| Ted Cruz shrugs off past feud and lauds Trump in Time essay Posted: 19 Apr 2018 12:29 PM PDT  Ted Cruz wrote an essay for Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People of 2018" issue, praising President Trump, who the Texas senator once described as a "bully," "narcissist" and "serial philanderer."
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| 2 Florida Deputies Shot Dead While Eating At Chinese Restaurant Posted: 19 Apr 2018 08:23 PM PDT  Two deputies were killed when a man shot at them through a window while they
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| What Two Men Say Happened When They Were Arrested At Philadelphia Starbucks Posted: 18 Apr 2018 09:00 PM PDT  Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson, both 23-year-old entrepreneurs and longtime friends, said they were there for a business meeting they hoped would change their lives.
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| Sen. Corker: 'Not a sure thing' Trump will run in 2020 Posted: 19 Apr 2018 02:30 AM PDT  Senator Bob Corker, R-TN, discusses the push back that Mike Pomeo is facing during his nomination process for Secretary of State along with his thoughts on President Trump's 2020 presidential campaign.
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| Classic Recreations ready to churn out original Boss and Mach 1 Mustangs Posted: 19 Apr 2018 09:11 AM PDT  It's been a while since we last heard from the folks at Classic Recreations, but they've been busy. It turns out the Oklahoma-based company has secured a license from Ford to recreate some of the automaker's most cherished Mustangs. It will be a Boss 429, a car CR says only it's allowed to build under license.
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| Dog feared to have cancer had actually eaten four teddy bears... but vet didn't realise until midway through operation Posted: 20 Apr 2018 07:17 AM PDT  A dog feared to cancer had actually eaten four teddy bears, but the vet did not realise until halfway through the operation. Eight-year-old St Bernard Maisy was taken for a CT scan after she was taken ill, which showed a mass on her spleen and an unusually full stomach, seemingly showing she had not digested her food properly. Her owner, Jane Dickinson, from Dewsbury in West Yorkshire, feared the worst as she took her pet to Paragon Veterinary Referrals in Wakefield. It would not be unusual for Maisy, an elderly dog, to have cancer at her advanced age. However, vet surgeon Nick Blackburn ruled out any fatal disease when he carried out the operation to remove Maisy's spleen and found her stomach was full of soft toys. Maisy is now reportedly 'loving life' Credit: Paragon Vet Referrals / SWNS.com He said : "It's fair to say this was not something we were expecting to find! We all know certain dogs enjoy chewing things they shouldn't but managing to devour four full teddy bears is quite a feat. "I know Jane was worried about Maisy as she is quite old for a St Bernard, so we were naturally delighted the operation was such a success and we were able to return a happy, healthy dog to the Dickinsons." Her owner said she had never seen the gentle giant chewing or eating toys, but that now the operation has been completed Maisy is "loving life". An x-ray showing the teddy bears within the stomach. Credit: Paragon Vet Referrals / SWNS.com Ms Dickinson explained: "When Maisy went in I did think 'is she coming out?' but she is loving life now - it's like she's got her youth back. "The toys weren't even hers! She will steal the chihuahuas' toys and play with them but I've never seen her trying to chew them. Her eating habits had been completely normal. "I didn't even recognise one of the toys - my brother also keeps chihuahuas and it turns out it belonged to his dog." Maisy has since made a full recovery from her operation and a histology report has shown no signs of cancer.
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| No surprise: Charles to succeed queen as Commonwealth head Posted: 20 Apr 2018 02:55 PM PDT  LONDON (AP) — Prince Charles has spent a lifetime waiting to be king. On Friday the 69-year-old heir to the British throne got another position to wait for — he was approved as the next head of the Commonwealth made up of the U.K. and the countries that once were its colonies.
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| Midwest farmers fear tariff war, while their steelworker neighbors cheer Posted: 19 Apr 2018 02:16 AM PDT  Trump's trade policies may be helping some steel companies — and steelworkers — but China is threatening to retaliate with tariffs on American agricultural exports. Farmers in this Illinois town are worried about losing their market.
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| Three Former U.S. Soldiers Have Been Convicted for the Contract Killing of a Filipino Woman Posted: 18 Apr 2018 07:15 PM PDT  The 12-day trial offered a window into the clandestine world of private mercenaries
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| The Best Of Urban Outfitters' Spring Shoe Sale Posted: 19 Apr 2018 10:14 AM PDT  Forget the holidays, it's officially the most wonderful time of the year. If
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| Ex-FBI No. 2 alerted then-FBI chief Comey of plans to talk to press: lawyer Posted: 20 Apr 2018 09:04 AM PDT  By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe sent emails to then-Director James Comey alerting him he planned to push back against negative news coverage related to his oversight of probes into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a lawyer for McCabe said on Friday. In an interview with reporters, Michael Bromwich said the emails could help clear McCabe of allegations by the Justice Department's internal watchdog that McCabe "lacked candor" with Comey by misleading him into thinking McCabe did not authorize disclosures to a newspaper to combat articles about his wife's political campaign and his role in overseeing an investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
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| These Were The Most Popular Baby Names In The 1920s Posted: 19 Apr 2018 08:29 AM PDT  Thanks to the Social Security Administration, Americans can see which baby
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| Two Florida sheriff's deputies ambushed at restaurant Posted: 20 Apr 2018 03:32 AM PDT  Authorities in Florida are looking for answers after two sheriff's deputies were shot through the window of a restaurant. ABC News' Diane Macedo reports.
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| Syrian rebels give up Damascus area town to government Posted: 19 Apr 2018 01:43 PM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian government took control of a town northeast of Damascus on Thursday after rebels evacuated to north Syria — the latest in a string of handovers by rebels to the government.
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| Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani Is Joining Trump's Legal Team Posted: 19 Apr 2018 02:17 PM PDT  President Donald Trump's legal team has a new member: Rudy Giuliani.
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| The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week Posted: 20 Apr 2018 08:09 AM PDT  Kids may say the darndest things, but parents tweet about them in the funniest
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| Judge rejects Missouri governor's bid to dismiss criminal case Posted: 19 Apr 2018 04:17 PM PDT  A St. Louis judge on Thursday dealt Missouri Governor Eric Greitens another legal setback in the sex scandal embroiling his office, refusing to dismiss a criminal invasion of privacy charge stemming from an admitted extramarital affair. The decision by Judge Rex Burlison paved the way for the single-count felony case against Greitens, a Republican under mounting pressure from both parties to resign, to proceed to trial even as he comes under scrutiny for unrelated accusations of computer tampering. Greitens' lawyers last week sought to throw out the privacy case on grounds of prosecutor misconduct, saying St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, a Democrat, had tried to conceal video evidence supporting the governor and his assertions that the affair was entirely consensual.
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| The Best Cookie Recipes To Bake This Weekend Posted: 20 Apr 2018 02:46 AM PDT  Baking for others is a delicious form of altruism that's been proven to boost
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| US Air National Guard member fired over woman who took enlistment oath with dinosaur puppet Posted: 19 Apr 2018 01:32 PM PDT  Three US Air National Guard members have been disciplined, and one of them fired, for an incident involving a children's dinosaur puppet. Master Sergeant Robin Brown, a senior non-commissioned officer (NCO) with the Air National Guard, was removed from her position at the Tennessee Joint Public Affairs Office after video circulated of her taking her enlistment oath with a tyrannosaurus rex puppet in hand. Ms Brown repeats each line of the oath back, moving the sock puppet's mouth along as she speaks.
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| 'Flamboyant' jihadi linked to 9/11 terror cell captured by Kurdish forces in Syria Posted: 20 Apr 2018 08:59 AM PDT  A Syrian-German jihadist linked to the 9/11 attacks on the United States has been captured in Syria by US-backed forces, the Pentagon said on Thursday. Mohammad Haydar Zammar, who has been accused of recruiting some of the 9/11 Al-Qaeda hijackers, was captured over a month ago by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led militia backed by the US. News of his capture was first reported on Wednesday by the Kurdish group. The Pentagon had said it was looking into the reports before confirming Zammar's arrest. "We can confirm that Mohammad Haydar Zammar, a Syrian-born German national, was captured more than a month ago by SDF partners as part of their ongoing operations to defeat ISIS inside Syria," Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon said, using an alternate name for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). "We are working with our SDF partners to obtain additional details," Pahon said. The 9/11 Commission report into the attacks in Washington and New York that led to the deaths of almost 3,000 people described Zammar as an "outspoken, flamboyant Islamist" who "had fought in Afghanistan and relished any opportunity to extol the virtues of violent jihad." According to the report, Zammar took credit for influencing people linked to the attacks including Mohammed Atta, who hijacked an American Airlines plane and flew it into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Zammar had come into contact with Atta and others linked to the attacks while living in Hamburg, in 1997, the report says. Seven foiled UK terror plots Zammar was detained in Morocco in December 2001 in an operation involving CIA agents, and was handed over to the Syrian authorities two weeks later. He was subsequently sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2007 for belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood. He was reportedly freed from prison in 2014 in a prison swap organised with Islamist group Ahrar al-Sham. The SDF, which has been a key western ally in the fight against Isil, has detained several high-profile foreign members of Isil as the jihadist group's grip on Syria has collapsed. They are currently holding two alleged members of the notorious Isil torture cell known as 'the Beatles.' El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexandra Kotey were captured by the group in February. The two are accused of being involved in the execution and torture of hostages. US officials believe there are hundreds of foreign fighters and thousands of Syrian Isil militants in SDF custody.
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| Trump Blasts California Over Troops Who Won't Focus On Immigration Enforcement Posted: 19 Apr 2018 01:09 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump attacked California on Thursday for doing
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| Indonesian fishermen rescue Rohingya in seas off Aceh Posted: 20 Apr 2018 06:04 AM PDT  BIREUEN, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian fishermen rescued 76 Rohingya Muslims stranded off the coast of Aceh on Friday, authorities said, in the latest attempt by members of the persecuted ethnic group to flee Myanmar by sea.
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| Lois Riess Busted After Tip From Restaurant Manager Who Recognized Her Hair Posted: 20 Apr 2018 12:05 PM PDT  George Higginbotham said he was drawn to her shock of silver hair as she viewed the menu at his restaurant on South Padre Island.
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| U.S. tells Russia to address election concerns, chemical weapons Posted: 19 Apr 2018 04:48 PM PDT  White House national security adviser John Bolton told Russia's ambassador on Thursday that better relations between the two countries required addressing U.S. concerns on election meddling, a chemical attack in Britain, and the situations in Ukraine and Syria, the White House said. It was the first meeting between Bolton, who started at the White House this month, and Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov, the administration said in a statement.
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| Cynthia Nixon Would 'Rather Be The Good Nixon Than The Bad Cuomo' Posted: 19 Apr 2018 08:54 AM PDT  New York gubernatorial challenger Cynthia Nixon took a swipe at incumbent Gov.
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| The Latest: Student: Confederate flag theft sparked protests Posted: 19 Apr 2018 02:11 PM PDT  AUBURN, Mich. (AP) — The Latest on Confederate flag demonstrations outside of a Michigan high school (all times local):
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| E. Coli Outbreak Blamed on Contaminated Lettuce Spreads to 16 States, CDC Says Posted: 19 Apr 2018 05:59 AM PDT  A total of 53 people have been affected
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| New York Attorney General Pushes To Sidestep Any Trump Pardons Posted: 18 Apr 2018 09:28 PM PDT  New York's attorney general has asked officials to change state law so
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| France, Britain, US want to regain 'prestige' with Syria strikes: dissident Posted: 18 Apr 2018 06:47 PM PDT  Far from "saving Syrians from brutality", the United States, France and Britain were likely only trying to regain international "prestige" when they attacked Bashar al-Assad's regime, prominent Syrian dissident Yassin al Haj Saleh told AFP. The three countries launched missile strikes against suspected chemical weapons development and storage sites in Syria on Saturday in response to an alleged chemical attack in the town of Douma which killed at least 40 people. French President Emmanuel Macron himself recognised Tuesday that the air strikes didn't "necessarily resolve anything" in a civil war that has lasted for seven years, leaving more than 350,000 people dead and millions displaced.
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| Nanny who killed children while parents away convicted of murder Posted: 18 Apr 2018 08:02 PM PDT  A once-trusted nanny who stabbed to death two children in her care in Manhattan while their parents were away was convicted of murder by a jury that didn't believe her claims that a mental illness at the time of the crime meant she could not be held responsible. Jurors on Wednesday concluded Yoselyn Ortega knew what she was doing when she killed Lucia Krim, 6, and Leo Krim, 2, in October 2012. Ortega expressed no reaction to the verdict, staring straight ahead as it was read, but later wiped tears from her eyes as she was led from the courtroom. The children's father, Kevin Krim, sat in the front row, clasping hands with two alternate jurors who had been dismissed but stayed for the verdict. He hugged them, and they wept together. The children's mother, Marina Krim, who had returned home to discover them dead in a blood-soaked bathroom, was not in the audience but posted photos of them online after the verdict and expressed her undying adoration for them, writing, "I love you." Ortega's lawyer Valerie Van Leer-Greenberg didn't dispute that Ortega killed the children but contended she had an undiagnosed mental illness that worsened in the moments leading up to the attack. She said Ortega snapped and didn't know what she was doing when she stabbed the children to death. Yoselyn Ortega killed 6-year-old Lucia Krim and 2-year-old Leo Krim in October 2012 Credit: AP Mental illness "does not announce itself like a bad cough or a limp," Van Leer-Greenberg said during closing arguments. "Sometimes it sneaks up and nestles in before anyone takes notice." But prosecutors maintained that Ortega, who's from the Dominican Republic, acted out of jealous hatred of the children's mother. "She did it intentionally with a full understanding of exactly what it was she was doing - every stab, every slash," Assistant District Attorney Stuart Silberg said during closing arguments. The verdict capped an emotional seven-week trial that kept jurors and members of the audience in tears. Jurors heard heart-wrenching testimony from Marina Krim, who spoke of the sickening, desperate moments when she saw her children's vacant eyes, their small bodies perforated by stab wounds. Krim had been at a swimming class with her 3-year-old daughter, Nessie. Ortega was to have dropped off Lucia at her dance class, and Krim was to pick her up. But when Krim arrived, Lucia wasn't there. Krim frantically tried to reach Ortega, who had worked for the family for more than two years. She did it intentionally with a full understanding of exactly what it was she was doing - every stab, every slashStuart Silberg, Assistant District Attorney Krim spoke of coming home to an eerily quiet apartment, darkened but for the light in the back bathroom, where she found the children and Ortega, who had stabbed herself in a failed suicide attempt. Krim ran to the landing outside the apartment clutching Nessie and started screaming. "It was a scream you can't imagine is even inside of you," she testified. "I don't even know where it came from. I just thought: 'I'm never going to be able to talk to them ever again. They are dead. I just saw my kids dead.'" Lucia, nicknamed Lulu, was stabbed more than 30 times, and Leo was stabbed five times. At Ortega's trial, the children's father, who had been on a business trip and received news of their deaths when his plane landed, spoke of walking down a long hallway at the hospital where he saw their bodies. "They still had this perfect skin and these long eyelashes," Kevin Krim said. "They had like sandy brown hair. ... You could see they tried really hard to wash all the blood out, but there was still kind of an auburn tint to it that I remember to this day." Flowers are laid in front of the Krim family's Upper West Side apartment Credit: Getty/ Spencer Platt Jurors, who deliberated for more than a day, said the trial affected them deeply. One, David Curtis, an actor, said it was difficult for him to set aside thoughts of his own children, now in their 20s. "It is horrifying to think of being in a position of having to experience or go through the process that the Krims had to go through," said Curtis, who had tears in his eyes. Kevin Krim said after the verdict he and his wife wanted to thank the judge and the jurors "for their commitment to justice." He stood at a press conference with Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, who said, "Marina and Kevin have lived through the worst nightmare any parent could endure." Ortega, who's 55, faces life in prison when she's sentenced next month. Had she been found not responsible, she would have been committed to a mental institution. Marina Krim is a stay-at-home mom, and Kevin Krim is a former CNBC executive now at a startup. They use a Facebook page to post updates on how they're doing, writing about the arrival of two new children, Felix, born in 2013, and Linus, born in 2016. The couple started the Lulu and Leo Fund, which aims to support innovative art programs for children. After the verdict, they posted a collage of images of Lulu and Leo. On Instagram, Marina Krim posted a photo from atop the Empire State Building. "You two never made it to the top but I'm up here now for the first time, in peace, on top of the world, remembering another lifetime and thinking of you," she wrote. "NYC, Lulu and Leo loved you and I love you too!"
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| U.S. Senate committee to vote on bill to protect Mueller next week Posted: 19 Apr 2018 09:47 AM PDT  The leader of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee said on Thursday the committee would vote on a bill to protect Robert Mueller, the special counsel appointed to investigate Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, despite objections by the chamber's Republican leadership. Senator Chuck Grassley, the Judiciary Committee's Republican chairman, said he was keeping his word to the bill's backers that the panel would take up the measure if they reached a bipartisan compromise, which they had. U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell had told Fox News on Tuesday that he would not allow a vote on the measure in the full Senate.
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| Deployed Airman Surprises Teacher Mom During 'Student of the Month' Assembly Posted: 19 Apr 2018 07:55 AM PDT  "I was like, 'What? They made a mistake.' I can't believe this," said Regina Benzing as she called her son's name during a monthly assembly.
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| San Francisco board votes to keep controversial statue Posted: 19 Apr 2018 06:37 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco authorities reversed a decision to remove a 19th century statue near City Hall that some say is degrading to Native Americans.
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| Vision Mercedes-Maybach Ultimate Luxury New Teaser Shows Tea Set Posted: 19 Apr 2018 04:10 AM PDT  The concept is expected to preview a Maybach-branded GLS being prepared for the SUV's next generation.
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| The scientists behind the most innovative cancer research Posted: 19 Apr 2018 11:37 AM PDT  Thousands of top scientists and researchers from around the world gathered at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting in Chicago to discuss innovative cancer science that will hopefully lead to new therapies and maybe even a cure. Meet two of the top investigators aiming to make cancer a manageable disease so patients can live long and live well.
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| Marco Rubio Had An Odd Explanation For Changing His Position On A Trump Nominee Posted: 19 Apr 2018 03:36 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) offered a curious explanation for his
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| China flies bombers around Taiwan, holds live-fire drills Posted: 19 Apr 2018 06:39 AM PDT  Chinese bombers and spy planes have flown around Taiwan, the air force said Thursday as Taipei accused Beijing of trying to stoke regional tensions with its military drills. China sees the democratically-governed island as a renegade part of its territory to be brought back into the fold and has not ruled out reunification by force. H-6K bombers, Su-30 and J-11 fighters and reconnaissance aircraft took part in a patrol around Taiwan, air force spokesman Shen Jinke told the official Xinhua news agency.
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| U.S. says ex-official at PDVSA unit pleads guilty to money laundering Posted: 19 Apr 2018 11:49 AM PDT  A former official of a subsidiary of Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA [PDVSA.UL] pleaded guilty on Thursday to a U.S. charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering, the U.S. Justice Department said. Cesar Rincon, a Venezuelan citizen who was extradited to the United States from Spain after his arrest there last year, pleaded guilty in federal court in Houston to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, the department said.
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| Board reveals austerity measures in Puerto Rico fiscal plans Posted: 18 Apr 2018 06:55 PM PDT  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — New austerity measures are looming for Puerto Rico as a federal control board overseeing the U.S. territory's finances prepares to approve several fiscal plans this week that will serve as the island's economic blueprint for the next five years.
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| America's F-35s, F-15s and F/A-18s Will Soon Have a New Bomb to Drop Posted: 19 Apr 2018 04:35 PM PDT  Raytheon has completed developmental testing of the 250-pound GBU-53B Small Diameter Bomb II. The new glide bomb, which incorporates a tri-modal seeker, will now have to complete government "confidence testing" before it enters into its operational test phase before being fielded onboard the Boeing F-15E Strike Eagle and the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
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