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• Mom fails to meet deadline to bring missing kids to Idaho

  30-01-2020 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The mom of two children missing since September failed to meet a court-ordered deadline to bring the kids to authorities in Idaho on Thursday.“The only word coming to mind right now is ‘monster,’” Kay Woodcock, JJ's grandmother, said during a press conference Thursday evening.Police have said Lori Vallow and her new husband Chad Daybell have lied about the children's whereabouts and even their very existence, with Chad Daybell allegedly telling one person that Lori Vallow
  
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• This teacher's shoes were stolen from his classroom, so his students surprised him

  30-01-2020 23:49 via cnn.com
  
  They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but in this case, you could say the same about a video of a Nebraska teacher when he got an unexpected gift from his students.
  
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• Trump news: Rape accuser asks for president's DNA, as impeachment judge foils attempt to reveal whistleblower on Senate floor

  30-01-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has lashed out at lead impeachment manager Adam Schiff, again calling him “mentally deranged”, as Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell claims to have seen off the threatened Republican rebellion on subpoenaing new witnesses and hopes to press ahead with the president’s acquittal on Friday after a final question-and-answer session in the upper chamber today.Mr Schiff ripped into the president's defence team after the president's lawyer Alan Dershowitz argued that
  
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• US passenger from Wuhan 'attempted to leave' California military base, put on quarantine

  30-01-2020 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "He or she did not take a step outside the base," a health official told Insider, adding that the passenger was not "trying to do anything sneaky."
  
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• Iraq: Anti-ISIS operations with US are resuming

  30-01-2020 23:32 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Joint military operations between coalition and Iraqi forces against the Islamic State group will resume, the Iraqi military said, after a nearly three-week pause that saw tensions between Washington and Tehran come to a boiling point. 
  
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• Boris Johnson Urges U.K. to ‘Unite And Level Up’ After Brexit

  30-01-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Boris Johnson will urge the U.K. to come together after the years of division over Brexit as it finally leaves the European Union on Friday.“The most important thing to say tonight is that this is not an end but a beginning,” Johnson will say in a video message to be released by his office at 10 p.m., an hour before Britain leaves the bloc. “This is the moment when the dawn breaks and the curtain goes up on a new act.”Earlier in the day, the prime minister,
  
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• New global temperature record is 'likely' within the next five years, report says

  30-01-2020 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The world will set a new temperature record within the next five years, scientists from the United Kingdom's Met Office said Thursday.
  
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• Schiff reacts: I think that's disgraceful

  30-01-2020 23:12 via cnn.com
  
  Lead impeachment manager Adam Schiff (D-CA) reacts to a question from Republican senators, calling it "disgraceful."
  
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• Lawmaker reacts to 'disgraceful' question: I will not dignify smears

  30-01-2020 23:12 via cnn.com
  
  Lead impeachment manager Adam Schiff (D-CA) reacts to a question from Republican senators, calling it "disgraceful."
  
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• California's polarizing housing bill SB 50 has died in the state Senate

  30-01-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After more than a year of battles over the controversial zoning bill, SB 50 fails to get enough votes to move on to the Assembly.
  
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• 'Unbelievable': Giant sinkhole threatens to swallow two homes in Florida

  30-01-2020 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Anwar El Khouri's Tallahassee mobile home hangs off the edge of the crater, which also swallowed a pine tree.
  
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• WRAPUP 2-Pilots, flight attendants demand flights to China stop as virus fear mount worldwide

  30-01-2020 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO/PARIS Jan 30 (Reuters) - Pilots and flight attendants are demanding airlines stop flights to China as health officials declare a global emergency over the rapidly spreading coronavirus, with American Airlines' pilots filing a lawsuit seeking an immediate halt.China has reported nearly 10,000 cases and 213 deaths, but the virus has spread to 18 countries often by plane passengers.The Allied Pilots Association (APA), which represents American Airlines pilots, cited "serious, and in many wa
  
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• Scott Morrison strikes $2bn deal with NSW to boost gas supply

  30-01-2020 23:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Agreement will underwrite grid interconnectors and cut emissions, Australian prime minister saysScott Morrison has struck a $2bn deal with the New South Wales government to increase gas supply and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector.The deal includes at least $450m of federal grants and $510m more of federal grants or loans for “NSW-based emissions reduction initiatives”, to be matched by $1.01bn in direct funding from Gladys Berejiklian’s government. Co
  
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• New emoji release to feature more gender-inclusive designs and a popular Italian hand gesture

  30-01-2020 23:06 via cnn.com
  
  The transgender flag, women wearing tuxedos, bottle-feeding parents and a gender-neutral Santa are part of of the new 2020 emoji update from the Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit organization that sets the standards for emoji compatibility and releases new symbols.
  
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• New emoji release to feature more gender-inclusive designs

  30-01-2020 23:06 via cnn.com
  
  The transgender flag, women wearing tuxedos, bottle-feeding parents and a gender-neutral Santa are part of of the new 2020 emoji update from the Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit organization that sets the standards for emoji compatibility and releases new symbols.
  
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• Bipartisan senators essentially ask Trump to promise he'll never do this again

  30-01-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  So maybe it wasn't the best choice to send Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine. Well, let's just make sure it doesn't happen again, a group of bipartisan senators seemed to say during Thursday's Senate impeachment trial.The second day of impeachment questioning from senators brought the first inquiry from a bipartisan group: Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Joe Manchin (D-W.V.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Kirsten Sinema (D-Ariz.). "Will the president assure the American public that private citizens will
  
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• Paul Manafort and Rudy’s Indicted Associate Igor Fruman Go Way, Way Back

  30-01-2020 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The web of connections between Donald Trump’s convicted campaign manager and an indicted man who tried to dig up dirt on his political rival runs tighter and longer than previously understood.Rudy Giuliani ally Igor Fruman and ex-Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort have been friendly for years, two sources familiar with their relationship tell The Daily Beast.And that relationship — stretching from New York to London to Kyiv — long predated Rudy Giuliani’s wide-ranging att
  
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• Wuhan streets described as 'eerie.' See what they look like now

  30-01-2020 23:02 via cnn.com
  
  The Wuhan coronavirus has left the streets of Wuhan, China, virtually empty. As the virus spreads to every part of China, CNN's David Culver speaks with an American college student in Shanghai who says finding food has gotten increasingly difficult.
  
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• ‘You know your client is guilty’: Trump impeachment lawyer’s defence accused of ‘descent into madness’

  30-01-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senator Adam Schiff, lead impeachment manager in the Senate trial of Donald Trump, has called arguments made by the president’s defence team a “descent into constitutional madness”.Mr Schiff’s indignation with the president’s defence came in response to comments made by Mr Trump’s lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, who argued his client couldn’t be impeached for an action he thought might get him re-elected.
  
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• ‘You know your client is guilty’: Trump impeachment lawyer’s defence accused of being ‘descent into madness’

  30-01-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senator Adam Schiff, lead impeachment manager in the Senate trial of Donald Trump, has called arguments made by the president’s defence team a “descent into constitutional madness”.Mr Schiff’s indignation with the president’s defence came in response to comments made by Mr Trump’s lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, who argued his client couldn’t be impeached for an action he thought might get him re-elected.
  
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• 'You know your client is guilty': Trump impeachment lawyer's defence accused of being 'descent into madness'

  30-01-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senator Adam Schiff, lead impeachment manager in the Senate trial of Donald Trump, has called arguments made by the president’s defence team a “descent into Constitutional madness”.Mr Schiff’s indignation with the president’s defence came in response to comments made by Mr Trump’s lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, who argued that his client couldn’t be impeached for an action he thought might get him re-elected.
  
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• Democrats warn of 'lawless' president in impeachment arguments

  30-01-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In what could be their last bid to make the case for removing the US leader from office, the House impeachment prosecutors expressed outrage over Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz's assertion that a president can do almost anything he wants that he claims is in the public interest.Adam Schiff, the leader of the House impeachment managers, said the claim turned US law on its head and echoed the Watergate case of disgraced president Richard Nixon 45 years ago."What we have seen in the last couple of da
  
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• Company that owns helicopter in Kobe Bryant crash suspends operations

  30-01-2020 22:55 via cnn.com
  
  Island Express Helicopters, the company that owns the helicopter that crashed Sunday, killing NBA legend Kobe Bryant and eight others, is "suspending all flight service for operational reasons," two company representatives told CNN on Thursday.
  
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• Pilots sue American Airlines to halt flights to China

  30-01-2020 22:54 via cnn.com
  
  The Allied Pilots Association, a union representing 15,000 American Airlines pilots, has sued the company to halt the carrier's U.S.-China service, citing "serious, and in many ways still unknown, health threats posed by the coronavirus."
  
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• American Airlines pilots sue to halt US-China flights

  30-01-2020 22:54 via cnn.com
  
  The Allied Pilots Association, a union representing 15,000 American Airlines pilots, has sued the company to halt the carrier's U.S.-China service, citing "serious, and in many ways still unknown, health threats posed by the coronavirus."
  
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• When a lottery 'wins' sick babies life-saving drugs

  30-01-2020 22:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The company behind a gene therapy for muscle-wasting disease SMA will give out 100 doses via lottery.
  
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• Democratic Candidates Ask Revealing Questions at Senate Trial

  30-01-2020 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Presidential candidates are used to answering questions. It’s not often they get to pose them.But as the Senate trial of President Donald Trump comes to a close, the senators running for the 2020 Democratic nomination put questions of the lawyers on both sides by submitting them in writing to be read aloud to the chamber by Chief Justice John Roberts. What they asked was revealing.Ever the Harvard professor, Elizabeth Warren posed a tough hypothetical: “If Ukrainian Pr
  
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• Amazon stock soars on huge earnings beat

  30-01-2020 22:43 via cnn.com
  
  Amazon blew Wall Street's expectations out of the water when it reported earnings for the holiday quarter, sending the company's stock up over 11% in after-hours trading Thursday.
  
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• Colombia rejects Venezuelan proposal to resume diplomatic relations

  30-01-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Colombia rejected Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's proposal that the two countries resume diplomatic relations on Thursday, amid a dispute over a fugitive former Colombian congresswoman who was captured in Venezuela.Maduro abruptly cut diplomatic relations with neighboring Colombia last February after Colombian President Ivan Duque helped Venezuelan opposition politicians deliver humanitarian aid to their crisis-stricken country.
  
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• Bloomberg Says He Won’t Accept Contributions to Make the Debates

  30-01-2020 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Michael Bloomberg reaffirmed Thursday that he won’t be accepting contributions just to qualify for the Democratic presidential debates.The Democratic National Committee has required candidates to have a certain number of individual donors to qualify for debates, and Bloomberg is self-funding his campaign. The DNC has said candidates could make the Feb. 7 debate in New Hampshire by winning at least one pledged delegate in Monday’s Iowa caucuses, but the former New York
  
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• Movin' on up: Bloomberg glides past Warren to No.3 in Democratic race - Reuters/Ipsos

  30-01-2020 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After steadily rising in popularity over the last several weeks, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg appears to have surpassed U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren among registered voters for the 2020 Democratic nomination, according to a Reuters/Ipsos national public opinion poll released on Thursday.The Jan. 29-30 poll found that 12% of registered Democrats and independents said they would vote for Bloomberg in the state nominating contests that begin next week in Iowa.Bloomberg appears to h
  
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• The Wuhan coronavirus seems to have a low fatality rate, and most patients make full recoveries. Experts reveal why it's causing panic anyway.

  30-01-2020 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The coronavirus outbreak that originated in China is sparking fear, distrust, and xenophobia around the world.
  
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• More US military members diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries after Iran strike

  30-01-2020 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  Sixty-four US military personnel have now been diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury in the wake of the January 8 Iranian missile attack on the al Asad military base in Iraq, according to two US officials with knowledge of the latest information.
  
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• Pollutionwatch: where would we be without EU environmental laws?

  30-01-2020 22:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Netherlands study offers UK good indication how it would have fared without EU rulesFor more than four decades the UK contributed to EU-wide environmental lawmaking, but what have these regulations and directives done for us? The nearest data that we have comes from the Netherlands. There, scientists compared two alternative realities for their country: one with no EU laws and a version of today’s reality. European-wide laws began with exhaust standards for cars in the 1970s. Acid rain and
  
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• Why are people saying that Lysol sprays and Clorox wipes fight coronavirus?

  30-01-2020 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  No, the current strain of coronavirus was not "developed." And it remains unclear if Lysol or Clorox products work to stop the spread of coronavirus.
  
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• Return of the Imperial Presidency? Why the Impeachment Fight Is About More Than Donald Trump

  30-01-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the Senate considers whether to remove Donald Trump from office, there's more at stake in his trial than one man's political fate.
  
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• Deadly attack on indigenous community in Nicaragua

  30-01-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Some 80 armed men attacked an indigenous community on Nicaragua's northern Caribbean coast, killing several people, authorities said Thursday.Gustavo Sebastián Lino, leader of the territorial government of Sauni As, said the attack occurred at dusk Wednesday in Alal, a community of the Mayangna people in the Bosawas biosphere reserve.The attackers “seized the community, killed six people and burned several houses,” Lino said.
  
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• U.S. coronavirus evacuee from China placed under quarantine order after trying to flee base

  30-01-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One of 195 Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China, to a U.S. air base in California to begin 72 hours of voluntary observation for signs of coronavirus infection was placed under mandatory quarantine after trying to leave the facility, public health officials said on Thursday.The individual, whose identity was not disclosed, was presented the quarantine order on Wednesday night, hours after arriving at March Air Reserve Base near Los Angeles on a government-chartered flight from Wuhan, the epicen
  
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• Coronavirus: what other public health emergencies has the WHO declared?

  30-01-2020 22:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Five previous emergencies declared since 2009 with some still active The Wuhan coronavirus is just the latest disease that the World Health Organization (WHO) has labelled as a “public health emergency of international concern” (PHEIC). In the past 10 years there have been five other such announcements, covering four diseases.However, the Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome (Mers) coronavirus, first identified in 2012, and the yellow fever outbreak in Angola that emerged in late 2015
  
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• Andrew Yang Uses Humor to Build His Outsider Credibility

  30-01-2020 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The question was straightforward: What does Andrew Yang think about the presidential candidates who are off the Iowa campaign trail to attend President Donald Trump’s impeachment?The answer was anything but.“I think it should be the decisive criterion,” he deadpanned Wednesday at a Bloomberg News reporters roundtable in Des Moines. “I think that if you haven’t been in the state every weekday for the two weeks before the caucuses, that you’re not
  
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• White House Prepares to Expand Ability to Use Land Mines

  30-01-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The Trump administration is preparing to loosen rules on the U.S. military’s ability to use land mines, even after more than 150 countries signed a treaty banning them, according to a person familiar with the matter.The current U.S. policy on land mines, adopted by former President Barack Obama in 2014, has been to refrain from using them outside the Korean Peninsula and not assist countries outside the peninsula from deploying them.Land mines can remain active for decades.
  
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• 'Remain in Mexico': 80% of migrants subject to Trump migration policy are victims of violence

  30-01-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A staggering 80% of asylum seekers sent to Mexico to await U.S. court hearings report being victims of violence, according a survey by Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
  
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• Dear Mr. Dershowitz, 'mixed motives' is no impeachment defense when there's corrupt intent

  30-01-2020 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Taken together, Donald Trump's actions — at least seven of them — contradict the defense claim that he had any legitimate national interest in mind.
  
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• Woman who has accused Trump of sexual assault is seeking his DNA

  30-01-2020 22:02 via cnn.com
  
  A woman who accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her decades ago is asking him for a DNA sample to compare to male genetic material found on the dress she says she wore during the alleged encounter.
  
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• Trial Date Set for Jeffrey Epstein Jail Guards

  30-01-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two Manhattan jail guards charged with falsifying records after Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his cell will face trial in June, a federal judge ruled Thursday.Tova Noel, 31, and Michael Thomas, 41, who worked inside Metropolitan Correctional Center’s (MCC) Special Housing Unit, are accused of failing to conduct mandated checks on inmates in the hours before the multi-millionaire sex-offender killed himself in August 2019. Both corrections officers have pleaded not guilty.In Manhattan f
  
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• 3 inmates facing US extradition driven out of Mexican jail

  30-01-2020 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An important financial operator for the Sinaloa Cartel and two other inmates facing extradition to the United States who escaped from a Mexico City prison were driven out of the penitentiary in a jail transport van, city officials said Thursday.Officials in Mexico's capital say city jails are not the appropriate facilities for high-value prisoners and that judges are allowing inmates to manipulate the system to be transferred to or remain in lower-security lockups.Mexico City Interior Secretary
  
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• Prince Harry loses tabloid complaint

  30-01-2020 21:57 via cnn.com
  
  Prince Harry has lost a complaint against a British newspaper over a story describing wild animals in photographs that he posted on Instagram as "drugged and tethered."
  
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• Pelosi suggests Trump's acquittal will be invalid if witnesses aren't called

  30-01-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As it appears less likely that new witnesses will be called in President Trump's impeachment trial, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is suggesting his acquittal will, therefore, not be valid. "He will not be acquitted," Pelosi said in a news conference Thursday, The New York Times reports. "You cannot be acquitted if you don't have a trial, and you don't have a trial if you don't have witnesses and documentation and all of that."Pelosi's comments Thursday, which came in response to a questi
  
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• Greta Thunberg is filing to trademark her name

  30-01-2020 21:55 via cnn.com
  
  Climate activist Greta Thunberg is taking matters into her own hands by applying for a trademark for her name and the Fridays For Future climate crisis movement she created.
  
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• Cuban man who ran complex migrant-smuggling operation gets more than 4 years in prison

  30-01-2020 21:55 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A Cuban man was sentenced to four years and nine months in U.S. federal prison for operating a complex human smuggling operation from Cuba to Mexico to the U.S. 
  
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