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• Secret Service arrests bike rack jumper near White House

  18-03-2017 23:15 via yahoo.com
  
  A person was arrested Saturday after jumping over a bike rack in an apparent bid to reach the fence outside the White House, the Secret Service said.President Donald Trump was away in Florida at the time.A Secret Service official speaking on condition of anonymity said the person was not found to be carrying any weapons.
  
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• Anthem Lobbyist May Head Antitrust Division

  18-03-2017 23:05 via yahoo.com
  
  Report: Trump may appoint a health insurance company's former lobbyist to run the agency just as Anthem presses for approval of its merger.
  
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• Man killed at Paris airport planned to 'die for Allah': prosecutor

  18-03-2017 22:36 via yahoo.com
  
  By Gus Trompiz and Emmanuel JarryPARIS (Reuters) - A man shot dead by French soldiers at Paris Orly airport on Saturday shouted he was there to "die for Allah" and tried to seize a soldier's assault rifle, apparently intending to open fire on passengers, a prosecutor said.The latest in a series of attacks in France forced the evacuation of France's second-busiest airport and thrust security back to the forefront of France's presidential election campaign.The attacker, named as Ziyed Ben Belgacem
  
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• Spicer: Secret Service stops attempted White House intrusion

  18-03-2017 22:31 via yahoo.com
  
  PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The White House said Saturday that an individual was apprehended after jumping a low metal barrier just outside the White House fence, a week after an intrusion raised questions about lapses in security under the watch of the U.S. Secret Service.
  
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• Plan to nurture African economies unites fractious G20

  18-03-2017 22:21 via yahoo.com
  
  Baden-Baden (Germany) (AFP) - Ministers from the world's top economies heralded plans to boost development in Africa on Saturday, at an otherwise fractious G20 gathering in Germany.Berlin, which holds the presidency of the powerful nations' club this year, has made a hoped-for "Compact with Africa" a top priority for 2017.Africa's future represents "a major geopolitical risk" but also a "chance", German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told reporters Friday as the meeting got under way in the
  
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• Manhunt under way for missing 15-year-old Tennessee girl

  18-03-2017 21:58 via yahoo.com
  
  Police say the girl may have been kidnapped by her teacher
  
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• Authorities arrest 17-year-old in his mother's death

  18-03-2017 21:52 via yahoo.com
  
  CARY, N.C. (AP) — A woman was strangled by her teenage son in a case that has puzzled an affluent North Carolina town for more than a year, authorities said.
  
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• Woman Whose Best Friend Agreed To Adopt Children After She Fell Terminally Ill Has Died

  18-03-2017 21:33 via yahoo.com
  
  Hankins has four children.
  
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• In 2007 a fan dreamt of working for Nintendo, 2017 he turns up in the Zelda credits

  18-03-2017 21:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dreams can come true, etc. As noted on reddit it looks like one Nintendo fan got to achieve their am ...
  
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• Somalia asks Saudi coalition to investigate refugee boat attack

  18-03-2017 21:16 via yahoo.com
  
  By Abdi SheikhMOGADISHU (Reuters) - The Somali government condemned a helicopter attack on a boatload of Somali refugees off the coast of Yemen and called on the Saudi-led coalition fighting in the country to investigate, officials said on Saturday.At least 40 Somali refugees were killed when a helicopter attacked the boat they were traveling in late on Thursday, the United Nations refugee agency said."The prime minister condemns the unfair killing of the Somalis who were sailing on the shores o
  
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• The Latest: Orly attacker used revolver to detain soldier

  18-03-2017 20:47 via yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — The Latest on incident at Orly Airport in Paris where a man was shot to death after attempting to seize a soldier's weapon (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: Orly attacker snatched assault gun from soldier

  18-03-2017 20:24 via yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — The Latest on incident at Orly Airport in Paris where a man was shot to death after attempting to seize a soldier's weapon (all times local):
  
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• Brazil president calls emergency meeting over tainted meat scandal

  18-03-2017 20:20 via yahoo.com
  
  Brasília (AFP) - Brazilian President Michel Temer called an emergency ministerial meeting for Sunday to deal with a growing scandal over the safety of meat and poultry sold at home and abroad by the world's leading supplier.A two-year police investigation revealed Friday the existence of a corrupt scheme in which dozens of health inspectors were allegedly bribed to certify tainted food as fit for consumption.It comes at a sensitive time, as Brazil and other members of South America's Merc
  
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• Somalia blames Saudi-led coalition for deadly strike on boat

  18-03-2017 20:15 via yahoo.com
  
  MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia's government on Saturday blamed the Saudi-led coalition for Friday's attack on a boat that killed at least 42 Somali refugees off the coast of war-torn Yemen, calling the assault by a military vessel and a helicopter gunship "horrific."
  
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• Contentious G20 shows US needs time to 'adapt': Lagarde

  18-03-2017 20:12 via yahoo.com
  
  Baden-Baden (Germany) (AFP) - IMF chief Christine Lagarde sought to play down fears over the US weakening international commitments to free trade and climate change Saturday, saying the new White House needed time to "adapt and learn"."Whenever there's a new member at a G20 meeting, there is a process of learning and adaptation," Lagarde told AFP after a finance ministers' gathering in Baden Baden, western Germany.
  
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• Hezbollah says U.N. 'weak' after critical Israel report pulled

  18-03-2017 20:07 via yahoo.com
  
  The leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement denounced the United Nations on Saturday as weak after the withdrawal of a report accusing Israel of imposing an "apartheid regime" on Palestinians.A senior U.N. official resigned on Friday after the secretary-general asked her to remove the report, published by the United Nation's Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), from the internet.U.N. Under-Secretary General and ESCWA Executive Secretary Rima Khalaf said she was leaving afte
  
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• Man Breaks Leg Allegedly Escaping From Burglary and Then Calls Cops For Help

  18-03-2017 20:06 via yahoo.com
  
  Police said he'll be charged when he is released from the hospital.
  
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• Plane that landed at NYC airport gets stuck in snowdrift

  18-03-2017 19:44 via yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A plane from Chicago that landed at LaGuardia Airport on Saturday got stuck in a snowdrift while turning off the runway and had to be pulled out by a tug.
  
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• Tennessee police hunt former teacher accused of kidnapping student

  18-03-2017 19:41 via yahoo.com
  
  Tad Cummins, 50, who is believed to be armed with two hand guns, was placed on the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's top 10 "most wanted" list on Friday on charges of aggravate kidnapping and having sexual contact with a minor.Cummings, who is married, was fired from his Maurey County high school teaching job on Tuesday after being accused of having an inappropriate relationship with student Beth Thomas, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said in a statement.Thomas was last seen on Monday j
  
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• G20 financial leaders acquiesce to U.S., drop free trade pledge

  18-03-2017 19:13 via yahoo.com
  
  By Balazs Koranyi and Gernot HellerBADEN BADEN, Germany (Reuters) - Financial leaders of the world's biggest economies dropped a pledge to keep global trade free and open, acquiescing to an increasingly protectionist United States after a two-day meeting failed to yield a compromise.Breaking a decade-long tradition of endorsing open trade, G20 finance ministers and central bankers made only a token reference to trade in their communique on Saturday, a clear defeat for host nation Germany, which
  
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• Another person tries to jump White House fence

  18-03-2017 19:04 via yahoo.com
  
  A person jumped over a bike rack in a buffer zone in front of the White House on Saturday while President Trump was in Florida, but was not able to make it over the fence into the grounds, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said on Twitter.CNN reported that two Secret Service agents tackled the individual.The area is the start of a buffer zone between the main White House fence and the sidewalks.
  
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• President Trump's approval rating drops in Fox News poll

  18-03-2017 19:01 via yahoo.com
  
  Political panel weighs in on 'America's News HQ'
  
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• Scotland will have new independence referendum: leader

  18-03-2017 18:49 via yahoo.com
  
  First Minister Nicola Sturgeon insisted Saturday that Scotland will have another referendum on seceding from the UK, as she blasted British Prime Minister Theresa May.At a raucous rally of her leftwing Scottish National Party (SNP), Sturgeon said May's centre-right Conservatives were "terrified" of how Scotland would vote in a second referendum on independence.Sturgeon said the will of the semi-autonomous Scottish Parliament "must prevail" as she seeks a new referendum before Britain leaves the
  
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• Germany owes NATO 'vast sums': Trump

  18-03-2017 18:41 via yahoo.com
  
  US President Donald Trump unleashed a diatribe against Germany on Saturday, saying Berlin owes NATO "vast sums of money" and must pay the United States more for security."Germany owes vast sums of money to NATO & the United States must be paid more for the powerful, and very expensive, defense it provides to Germany!" Trump tweeted on Saturday morning.
  
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• Man arrested for strobe-light tweet that caused reporter's seizure

  18-03-2017 18:40 via yahoo.com
  
  A Maryland man has been arrested on federal charges that he intentionally used an animated tweet to trigger an epileptic seizure in a Newsweek reporter who had been critical of President Donald Trump.The reporter, Kurt Eichenwald, was at his home office in Dallas on December 15 when he clicked on a Twitter message sent him by a man using the pseudonym "@jew_goldstein." A blinding strobe light began flashing on his screen, sending Eichenwald -- who has openly discussed his epilepsy -- into a seiz
  
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• College Student's Boyfriend Charged With Her Murder A Month After Her Body is Found

  18-03-2017 18:29 via yahoo.com
  
  Police found her body last month.
  
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• Man accused of killing EMT by running her over with ambulance has 31 prior arrests

  18-03-2017 18:28 via yahoo.com
  
  Jose Gonzalez, 25, of the Bronx, has been charged with murder, grand larceny and operating a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs.
  
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• Stressing free trade, Mnuchin shrugs off G20 outcry

  18-03-2017 18:27 via yahoo.com
  
  "The historical language was not relevant," he told journalists after the gathering of finance ministers and central bankers in Baden Baden, western Germany.After a two-day meeting, ministers from G20 developed and emerging nations said they were "working to strengthen the contribution of trade to our economies" but failed to spell out a pledge to reject protectionism in a closing statement.The G20 has in the past pledged support to the existing multilateral trade system, including the World Tra
  
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• Italy arrests Ghanaian for trafficking, torturing migrants

  18-03-2017 18:11 via yahoo.com
  
  By Gavin JonesROME (Reuters) - Italian police said on Saturday they had arrested a Ghanaian man for alleged murder, rape, kidnapping and people-smuggling after migrants he is accused of mistreating attacked him at a reception center on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa.According to the arrest warrant, the African migrants turned on 20-year-old Sam Eric Ackom, known to his assailants as Fanti, when they recognized him as one of a gang that had kidnapped and tortured them in Libya during their
  
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• Two pharaohs, one statue: A tale of mistaken identity?

  18-03-2017 18:02 via yahoo.com
  
  A colossus recently found in Matariya, a working-class neighborhood in Cairo, has proven tricky to identify.Shortly after the 26-foot tall statue was unearthed on March 7, it was identified as Pharaoh Ramses II, one of ancient Egypt’s best-known rulers, but now Cairo officials say it likely portrays Psamtik I, a lesser-known pharaoh of the 26th Dynasty.Recommended:How much do you know about Egypt?
  
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• Syrian rebels, civilians begin leaving Homs district in deal with government

  18-03-2017 17:52 via yahoo.com
  
  HOMS, Syria/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Rebels and their families began leaving their last bastion in the Syrian city of Homs on Saturday, state media and a Reuters witness said, under a Russian-backed deal with the government expected to be among the largest evacuations of its kind.The agreement underlines Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's upper hand in the war, as more rebel fighters opt to leave areas they have defended for years in deals that amount to negotiated withdrawals to other parts of the co
  
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• Modi party picks firebrand to head India's biggest state

  18-03-2017 17:40 via yahoo.com
  
  Prime Minister Narendra Modi's right-wing party Saturday picked a controversial firebrand leader to head India's most populous state, where it won a landslide victory last week.Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party won an absolute majority in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, home to 220 million people and seen as a bellwether of national politics, in a massive vote of confidence for the premier halfway into his first term.After an hours-long meeting with local BJP legislators on Sa
  
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• German Foreign Minister: Turkey 'further away from EU membership than ever'

  18-03-2017 17:32 via yahoo.com
  
  Turkey has never been less likely to join the European Union than now and the bloc should seek a special relationship with Britain, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said as relations between Ankara and Berlin hit a low point."Today Turkey is definitely further away from becoming a member of the European Union than ever before," Gabriel said in an interview with news magazine Der Spiegel published on Saturday.Before taking power in Germany in 2005, Chancellor Angela Merkel was an outspoken
  
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• Man killed after trying to grab soldier’s gun at Paris airport

  18-03-2017 17:31 via yahoo.com
  
  Soldiers at Paris’ busy Orly Airport shot and killed a man who wrestled one of their colleagues to the ground and tried to steal her rifle Saturday, officials said.Police did not immediately provide a motive or identify the attacker, though the Paris prosecutor’s office said he was 39 and had a record of robbery and drug offenses.Earlier Saturday, he fired birdshot at officers during a traffic stop in a Paris suburb, wounding one in the face.
  
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• Higher heart risk seen with Abbott dissolving stent after two years: study

  18-03-2017 17:26 via yahoo.com
  
  By Bill BerkrotWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Patients who received Abbott Laboratories' novel dissolving vascular stent had a significantly higher rate of serious adverse heart events than those treated with the company's widely used Xience drug-coated metal stent two years after implantation, according to data presented on Saturday.New guidelines for blood vessel size and proper implantation techniques put in place for the new Absorb stent since the study began, however, should lead to better results,
  
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• Sharp Rise in Highway Shootings Has Bay Area On Alert

  18-03-2017 17:11 via yahoo.com
  
  The Highway Patrol says nearly 80 shootings have been reported on Bay Area freeways in the last 15 months — many gang related, others have been cases of road rage.
  
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• Pres. Trump’s Budget Calls for Steep Cuts to NIH, Worrying Experts

  18-03-2017 17:09 via yahoo.com
  
  Doctors and medical experts say the Trump administration’s aim to cut nearly 6 billion dollars — 20 percent of its budget — would devastate the National Institutes of Health, described as the nation's engine of biomedical discover.
  
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• Man Arrested for Sending Prominent Journalist Tweet Causing Seizure

  18-03-2017 17:03 via yahoo.com
  
  29-year-old John Rayne Rivello was arrested on Friday in Maryland, accusing of sending a tweet with an animated, strobing image back in December to Newsweek contributor Kurt Eichenwald, who has epilepsy. Eichenwald collapsed after receiving the tweet.
  
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• Man Shot Dead in Paris Airport After Seizing Soldier’s Weapon: French Officials

  18-03-2017 17:01 via yahoo.com
  
  Police say Ziad Ben Belgacem in the last hours of his life shot and injured a police officer, hijacked a car and for a few terror-filled minutes held a soldier hostage at Paris' Orly Airport.
  
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• Abandoned funeral home dies of decay

  18-03-2017 17:00 via yahoo.com
  
  This is a real house of the dead, as forgotten artifacts lie strewn across a 150-year-old abandoned funeral home. The building in Jacksonville, Fla., was once the site of the city’s oldest continuously operating funeral parlor. It was established by successful businessman Calvin Oak in 1856, and changed hands several times before it was moved in 2013. The building was left to rot. (Caters News)
  
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• Erdogan sees Turkey parliament restoring capital punishment

  18-03-2017 16:49 via yahoo.com
  
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday he expected parliament to approve restoring capital punishment after next month's referendum in a move that could end Ankara's bid to join the EU.The spat has seen Erdogan unleashing a volley of barbs against Berlin and The Hague, even likening Germany's leaders to Nazis, in remarks which were on Saturday rubbished by Berlin's top diplomat as"ludicrous".
  
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• Trump team starts appeal on immigration order

  18-03-2017 16:38 via yahoo.com
  
  The Trump Administration has notified a federal judge in Maryland it is appealing his order blocking enforcement of revised restrictions on immigration from Mideast nations.The appeal, the notice said, will go to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
  
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• 10 fascinating facts about Grover Cleveland, the only double President

  18-03-2017 16:15 via yahoo.com
  
  Grover Cleveland stands alone in American history as the only President to serve non-consecutive terms. On the anniversary of his birth, here’s a look at one of most fascinating White House occupants.
  
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• Hundreds quit last rebel-held district of Syria's Homs

  18-03-2017 16:05 via yahoo.com
  
  Nearly 1,500 people, mostly civilians, left the last opposition-held district of Homs on Saturday under a controversial Russian-supervised deal to bring Syria's third city under full government control.The evacuation of Waer, a northwestern district of the city that has been under siege by the army for years, is the latest in a series of "reconciliation" deals struck by the government that the rebels say amount to starving them out.Thousands are expected to leave Waer in the coming weeks in the
  
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• Pope's Egypt visit offers chance to improve Catholic-Muslim ties

  18-03-2017 15:45 via yahoo.com
  
  Pope Francis will make a trip to Egypt next month, the Vatican said on Saturday, giving the pontiff another opportunity to promote better relations between Catholics and Muslims.Francis has accepted an invitation to Cairo on April 28-29 from President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Catholic bishops, the pope of the Coptic church of Alexandria and the country's highest Islamic authority, Al-Azhar, the Vatican said in a statement.
  
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• King maintains support in Iowa after inflammatory comments

  18-03-2017 15:39 via yahoo.com
  
  CARROLL, Iowa (AP) — Outside his rural congressional district stretching over 39 Iowa counties, conservative U.S. Rep. Steve King's stream of inflammatory comments generate outrage and condemnation, but back home they rate little more than a shrug.
  
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• IS claims Bangladesh bombing, police kill militant

  18-03-2017 15:37 via yahoo.com
  
  The Islamic State Group claimed responsibility Saturday for a suicide bomb attack on a Bangladesh security forces camp, while police in Dhaka shot dead a suspected militant in a separate incident.The Bangladeshi government has repeatedly denied the presence of IS in the country, blaming attacks on local extremists."A caliphate soldier in Bangladesh carried out a martyrdom operation with an explosive belt in a camp for special forces in Dhaka," IS announced in its daily al-Bayan radio bulletin Sa
  
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• Letter from Antarctica

  18-03-2017 15:35 via yahoo.com
  
  Indeed, most dispatches from the “end of the world” paint a romantic image of scientists working in the field, buffeted by the elements, an apotheosis of man versus nature.While Antarctica has indeed been a showcase for international collaboration and peace since then, there’s still a geopolitical and strategic undertone to the presence of the United States here.
  
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• Why Antarctica is Earth's petri dish

  18-03-2017 15:32 via yahoo.com
  
  Some studies have revealed critical insights, such as the infamous hole in the ozone layer that appears over Antarctica during the region’s spring.In 1985, British Antarctic Survey scientists discovered that there was about half as much ozone over their research station as there had been just 30 years earlier.Recommended:Are you scientifically literate?
  
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• This crystal clear, scratch-resistant iPhone 7/7 Plus case is just $8 on Amazon

  18-03-2017 15:30 via yahoo.com
  
  iPhone cases can get pretty pricey these days, but do high quality and high prices always go hand in hand? Not if you’re talking about the ATGOIN TPU Hybrid Shock Absorbing Clear Case for Apple’s iPhone 7 and the ATGOIN TPU Hybrid Shock Absorbing Clear Case for Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus. At just $7.99 a piece on Amazon, it seems like a safe assumption that these crystal clear cases are low quality. But believe us when we tell you, that’s not the case at all. Or, if you don&rs
  
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