| 'How dare you': Greta Thunberg tears into world leaders over inaction at U.N. climate summit Posted: 23 Sep 2019 08:11 AM PDT  In an angry and emotional speech at the United Nations climate summit on Monday, Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg tore into world leaders for failing to act.
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| Man drowns while proposing to his girlfriend underwater: 'This emptiness will never be filled' Posted: 23 Sep 2019 06:33 AM PDT  A man drowned Thursday while proposing to his girlfriend from outside their underwater hotel room, according to a Facebook post by his girlfriend.
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| Iran's Strange Navy of Small, Fast Boats Is No Joke Posted: 24 Sep 2019 04:47 AM PDT  A "mad max" threat?
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| Thousands rally against Indonesian bill to ban extra-marital sex Posted: 23 Sep 2019 04:57 AM PDT  Thousands of students protested at rallies across Indonesia on Monday against a new criminal code that would outlaw sex outside marriage and gay sex, as lawmakers met the president to discuss how to proceed with a bill that has divided Indonesians. President Joko Widodo on Friday ordered a delay in a planned vote on the controversial bill - originally slated for Tuesday - and said 14 articles needed further review before it was deliberated by a new parliament, whose term begins next month. Students rallied on Monday in the capital Jakarta - where some climbed the gates of the parliament to hang banners - and cities including Yogyakarta, in central Java, and Makassar, on Sulawesi island, to oppose the bill.
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| FBI agents raid Illinois state senator's home, offices Posted: 24 Sep 2019 12:52 PM PDT  FBI agents carried materials in bankers' boxes and grocery bags out of the Illinois Capitol building on Tuesday, and multiple media outlets reported that and other raids were linked to a Democratic state senator. FBI spokesman John Althen said the agents were in the building for "law enforcement activity" but declined to elaborate. Multiple media outlets reported that the raids were conducted at Sen. Martin Sandoval's Capitol office in Springfield, his district office in the Chicago suburb of Cicero and his Chicago home.
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| Muslim girl ‘forced to remove hijab’ before flight, lawsuit says Posted: 24 Sep 2019 06:05 AM PDT  A Muslim girl who plays for the US national squash team was forced to remove her hijab in public before boarding a flight, a lawsuit claims.Fatima Abdelrahman, who was 12 at the time, was allegedly made to remove the head covering by Air Canada workers at San Francisco International Airport – despite having already been through security.
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| Trump says he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize Posted: 23 Sep 2019 11:47 AM PDT  The president lashes out at the Nobel Peace Prize committee for giving the award to his predecessor.
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| #NoFutureNoChildren: Teens are pledging not to have kids until the government acts against climate change Posted: 24 Sep 2019 06:00 AM PDT  Thousands of teenagers are pledging not to have children until the government takes greater steps to steps to combat climate change.
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| Laura Ingraham compares Greta Thunberg, climate activists to 'Children of the Corn' Posted: 24 Sep 2019 05:48 AM PDT  Ingraham juxtaposed Thunberg's speech with "Children of the Corn," in which children are enticed to murder the adult residents of a Nebraskan town.
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| Huawei exec in Canada court seeking to quash extradition Posted: 23 Sep 2019 07:53 PM PDT  Top Chinese telecom executive Meng Wanzhou and her lawyers went to court on Monday to try to have her extradition case thrown out, arguing that her rights were violated. The United States wants to put Meng on trial for fraud for allegedly violating Iran sanctions and lying about it to US banks -- accusations her lawyers dispute. Meng -- a rising star whose father Ren Zhengfei founded Huawei and over three decades grew it into a global telecom giant -- expressed surprise when told she was being arrested, according to a transcript of her speaking with authorities after her flight from Hong Kong landed.
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| Man's brain tumor was misdiagnosed as mental illness for six years Posted: 24 Sep 2019 09:55 AM PDT  A New Zealand man who was told he had a mental illness learned that he, in fact, had a brain tumor.
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| UPDATE 2-Air strikes in Yemen hit Houthi territory, Houthis fire ballistic missile Posted: 24 Sep 2019 04:17 AM PDT ![UPDATE 2-Air strikes in Yemen hit Houthi territory, Houthis fire ballistic missile]( "UPDATE 2-Air strikes in Yemen hit Houthi territory, Houthis fire ballistic missile") Air strikes blamed on the Saudi-led coalition killed at least 16 people in Yemen's Houthi-controlled Dalea province on Tuesday, two residents and the Houthi-run al-Masirah TV said. The strikes came four days after the Houthis, a group aligned with Iran, said they would stop aiming missile and drone attacks at Saudi Arabia if the Saudi-led coalition targeting Yemen does the same. The coalition spokesman said later on Tuesday that Houthi forces fired a ballistic missile from Amran, northwest of the capital Sanaa, but it fell inside Houthi territory in Yemen.
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| With military parade, Iran warns U.S. and other Western forces to leave the Persian Gulf Posted: 23 Sep 2019 11:38 AM PDT  As Iran paraded its troops and its arsenal of various weapons Sunday, the country's president demanded the U.S. and other Western nations leave the Persian Gulf.
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| Comey: Trump shouldn't be impeached because the 'American people would be let off the hook' Posted: 24 Sep 2019 05:16 PM PDT  When asked about impeaching Trump, the former FBI director answered "as a citizen, I hope not because I think the American people would be let off the hook."
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| 'You Have Stolen My Dreams and My Childhood': Greta Thunberg Gives Powerful Speech at UN Climate Summit Posted: 23 Sep 2019 11:19 AM PDT  Thunberg cited 30 years of scientific evidence showing the consequences of a warming globe
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| Japan refers US military pilot to prosecutors over Osprey crash Posted: 24 Sep 2019 12:27 AM PDT  Japanese authorities on Tuesday referred the case of a US military pilot to prosecutors over the 2016 crash of an Osprey aircraft that fuelled sentiment against a US base on Okinawa island. The crash did not kill anyone and only caused injuries to two of the five crew members aboard the US Marine MV-22 Osprey. The Pentagon described the December 2016 crash as a "mishap", which saw the plane end up in shallow water off Okinawa.
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| China calls on Washington to cancel Xinjiang meeting Posted: 24 Sep 2019 03:02 AM PDT ![China calls on Washington to cancel Xinjiang meeting]( "China calls on Washington to cancel Xinjiang meeting") China called on Washington on Tuesday to cancel a planned meeting at the United Nations to discuss accusations of repression and mass detentions in its Muslim northwestern region of Xinjiang. The foreign ministry accused the Trump administration of slandering China and interfering in its affairs. A deputy U.S. secretary of state, John Sullivan, is scheduled to lead a panel discussion on the "human rights crisis in Xinjiang" during this week's U.N. General Assembly meeting.
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| U.S. calls Michael Avenatti request to subpoena Nike a 'fishing expedition' Posted: 24 Sep 2019 08:02 AM PDT  U.S. prosecutors urged a Manhattan federal judge to reject Michael Avenatti's request to subpoena Nike Inc, calling it a "fishing expedition" unrelated to a criminal case accusing the embattled lawyer of extortion. In a letter late on Monday, prosecutors said they and Nike had already turned over 3,360 pages of documents to Avenatti, and the added materials he wanted were irrelevant to his knowledge or state of mind when he allegedly broke the law. Prosecutors accused Avenatti of threatening to publicize claims that Nike arranged for payments to elite college basketball recruits, unless the athletic wear company paid him more than $20 million and hired him to manage an internal probe.
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| Meghan Markle shares 'Cinderella moment' with teenager in South Africa: Watch! Posted: 24 Sep 2019 03:17 PM PDT  Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle made light of a potentially awkward situation during an engagement in Cape Town.
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| The Secret Reason America's Military Dominates: Nazi Weapons Tech? Posted: 23 Sep 2019 04:30 AM PDT  Before the guns fell silent in 1945, the Allies had already drawn up plans for gathering as much German technology as they could take. What did they find?
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| Chuck Todd Tells GOP Senator: ‘Don’t Gaslight Us’ on Ukraine-Biden Posted: 24 Sep 2019 04:11 PM PDT  Moments after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Tuesday that the House is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, MSNBC anchor Chuck Todd found himself in a fierce exchange with Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) in which he accused the GOP lawmaker of "gaslighting" his audience.Kennedy said that it's only fair to investigate the allegations about Joe Biden's son Hunter's business activities in Ukraine—along with accusations that Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine to pressure the president into launching a probe of the Bidens."It's hard to believe the concern about Hunter Biden by some of these folks making this case," Todd responded. "If they were so serious about this, I'm trying to figure out why nobody from the FBI has been contacted. Not a single person.""I don't understand why Rudy Giuliani thinks it's better to investigate an American by outsourcing it to a country that apparently they also didn't trust," the Meet the Press host added. "Do you see why I'm skeptical that the Hunter Biden stuff is really that serious? If they were serious about it, you go to the FBI, you don't go to an oligarch in Ukraine."Ukraine Likely to Reopen Probe of Hunter Biden Firm: SourcesKennedy said that Todd didn't know for a fact that the FBI hadn't been contacted—before parroting the narrative that Giuliani and the president have been pushing since the story of a whistleblower complaint against Trump broke wide open.This led to Todd and Kennedy tangling for the next few minutes. The MSNBC anchor asserted that there's no "there there" with Biden-Ukraine, while Kennedy declared that there hasn't been an investigation of it—likening Hunter Biden to a "bank robber" and calling Trump a "policeman who beat up the bank robber suspect."After Todd repeatedly noted that there is no evidence that Joe Biden got a Ukrainian prosecutor fired at the behest of his son, he accused Kennedy of playing an old political game: "We have no idea if it's true but make them deny it.""I agree, Chuck, and if you were right, I would agree with you. If you were right, I would agree with you. But you're wrong, this hasn't been investigated," Kennedy exclaimed. "Just because you think that the—I'm not alleging the vice president did anything wrong. But I'm just telling you the American people are looking at this and going, okay, umm, Mr. Biden—""Do you think whataboutism—how does that have anything to do with the president of the United States going to another world leader and saying, open up an investigation on my chief political rival?!" Todd shot back.After Kennedy claimed that it has to do with "Ukranian corruption," the MSNBC anchor let out a soft chuckle, retorting: "I am trying to be fair here, but you can't gaslight us, sir. Don't gaslight us!""I'm not gaslighting you," the Louisiana lawmaker contended. "I'm telling you the facts. Do you deny those facts, do you think they got Hunter Biden's name off Zip Recruiter? I don't. I don't think the American people do. I'm not alleging impropriety. I'm saying we need to look into it!"Eventually, Todd would end the lengthy and tense segment by telling Kennedy he wasn't going to allow a false equivalency to take over" and that he's "just trying to present this fairly without gaslighting the nation."Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Rare painting, possibly worth millions, was just hanging in woman's kitchen, experts say Posted: 24 Sep 2019 07:29 AM PDT  "Christ Mocked," a work by the 13th century pre-Renaissance painter Cimabue was found in a house in northern France, art auctioneers say.
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| Holding a Young Girl's Hand, A Man Reportedly Jumped in Front of a New York City Subway Train. The Girl Survived Posted: 23 Sep 2019 11:47 AM PDT  Video footage from the scene shows the child being rescued from under the train
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| US patience with Iran not inexhaustible, warns Saudi Arabia Posted: 24 Sep 2019 02:35 PM PDT  Saudi minister says military response to attack on oil facilities still being considered 'When push comes to shove there comes a point when even America's patience runs out,' said the Saudi foreign affairs minister, Adel al-Jubeir. Photograph: Amr Nabil/APSaudi Arabia has said that US patience with Iran is not inexhaustible and warned military options are still being considered following the attack on the Aramco oil facilities earlier this month.The Saudi foreign affairs minister, Adel al-Jubeir, also said the UN-commissioned report into the origins of the attack will be available fairly soon, and described the EU's Monday statement ascribing responsibility to Iran as "very significant".His remarks suggest Saudi Arabia is still putting private pressure on Donald Trump's administration not to limit his response to the 14 September attack to further sanctions and the deployment of additional troops to defend the oil facilities.Jubeir said: "We want to mobilise international support, and we want to look at a whole list of options – diplomatic options, economic options and military options – and then make the decision."Speaking on the margins of the UN general assembly in New York, he said: "This action will have consequences and Iran must know this."He added: "When push comes to shove there comes a point when even America's patience runs out – and Iran must be aware of that."The attacks temporarily knocked out over 5 per cent of global oil production and caused petroleum prices to rise.Also at the UN, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, said he was hoping for a breakthrough with Iran over the possibility of reopening talks in the coming hours, but the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, denied he was willing to drop his demand that US sanctions are lifted before talks can begin.Macron told the general assembly: "I am not naive at all and I don't believe in miracles. I believe it takes courage to build peace and that is why it is important for the United States, Iran and the signatories of the agreement to show this courage."But Jubeir set out a series of tough conditions for renegotiating the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, including fresh restrictions on its nuclear program after 2025, a 24/7 inspection regime all over the country and restrictions on its ballistic missile program.The demand, he said was "no nukes, no missiles and no terrorism", adding: "The Europeans were coming round to this being the objective. We believe appeasement does not work with Iran. We believe that when Europeans did not take a strong position after the attacks on the pipelines and oil field in Shaybah (in August), this emboldened and encouraged Iran."Although Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for the attacks on the Abqaiq and Khurais facilities, Riyadh, Washington and the EU have laid the blame on Iran.The US said it had expected Monday's statement by the UK, France and Germany, stating that Iran was behind the attack, because European and US investigators are examining weapons fragments together in Saudi Arabia."I really appreciate that our allies … have come forward and recognised publicly the truth," the US assistant secretary of state for the near east, David Schenker, told journalists."This did not come as a major surprise. The Brits and the French are on the ground with us with the Saudis and the UN, part of the investigative team in Saudi Arabia," Schenker said. "We have been transparent in terms of chain of custody … of all the equipment that we now have from the attack. And we're exploiting it together."Even before we have finished this investigation, the evidence that is emerging is incontrovertible."The US has been insistent that it would not carry out a retaliatory strike, but would beef up Saudi defences and increase other forms of pressure on Iran.Trump on Tuesday called on other nations to join the US in pressuring Iran after the attacks, but said there was still a path to peace.
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| Correction: Social Security Fraud story Posted: 24 Sep 2019 10:06 AM PDT  In a story Sept. 23 about a new lawsuit over federal disability benefits for former clients of Eric Conn, The Associated Press erroneously reported that a federal appeals court ruling in November restored benefits for about 300 of Eric Conn's former clients. The federal appeals court ruling paved the way for the restoration of benefits. A class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of a group of people who lost federal disability benefits after their lawyer was arrested for fraud.
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| Pompeo says he approves of Rudy Giuliani 'inserting himself in foreign affairs' Posted: 23 Sep 2019 06:39 AM PDT  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday said he approved of Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's personal attorney, "inserting himself in foreign affairs" and pressing Ukrainian officials to investigate Trump's political rival Joe Biden.
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| Jessica Simpson has lost 100 lbs in 6 months: 'Yes, I tipped the scales at 240' Posted: 24 Sep 2019 11:49 AM PDT  During her third pregnancy, Jessica Simpson 'tipped the scales at 240,' but she's spent the last six months getting back on track.
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| Bill O'Reilly says new book on Trump 'will bring backlash': 'This is his actual life history' Posted: 24 Sep 2019 09:20 AM PDT  Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly latest book,'The United States of Trump,' is all about the sitting president.
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| GM gets court to keep UAW picketers from blocking Spring Hill Assembly entrances Posted: 23 Sep 2019 06:37 PM PDT  A court in Tennessee says the UAW can't block the entrance at the Spring Hill plant.
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| Meet the F-4 Phantom: This 60-Year-Old Fighter Jet Won't Stop for Anyone Posted: 23 Sep 2019 09:54 PM PDT  The story of the legendary F-4 Phantom II.
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| Department of Homeland Security Effectively Ending ‘Catch and Release’ of Illegal Migrants Posted: 24 Sep 2019 11:15 AM PDT  The Trump administration announced Tuesday that a combination of restrictive immigration policies has effectively concluded the status quo "catch and release" system that prevailed under the Obama administration.Acting Secretary Kevin McAleenan explained during a speech before the Council on Foreign Relations that the vast majority of migrant families who enter the country illegally will no longer be eligible for "catch and release" due to the implementation of policies such as the "Migrant Protection Protocols," which require that migrants wait in Mexico while their asylum claims are being adjudicated, and extended migrant detentions periods."With some humanitarian and medical exceptions, DHS will no longer be releasing family units from Border Patrol Stations into the interior," McAleenan said Tuesday. "This means that for family units, the largest demographic by volume arriving at the border this year, the court-mandated practice of catch and release, due to the inability of DHS to complete immigration proceedings with families detained together in custody, will have been mitigated. This is a vital step in restoring the rule of law and integrity to our immigration system."The Trump administration has taken various steps in recent months to eliminate so-called "pull" factors that incentivize illegal immigration. In addition to implementing the Migrant Protection Protocols, the administration has also established licensing agreements with family residential centers that will allow authorities to detain family units for longer than the 20 days prescribed by the Flores agreement.Beginning next week, the administration will officially transition to returning virtually all migrants to Mexico "swiftly" if they are unable to establish a credible fear of returning to their home country.McAleenan said last month that border crossings have declined 43 percent since May, when arrests between ports of entry at the southern border increased for the fourth straight month to 132,887, up from 99,304 arrests in April.In April, the White House requested $4.5 billion in emergency funds from Congress to deal with the increasing flow number of migrants illegally crossing the southwest border. Agencies warned earlier this year that they are overwhelmed by the influx of migrants turning up both at ports of entry and between them.
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| EPA targets California over poor air quality Posted: 24 Sep 2019 03:59 PM PDT  The Trump administration on Tuesday blamed California's worst-in-the nation air quality on shoddy paperwork, calling on the state to overhaul its plans for cleaning up toxic smog or risk losing billions in federal road dollars. The government's warning is the latest battle between the Trump administration and California. It comes days after the Trump administration moved to block the state's emission standards for cars and trucks, a move that would eliminate California's most important weapon for combating its biggest source of pollution.
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| A woman caught a rare flesh-eating bacteria from a manicure, and doctors had to remove chunks of her thumb Posted: 24 Sep 2019 11:09 AM PDT  The infection can be deadly if not caught early and treated. The woman's doctor said she was lucky she didn't need her arm amputated.
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| Mexico braces for impact as Thomas Cook collapses Posted: 23 Sep 2019 01:35 PM PDT  Cancún (Mexico) (AFP) - Mexico is bracing for a "very powerful" impact from the collapse of British travel firm Thomas Cook, an official said Monday, as several hundred tourists gathered at the Cancun airport looking for a way home. Britain sends more tourists to Mexico's Caribbean coast than any other European country, and more than any country in the world except the United States and Canada, according to Mexican tourism ministry figures.
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| Trump responds to whistleblowers: Today's Toon Posted: 24 Sep 2019 04:13 PM PDT  Want to keep up with USA TODAY's editorial cartoons? Bookmark this page. We'll update it frequently.
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| 'Keep calm': 6.0 earthquake rattles jittery Puerto Rico as Tropical Storm Karen strengthens Posted: 24 Sep 2019 04:21 PM PDT  A magnitude 6.0 quake rattled Puerto Rico hours before Tropical Storm Karen was forecast to pound an island still recovering from Hurricane Maria.
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| Vietnam says 'urgent measures' needed to combat Mekong Delta erosion Posted: 24 Sep 2019 02:59 AM PDT ![Vietnam says 'urgent measures' needed to combat Mekong Delta erosion]( "Vietnam says 'urgent measures' needed to combat Mekong Delta erosion") Six provinces in Vietnam's Mekong Delta region have been scrambling to battle the severe erosion of the sprawling river and coastal network, with some areas now requiring "urgent measures", state media said on Tuesday. The provinces, Long An, An Giang, Dong Thap, Ben Tre, Soc Trang and Ca Mau, have either declared emergencies or cordoned off long stretches of land on the Mekong's edge because of the erosion, the official Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported.
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| Is the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Iran's Most Dangerous Weapon of War? Posted: 24 Sep 2019 04:19 AM PDT  Hopefully, America will never have to find out.
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| Woman lived with mother's corpse for months while collecting her welfare payments Posted: 24 Sep 2019 07:51 AM PDT  A 60-year-old woman has been charged after allegedly hiding her mother's corpse in her basement for as long as four months while living off her social security cheques.Paula Bergold is accused of placing the body of her 89-year-old mother, Ruby, in a small plastic tub before stowing her underneath her home in Peshtigo, eastern Wisconsin.
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