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• Professor: Trump Must Resign or ‘Dangerous Individuals’ Will ‘Kill and Maim’

  03-10-2019 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A  professor at Georgia Southern University has declared that “people have already died” because of Donald Trump -- adding that the media must pressure him to resign or else “dangerous individuals” will “kill and maim.”A linguistics and writing professor, Jared Yates Sexton, made the comments on Twitter on Saturday, and screenshots of them were obtained by Campus Reform.According to Sexton, the media “must push against that impulse to juice impeachm
  
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• Uh oh: Trump’s attorney general asks Facebook for ‘backdoor’ messaging access

  03-10-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  US Attorney General Bill Barr is scheduled to make some remarks at a Justice Department event Friday focused on how tech companies promoting encryption has hampered government access to information.That's according to a New York Times preview of the event, which will come in tandem with a chilling demand from Barr: In a letter from President Trump's AG to Facebook dated October 4, Barr asks the social networking giant to immediately halt its plan to expand end-to-end encryption across the compan
  
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• The History of “Nine-O-Nine”, the B-17 Bomber that Crashed

  03-10-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The bomber involved in Tuesday’s fatal crash in Connecticut never made it to war, but served as a search and rescue plane and water bomber.
  
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• Ohio University suspends all fraternities over hazing claims

  03-10-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Ohio University on Thursday announced it was suspending all its fraternities following allegations of widespread hazing.Suspension of the 15 fraternities at the university was immediate and indefinite.It followed allegations within the past week of hazing at seven of the fraternities, as well as the expulsion in May of a fraternity following the alleged hazing of a freshman who died last year.
  
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• IRS Employee Files Whistleblower Complaint Over Audit of Trump/Pence Tax Returns: Report

  03-10-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  A career IRS official has filed a whistleblower complaint over inappropriate interference by at least one Treasury Department official in a mandatory annual audit of the president and vice president’s taxes.The House Ways and Means Committee was alerted to “possible misconduct” at the end of July, but The Washington Post shed more light on the situation Thursday when it reported that the individual was an IRS employee and revealed that the allegation pertained to Treasury
  
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• Some see rush to forgive as rush to forget racial violence

  03-10-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  When a white Dallas police officer who killed an innocent black man in his own living room was sent off to prison this week with a hug from the victim’s brother and the black judge on the case, some saw it as a moment of amazing grace and redemption.Many black Americans, though, saw something all too familiar and were offended.Some saw the rush to forgive as a rush to forget racial violence.
  
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• Photos of starving grizzly bear family stirs concern for climate crisis

  03-10-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A Canadian photographer’s images of an emaciated grizzly bear family has sparked widespread concern for the effect of climate change on wildlife in the area.Rolf Hicker shared a series of photos on Facebook of the bears looking for food on the shores of Canada’s Knight Inlet.
  
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• Warren turns 'cougar' accusation into a talking point for her college debt plan

  03-10-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Sen. Elizabeth Warren turned an unfounded personal attack into an opportunity to promote her college debt forgiveness plan.
  
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• Democrats still think Joe Biden is electable, but they're cooling on him

  03-10-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Joe Biden's electability figures are declining in a recurring Insider poll, which could indicate Democratic primary voters are cooling on him.
  
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• Randy Pitchford 'Exonerated' In Legal Battle With Ex-Gearbox Lawyer

  03-10-2019 22:55
  Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford has settled the legal dispute between him and a former Gearbox legal counsel. According to a new report, the two have agreed to a settlement while Pitchford has been "exonerated" from all allegations against him.
  In a new report from The Hollywood Reporter, the legal battle between Pitchford and former Gearbox legal counsel Wade Callender that began in December 2018 has reached its conclusion. The decision was discovered in a filing to the Dallas County (Texas) d
  
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• HTC Vive Cosmos Hands-On Impressions

  03-10-2019 22:39
  
  Although the HTC Vive Cosmos was announced at January 2019 during CES, the company only recently announced that the VR headset would begin shipping on October 3rd for $699. More importantly, we only got a drip-feed of information about the headset while it was hidden behind closed doors, but now we’re finally getting our hands on it.
  The first thing you might notice about the Vive Cosmos is wow–it looks good. HTC has seriously stepped up its game with an eye-catching metallic blue pa
  
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• Tyshawn Lee murder trial: Chicago prosecutors urge jury for a 'just' ending to boy's short life

  03-10-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Closing arguments began Thursday in the case of Tyshawn Lee, a 9-year-old boy was shot and killed in one of Chicago's most horrific crimes.
  
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• Gandhi’s ashes stolen and photo vandalized after 150th birthday celebrations, reports say

  03-10-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  An urn containing some of Mahatma Gandhi’s ashes was reportedly stolen from a government building in India, according to the Wire, an Indian news site.
  
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• A ‘Limited’ Nuclear War Quickly Could Kill 90 Million People

  03-10-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  That’s the startling conclusion that a team of researchers at Princeton University reached when they simulated an exchange of small-yield “tactical” nuclear weapons between the United States and Russia.
  
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• Because of Larry Nassar, Michigan State has the most rapes reported in a year in campus safety report

  03-10-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The annual Clery Act report, which is mandated by the federal government, includes more than 1,000 rapes – most attributed to Larry Nassar.
  
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• Who could be impeachment managers? An early look

  03-10-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Several members of the Judiciary panel had long agitated for impeachment, arguing for a robust congressional response to the findings of special counsel Robert Mueller.Then came revelations from an intelligence community whistleblower about Trumps political pressure on Ukraine, a watershed event that brought most of the other Democrats onboard.Should Democrats draft articles of impeachment against Trump, as expected, and approve them, then impeachment managers would be appointed to present the c
  
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• Trump asking foreign countries for help against Biden violates law, Election Commission chair warns

  03-10-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  FEC chair Ellen Weintraub posted a reminder about U.S. election law following Trump's latest requests to foreign nations.
  
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• Election Commission chair hints that Trump asking foreign countries for help against Biden violates law

  03-10-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  FEC chair Ellen Weintraub posted a reminder about U.S. election law following Trump's latest requests to foreign nations.
  
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• NEWSMAKER-Treason! Arrest him! The Democratic lawmaker who enrages Donald Trump

  03-10-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  For nearly three years, President Donald Trump has dismissed the investigations that shadowed almost every day of his presidency as hoaxes and witch-hunts, and the people leading them as crooks and liars.Trump, who has branded the impeachment probe as a "hoax," has attacked Schiff as a "lowlife" and a liar, thundered at him during a White House news conference, and suggested that he be questioned or arrested for treason."Schiff is a lowlife who should resign (at least!)," Trump wrote on Twitter
  
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• iPhone users, beware: 1,370 scam apps might’ve just been uncovered in the App Store

  03-10-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Policing a mobile applications marketplace is no easy feat when you're a tech giant the size of Google or Apple, both of which are constantly flooded with requests for new apps to be approved and both of which manage that inflow with a variety of tools that include human oversight and review.Google has been under fire in recent months over the discovery of hundreds of sketchy apps in its Google Play Store, apps found to be engaged in all manner of shady practices including serving as delivery me
  
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• Michael Avenatti Takes Stormy Daniels to Court for Millions in Legal Backpay

  03-10-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastEmbattled lawyer Michael Avenatti is taking legal action against his ex-client Stormy Daniels for $2 million in legal fees from their infamous “hush agreement” lawsuit against President Donald Trump. Avenatti, who currently faces federal criminal charges set for trial next month, filed an attorney’s lien on Thursday. It alleges that despite “repeated demands that Ms. Daniels fulfill her contractual obligations a
  
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• Wendy's Made a Tabletop RPG Where You Kill Ronald McDonald

  03-10-2019 21:09
  
  Wendy's, the fast-food chain best known for their square burgers and pigtailed mascot, is apparently trying to get into the tabletop market.
  Announced via a tweet, the 100-page rulebook for Feast of Legends, a Wendy's-themed fantasy tabletop RPG in the vein of Dungeons & Dragons, is free to download and ... surprisingly not completely terrible?Join the fight against the dark art of frozen beef. Our first tabletop RPG, #FeastOfLegends, is officially live! Download now for FREE.
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• CNN says it won't air a Trump campaign ad featuring 'false' claim against Biden

  03-10-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  A CNN spokesperson said that the Trump campaign ad attacking Biden does not meet its advertising standards because it includes "demonstrably false" claims.
  
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• Will P&G split its stock? It hasn't happened in 15 years

  03-10-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The longest P&G; has allowed the stock to remain above $100 before a stock split: 11 months. We're at six months, 10 days and counting.
  
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• RAH-66 Comanche Helicopter: Amazing to Look At (But a Massive Failure)

  03-10-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Waste of money.
  
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• Fighting GM puts a financial squeeze on striking union workers

  03-10-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - (Reuters) - While striking workers at General Motors Co's U.S. auto plants continue walking picket lines for a third week to demand better pay and benefits, the financial pressure has mounted for union members like Frank Lee.Analysts estimate that GM could lose $1 billion from the labor dispute that began on Sept. 16 and is now the longest nationwide strike at the automaker since 1970.For GM, which had $24 billion in cash and marketable securities as of June 30, that cost is
  
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• A leak reveals Apex Legends is getting zombies for Halloween

  03-10-2019 20:52 via gamesradar.com
  This is right up Wraith's void-walking alley
  
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• The Best Cooperative Board Games

  03-10-2019 20:50
  Board games can be a competitive hobby that pits friend against friend in a ruthless contest for victory points and bragging rights. But sometimes it’s good to set aside your differences, sit on the same side of the table and work towards a common goal. Luckily, there are plenty of quality cooperative games with which to set aside competition and forge bonds of friendship in the fires of teamwork. And if you're not necessarily concerned with co-op, check out IGN's list of the Best Board Ga
  
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• 2 men convicted at trial on Tekashi 6ix9ine testimony

  03-10-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The Brooklyn-born Tekashi 6ix9ine, whose legal name is Daniel Hernandez, had pleaded guilty earlier this year to charges accusing him of joining the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods, a violent street gang founded on Rikers Island.Last year, Tekashi 6ix9ine had a multiplatinum hit song, "Fefe," with Nicki Minaj, which peaked at No. 3 on the pop charts, and "Stoopid," featuring imprisoned rapper Bobby Shmurda.In testimony last month, Tekashi 6ix9ine explained to jurors that his role in Nine Trey was to "j
  
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• New York sues big U.S. student loan servicer for abusing borrowers

  03-10-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  New York state on Thursday sued one of the largest federal student loan servicers, whose practices the U.S. government singled out for criticism earlier this year, saying it abusively treated borrowers working in lower-paying public service jobs.The lawsuit by state Attorney General Letitia James adds to a growing list of complaints by borrowers and regulators against the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, which operates as FedLoan and American Education Services.James said FedLoan
  
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• The Latest: Woman gets 10 years in prison in son’s death

  03-10-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  A Phoenix woman who says her 2-year-old son fatally shot her 9-year-old son with a handgun that she left on a bed was sentenced to 10 years in prison for her role in the 2017 killing.The sentence given Thursday to Wendy Lavarnia in the death of her son, Landen, marked the most lenient punishment available under the terms of her guilty pleas to manslaughter and attempted child abuse.A Phoenix woman who says her 2-year-old son fatally shot her 9-year-old son with a handgun that she left on a bed f
  
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• Paris Knife Attacker Converted to Islam 18 Months Before Attack: Report

  03-10-2019 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  The French police employee who killed four of his colleagues at the Paris police headquarters on Thursday was a recent convert to Islam, according to French television BFM TV.The 45-year-old attacker killed three police officers and an administrative worker, three men and one woman, before being shot and killed by police. Officials so far have not publicly released a motive, and are trying to discover if there was a terrorism link. The man’s wife has been taken in custody.Paris Mayor Anne
  
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• Camp Shelby accident: What you need to know about the camp where 22 paratroopers were hurt

  03-10-2019 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Camp Shelby, where an accident occurred Wednesday, is unfamiliar to many. What is it? Where is it? What happens there? Find answers to your questions.
  
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• This Is The First Death Stranding Trailer That Makes Sense

  03-10-2019 20:07
  PlayStation has released a new Death Stranding trailer a month ahead of the game’s official release date. The new cinematic trailer is far more straightforward than any of the previous trailers released for Death Stranding, in that you actually can get a sense of what’s going on. Watch the new trailer above.
  The new cinematic trailer for Death Stranding gives a pretty concise overview of the upcoming Hideo Kojima game. You play as Sam Porter Bridges (portrayed by Norman Reedus) as he
  
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• School leaves 'bullied' child outside in cold with no coat and then reports him missing

  03-10-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman is suing school bosses in Chicago after her nine-year-old son was left outside in the cold without a coat.Yvonne Pinkston said her son, then a fourth grader at Fiske Elementary School in Englewood, Illinois, was deliberately locked outside of his school in near-freezing temperatures after he complained about being bullied by both students and staff.
  
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• Kin of limousine crash victims call for stricter regulations

  03-10-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  AMSTERDAM, N.Y. (AP)Relatives of some of the 20 people killed in a limousine crash urged quick action on safety legislation Thursday so other families wont have to endure the grief they have carried for the past year.A half-dozen relatives joined Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer and congressional representatives to promote new federal legislation that would tighten safety standards for limousines like the one that sped through a T-intersection in upstate New York and slammed into an embankment on O
  
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• The Ukrainian orphan accused of being an adult hung out at a drug recovery house and took adult education classes during her mysterious 3-year disappearance

  03-10-2019 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The pastor taking care of Natalia Grace, the Ukrainian orphan at the center of an adoption scandal, told Insider that 'everything is fine.'
  
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• New Death Stranding trailer 'The Drop' lays out your mission

  03-10-2019 19:53 via gamesradar.com
  May Norman Reedus will save us all
  
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• Fox Host Praises ‘Classic’ Trump’s ‘Legitimate’ Call for China to Dig Up Dirt on Biden

  03-10-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Shortly after President Donald Trump publicly called for China to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden amid an impeachment inquiry into his urging the Ukraine president to do the same thing, Wall Street Journal editor-at-large Gerard Baker praised the president for doubling down, claiming Trump feels this is a “legitimate thing to ask of foreign powers.Appearing on Fox News’ America’s Newsroom on Thursday morning, Baker—who also hosts the Fox Business Network weekl
  
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• A tropical wave is forming in the Caribbean as Lorenzo is expected to hit Ireland and the UK

  03-10-2019 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  For the first time in several weeks, there are no named tropical storms or hurricanes anywhere in the Atlantic.
  
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• University of Florida students and staff slam decision to pay Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle for speaking engagement

  03-10-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The University of Florida is facing backlash for paying Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle, senior adviser for President Trump's reelection campaign, $50,000 in student activity fees to speak at a campus event this month.
  
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• Storm to deliver more rain to soggy Heartland, snow to northern Rockies

  03-10-2019 18:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The rain-weary Plains and Midwest will be dealt yet another round of soggy weather heading into the weekend as a storm originating from the Pacific Ocean is set to take aim at the region after unleashing more snow over the northern Rockies.Rain and thunderstorms will spread over the Plains and Upper Midwest Friday night into Saturday as the storm system arrives."While less rain is likely to fall compared to other recent storms over the Plains and Upper Midwest, enough rain can fall to keep the s
  
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• ACLU challenges deportation of man to El Salvador

  03-10-2019 18:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The American Civil Liberties Union is demanding that the federal government return a Salvadoran man to the United States after he was deported despite a court order allowing him to remain here.In its brief filed Wednesday, the ACLU of New Hampshire said that José Daniel Guerra-Castañeda was deported last month by U.S. Immigration and Enforcement to El Salvador and is in a crowded jail there.A federal judge in Boston ruled last month that Guerra-Castañeda could remain in the
  
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• North Korea tests submarine-launched missile a day after saying it will resume nuclear talks with US

  03-10-2019 18:55 via news.yahoo.com
  A day after saying it would resume nuclear talks with the US, North Korea said it successfully test-fired a submarine-launched missile.
  
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• Untitled Goose Game 'Definitely Not Confirmed' For PS4 and Xbox One (Yet)

  03-10-2019 18:52
  Untitled Goose Game is honking all across the Nintendo Switch and PC, but it might be some time before the goose finds its way to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles. House-House has told IGN that other console ports of the goose game are “not confirmed,” despite earlier reports.
  “Definitely not confirmed,” House-House developer Stuart Gillespie-Cooke told IGN in an email after we reached out for clarification on a potential port. The question was prompted by an ABC Austr
  
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• Abby Huntsman Confronts Rachel Maddow: Aren’t You ‘Part of the Problem?’

  03-10-2019 18:45 via news.yahoo.com
  MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow brought her media tour to promote her new book Blowout about corruption in the oil and gas industry to The View on Thursday, but just like Stephen Colbert earlier in the week, all the hosts really wanted to talk about was Trump’s impeachment inquiry. Maddow continued to predict that Trump will be impeached over his phone call with the Ukrainian president and this time suggested that the scandal could bring down Vice President Mike Pence as well. Referr
  
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• Sperm donor sues clinic after discovering he has fathered 17 children

  03-10-2019 18:36 via news.yahoo.com
  A doctor is suing his medical school after discovering sperm he donated 30 years ago was used to father at least 17 children.Dr Bryce Cleary has filed a $5.25million (£4.23m) lawsuit against Oregon Health & Science University for allegedly breaking an agreement that his sperm would be used to father no more than five children.
  
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• The Latest: Pilot in B-17 crash logged 7,300 hours in bomber

  03-10-2019 18:30 via news.yahoo.com
  An official from the National Transportation Safety Board says the pilot in a deadly Connecticut plane crash had more than 7,000 hours’ experience flying B-17s.The pilot, Ernest McCauley, was among the seven people killed in the crash Wednesday at Bradley International Airport.The wife of a man who died in a B-17 bomber crash in Connecticut says she had “a really bad feeling” the plane was going to go down.
  
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• McDonald's announces Cinnamon Cookie Latte, its first seasonal drink in more than 5 years

  03-10-2019 18:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Donut Sticks are coming back to McDonald's with a new chocolate dipping sauce Nov. 6, along with the new McCafé Cinnamon Cookie Latte.
  
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• GTA Online patch notes: A new 4x4 and double rewards for biker Clubhouse Contracts

  03-10-2019 18:20 via gamesradar.com
  Win the Declasse Mamba, wear the Declasse Tee
  
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