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• San Francisco CEO Robbed at Gunpoint, Calls 911 But Gets Shocking Response

  11-08-2022 23:44
  
  Conditions are getting so bad in President Joe Biden’s America, even the normally insulated political and financial elite are starting to suffer.
  The growing chaos became personal for one CEO on June 26, when he was violently robbed in one of San Francisco’s most prestigious neighborhoods.
  The decay caused by Democrat progressive policies were made even clearer when the victim was forced to wait about 10 minutes before 911 picked up his call.
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• Five years later, Charlottesville pauses to reflect on deadly White nationalist rally

  11-08-2022 23:41 via cnn.com
  
  On the five-year anniversary of a violent White nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, the city is pausing to reflect on the events of that weekend and hold several remembrance events in the coming days.
  
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• Fox News Gives Longtime Anchor Shannon Bream a Historic Promotion

  11-08-2022 23:33
  
  Longtime Fox News host Shannon Bream has been named the new anchor of “Fox News Sunday,” becoming the first woman to host the program.
  “Shannon is an outstanding journalist, reporter and anchor who has cultivated a strong and enduring relationship with the FOX News Media audience,” Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott said.
  Bream will begin hosting the Sunday morning political talk show on Sept. 11, Fox News reported Thursday.
  “It has been an honor to cover major news t
  
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• Unprecedented Disrespect: FBI Agents Rifled Through Melania's Clothes - Report

  11-08-2022 23:22
  
  The FBI is taking heat for reportedly rifling through Melania Trump’s wardrobe closet as agents raided former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and private office in Palm Beach, Florida.
  Although the feds had a search warrant to look for official federal records that Trump may have removed improperly from the White House, agents “scoured Melania Trump’s wardrobe,” the New York Post reported Tuesday.
  While a search should be thorough, the specter of FBI agents
  
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• 'WJ Live': Big Tech Just Paid $1.7B to Surveil the Inside of Your Home

  11-08-2022 23:15
  
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• Trump Posts the 5 Words on Everyone's Minds After the Raid

  11-08-2022 23:13
  
  Former President Donald Trump issued a very direct message following the Monday FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago, his Palm Beach, Florida home.
  “STOP COMMUNISM IN OUR COUNTRY!” he wrote on Truth Social on Thursday.
  Trump followed that post with another: “What happened to the 30 million pages of documents taken from the White House to Chicago by Barack Hussein Obama? He refused to give them back! What is going on? This act was strongly at odds with NARA [National Archives and Records Admi
  
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• Report: Informant Tipped Off FBI on Where Trump Documents Were at Mar-a-Lago Before Raid

  11-08-2022 23:03
  
  Two anonymous senior government sources have revealed that the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence on Monday was based on a tip from a confidential informant who informed Federal Agents where to find government documents alleged to be in Trump’s possession, according to a news report.
  The Biden administration officials, described as having first-hand knowledge of the FBI’s decision-making process, said the raid was intentionally performed while the
  
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• 'We have a problem': New ATF director takes office as country confronts a rise in violent crime

  11-08-2022 22:53 via cnn.com
  
  The new director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives took the agency's helm last month at a time when gun violence and extremism are on the rise, putting him among a handful of top federal officials tasked with preventing and responding to high-profile incidents of violent crime rocking the nation.
  
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• Post-Mar-a-Lago-Raid Poll Delivers Democrats Some Very Painful News

  11-08-2022 22:45
  
  If Democrats were hoping to have finally put a nail in former President Donald Trump’s political hopes with Monday’s FBI raid of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, they couldn’t have been more wrong.
  The image of federal agents swooping into the home of the most visible face of opposition to the misbegotten Joe Biden presidency has galvanized Republican voters looking forward to turning out for the midterm elections in November.
  And a poll released Thursday from one
  
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• Senior Biden communications adviser departing White House

  11-08-2022 22:37 via cnn.com
  
  Meghan Hays, a longtime communications aide to President Joe Biden, will depart her role as director of message planning at the White House later this month, CNN has learned.
  
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• CDC ends recommendations for social distancing and quarantine for Covid-19 control, no longer recommends test-to-stay in schools

  11-08-2022 22:31 via cnn.com
  
  The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the nation should move away from restrictive measures such as quarantines and social distancing and focus on reducing severe disease from Covid-19.
  
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• Attorney General Merrick Garland Breaks Silence on Mar-a-Lago Raid, Moves to Unseal Search Warrant

  11-08-2022 22:19
  
  Attorney General Merrick Garland spoke publicly about the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s personal residence in a Thursday news conference.
  Garland said he “personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter” and that the Justice Department has filed a motion to unseal the warrant.
  The attorney general stated that the department’s move to unseal the warrant was spurred by Trump’s “public confirmation” of the search, as w
  
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• Actress Anne Heche Under Investigation for Felony DUI as She Remains in Coma: Report

  11-08-2022 22:11
  
  Police in Los Angeles are investigating Hollywood actress Anne Heche for felony charges related to driving under the influence.
  Sources at the Los Angeles Police Department told TMZ that investigators have “upped the investigation to a felony” because the victim of Heche’s car crash — Lynne Mishele — said she has suffered from injuries related to the incident.
  In a statement shared Thursday with Fox News, the LAPD said that at first, police were unaware of injuries
  
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• Walgreens is paying signing bonuses up to $75,000 to pharmacists

  11-08-2022 21:58 via cnn.com
  
  Pharmacists are in such high demand that Walgreens is dangling lucrative signing bonuses to fill open positions.
  
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• Watch: Beto O'Rourke Angrily Lashes Out at Heckler During Anti-Gun Speech

  11-08-2022 21:49
  
  Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke lost his temper with a heckler during a Wednesday campaign event in Mineral Wells, Texas.
  The failed 2020 presidential candidate swore at his critic after the individual laughed during O’Rourke’s anti-gun remarks.
  The exclamation came as O’Rourke described what he maintains are the capabilities of an AR-15-style rifle.
  “It may be funny to you, motherf***er, but it’s not funny to me,” the Democrat said.
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• Immigrant Driver Who Crossed Centerline and Killed Veteran Bikers Acquitted on All Homicide Charges

  11-08-2022 21:37
  
  It was St. Thomas Aquinas who observed that “Justice without mercy is cruelty.” To round out the insight, he continued with, “Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution.”
  That seems to be where we are today: the American justice system teetering on the edge of dissolution.
  The drugged-out Ukrainian national who crashed into and killed seven members of the Jarheads Motorcycle Club in June 2019, has been found not guilty of all homicide charges, according to the Dai
  
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• Diapers and tampons shake 'luxury item' tax status in more states as prices rise

  11-08-2022 21:36 via nbcnews.com
  
  Diapers and period products like tampons are shaking their 'nonessential item' tax status in more states as lawmakers try to ease the hit from inflation.
  
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• Storms diverted 100 American Airlines flights and sparked hundreds of cancellations

  11-08-2022 21:26 via cnn.com
  
  Severe thunderstorms around Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on Wednesday caused 100 American Airlines flight diversions and led to hundreds of cancellations that extended into Thursday's schedule.
  
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• 'Nothing Like We've Ever Seen Before': News Cameras Capture 'Fire Tornado' Emerging from Wildfire

  11-08-2022 20:53
  
  A massive “fire tornado” erupted Wednesday as a brush fire roared through parts of Los Angeles County.
  The so-called “Sam Fire” was first reported at about 4 p.m. and originally involved four acres, according to the Los Angeles Times.
  The fire, located in Gorman, grew to about 150 acres, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department. At about 7 p.m., officials said the fire was no longer spreading.
  The fire was later reported as being 60 percent contained, with no s
  
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• Doctor Calls Viral TikTok Sleep Trend 'The Most Dangerous Trend I've Heard of in Some Time'

  11-08-2022 20:42
  
  In the wake of a new TikTok health trend, medical professionals have raised concerns. The said trend, known as “mouth taping,” was intended to help people get better sleep, TikTok users claimed.
  Doctors responded to the recent fad with their professional opinion.
  “This is one of the most dangerous trends I’ve heard of in some time, and I’m quite concerned that it is being advocated as a ‘health’ trend,” Dr. David Culpepper told Fox News.
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• Op-Ed: Today's Leftists Employ Disturbingly Familiar Tactics

  11-08-2022 20:23
  
  Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin were technically on opposite sides of the political spectrum, but both were unabashed in their embrace of fascism.
  Millions of innocents died at the hands of their ideology — whether far-left or far-right. Extremists always end up in the same place, using the same tactics to impose their ideology — whatever it may be.
  Hitler and Stalin embraced government authority to an awful and hopefully unrepeatable degree.
  Political persecution then: Long befo
  
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• More than half of GOP governor nominees have questioned or denied 2020 election legitimacy

  11-08-2022 20:00 via cnn.com
  
  The Republican nominee in at least 20 of this year's 36 gubernatorial races is someone who has rejected, declined to affirm, raised doubts about, or tried to overturn Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election.
  
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• Breaking: FBI Under Attack as Armed Man Tries Breaking Into Bureau Building, Shots Fired

  11-08-2022 19:25
  
  Law enforcement exchanged fire with a suspect who allegedly tried to breach an FBI building on Thursday morning.
  The Ohio State Highway Patrol pursued the unidentified man after he sought to enter the FBI Cincinnati field office in Kenwood, Ohio, and fired a nail gun at law enforcement authorities, according to WLWT-TV.
  The man was also armed with a rifle, the outlet reported.At approximately 9 AM this morning an armed subject attempted to breach the Visitor Screening Facility at #FBI Cincinnati
  
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• The streaming wars are over

  11-08-2022 19:22 via cnn.com
  
  In November 2019, Disney debuted Disney+, kicking off the so-called streaming wars and prompting companies across the media world to spend billions of dollars to launch services to take on Netflix.
  
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• The right is decrying the Mar-a-Lago search. But privately it could be a different story.

  11-08-2022 19:08 via nbcnews.com
  
  The biggest beneficiaries of the FBI's search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate are those looking to be the GOP presidential nominee in 2024.
  
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• Half of all teens say they use the internet 'almost constantly'

  11-08-2022 18:59 via cnn.com
  
  Nearly half of US teens say they use the internet "almost constantly," according to a new survey released on Wednesday.
  
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• This key inflation measure fell, but remains painfully high

  11-08-2022 18:56 via cnn.com
  
  A benchmark measure of inflation slowed in July after surging in the previous month, offering a glimmer of hope that the painful inflation Americans are facing could moderate in the coming months.
  
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• Now That Roe Is Gone, This State Files First Felony Charge in Next Step in Enforcing Abortion Ban

  11-08-2022 18:55
  
  On June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court released a decision that launched shock waves across America.
  “The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision.
  This ended the federal judicial overreach enshrined in the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. The issues of abortion lega
  
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• Pittsburgh Steelers Star Sued After He Allegedly Ditched Children at His Own Youth Football Camp

  11-08-2022 18:32
  
  A star receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers faces a lawsuit over his failure to show up to a youth football camp he was supposed to host.
  According to a report Tuesday by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Diontae Johnson worked with FlexWork Sports Management LLC to organize a youth football camp that was to take place on May 22 at Cupples Stadium in the city.
  The camp cost $125 per person for the base package, which would have included a photo with the Pro Bowl receiver, the report said.
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• Trump takes the Fifth at deposition

  11-08-2022 18:24 via cnn.com
  
  Former President Donald Trump is expected to be deposed by lawyers from New York Attorney General Letitia James' office Wednesday, people familiar with the matter tell CNN, pitting the two adversaries against each other after a more than three-year civil investigation into the Trump Organization's finances.
  
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• Whole Foods CEO Issues Warning About America: 'I Feel Like Socialists Are Taking Over'

  11-08-2022 18:14
  
  The CEO of Whole Foods sees storm clouds ahead for America in a world where a new generation shuns work and socialism is on the rise.
  Whole Foods CEO John Mackey shared his thoughts in an interview with Reason editor Nick Gillespie. Mackey will be stepping down as CEO on Sept. 1.
  “My concern is that, I feel like, socialists are taking over,” he said. “They’re marching through the institutions.”
  “They’re taking everything over; they’re taking over e
  
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• At least 10 GOP nominees for state elections chief have disputed the legitimacy of the 2020 election

  11-08-2022 18:13 via cnn.com
  
  • More than half of GOP governor nominees have questioned or denied the legitimacy of the 2020 election
  
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• Biden won't allow the Trump investigations to muddy his victory lap

  11-08-2022 18:05 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden doesn't plan to allow the investigations into his predecessor to muddy his efforts to tout a recent string of legislative achievements ahead of the midterm elections.
  
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• Mortgage rates climb above 5% once again

  11-08-2022 17:34 via cnn.com
  
  Mortgage rates climbed above 5% again, after dipping below that threshold for the first time in months a week earlier. While the volatility in mortgage rates remains, there are signs that the housing market is starting to stabilize.
  
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• Man Pleads Guilty to Threatening to Kidnap and Assault Republican Congressman and His Wife

  11-08-2022 17:32
  
  An Oklahoma man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to cyberstalking and threatening to kidnap and assault Republican Rep. Kevin Hern and his wife.
  Keith Charles Eisenberger is from Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and has been known for showing up, uninvited, to various political events in attempts to get close to political figures, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of Oklahoma reported.
  Eisenberger has made “concerning statements” in the past, dating back to November 2018 af
  
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• US gas prices tumble below $4 a gallon

  11-08-2022 17:10 via cnn.com
  
  Drivers in the United States can breathe a small sigh of relief — average gas prices have dropped below $4 a gallon for the first time since March.
  
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• Former school dean who recruited students for Latin Kings enters plea agreement for racketeering charge

  11-08-2022 17:09 via cnn.com
  
  A former Boston public high school dean and alleged Latin Kings recruiter pleaded guilty Tuesday to racketeering charges according to a news release from the US Attorney's Office for the district of Massachusetts.
  
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• Watch: Insane Moment Firefighters Battle 2 Engulfed Teslas and Erupting Ammo at House Fire

  11-08-2022 17:03
  
  This is hard to watch.
  A house fire torched two Tesla electric vehicles in the Seattle-area city of Lynnwood over the weekend, according to KIRO-TV.
  The pricey cars weren’t the only item that went up in the blaze.
  Video footage reveals ammunition detonating as a result of the fire.
  The volume of ammunition exploding almost seemed to resemble machine gun fire. The ammo was stored in the home’s garage.
  The blaze seemingly ignited hundreds of rounds of ammunition. Firefighters found car
  
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• Rubio Warns About Dangerous Playbook Dems Are Following in Relation to Trump and His Supporters

  11-08-2022 17:03
  
  Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida warned that by raiding former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, the Biden administration is following a disturbing playbook very common in other countries of the world.
  On Monday, FBI agents descended on Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida, property armed with a search warrant reportedly regarding confidential documents Trump allegedly has in his possession in violation of the Presidential Records Act.
  Appearing on the Fox News program “Ha
  
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• Essence of Swamp

  11-08-2022 16:35
  
  For more A.F. Branco cartoons, go to WesternJournal.com/cartoons.
  The post Essence of Swamp appeared first on The Western Journal.
  
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• While Recession Looms, New Defense Spending Bill Adds Billions for Unwanted Projects

  11-08-2022 16:20
  
  With recession fears looming large over the landscape of the 2022 midterms and inflation impacting families across the country, the Senate Appropriations Committee just pumped four billion taxpayer dollars into the Navy’s budget that the Navy never asked for — and much of the excess was never approved by the House Armed Services or Appropriations committee.
  As news of the excessive spending breaks, 70% of the American people consider inflation to be “a very big problem” f
  
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• Gas prices tumble below $4 for the first time in months

  11-08-2022 16:13 via cnn.com
  
  Drivers in the United States can breathe a small sigh of relief — average gas prices have dropped below $4 a gallon for the first time since March.
  
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• Former school dean who recruited students for Latin Kings gang, enters plea agreement for racketeering charge

  11-08-2022 16:08 via cnn.com
  
  A former Boston public high school dean and alleged Latin Kings recruiter pleaded guilty Tuesday to racketeering charges according to a news release from the US Attorney's Office for the district of Massachusetts.
  
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• Authorities continue to investigate cause of Indiana house explosion that killed 3 and damaged 39 homes

  11-08-2022 16:05 via cnn.com
  
  Authorities have yet to determine the cause of a house explosion Wednesday that left three people dead and damaged at least 39 homes in Evansville, Indiana, the city's fire chief said.
  
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• Blinken raised 'serious concerns' about human rights with Kagame in Rwanda

  11-08-2022 15:57 via cnn.com
  
  US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday said he had raised "serious concerns" related to human rights as well as issues about regional tensions with the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo during a meeting with Rwandan President Paul Kagame in the capital Kigali.
  
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• Trump Attorney Speaks Out on What She Saw During Mar-a-Lago Raid: 'The Government Seems to Be Out of Control'

  11-08-2022 15:33
  
  An attorney for former President Donald Trump said FBI agents wanted to “sneak in” and “snoop around” during Monday’s raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
  Lindsey Halligan, an attorney for Trump, was present during the search, which media accounts have said was related to the possibility that classified documents were at Mar-a-Lago, having been taken from Washington in the waning days of the Trump administration.
  Halligan said the raid is
  
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• Analysis: DOJ in a no-win situation

  11-08-2022 15:28 via cnn.com
  
  The FBI and the Justice Department are damned if they do and damned if they don't on the question of whether to promptly explain in public why they searched for missing documents at former President Donald Trump's Florida resort.
  
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• DOJ Ordered by Judge to End the Silence on Mar-a-Lago Raid

  11-08-2022 15:24
  
  U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, who reportedly approved the sealed search warrant for Monday’s FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach County, Florida, has just ordered the Department of Justice to respond to motions to unseal the warrant that led to the unprecedented action.
  The judge issued the order for the DOJ to “file a Response to the Motion to Unseal” after efforts led by the Times Union of Albany, New York,
  
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• Trump Getting Ultimate Revenge After Raid - Eric Reports Record-Breaking Support in Just 24 Hours

  11-08-2022 15:03
  
  The FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mara-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, Monday has been a fundraising boon for his Save America PAC, according to his son.
  What perfect poetic justice.
  In a tweet on Tuesday, Eric Trump said “DonaldJTrump.com is shattering all fundraising records and I’m told has raised more money in the past 24 hours than ever before in recent history! The American people are pissed!”Breaking: https://t.co/zt3c5Nkwh6 is shattering all fu
  
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• Biden says US knows that Austin Tice has been held by Syrian government

  11-08-2022 14:08 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden on Wednesday declared that the US government knows "with certainty" that American journalist Austin Tice has been held by the Syrian government and called on Damascus to cooperate on efforts to release him after 10 years of captivity.
  
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