Trump endangers security, Trump denies

  18-01-2020 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON/PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. lawmakers leading the impeachment case against Republican President Donald Trump said on Saturday the president must be removed from office to protect national security and preserve the country’s system of government.In a 111-page document filed before Trump's Senate trial begins in earnest on Tuesday, the lawmakers laid out their arguments supporting charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress against the president."The Sen
  
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• China Thinks It Can Nuke American Cities. Should We Worry?

  18-01-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  World War III is no joke...
  
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• MS-13 inmates sent to restricted unit after prison stabbing

  18-01-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The federal Bureau of Prisons is moving some MS-13 gang members in its custody into more restricted housing at certain high-security facilities across the U.S. after a gang stabbing in a Virginia prison, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Saturday.A brawl broke out Wednesday at the prison known as USP Lee between the MS-13 leader and a fellow inmate associated with the Mexican Mafia, and the gang member was stabbed, the people said.The Bureau of Prisons said in a st
  
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• Puerto Rico governor fires emergency management director

  18-01-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez fired the director of the island’s emergency management agency Saturday after the discovery of a warehouse filled with water, cots and other supplies as the U.S. territory struggles to recover from a strong earthquake.Vázquez said the inaction of Carlos Acevedo was unacceptable.Vázquez said she ordered an investigation, noting that the goods had sat unused since Hurricane Maria battered Puerto Rico in September 2017.
  
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• Discovery of unused disaster supplies angers Puerto Rico

  18-01-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  People in a southern Puerto Rico city discovered a warehouse filled with water, cots and other unused emergency supplies, then set off a social media uproar Saturday when they broke in to retrieve goods as the area struggles to recover from a strong earthquake.With anger spreading in the U.S. territory after video of the event in Ponce appeared on Facebook, Gov. Wanda Vázquez quickly fired the director of the island's emergency management agency.The governor said she had ordered an invest
  
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• A startup company took billions of photos from Facebook and other websites to create a facial-recognition database, and hundreds of law-enforcement agencies are using it

  18-01-2020 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Law enforcement is using a database of billions of photos scraped from social media sites, likely against policy, by an unknown startup company.
  
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• National Archives: 'We made a mistake' altering Trump photos

  18-01-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The National Archives said Saturday it made a mistake when it blurred images of anti-Trump signs used in an exhibit on women's suffrage.The archives said the photo in question is not one of its archival records, but rather was licensed for use as a promotional graphic in the exhibit.The exhibit about the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, blurred some anti-Trump messages on protest signs in a photo of the 2017 Women's March in Washington.
  
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• U.S. Archives Rues ‘Mistake’ of Blurring Trump Protest Images

  18-01-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. National Archives says it made a mistake by blurring images depicting protest signs critical of President Donald Trump in a promotional display for a new exhibit on women’s sufferage.“As the National Archives of the United States, we are and have always been completely committed to preserving our archival holdings, without alteration,” the independent agency in charge of the preservation of government and historical records said on Twitter Saturday.The a
  
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• Rod Rosenstein Authorized the Release of Text Messages Between FBI Employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page: Court Filing

  18-01-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The texts have fueled allegations of FBI bias
  
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• The Navy Has Built Too Many Aircraft Carriers For Its Own Good

  18-01-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  And they make for juicy targets.
  
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• Murkowski wants to hear case before deciding on witnesses

  18-01-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said she's comfortable waiting to decide if more information is needed as part of the Senate's impeachment trial until after hearing arguments from House managers and attorneys for President Donald Trump and questions from members.Murkowski spoke to reporters from Anchorage ahead of Senate impeachment trial proceedings expected to begin Tuesday.
  
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• As impeachment trial looms, senator-jurors look to get creative on the 2020 campaign trail

  18-01-2020 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senators are jurors in an impeachment trial and this time, there's an additional complicating factor: Five of Trump's jurors are also running for president.
  
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• 220 wounded as Lebanon protesters clash with police

  18-01-2020 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Clashes between police and Lebanese protesters wounded more than 220 people on both sides Saturday in the highest such tally in three months of anti-establishment demonstrations.The sound of ambulance sirens rang out across Beirut as the Red Cross reported 80 wounded had been taken to hospital and 140 more were treated on site.The protest movement rocking Lebanon since October 17 revived this week as a deepening economic crisis increases pressure to form a new government.
  
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• National Archives apologizes for blurring picture of anti-Trump Women's March signs

  18-01-2020 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Archives said the photo was "not an archival record" and was instead a photo used as a promotional graphic for an exhibit on women's suffrage.
  
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• The first Space Force uniforms have reached the Pentagon, and people are making fun of the camouflage print

  18-01-2020 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Space Force Twitter account showed off the first ever uniforms for the division, and people are joking that they should be black, not camouflage.
  
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• Sanders steps up appeals to women after flap with Warren

  18-01-2020 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders stepped up his pitch to women in early-voting New Hampshire on the heels of a squabble over sexism in politics with fellow progressive and 2020 rival Elizabeth Warren.“Men, if you think abortion rights, if you think equal pay for equal work is just a women's issue, you are dead wrong," Sanders said.Sanders did not stay to march, heading instead to the next campaign stop.
  
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• Buttigieg says Oval Office needs wartime veteran

  18-01-2020 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said Saturday the Oval Office benefits from the perspective of a wartime veteran, a niche he occupies exclusively among top-tier candidates in his party's race for the 2020 nomination.During an interview on Iowa PBS in suburban Des Moines, Buttigieg was asked if there's value in a president who had faced hostile fire.Buttigieg, a Naval intelligence officer in Afghanistan in 2014, noted he had been present for rocket attacks while stationed at Bagr
  
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• U.S. sanctions Iranian commander over Mahshahr killings

  18-01-2020 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. State Department said on Saturday it had imposed sanctions on a general of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who commanded units blamed for a massacre of protesters in November.The U.S. State Department has said previously it had received videos of the Revolutionary Guards opening fire without warning on protesters in Mahshahr county in southwest Iran.
  
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• Turkish Foreign Minister Accuses Greece of Sabotaging Libya Talks

  18-01-2020 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusolgu slammed Greece for inviting military commander Khalifa Haftar to Athens last week and said it was trying to sabotage efforts for peace in Libya in a bid to impose its own maritime claims on the country.“Greek efforts to derail the push for peace in Libya are in vain,” Cavusoglu said in a post on Twitter. “The legitimate government of Libya signed a memorandum of understanding with us to protect their rights.”His com
  
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• Yemeni officials: 25 troops killed in Houthi missile strike

  18-01-2020 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A missile attack launched by Shiite rebels in Yemen hit an army camp Saturday, killing at least 25 troops, Yemeni officials said.The strike in the central province of Marib wounded around 10 others.The Houthi attack on the military training camp followed an ongoing barrage of assaults by Saudi-backed government forces on rebel targets east of Sanaa.
  
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• Phase One of Trump's Trade Deal Is a Win for America

  18-01-2020 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  But the trade war is far from over.
  
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• Meghan and Harry will need taxpayer funded security 'for years to come'

  18-01-2020 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will need to be protected at taxpayers’ expense against the threat of terror attacks and kidnap for years to come, security experts have said. Police and former security chiefs fear the couple will continue to be at risk from organised terror groups, political fanatics and lone obsessives long after they separate from the Royal family. Talks are understood to be taking place at senior levels over the best way of providing protection for Meghan and Prince Harr
  
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• Prince Harry, Meghan to give up royal titles

  18-01-2020 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Buckingham Palace says Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, will no longer use the titles "royal highness" or receive public money after a deal was met for them to step aside as senior royals.
  
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• Democrats Try to Reassure Latinos Over Trump’s Socialism Cry

  18-01-2020 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Democrats seeking to counter President Donald Trump’s use of “socialism” as a slur can look to a yearlong effort to fight back now underway in Florida.Trump frequently attacks Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders as socialists in the mold of progressives in Congress like Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who are pushing the party to adopt far-left policies.This attack has particular resonance among Hispanic voters, particularly those from socialist countrie
  
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• TSA issues apology to Native American woman who had braids pulled by agent

  18-01-2020 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tara Houska ‘humiliated’ by TSA agent who ‘snapped my braids like reins’ during screening at Minneapolis-St Paul airportThe federal Transportation Security Administration has apologized to a Native American woman who said an agent at Minneapolis-St Paul international airport “pulled her braids” and said “giddy up!” when she took a flight from there this week.“The agent said she needed to pat down my braids,” tweeted Tara Houska, an indi
  
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• Man kills grizzly in self-defense, keeps claws as a memento

  18-01-2020 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Montana man told authorities that he cut off a grizzly bear's claws as a memento after shooting it in self-defense because he was mad that the bear was going to eat him, according to court records.Bryan Berg, 35, appeared in court on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Missoula after pleading guilty to illegal transport of grizzly bear claws, a misdemeanor, according to the Flathead Beacon.Grizzly bears in northwestern Montana are classified as a threatened species.
  
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• The National Archives blurred out signs criticizing Trump in an exhibited photo of the Women's March

  18-01-2020 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Archives staff blurred the word "Trump" on marchers' signs that read "God Hates Trump" and "Trump & GOP — Hands Off Women."
  
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• In Washington, women march against Trump as election looms

  18-01-2020 19:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Many protesters said they were horrified at the prospect of Trump's winning four more years of power in November's presidential election.In 2017, the day after Trump's inauguration, more than three million people gathered nationwide, but numbers have since declined each year."We all knew that Trump was going to be horrible, and he has been even more horrible than we realize" she told AFP, standing next to her seven-year-old daughter who was participating enthusiastically in her first women's mar
  
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• Migrants, security forces clash at Guatemala-Mexico border

  18-01-2020 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Scuffles broke out on the Guatemala-Mexico border, Saturday, as hundreds of mostly Honduran migrants attempted to cross. Mexican security officials briefly shut the border crossing and sought to calm a group of people who began pushing and shoving.Scores of migrants have been arriving at the Mexican border in recent days, with the bulk of them still advancing in a larger caravan… bearing similarities to a caravan that tried to force its way through the same crossing in October 2018. Autho
  
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• A plane slid off the runway and more than 800 flights were canceled as winter weather hit the Midwest

  18-01-2020 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Authorities issued alerts for areas across the Northeast as blizzard conditions were forecasted to New York and New England over the weekend.
  
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• Extinction Rebellion protest disrupts Brussels Motor Show

  18-01-2020 19:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police in Brussels said they arrested around 150 people at the Brussels Motor Show on Saturday after Extinction Rebellion campaigners smeared cars with fake blood and staged die-ins around the displays.The activists would be released once they had given their identity, a police spokesman told AFP."This action of mass civil disobedience aims at denouncing the many lies which car manufacturers keep selling to the public to increase their sales at the cost of the environment, people's health and so
  
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• DOJ: Rod Rosenstein authorized release to news media of Strzok-Page texts about Trump

  18-01-2020 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rod Rosenstein said he authorized the release of the Lisa Page and Peter Strzok messages because he thought they would become public anyway.
  
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• Pearl Harbor hero Doris Miller, who wasn't allowed to man gun in 1941, honored with aircraft carrier in his name

  18-01-2020 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Miller was recognized for manning a machine gun and returning fire against Japanese planes. Black men not allowed to man a gun in the Navy in 1941.
  
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• Quake shakes eastern Indonesia; no initial report of damage

  18-01-2020 19:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A strong inland earthquake late Saturday night struck Indonesia's easternmost Papua province.There were no immediate reports of major damage or casualties.The magnitude 6.0 quake was centered 141 kilometers (87 miles) west of Abepura city at a depth of 33.6 kilometers (20.8 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey said.
  
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• Ten charred bodies found in vehicle in violence-plagued Mexican state

  18-01-2020 19:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexican prosecutors are investigating the discovery of a burned-out vehicle containing the charred bodies of 10 people in the southwestern state of Guerrero, authorities said late on Friday.Police made the grisly discovery on a country road in the municipality of Chilapa de Alvarez after locals saw the vehicle on fire and alerted authorities, state security spokesman Roberto Alvarez said in a statement published on Facebook.
  
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• Sweden summons Chinese envoy over 'lightweight boxer' remark

  18-01-2020 18:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sweden's government summoned the Chinese ambassador in Stockholm to discuss his comments Saturday that compared Swedish media coverage of China to a lightweight boxer who “provokes a feud” with a heavyweight.Chinese Ambassador Gui Congyou used the boxing metaphor while speaking with Swedish public broadcaster SVT.
  
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• Mexico National Guard Uses Pepper Spray to Fend Off Immigrants

  18-01-2020 18:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Mexico’s National Guard used pepper spray to fend off about 1,500 immigrants as they tried to enter the country through its southern border with Guatemala, Reforma reported.Those who were able to cross were detained, the newspaper said. Earlier this week, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Mexico was monitoring a caravan of migrants and that his government would offer some of them jobs at the southern border.Last year, Mexico faced tariff threats from U.S. President
  
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• Experts warn over scale of China virus as US airports start screening

  18-01-2020 18:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The true scale of the outbreak of a mysterious SARS-like virus in China is likely far bigger than officially reported, scientists have warned, as countries ramp up measures to prevent the disease from spreading. Authorities in China say two people have died and at least 45 have been infected, with the outbreak centred around a seafood market in the central city of Wuhan, a city of 11 million inhabitants that serves as a major transport hub. The researchers said their estimate was largely based o
  
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• Facing Senate trial crunch, Dems blitzing Iowa, early states

  18-01-2020 18:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As a winter storm barreled down on Iowa, Elizabeth Warren’s campaign team struggled with whether to scrap a town hall scheduled at the old Maytag headquarters.For the Democratic presidential candidate, the event was probably one of her last chances to make a face-to-face appeal to voters in Iowa before the Feb. 3 caucus.Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, is soon to be marooned in the Senate as a juror in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.
  
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• Should the Astros lose their World Series title?

  18-01-2020 18:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Houston Astros cheated en route to winning the World Series title in 2017. Should their championship be erased from the record books?
  
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• Piers Morgan leaked a private message Meghan Markle sent him

  18-01-2020 18:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Piers Morgan leaked a private message that he claimed was sent to him by Meghan Markle in 2015, in which the then actress said she was a “big fan” of the television host.
  
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• The most iconic tourist attraction in 26 countries around the world

  18-01-2020 18:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  There's something powerful about finally seeing a famous landmark or natural wonder in person instead of on a postcard (or on Instagram).
  
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• Man arrested in shooting of 13 people at Chicago house party

  18-01-2020 18:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A man has been charged with attempted murder in a December shooting at a Chicago house party that left 13 people wounded, Chicago police said Saturday. According to a police statement, 25-year-old Keilon Jones was arrested Thursday. Authorities have said the shooting began inside a house in the city's Englewood neighborhood and more shots were fired as people began fleeing.
  
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• Facebook says technical error caused vulgar translation of Chinese leader's name

  18-01-2020 18:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Facebook Incon Saturday blamed a technical error for Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s name appearing as “Mr Shithole” in posts on its platform when translated into English from Burmese, apologizing for any offense caused.The error came to light on the second day of a visit by the president to the Southeast Asian country, where Xi and state counselor Aung San Suu Kyi signed dozens of agreements covering massive Beijing-backed infrastructure plans.A statement about the visit published
  
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• Trump brags his strike on Soleimani killed '2 for the price of 1' while giving a behind-the-scenes account of the assassination to GOP donors at his Florida resort

  18-01-2020 18:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The president recalled how US military officials counted down the seconds leading up to the strike outside the Baghdad International airport.
  
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• Rod Rosenstein authorized release of Strzok, Page texts

  18-01-2020 18:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein authorized the release of text messages between FBI employees Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, Politico reported Saturday.The Department of Justice revealed Rosenstein's authorization in a court filing — the filing shows Rosenstein said he allowed the release of the messages to the media in part to protect Strzok and Page.The two FBI employees sent texts criticizing President Trump as an "idiot" ahead of his election. They have faced ongoing dispara
  
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• MLK Day Plans Put Spotlight on Klobuchar, Buttigieg Strategies

  18-01-2020 18:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Amy Klobuchar will join most top-tier Democratic candidates in South Carolina on Monday, having adjusted her schedule after criticism for plans to skip an important Martin Luther King Jr. Day event there. The Minnesota senator’s campaign hurried on Friday to work a South Carolina leg into her schedule. Communications director Tim Hogan said Klobuchar will attend some of Monday morning’s events in Columbia before jetting to Des Moines for an early speaking slot at the B
  
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• Trump says Soleimani killing followed general saying 'bad things'

  18-01-2020 18:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump has given a new justification for killing Qassem Soleimani, telling a gathering of Republican donors that the Iranian general was “saying bad things about our country.”
  
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