| Trump calls WHCD a 'very big, boring bust' Posted: 29 Apr 2018 09:48 AM PDT  President Trump denounced the White House Correspondents Dinner as "a very big, boring bust" and mocked comedian Michelle Wolf, who delivered a polarizing performance.
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| Former CIA Acting Director: House Russia report is a ‘wreck’ Posted: 29 Apr 2018 11:20 AM PDT  Former CIA Acting Director John McLaughlin said the way in which Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee handled their Russian interference investigation shows a "new level" of partisanship.
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| A News Photographer Was Killed In Afghanistan. Here Are Some Of His Best Photos. Posted: 30 Apr 2018 10:40 AM PDT  A bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday has left at least nine journalists
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| Florida police officer signs off after 30 years of service Posted: 29 Apr 2018 08:18 PM PDT  Sarasota Police Officer Andre Jenkins got emotional as he signed off for the last time after 30 years of service.
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| Authorities recover body of 4-year-old boy swept out to sea while walking with mother on beach Posted: 30 Apr 2018 11:41 AM PDT  Authorities recovered the body of a 4-year-old boy who was swept away by a
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| Space tourism could be possible in near future Posted: 29 Apr 2018 09:41 AM PDT  Blue Origin had a successful test-launch on Sunday, part of a growing industry hoping to ferry civilians into space, with the company's goal to start sending tourists by the end of this year.
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| US top court to consider use of gas on death row inmate Posted: 30 Apr 2018 10:56 AM PDT  The US Supreme Court agreed Monday to rule on whether the state of Missouri should use gas as an alternative to a lethal injection to execute a convicted murderer-rapist with a rare congenital disease. The top US court has halted Russell Bucklew's execution twice before, most recently last month after his lawyers argued that a lethal injection could cause intense suffering. The US Constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, and a series of botched executions with lethal injections has spurred debate over the constitutionality of this most common method for putting inmates to death in the United States.
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| That's quackers! Mesmerizing overhead footage of hundreds of ducks following the leader Posted: 29 Apr 2018 02:00 AM PDT ![That's quackers! Mesmerizing overhead footage of hundreds of ducks following the leader]( "That's quackers! Mesmerizing overhead footage of hundreds of ducks following the leader") These photographs of hundreds of ducks following their leader down a river are truly mesmerizing. Rafeur Rahman of Bangladesh climbed a high bridge and saw hundreds of ducks apparently playing a game of follow the leader. More than 500 ducks live on the river, where the mosses and snails provide the perfect habitat. (Caters News)
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| Iran leader: U.S. pushes Riyadh to confront Tehran, stirs crisis Posted: 30 Apr 2018 05:29 AM PDT  By Parisa Hafezi ANKARA (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader on Monday hit out at the United States a day after new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Riyadh, accusing Washington of trying to stoke a "regional crisis" by provoking its ally Saudi Arabia to confront Tehran. In remarks broadcast on state television, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reiterated longstanding calls for the United States to "leave" the Middle East, which he called Iran's home, and said any power seeking to challenge Iran would be defeated.
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| Comey: 'I didn't get a sense' that Trump knew about Steele dossier allegations Posted: 28 Apr 2018 10:57 PM PDT  Former FBI Director James Comey tells Chuck Todd in an exclusive interview that he didn't believe President Trump was a aware of salacious allegations when he first briefed him.
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| 10-year-old boy found dead inside dryer after game of hide-and-seek was electrocuted: autopsy Posted: 30 Apr 2018 01:10 PM PDT  A 10-year-old Texas boy who was found dead inside a communal dryer after a
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| Joy Reid's Defenders Praise Her Apology — But Ignore Her Apparent Cover-Up Posted: 29 Apr 2018 03:18 PM PDT  Joy Reid has apologized for writing anti-LGBTQ posts on her old blog, but she
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| Controversy after fatal police-involved shooting in Georgia Posted: 29 Apr 2018 09:05 AM PDT  Ricky Boyd, 20, was shot and killed in January by Savannah police when they went to his home to question him in connection with a murder case. At first, authorities said he was armed and initiated gunfire.
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| Deal agreed to evacuate Syria's Yarmuk refugee camp: state media Posted: 29 Apr 2018 12:49 PM PDT  A deal has been reached for the evacuation of the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmuk where Islamic State group fighters have been holed up in southern Damascus, state media reported Sunday. The transfer of "terrorist groups" to rebel-held areas of northwestern Syria would begin on Monday, said the official SANA news agency, which did not name IS jihadists. It came hours after the Syrian government and rebels agreed to evacuate opposition fighters from the areas of Yalda, Babila and Beit Sahem, also in southern Damascus, according to SANA.
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| Drivers facing most expensive driving season in years Posted: 30 Apr 2018 02:15 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Get ready for a little bit more pain at the pump this summer.
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| Twin Peaks star, Pamela Gidley, dies ages 52 Posted: 30 Apr 2018 12:02 PM PDT  The American actress, Pamela Gidley, who played Teresa Banks in David Lynch's "Twin Peaks" prequel "Fire Walk with Me" passed away on April 16th, it was confirmed on Sunday.
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| Visit These 16 Eiffel Tower Replicas Located Outside of Paris Posted: 30 Apr 2018 02:47 PM PDT |
| America Rejected A Muslim Ban. Now The Supreme Court Must As Well. Posted: 30 Apr 2018 12:42 PM PDT  As I sat in the Supreme Court's gallery last week, I recalled the morning
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| The world's oldest recorded spider built herself a hole, then just stayed there till age 43 Posted: 30 Apr 2018 06:17 AM PDT  Just how many walking sticks would an elderly spider require? SEE ALSO: 5 common groceries made from microorganisms Researchers in Australia monitored what is most likely the world's oldest spider on record, who died at age 43, outstripping the previous record-holder, a 28-year-old tarantula. The lead researcher, Leanda Mason, said of the spider in question, "to our knowledge this is the oldest spider ever recorded, and her significant life has allowed us to further investigate the trapdoor spider's behaviour and population dynamics," according to a press release. A sedentary creature, the female Gaius villosus trapdoor spider builds itself a tunnel in the ground and stays there, seldom wandering too far from its hidey-hole. Sounds pretty ideal to be honest. Some people online were confused as to how the researchers knew the spider's age. HOW DO YOU KNOW IT WAS THE OLDEST SPIDER, HAVE YOU ASKED ALL THE OTHERS THEIR AGE? https://t.co/b5ls7v4p31 — Christine Best (@tinajaneb33) April 28, 2018 You just have to look it up on the web. — Ryan Evans (@DoNothing69) April 30, 2018 Spider census. Every spider took it. Although apparently a few of them lied about their age to get into bars, allegedly. — matthew marsden (@matthewdmarsden) April 29, 2018 Named "Number 16" (affectionate pet-names were notably absent from the paper) the female trapdoor spider was first documented as a spiderling in 1974 by a study initiated by Barbara York Main. The study monitored individuals using tagged pegs put next to their burrows. Trapdoor spiders never re-use the disused burrow of another spider, so the researchers can be fairly confident that they were monitoring the same spider for 43 years. Number 16 probably didn't die of natural causes. On Oct. 31, 2016, the researchers found that her burrow had been pierced by a parasitic wasp. Her burrow fell into disrepair thereafter, meaning that poor Number 16 was probably eaten from the inside out by a spider wasp larva. What a way to go. WATCH: Go on a tour of the moon with these 4K images
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| Parkland survivors point out hypocrisy as NRA announce gun ban at meeting attended by vice president Mike Pence Posted: 30 Apr 2018 10:28 AM PDT  Survivors of the Florida school shooting and families of victims have accused the National Rifle Association (NRA) of hypocrisy after it announced that guns will be banned at their upcoming leadership conference that will be attended vice president Mike Pence. The powerful gun lobby revealed the policy in a post on its website about the annual meeting of its Institute for Legislative Action (ILA), which takes place in Dallas on 4 May. "Due to the attendance of the Vice President of the United States, the US Secret Service will be responsible for event security at the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum," it said.
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| Paul Ryan Tries To Act Cool In White House Correspondents' Dinner Video Posted: 28 Apr 2018 08:34 PM PDT  House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) really wants people to think he's cool.
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| Golden State Killer Case: Is Suspect Joseph James DeAngelo Pretending to Be Sickly Old Man? Posted: 30 Apr 2018 12:29 PM PDT  Police believe DeAngelo is acting in a bid for sympathy from the court.
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| Missile strikes on Syria kill 26, mostly Iranian, forces Posted: 30 Apr 2018 11:48 AM PDT  Missile strikes on central Syria killed 26 pro-regime fighters, most of them Iranians, a monitor said Monday, in a raid that bore the hallmarks of Tehran's archfoe Israel. The Syrian regime, which denounced a "fresh aggression" after the strikes, meanwhile continued to flush out armed groups from the capital with more deals to transfer fighters to the country's north. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group, missile strikes hit two military targets in Aleppo and Hama provinces late Sunday.
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| Danish citizen jailed under new Malaysian anti-fake news law Posted: 30 Apr 2018 01:57 AM PDT  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A Malaysian court on Monday sentenced a Danish citizen to a week in jail after he pleaded guilty to maliciously publishing false information, the first person to be punished under a controversial anti-fake news law.
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| UK, U.S. study Antarctic glacier, hoping to crack sea level risks Posted: 30 Apr 2018 03:16 AM PDT  Britain and the United States launched a $25 million project on Monday to study the risks of a collapse of a giant glacier in Antarctica that is already shrinking and nudging up global sea levels. The five-year research, involving 100 scientists, would be the two nations' biggest joint scientific project in Antarctica since the 1940s. Ice is thawing from Greenland to Antarctica and man-made global warming is accelerating the trend.
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| Toyota Preparing For Next Corolla: $170M Investment, 400 New Jobs Posted: 28 Apr 2018 10:09 PM PDT  The production lines at the factory in Mississippi will be completely replaced.
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| Waffle House shooting hero James Shaw Jr. raises $197k+ for victims' families Posted: 29 Apr 2018 11:58 AM PDT  James Shaw Jr. was hailed as a hero, but he's making sure that the focus stays on the victims and their families.
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| ‘Like the Pope Abandoning Jesus.’ Why North Korean Denuclearization Is Still a Long Shot Posted: 30 Apr 2018 12:21 AM PDT  The regime's history and governing philosophies makes compliance with a denuclearization pact unlikely
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| Harley-Davidson Confirms LiveWire on Schedule for 2019 Release Posted: 30 Apr 2018 10:04 AM PDT  Harley-Davidson Confirms LiveWire on Schedule for 2019 Release Harley reports its debut electric model is on schedule for a release next year, but will the MoCo's foray into ebikes right the ship? At this point it's common knowledge that things in recent
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| Trump Asks If There Are Hispanics In The Room Before Demanding His Wall Posted: 28 Apr 2018 06:30 PM PDT  President Donald Trump was met with silence at a campaign-style rally in
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| Syria regime, US-backed forces in deadly clashes: monitor Posted: 29 Apr 2018 06:14 AM PDT  Rare clashes broke out Sunday between Syrian regime forces and a US-backed alliance in the east of the country, killing six alliance fighters, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said. State news agency SANA said the army seized control of four villages from the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces in Deir Ezzor province, where the Kurdish-led alliance has been fighting the Islamic State jihadist group. The SDF and Russian-backed Syrian government forces are conducting parallel but separate offensives against IS in the oil-rich province.
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| Fugitive suspect in killing of deputy captured, arrested Posted: 28 Apr 2018 07:04 PM PDT  NORRIDGEWOCK, Maine (AP) — A man accused of killing a sheriff's deputy was arrested Saturday outside a remote cabin, ending an intense manhunt in its fourth day in the woods of central Maine.
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| Lava pours from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano in mesmerising timelapse video Posted: 29 Apr 2018 09:29 AM PDT  It was filmed after an eruption on Monday following a period of increased seismic activity. Lava can be seen overflowing onto the crater floor. The largest of these flows was from approximately 06:15am to 10:30am, which is around 19 seconds into the video above, covering 90 acres.
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| Porsche Exclusive Builds Custom 911 S Cabrio With Crimson Cabin Posted: 30 Apr 2018 06:01 AM PDT  The mix of GT Silver Metallic on the outside and Bordeaux Red inside is a classic looking combination.
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| How Land Rover Created the Ultimate Defender Posted: 30 Apr 2018 10:54 AM PDT  If you wanted to build the perfect Defender, it'd probably look a lot like the Defender Works V8.
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| U.S. concerned by 'destabilizing and malign activities' of Iran: Pompeo Posted: 29 Apr 2018 12:53 PM PDT  By Lesley Wroughton and Ori Lewis TEL AVIV (Reuters) - The United States is deeply concerned by Iran's "destabilizing and malign activities", new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said after meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday. The former CIA director was speaking on a flying visit to the region, where he had earlier in the day met with Saudi King Salman in Riyadh and stressed the need for unity among Gulf allies as Washington aims to muster support for new sanctions against Iran to curb its missile program. The whirlwind trip to NATO in Brussels and to Middle East allies came only hours after Pompeo was confirmed as Trump's top diplomat.
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| British man caught on video leaving driver's seat after turning on Tesla autopilot Posted: 30 Apr 2018 07:47 AM PDT  Some people just don't want to drive. And some of them get their wish.
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| Kim Kardashian Explains Why The Name Chicago ‘Kind Of Messes With Me’ Posted: 30 Apr 2018 11:32 AM PDT  Chicago is a lot of things -- a city, a style of pizza and the name of Kim
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| EU considering 'freeze' on subsidies for illiberal member states Posted: 29 Apr 2018 04:42 AM PDT  EU member states that fail to live up the European Union's democratic values could find parts of their EU subsidies being "frozen" until they mend their ways, The Telegraph understands. Under proposals to be unveiled in Brussels this week by Guenther Oettinger, the EU's budget commissioner, Eastern EU states like Poland and Hungary could feel a financial squeeze if they were deemed to have failed to live up to the founding values of the EU. The moves comes after pressure from liberal groups in the European Parliament and leading western powers like France and Germany, who want to find a mechanism to put pressure on recalcitrant member states. "The precise details are still to be worked out, but the proposal will include the temporary freezing of funds in order to motivate a change of behaviour among states," said an EU source briefed on the document. Poland and Hungary are both major recipients of EU 'structural funds' which are designed to narrow the gap between rich and poor member states, each receiving €5.5bn and €2.7bn respectively a year. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is on a collision course with the EU after his emphatic election victory Credit: REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo Sources said the threat to freeze access to funding for projects could also include agricultural subsidies, but would not include student programmes like Erasmus to avoid punishing citizens for the misdeeds of their governments. Reports also suggest that new formulas for calculating payments will mean that southern EU states, who tend to adhere closer to liberal values, will receive higher payments when the next 7-year budget cycle begins in 2021. The decision to link EU payments to 'good behaviour' is highly controversial and risks deepening the stand-off between western Europe and the populist governments in Warsaw and Budapest. Tensions have deepened over the last two years after eastern EU countries refused to accept refugee resettlement quotas following the 2015 migrant crisis, and Poland introduced judicial reforms judged anti-democratic by the EU. The recent re-election campaign of the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, which was marred by anti-semitic rhetoric, corruption scandals and warnings from OSCE election monitors about a lack of free media, only deepened concern in Brussels. Poland is currently battling Brussels over an 'Article 7' disciplinary procedure for breaches of EU commitments to maintain the 'rule of law', but is protected from serious punishment by a Hungarian promise to veto any sanctions. EU sources said the plan to explicitly link EU payments to democratic standards was in part driven by a French and German desire to have a less draconian and more flexible mechanism for pressuring states that were falling short. They added that the Commission would have to negotiate a system for deciding when payments would be frozen - but leading western states, like Germany, want it based on majority voting to avoid the kind of protective vetoes that have neutered the Article 7 process. FAQ | Article 7 of the Treaty of the EU However an Eastern EU diplomatic source said that any attempt to connect funds to the "proper functioning of the judicial system in a member state" would be a matter of serious concern, raising questions about fairness and due process. "Who would assess the state of the judicial system and on what grounds? Wouldn't there be a risk of political pressure and arbitrariness in such an assessment? Our position will depend on the shape of the proposal, but the budget must be governed by the law, not by arbitrariness," the source said. Liberal forces have become increasingly agitated that states like Poland, Hungary but also Bulgaria and Romania - who joined in 2007 - are flouting EU norms with impunity, revelling in what Mr Orban has called "illiberal democracy". When former Soviet-bloc states joined the EU in 2004, they signed up to values founded on "freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities." Now Mr Orban has talked openly about pursuing the "Hungarian model" which contests western interpretations of the EU's statement on values. Guy Verhofstadt, the leader of the liberal ALDE grouping in the European Parliament and a trenchant critic of Mr Orban, welcomed the Commission proposal. "It is grotesque for EU tax-payers' money to be spent propping up the vanity projects of illiberal ruling elites who politicise their own judiciaries, erode democratic safeguards and systematically attempt to undermine NGOs and the free press," he told The Telegraph. "From 2020 onwards, it is essential that cohesion funds are made conditional on full compliance with the rule of law and our European values of democracy and freedom." A spokesman for the Commission declined to comment on the forthcoming proposal which will cover the EU budget for 2021-2027, which has already been complicated by the €10bn-€15bn a year shortfall left by the UK's departure from the EU. Reports suggest that the Commission will propose a budget between 1.1 and 1.2 percent of the bloc's gross national income - an increase from the current 1.0 percent which results in a seven-year 1 trillion euros budget.
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| Thais rally against officials building homes on sacred mountain Posted: 29 Apr 2018 04:27 AM PDT  Around 1,000 people rallied in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai on Sunday to protest the construction of homes for officials on forested land flanking a revered mountain, in one of the largest shows of dissent under junta rule. Public frustration has been mounting over the project since aerial images of several dozen officials' homes -- carved into the green foothills of Chiang Mai's Doi Suthep mountain -- started circulating on social media earlier this year. On Sunday, a sea protesters, many wearing green and waving flags, called for the demolition of the buildings as they marched through Chiang Mai, the biggest city in Thailand's mountainous north.
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| Bill Cosby's unlikely source of strength as he preps for prison Posted: 29 Apr 2018 03:25 PM PDT  Days after Bill Cosby was found guilty, a New York newspaper reveals what the disgraced comedian said about his sexual assault conviction. The 80-year-old says a meeting years ago with South African icon Nelson Mandela is preparing him for prison. CBS News correspondent Meg Oliver reports.
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| New Toyota Supra Caught Riding On Production Wheels Posted: 30 Apr 2018 03:19 AM PDT  These could be the clearest spy shots to date of the much-awaited sports car.
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| Court documents: Deputy was shot in the head by assailant Posted: 30 Apr 2018 02:58 PM PDT  AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A Maine man confessed to a friend after shooting a sheriff's deputy in the head last week, investigators said in documents made public Monday.
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| Trump reveals he wants US-North Korea summit to take place in DMZ Posted: 30 Apr 2018 01:40 AM PDT  Donald Trump has revealed his preferred location for a anticipated summit with Kim Jong-un would be the so-called Freedom House set in the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea. "Numerous countries are being considered for the MEETING, but would Peace House/Freedom House, on the Border of North & South Korea, be a more Representative, Important and Lasting site than a third party country," he wrote. In the aftermath of last Friday's summit during which the 36-year-old became the first North Korean leader to travel south of the border between the two countries, Mr Trump praised the meeting and said he was looking forward to his own.
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| Taiwan's MediaTek applies for ZTE shipment permit under government order Posted: 29 Apr 2018 09:18 PM PDT  Taiwanese chip designer MediaTek Inc said it will comply with a government order to apply for a permit to export products to ZTE Corp, a Chinese telecoms equipment maker subjected to restrictions in the United States. The U.S. government this month banned American firms from sales to ZTE for seven years, saying the company had failed to comply with a settlement related to ZTE shipping U.S.-made goods to Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions. ZTE said the ban, imposed as the United States and China spar over import tariffs, threatened its survival.
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