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• Coal States Urge Trump Administration to Tackle Plant Closures

  30-09-2019 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Six coal states are pressing the Trump administration to wrap up an almost two-year inquiry into whether coal and nuclear plant retirements are threatening the electric grid.In letters to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which overseas U.S. power markets, utility commissioners from Alabama, Kentucky, Montana, Tennessee, West Virginia and Wyoming warned that plant closures are accelerating and “bringing increased attention to grid resilience and fuel security.”
  
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• Elizabeth Warren’s Native American Problem Isn’t Going Away

  30-09-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  ‘I have listened and I have learned,” said Elizabeth Warren at a forum of Native American voters in Iowa last month. “Like anyone who’s being honest with themselves, I know that I have made mistakes. I am sorry for the harm I have caused.” Did any reporter ask her what harm, specifically, she’d caused, or what, specifically, she’d learned? Did any reporter ask her if her “mistakes” were ones anyone could have made, or ones she believed any of
  
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• Late-day bombshells erupt as Trump impeachment inquiry gets underway

  30-09-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Within the span of just over an hour, a slew of news dropped that could affect the chances President Trump will be impeached.
  
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• Judge Allows Cop to Use ‘Castle Doctrine’ Defense in Trial for Mistaken Apartment Killing

  30-09-2019 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The jury in the trial of Amber Guyger, a former Dallas police officer who is charged with murdering her neighbor in his apartment, can consider the "Castle Doctrine" as part of Guyger's defense, Judge Tammy Kemp ruled Monday, hours before final deliberations in the murder trial.The Castle Doctrine, which was passed by the Texas Legislature in 2007, “presumes that the use of force is reasonable and necessary when someone is unlawfully and with force entering or attempting to enter your occu
  
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• Trump reportedly pushed Australia's prime minister to work with Barr and 'discredit' Mueller

  30-09-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump is reportedly asking for favors around the world.Just weeks after he asked Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky for a "favor," Trump reportedly asked Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison for another one. He wanted Morrison to work with Attorney General William Barr to investigate the origins of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe and hopefully discredit it, two American officials with knowledge of the call tell The New York Times.Trump "initiated the call" with M
  
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• Homeless subway singer who mesmerized with beautiful singing voice is identified

  30-09-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  A homeless woman who captivated the world with her angelic singing voice last week has been identified.
  
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• Hunter Biden's work in Ukraine is a problem, but not just for Democrats

  30-09-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The former vice president's son sat on the board of directors of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings. Does that matter?
  
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• EXCLUSIVE-Mexico's Pemex seeks control of U.S. oil firm's billion-barrel find

  30-09-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  When U.S. oil firm Talos Energy found nearly a billion barrels off Mexico's southern Gulf coast two years ago, it marked the first discovery by a foreign firm since the oil industry was nationalized eight decades earlier.Now Mexico's state-run oil firm Pemex wants to take over the lucrative project, according to two former Mexican energy officials and two company executives with knowledge of internal Pemex discussions.The Pemex push to run drilling in the oilfield comes amid the ongoing drive by
  
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• Lawyers for former Taliban hostage say he’s ‘not easy to like’ but didn’t abuse wife

  30-09-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  In closing arguments, Joshua Boyle’s defence attempted to smooth out the damaging parts of his testimonyJoshua Boyle, the Canadian man held hostage by the Taliban, has admitted to criticizing his wife, fighting often, and even striking her once. Photograph: Chris Wattie/ReutersThe Canadian man who spent five years as a hostage in Afghanistan with his American wife, is “arrogant” and “argumentative”– but is nonetheless not guilty of abusing his wife, defence la
  
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• What did ancient crocodiles eat? Study says as much as a snout can grab

  30-09-2019 22:18
  To study the diet of ancient crocodiles, two researchers combined mathematical analyses of the animals' shapes, surveys of modern crocodiles' diet, modeling methods for reconstructing the diet of fossil groups, and forensic-style interpretations of damaged bones from the distant past.
  
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• Collapse of desert bird populations likely due to heat stress from climate change

  30-09-2019 22:18
  Last year, biologists discovered that bird populations in the Mojave Desert had crashed over the past 100 years. The biologists now have evidence that heat stress is a key cause. Simulations with a computerized 'virtual bird' suggest that with higher temperatures, birds need more water to keep cool. Larger insectivores or carnivores should be most affected, and small seed-eaters less so if drinking water is available: just as the biologists reported last year.
  
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• Donald Trump: 'We're trying to find out' the identity of whistleblower who made Ukraine complaint

  30-09-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump said he is still trying to learn the identity of the whistleblower whose allegations over Ukraine triggered an impeachment inquiry.
  
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• In Death Penalty Cases, Sotomayor Is Alone in 'Bearing Witness'

  30-09-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON -- The terse Supreme Court rulings arrived in the evening, in time to allow an execution later that night. There were three rulings in the last month or so, at 5:52 p.m., at 7:01 p.m. and at 10:13 p.m. They were bland and formulaic, saying only that the court had denied an "application for stay of execution of sentence of death." The inmates who had filed the applications were put to death within hours. In all three cases, only one member of the court bothered to write an opinion, to
  
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• QAnon Disciple Allegedly Vandalized Catholic Church With Crowbar While Ranting About Human Trafficking

  30-09-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  A believer in the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory allegedly vandalized a prominent Catholic church in Arizona last week in what appears to be the latest violent incident involving a disciple of the conspiracy theory.QAnon believers base their worldview around anonymous clues posted online by an anonymous character named “Q.” The clues, which echo the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory, posit that President Donald Trump and the U.S. military are engaged in an elaborate covert
  
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• CBS News poll: Majority of Americans, Democrats approve impeachment inquiry

  30-09-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  More than half of Americans — and an overwhelming number of Democrats — say they approve of the fact that Congress has opened an impeachment inquiry into President Trump. But as the inquiry begins, there is no national consensus on how to assess the president's actions.
  
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• After 70 Years, Communist China Is Weaker Than It Appears

  30-09-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 after 69 years of tyranny and aggression. On October 1, the People’s Republic of China will officially turn 70. The brutal regime of Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping has made China the world’s longest surviving Communist country, and unlike the Kremlin of old, Beijing seems stronger than ever.The contrast between China today and the Soviet Union at its death could hardly be more stark. In the early 1990s, Russia’s military was swiftly losing ground t
  
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• 2020 Candidates Try a New Tactic to Convince Supporters to Donate: Brutal, Shameless Honesty

  30-09-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Sen. Cory Booker and former HUD Secretary Julián Castro both indicated that the end of September could mark the end of their campaigns in fundraising plea.
  
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• Teacher allegedly stapled 10-year-old student's ear for not doing homework

  30-09-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Droplets of blood were found on the boy's uniform, which led his parents to file a report with police. Malaysian officials are investigating.
  
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• PHOTOS: Young Venezuelan ballplayers 'wanted to stay' in U.S.

  30-09-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  While playing for Venezuela in baseball's Little League World Series in the United States last month, 12-year-old Adrian Salcedo ate tacos and Chick-fil-A, donned a virtual reality headset to envision himself hitting home runs in big-league ballparks and marveled at the lush grass of the fields.
  
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• Catholic Archdiocese of New York removes all priests accused of sex abuse, report says

  30-09-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The archdiocese covers Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties, along with parts of New York City and the Hudson Valley.
  
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• '2020 Vision' Monday: Kate McKinnon is running again on 'SNL' — this time as Elizabeth Warren. How the new season's cast could shape the primary

  30-09-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  “Saturday Night Live” returned this weekend for its 45th season, renewing a tradition of lampooning presidents (and would-be presidents) that stretches back to the show’s earliest days.
  
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• Man had his heart shocked 34 times following heart attack: 'I'm still here'

  30-09-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  A 63-year-old man from Ohio who had his heart shocked 34 times is coming forward with his near-death experience to educate others
  
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• 4 feet deep: Historic 'winter' storm means September snow day for kids in Browning, Montana

  30-09-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Kids in Browning, Montana, were gifted with that rare September snow day Monday after a historically early winter storm pounded parts of the West.
  
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• People's Views of China Are Mixed, According to Global Study

  30-09-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  The People's Republic of China celebrates its 70th anniversary on Tuesday, and the views of the country by people around the world are mixed, according to new research by the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C.Negative views of China have turned most sharply turned negative in North America, Western Europe and across the Asia-Pacific, while positive views of the East Asian giant were recorded in Russia, Ukraine, the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, according to the report,
  
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• Eurasian Showdown: Are China's or Russia's Infantry Fighting Vehicles Superior?

  30-09-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  We rank these bad boys.
  
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• Ivanka Trump called 'fraud' by 'Star Wars' actor Mark Hamill after tweeting photo of son as Stormtrooper: 'You're a real jerk'

  30-09-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The First Daughter of the United States received criticism from Luke Skywalker after posting a family photo on social media.
  
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• Al-Shabaab attacks US base, EU convoy in Somalia

  30-09-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The Al-Shabaab militant group claimed responsibility for an attack on a US base in Somalia on Monday, as the European Union confirmed a separate strike against a convoy of Italian advisers.The raid on the base prompted a counter-attack by US forces who staged "two air strikes and used small arms fire targeting al-Shabaab terrorists," Major General William Gayler, US Africa Command (AFRICOM) director of operations said, adding that 10 "terrorists" died and a vehicle was destroyed.
  
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• California man arrested after leading police on 2-hour chase through corn maze

  30-09-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  A California man was caught and arrested by police Saturday morning, but not before he managed to elude them for two hours while hiding inside a corn maze.
  
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• A student at Karen Pence's school alleged students cut her dreadlocks. She just took it back.

  30-09-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The Virginia private school student who claimed three classmates pinned her down and forcibly cut off her dreadlocks has now retracted the story.Reports emerged last week about an allegation from 12-year-old Amari Allen, who is black, that three white sixth-grade boys pinned her down during recess at Immanuel Christian School and cut her dreadlocks while saying "my hair was nappy and I was ugly and I shouldn't have been born," as she told The Washington Post. The story quickly went viral online
  
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• New protest hit Haiti amid demands that president resign

  30-09-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators set fires Monday and chanted calls for Haiti's president to resign as the opposition to Jovenel Moïse tried to increase pressure for him to leave office.Opposition leaders and supporters say they are angry about public corruption, spiraling inflation and a dwindling supply of gasoline that has forced many gas stations in the capital to close.Suppliers have demanded that the cash-strapped government pay them more than $100 million
  
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• Nigerian police free 19 women and girls from Lagos 'baby factory': statement

  30-09-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Police in Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos, have freed 19 women and girls who had mostly been abducted and impregnated by captors planning to sell their babies.The girls and women, aged from 15 to 28, had been brought from all over Nigeria with promises of work, Lagos police said on Monday."Baby factories", as such premises are widely known, are most common in parts of eastern Nigeria.
  
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• UPDATE 3-San Francisco tour guide charged with carrying U.S. secrets to China

  30-09-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  A San Francisco tour guide has been charged with being an agent of the Chinese government, accused of picking up U.S. national security secrets from furtive locations and delivering them cloak and dagger style to Beijing, federal prosecutors said on Monday.Xuehua Peng, also known as Edward Peng, was arrested on Friday in the San Francisco suburb of Hayward, California, and was denied bail during an initial court appearance by a U.S. magistrate judge that same day, federal prosecutors said at a M
  
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• Meghan Markle wears the chicest Everlane slingbacks while on royal tour

  30-09-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Unlike Meghan's go-to pair of Manolo Blahnik heels that cost over $600, these Everlane flat will only set you back $155. 
  
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• This is the most popular Halloween candy in the U.S.

  30-09-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The most popular Halloween candy in America is and oldie but a goodie. And here's a hint: It comes in a ton of chocolatey flavors.
  
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• San Francisco tour guide charged with carrying U.S. secrets to China

  30-09-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Xuehua Peng, also known as Edward Peng, was arrested on Friday in the San Francisco suburb of Hayward, California, and was denied bail during an initial court appearance by a U.S. magistrate judge that same day, federal prosecutors said at a Monday morning news conference."The conduct charged in this case alleges a combination of age-old spycraft and modern technology," U.S. Attorney David Anderson said.
  
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• Hillary Clinton email server probe revisited by State department, Washington Post reports

  30-09-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server while she served as secretary of state, potentially exposing secret information to foreign governments, is back under increased scrutiny by the State Department.
  
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• Canada, US seek to reduce dependency on China for rare earth minerals

  30-09-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Canada is in talks with the United States to seek ways for both to reduce their dependance on China for rare earth elements, key minerals for high-tech products, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday.
  
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• Peregrine falcon chicks hatch in Melbourne as Facebook fans watch on

  30-09-2019 20:00 via theguardian.com
  Thousands of fans are monitoring the new brood in their nest in a high-rise office buildingThe peregrine falcons at 367 Collins Street in Melbourne’s CBD have hatched a new brood of chicks, to the delight of the thousands of fans who monitor the birds via a livestream video feed.One of their eggs hatched on Sunday, with another cracking open early Monday: developments tracked on an almost minute-by-minute basis by the 4,000 members of the 367 Collins Falcon Watchers Facebook group. Related
  
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• Russia: Our approval is needed to publish Trump-Putin calls

  30-09-2019 19:32 via news.yahoo.com
  The Kremlin said Monday that transcripts of calls between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin can only be published by mutual agreement.The White House has severely restricted the distribution of memos detailing Trump's calls with foreign leaders, including Putin.
  
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• Investigator: Archdiocese meeting obligation in abuse crisis

  30-09-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  An independent investigator praised the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York for its response to the sexual abuse crisis, saying no priest or deacon remains in ministry in the Manhattan-based archdiocese who has been credibly abused of sexual abuse.Barbara Jones, a former federal judge, said Monday she received "complete access" to archdiocese records during her yearlong review, in which she examined some 2,000 personnel files and conducted dozens of interviews.Church officials are adhering to
  
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• 2 died before political donor's arrest. Some question delay

  30-09-2019 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  When a dead man was carried out of Ed Buck's apartment two years ago, members of the gay political club he lavished with thousands of dollars in political donations swiftly ousted him.Buck attempted a comeback in early January, less than six months after prosecutors declined to bring charges in the overdose death.Two days after Buck was escorted out of the bash, another gay man was found dead in his West Hollywood apartment — again from a methamphetamine overdose.
  
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• Iran general says destroying Israel is an 'achievable goal'

  30-09-2019 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  The commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Monday that destroying Israel has become an "achievable goal" due to his country's technological advances.
  
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• John Bolton used his first major public appearance since leaving the White House to criticize Trump's North Korea policy

  30-09-2019 19:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Former National Security Adviser John Bolton is out of the White House, but he's not done talking about the United States' foreign policy.Bolton spoke about the Trump administration's approach toward North Korea in less-than-glowing terms Monday during a talk at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. He reportedly said the U.S. should stop trying to organize summits between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and instead opt for a tougher path that coul
  
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• Controversial wild horse plan headed to Senate floor

  30-09-2019 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Congress is closer to approving a contentious wild horse initiative backed by national animal welfare groups and the livestock industry but condemned by leaders of the largest and oldest coalition of mustang advocates in the West.Critics say it drops long-held opposition to the capture of mustangs across 10 western states and could allow for sterilization of mares — a hot-button issue with horse protection advocates historically.
  
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• Pope meets U.S. priest attacked by conservatives for ministering to gays

  30-09-2019 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Pope Francis on Monday gave a high-profile private audience to a prominent American Jesuit priest who has been attacked repeatedly by conservative Catholics and media outlets for ministering to homosexuals.By meeting Father James Martin during the morning, when the pope's meetings are part of his published schedule, instead of privately in the afternoon, Francis appeared to be defending Martin pointedly from the attacks.Martin, a Jesuit like the pope, is the author of the 2017 book "Building a B
  
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• Chinese fugitive: Police use drone to find man who had been on the run for 17 years

  30-09-2019 19:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Police in China have managed to arrest a man they'd been hunting for 17 years, thanks to drone technology.
  
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• McConnell reaffirms he has 'no choice': Senate will take up impeachment if it passes House

  30-09-2019 18:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday that if the House impeaches President Trump he will “have no choice” but to hold a trial in the Senate and a vote on removing the president from office.
  
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• New York congressman resigns ahead of insider trading plea

  30-09-2019 18:28 via news.yahoo.com
  A senior Democratic aide speaking on condition of anonymity said Monday that the office of U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi had received Collins' letter of resignation, and that it would become effective Tuesday.Collins, 69, is scheduled to appear in Manhattan federal that day to enter his guilty plea, court records show.Collins' son, Cameron Collins, and another man, Stephen Zarsky, are also scheduled to plead guilty in the case on Thursday.
  
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• McConnell warns countries that interfere in 2020 election will 'have a serious problem'

  30-09-2019 18:23 via politico.com
  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday warned against foreign interference in U.S. elections, threatening that nations seeking to meddle in the 2020 races will “have a serious problem” on their hands.“Look, 2018 was a big success story,” the Kentucky Republican told CNBC, praising the Trump administration’s efforts to safeguard last year’s midterm elections.Critics have branded the Senate leader as “Moscow Mitch” in recent months for his
  
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• Iran says Saudi attack claimed by Yemen rebels justified

  30-09-2019 18:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran said Monday that the missile-and-drone attack on major Saudi oil sites was an act of "legitimate defense" by Yemen's Iran-allied Houthi rebels. The Sept. 14 assault was claimed by the Houthis, though Saudi Arabia says it was "unquestionably sponsored by Iran." The kingdom has been at war with the Houthis in Yemen since March 2015.
  
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