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• Watch: Bone-Crunching College Football Hit Has Everyone Talking - Did Refs Miss a Targeting Call?

  03-12-2022 23:51
  For any college football fan, the lead-up to the College Football Playoff is a magical time of year.
  Between all the conference championship games, jockeying for playoff berths, debate shows and social media highlights, there is an almost never-ending amount of content for fans to consume.
  Case in point: The Pac-12 championship game on Friday between the University of Utah Utes and the University of Southern California Trojans has produced quite a bit of discussion, despite the lopsided 47-24 wi
  
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• Georgia Senate runoff smashes early voting records — and attracts new voters

  03-12-2022 23:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  Georgia has set new records for early voting again as the two Senate candidates blitz the state ahead of Tuesday’s runoff election.
  
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• 'Twitter Files' Fallout Rains Down as Texas Congressman Confirms 'Investigations Are Coming'

  03-12-2022 22:39
  Elon Musk’s release of information detailing how Twitter suppressed speech during the 2020 presidential election is only the beginning of the story, according to one Texas congressman.
  “Investigations are coming,” Republican Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas tweeted Friday.Release the names of government officials.
  Investigations are coming. https://t.co/1FfKVe1uQc
  — Congressman Troy Nehls (@RepTroyNehls) December 3, 2022Earlier Friday, journalist Matt Taibbi released internal Twi
  
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• Threats to protesters in Emmett Till rally prompt cancelation of Christmas parade in Kentucky

  03-12-2022 22:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Christmas parade planned for Saturday in Kentucky has been canceled after authorities received threats directed at protesters of an Emmett Till rally on the
  
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• James Woods Strikes Back, Announces Action Against DNC After Censorship Bombshell

  03-12-2022 21:29
  Actor James Woods, whose name appeared in the recently released “Twitter Files” on a list of tweets the Biden campaign wanted to be suppressed in 2020, says he may strike back.
  A tweet posted Friday by journalist Matt Taibbi showed a post from Woods on a list of ones that offended the sensibilities of the Democratic National Committee and was part of a revelation that Twitter employees would remove posts targeted by the Biden campaign.
  “How is the Twitter Files chicanery any di
  
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• Phoenix Homeless Creating Trash Nightmare: ACLU Steps in to Try and Prevent City from Cleaning up the Streets

  03-12-2022 20:57
  A liberal legal organization is seeking to prevent one of the nation’s biggest cities from cleaning up the trash left behind by the homeless.
  The American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona is seeking to prevent the city of Phoenix from resuming regular cleanups in an area of the city blighted with homeless encampments, known locally as “The Zone,” according to KNXV-TV.
  Phoenix previously stopped the cleanups in response to an investigation by the Justice Department.
  The DOJ prob
  
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• Nebraska man is sentenced to prison for leaving noose for coworker

  03-12-2022 20:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  LA VISTA, Neb. — A former employee at the Oriental Trading Co. has been sentenced to prison for leaving a noose on a floor scrubber that a Black colleague was
  
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• 140 MPH Police Chase Caught on Live TV - Dramatic Ending Comes When Suspect's 3 Carjacking Attempts Go Wrong

  03-12-2022 20:29
  California police apprehended a suspect on Thursday after a dramatic pursuit in which he seemingly tried to carjack three vehicles.
  Los Angeles Police Department officers began chasing the man, who was allegedly armed, after he entered a car in downtown LA and drove away from them, according to CBS News.
  The California Highway Patrol took over the pursuit after the man drove onto Interstate 10, later traveling on California 60 at speeds of up to 140 miles an hour in a bid to evade arre
  
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• Biden Facing Major Rebellion as 'Rank and File' Will Openly Refuse Orders: Report

  03-12-2022 20:14
  Members of the U.S. Air Marshals service are so fed up with the Biden administration’s abuse of the service, and its decision to remove marshals from flights and instead sending them to work on the southern border with illegals, that they are reportedly planning an open rebellion.
  The Biden regime has been removing marshals from flights — leaving those planes to fly unprotected — and sending them to the border with Mexico to transport, feed, and care for the tens of thousands o
  
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• Terrifying Sea Phenomena Hits Cruise Ship Out of Nowhere, Leaves 1 Dead, Shattered Glass Everywhere

  03-12-2022 19:36
  A rogue wave smashed into a cruise ship on an Antarctic voyage Tuesday, leaving an American woman dead.
  The incident happened while the Viking Polaris was off the southern tip of South America,  according to Fox News.
  The name of the 62-year-old woman who was killed was not released.
  Four other passengers were injured when the giant wave smashed windows aboard the cruise ship. Their injuries were described as non-life threatening.‘Rogue wave’ kills person on Antarctic cruise.
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• Reporter Makes First Post Since Going Missing from NBC After Pelosi Retraction, Reveals Location

  03-12-2022 19:22
  Miguel Almaguer, an NBC News correspondent who reportedly was suspended over his Nov. 4 report on Paul Pelosi’s attack, has posted photos on Instagram revealing his location after his sudden disappearance from the public eye.
  Almaguer’s now-removed report on NBC’s “Today” show went viral when he made previously unknown revelations regarding the attack.
  Police said Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was assaulted in their San Francisco home on Oc
  
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• West Virginia Loses One of Few Remaining Dems as State Senator Makes Huge Announcement

  03-12-2022 19:16
  West Virginia Democrats are continuing to lose ground as one of the few state senators they have left has decided to switch parties.
  State Sen. Glenn Jeffries announced his decision to his 8th District constituents on Thursday, according to WVAH-TV.
  The senator’s statement did not reveal his reasons for joining the Republican side.
  “I have the greatest respect for the many friends and supporters I have been blessed with during my time in public office,” Jeffries said in the sta
  
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• Kamala Harris Suffers Major Loss, Second Staffer in Weeks to Depart from Office

  03-12-2022 19:04
  Vice President Kamala Harris is losing another staffer.
  Harris communications director Jamal Simmons is planning on leaving his role with the Vice President’s office next month, according to a Friday Politico report.
  “Working for Vice President Harris has been an honor and a privilege,” Simmons said of his departure in a statement provided to Politico.
  “I’m so thankful for the confidence she put in me and I will miss this fantastic team more than anything.”
  Th
  
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• UK in Talks to Hand Crowning Work of Classical Architecture Over to Another Country

  03-12-2022 18:41
  The British Museum has pledged not to dismantle its collection, following a report that the institution’s chairman has held secret talks with Greece’s prime minister over the return of the Parthenon Sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles.
  The report by the Greek newspaper Ta Nea is the latest twist in the long-running dispute over ownership of the ancient sculptures, which originally stood on the Acropolis in Athens and have been a centerpiece of the British Museum’s colle
  
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• Biden Administration Finds Itself in Tangled Web, Trying to Stop NATO Member from Launching Strikes on Allies

  03-12-2022 18:41
  Biden administration officials are toughening their language toward NATO ally Turkey as they try to talk Turkish President Recep Erdogan out of launching a bloody and destabilizing ground offensive against American-allied Kurdish forces in neighboring Syria.
  Since Nov. 20, after six people died in an Istanbul bombing a week before that Turkey blamed, without evidence, on the U.S. and its Kurdish allies in Syria, Turkey has launched cross-border airstrikes, rockets and shells into U.S.- and Kurdi
  
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• 82-Year-Old Woman Breaks Down in Tears as She's Arrested Over $77 Trash Bill: 'You Ought to Be Ashamed'

  03-12-2022 18:19
  At first, Martha Menefield thought that police officers coming to arrest her on Sunday was a joke. She laughed it off.
  Then the 82-year-old was put in handcuffs and marched off to jail in Valley, Alabama — because her trash disposal bill of $77.80 was not paid.
  Amid her humiliation, she recalled what one officer said, according to WIAT-TV.
  “’Don’t cry, Ms. Martha.’ … He kind of whispered it to me: ‘Don’t cry.’”
  Menefield said she thoug
  
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• Noodle the pug, who took the internet by storm with TikTok game 'no bones,' dies at 14

  03-12-2022 18:11 via nbcnews.com
  
  Noodle the pug, who took the internet by storm with TikTok game “no bones" in 2021, passed away at 14 and a half on Friday, according to his owner, Jonathan Gra
  
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• Elon Musk Goes Nuclear: 'If This Isn't a Violation of the Constitution's First Amendment, What Is?'

  03-12-2022 18:09
  As documents released on Twitter appear to indicate that Twitter became a tool of President Joe Biden’s 2020 election campaign, Elon Musk summed up his disgust with what was revealed.
  On Friday, journalist Matt Taibbi shared a communication illustrating how complaints were received.
  “One executive would write to another: ‘More to review from the Biden team.’ The reply would come back: ‘Handled,’” he posted on Twitter, leading Musk to reply.
  “If thi
  
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• Peter Doocy Reminds WH Press Secretary Why He's Their Worst Nightmare - Musk Would Be Proud

  03-12-2022 18:03
  This guy might be the worst nightmare of Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
  Fox News journalist Peter Doocy had Jean-Pierre on her back foot in Wednesday’s White House news conference.
  Doocy pointed out the White House’s hypocrisy in continuing to use Twitter after all but throwing shade at new CEO Elon Musk.
  “When are you guys going to delete the White House Twitter account?” Doocy questioned Jean-Pierre.Peter Doocy asks Karine Jean-Pierre when the White House wil
  
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• Body of Missing 7-Year-Old Girl Found, Lone Suspect in Custody

  03-12-2022 17:55
  A 7-year-old girl was found dead Friday night, two days after she went missing from her home in the Wise County, Texas, community of Paradise.
  Tanner Lynn Horner, 31, has confessed to police to kidnapping the girl and killing her, Wise County Sheriff Lane Akin said Friday, according to WFAA-TV.
  Horner was working as a contract FedEx truck driver at the time the girl was taken. Police said he is the only suspect in the case.BREAKING: Wise County officials announce they recovered the body of 7-yea
  
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• Al Roker Readmitted to Hospital Following Complications From Blood Clots: 'Doctors Are Keeping a Close Eye on Him'

  03-12-2022 17:50
  “Today” show weatherman Al Roker has been re-hospitalized as he fights blood clots throughout his body.
  The 68-year-old meteorologist was initially hospitalized last month, and wrote in a Nov. 18 Instagram post under a picture of a bouquet of flowers and an “NBC News Weather” mug:
  “So many of you have been thoughtfully asking where I’ve been. Last week I was admitted to the hospital with a blood clot in my leg which sent some clots into my lungs. After some me
  
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• Balenciaga's creative director apologizes for 'wrong artistic choice of concept'

  03-12-2022 17:27 via nbcnews.com
  
  Balenciaga’s creative director Demna Gvasalia apologized for what he said was a "wrong artistic choice of concept" after the luxury fashion brand was
  
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• Republican John Duarte wins open House seat in California after Democrat concedes

  03-12-2022 17:17 via cnn.com
  
  Democrat Adam Gray conceded on Friday night to Republican John Duarte in the open-seat race to represent California's 13th Congressional District, the final House race of the 2022 midterms to be called.
  
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• Rand Paul Gives Fauci a Brutal Retirement Present: 'We've Caught Him Red-Handed'

  03-12-2022 17:16
  Dr. Anthony Fauci’s recent claim that he has no regrets about anything he has done in his career brought a savage rejoinder from Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky.
  During a recent interview, Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was asked if, as he prepares to retire, there was anything he would do over.
  “I’m the first to admit I’m far from perfect, but when you say do over, you know, I really can’t see somethi
  
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• As Elon Musk Suspended Kanye West from Twitter, He Sent Him a Powerful Prayer

  03-12-2022 16:44
  The best that can be said for Kanye West is that he’s certainly had himself an interesting autumn.
  Things began, innocuously enough, with a relatively normal interview in October on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” in which the rapper sounded lucid, if a bit outré.
  That would quickly progress to a series of anti-Semitic social posts that lost West — also known as “Yeezy” or just “Ye” — most of his sponsors, to an announced presidential run, wh
  
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• Biden, the 'pro-union' president, risks the support of a key constituency to avert a rail strike

  03-12-2022 15:49 via nbcnews.com
  
  Biden is facing a backlash from a core of rail workers and allied groups, some of whom see a betrayal in the bill he pushed to avert a rail strike.
  
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• Twitter Censored This James Woods Post After One Message from the Democratic Party

  03-12-2022 15:33
  It would be difficult to look at the files released by Elon Musk on Friday evening and arrive at any other conclusion: Top executives at the social media platform colluded with the Biden campaign to suppress the New York Post’s bombshell report about Hunter Biden’s laptop. And they did so to influence the 2020 presidential election.
  Via a lengthy Twitter thread, Rolling Stone editor Matt Taibbi revealed the exchanges between company executives and the campaign in the weeks leading up
  
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• Boebert Takes to House Floor to Roast Pelosi: 'The American People Have Spoken - They Have Fired You'

  03-12-2022 14:52
  U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado delivered a ‘Good bye and good riddance’ to outgoing Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday.
  “Madam speaker,” the Republicans said, addressing Pelosi from the House floor, “the American people have spoken. They have fired you and have chosen to end the Democrats’ one-party rule throughout our government.”
  Republicans took back control of the House in November’s midterm elections, ending Pelosi’s
  
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• People can't stop drinking espresso martinis, stats show

  03-12-2022 14:18 via cnn.com
  
  It might be 2022, but people are still ordering espresso martinis like it's the 90s.
  
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• Forget smartwatches, consumers are snapping up these quirky alternatives

  03-12-2022 14:16 via cnn.com
  
  In 2015, the same year Apple introduced its smartwatch, a Kickstarter campaign launched for a very different kind of wearable device: a wellness-tracking ring called the Oura.
  
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• Forget smartwatches, consumers are snapping up these alternatives

  03-12-2022 14:16 via cnn.com
  
  In 2015, the same year Apple introduced its smartwatch, a Kickstarter campaign launched for a very different kind of wearable device: a wellness-tracking ring called the Oura.
  
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• Same-sex marriage and LGBTQ protections at center of another Supreme Court case

  03-12-2022 14:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Supreme Court is being asked to decide in a case on Monday whether a designer can be punished for refusing to design websites for same-sex weddings.
  
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• Royal teen at World Cup goes viral in China as 'dumpling wrapper prince'

  03-12-2022 14:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  A 16-year-old thought to be a member of the Qatari royal family has gone viral on Chinese social media after his visible disappointment over a World Cup loss.
  
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• Why these unquestioning musical 'Christmas Carol' reboots hit the wrong key in 2022

  03-12-2022 13:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Netflix and Apple's new Christmas movie 'Christmas Carol' reboots 'Spirited' and 'Scrooge' miss Elon Musk and Sam Bankman-Friedman billionaire irony opportunity
  
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• Biden vowed 'consequences' for Saudi Arabia after oil production cut. But the U.S. has no plans to follow through.

  03-12-2022 12:15 via nbcnews.com
  
  Nearly two months after President Joe Biden vowed "there will be consequences" for Saudi Arabia’s actions to cut oil production, the U.S. is not actively considering any significant retaliatory actions against the kingdom.
  
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• Rhode Island's capital city will spend $10 million in reparations, and it could benefit White residents

  03-12-2022 12:02 via cnn.com
  
  Officials in Providence, Rhode Island, recently approved a $10 million budget plan for the city's reparations program, but some are wondering who might end up benefiting from it.
  
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• Bail reform is working. Why are Democrats running away from it?

  03-12-2022 12:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Democrats after the elections are buying into GOP falsehoods about bail reform, even though the midterms and the data vindicates the policy.
  
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• If you have the 'killer instinct needed to fight the real enemy,' you could be New York City's next 'rat czar'

  03-12-2022 09:05 via cnn.com
  
  New York City is recruiting a new "director of rodent mitigation" to rid the streets of its most notorious furry inhabitants.
  
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• FedEx driver kidnapped 7-year-old Texas girl who was found dead Friday, officials say

  03-12-2022 07:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  A FedEx contract driver in Texas was arrested Friday and accused of kidnapping and murder in the death of a 7-year-old girl who went missing two days earlier, officials said.
  
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• Ex-trooper bought home, blacked out windows, weeks before allegedly killing family of teen he catfished, seller says

  03-12-2022 06:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  Weeks before a former Virginia state trooper allegedly killed three members of a California family in a “catfishing” scheme, he bought a home sight unseen and blacked out the windows, the man who sold him the house said Friday.
  
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• Released Twitter emails show how employees debated how to handle 2020 New York Post Hunter Biden story

  03-12-2022 05:11 via cnn.com
  
  For days, Twitter owner Elon Musk had teased a massive bombshell disclosure based on internal company documents that he claimed would reveal "what really happened" inside Twitter when it decided to temporarily suppress a 2020 New York Post story about Hunter Biden and his laptop.
  
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• Former Medical Director of Children's Hospital Now in Custody, Accused of Heinous Crimes

  03-12-2022 04:09
  A former medical director of a Virginia hospital that serves vulnerable children has been charged with four felony sex crimes in connection with abuse that authorities say happened at the facility years ago.
  A grand jury indicted Dr. Daniel N. Davidow of Richmond, a former longtime employee of the Cumberland Hospital for Children and Adolescents, last month, court records show. The records were unsealed Thursday, a local prosecutor announced Friday.
  Robert F. Donnelly, an attorney for Davidow, t
  
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• Uvalde Survivors File Massive $27 Billion Suit Against Law Enforcement Officials

  03-12-2022 04:06
  Victims of the Uvalde school shooting that left 21 people dead have filed a lawsuit against local and state police, the city and other school and law enforcement officials seeking $27 billion due to delays in confronting the attacker, court documents show.
  The lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in Austin on Tuesday, says officials failed to follow active shooter protocol when they waited more than an hour to confront the attacker inside a fourth-grade classroom.
  It seeks class action stat
  
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• Musk Just Did It: Drops Bombshell Hunter Biden Laptop 'Twitter Files'

  03-12-2022 01:10
  This story will be updated as “The Twitter Files” continue to release. 
  Elon Musk tweeted on Monday that he would soon be publishing “The Twitter Files.” These files would be related to the suppression of free speech on the platform.
  Musk’s initial teaser tweet read, “The Twitter Files on free speech suppression soon to be published on Twitter itself. The public deserves to know what really happened …”The Twitter Files on free speech suppress
  
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• Op-Ed: Obama Squandered a Golden Opportunity in Iran - Can a GOP Congress Now Take Action?

  03-12-2022 01:07
  In November, both the U.S. and Israel held monumental elections.
  For America, it was the highly-contested midterm races for the House and Senate. In Israel, the entire parliament (called the K’nesset) was up for election.
  The rather bizarre hybrid government of left-leaning Yair Lapid and right-leaning Naftali Bennett and their smorgasbord coalition — all allied by little more than opposition to Israeli political giant Benjamin Netanyahu — had finally collapsed after a year of
  
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• Who in the U.S. gets paid sick leave, in four charts

  03-12-2022 00:43 via nbcnews.com
  
  One in 5 civilian workers in the U.S don’t have paid sick leave, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, that figure changes depending on geography and occupation.
  
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• Arizona secretary of state seeks investigation of Republicans who balked at certifying election

  03-12-2022 00:27 via cnn.com
  
  The Arizona Secretary of State's Office on Friday asked state and local prosecutors to investigate and take enforcement action against two Republican officials who had balked at certifying their county's election results by the legal deadline.
  
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• 'He did nothing wrong': Family of Texas entrepreneur fatally shot by police say he was defending his home

  03-12-2022 00:06 via nbcnews.com
  
  A tech entrepreneur in Texas wasn’t given ample time to drop a rifle he was carrying on his own front porch, his family told NBC News in an exclusive interview.
  
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