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A woman who alleges Donald Trump sexually assaulted her more than 30 years ago says she believes the network of people connected to Jeffrey Epstein is on the verge of being fully exposed as more survivors will come forward this year to detail their experiences.Beatrice Keul, a former Miss Switzerland and Miss Europe contestant, made the prediction...
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Political commentators criticized President Donald Trump Sunday after CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins posted a photo showing the Kennedy Center's signage still obscured by scaffolding and tarps. In May, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to remove Trump's name from the Kennedy Center facade after it was installed without proper approval...
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The internet had a hilarious response to the low attendance at President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair on Monday.Reporters broadcast live from the sparsely-attended fair commemorating America's 250th anniversary, marked by bad weather that canceled rapper Vanilla Ice's performance, power outages melting ice cream, a Confederate flag...
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Texas Attorney General and GOP Senate nominee Ken Paxton was questioned on Monday for allegedly traveling with "some lady who's not his wife," in a video shared on social media.The anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project called out the MAGA candidate in a critical midterm race. Paxton, who was backed by President Donald Trump and beat the president's...
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War Room host Steve Bannon and MAGA lawyer Mike Davis lost it on Monday as a Supreme Court ruling they say "totally screwed" them landed live on air.The 5-4 ruling in Watson v. Republican National Committee allows states to count mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day but received up to 5 days later. Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the majority...
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While much has been said regarding President Donald Trump's "hateful language” over the past decade, his perception of "love” may hold the key to understanding him and his seemingly sporadic decisions, veteran New York Times columnist Frank Bruni mused on Monday.Bruni catalogued a number of recent instances in which Trump invoked the word...
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Justice Samuel Alito's legal reasoning in a landmark voting rights case was mocked as "braindead" and blamed on his presumed consumption of conservative media.The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Mississippi law by a 5-4 vote allowing election officials to count mail-in ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but received up to five days after it,...
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Political analyst Jon Lovett, co-host of "Pod Save America" and former President Barack Obama's speechwriter, criticized President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair.On "The Daily Beast Podcast" on Sunday with host Joanna Coles, Lovett called it a "dark moment" that overshadows the nation's 250th birthday celebration. Lovett noted low...
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Pop star Katy Perry turned down an invite to perform at President Donald Trump's America250 celebrations in Brussels — and his MAGA ally had a public meltdown over the snub, The Daily Beast reported on Monday.Ambassador Bill White lashed out at Perry after she declined to appear at the MAGA event at Cinquantenaire Park in Belgium, which featured...
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Candidats à la présidentielle, processus de désignation… y verra-t-on un peu plus clair, à gauche, avant de partir en vacances ? Alors que François Hollande et Raphaël Glucksmann se sont croisés à un raout social-démocrate dimanche, le PS et Les Ecologistes réunissent leurs instances mardi soir. Anthony Lattier fait le point avec Elisa...
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Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) was mocked online Monday after he told Newsmax that the housing bill, which aims to increase home ownership and home supply for Americans, left him "spooked." Fine was speaking to the conservative news outlet as the bill was expected to be on President Donald Trump's desk. It's unclear whether the president will sign the...
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A U.S. Supreme Court ruling issued Monday will end 90 years of court precedent that limits the president's power over independent agencies.The conservative majority voted 6-3 to overturn a landmark 1935 ruling in the Humphrey's Executor case that had found the president unlawfully fired a member of the Federal Trade Commission, and Justice Sonia...
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President Donald Trump was mocked on Monday after the Supreme Court shut down his appeal of the E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse verdict, leaving a $5 million judgment against him standing.In 2023, a jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll in a New York department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. They also found he...
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Elon Musk challenged critics on X this Sunday. "They cannot cite a single name of someone who died out of the 'millions' they falsely claim have died,” Musk wrote on X. Tesla's CEO has faced intense criticism, as reports indicate his work with the Department of Government Efficiency has led to preventable deaths and might cause millions more by...
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President Donald Trump erupted Monday after his appeal of a sexual abuse verdict against him was rejected by the Supreme Court moments earlier, calling the court's decision "surprising” while vowing to "continue the fight” against the decision."Surprisingly, the Supreme Court declined to 'review' a Fake Case brought against me by a woman I...
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor accused the Supreme Court of giving President Donald Trump "power unknown even to the English Crown."The 6-3 ruling Monday in Trump v. Slaughter wiped out a 91-year-old precedent that let Congress protect the heads of independent federal agencies from being fired at will."In holding otherwise," Sotomayor wrote in dissent,...
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Conservative justices Samuel Alito and Amy Coney Barrett clashed on Monday in a Supreme Court ruling involving mail-in voting, which was considered a rejection of the Republican Party's attack on mail-in ballots.Coney Barrett wrote the opinion in the 5-4 ruling in Watson v. Republican National Committee that upheld a Mississippi law that allows...
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Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) appears to be "leaning into” President Donald Trump's false election fraud claims in his bid for re-election, but according to CNN data guru Harry Enten, the Trump-endorsed candidate's midterm strategy is all but certain to hand Democrats a decisive victory."If Mike Collins thinks that Donald Trump is going to carry him...
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The U.S. Supreme Court narrowly ruled against President Donald Trump in his attempt to fire a Federal Reserve governor.The court voted 5-4 to deny the president's request to stay a lower court's injunction that prevented him from firing Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, and the majority rejected the government's argument that the president's...
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt marked her return from maternity leave Monday by immediately attacking Democratic candidates as "communists" on Fox & Friends.Leavitt gave birth to her daughter, Viviana "Vivi" Riccio, eight weeks ago and stepped away from the briefing room podium in late April. Her first TV appearance back was on Fox &...
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A Washington, D.C. resident who protested President Donald Trump's surge of National Guard troops in the nation's capital was awarded a "significant” settlement after being placed in handcuffs last year for following troops while playing "Star Wars” music."I'm pleased that the D.C. police recognize their part in violating my rights,” said Sam...
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As conservative groups prepare to escalate the fight over Disney's broadcast licenses, two liberal-leaning organizations have deployed an unusual legal maneuver of their own.The groups Frequency Forward and the Media Action Center filed a "petition to deny" against Disney's ABC license renewals last week, a procedural tool typically used by parties...
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The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, rejecting President Donald Trump's attacks on the voting practice, CNN reported.The "unexpected rebuff" in the 5-4 ruling in Watson v. Republican National Committee, was considered a defeat for Trump and Republicans, who have argued that...
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President Donald Trump's slow pace in sending nominations to the Senate is exposing deepening friction with Republican senators, who say they are increasingly frustrated with the White House as the GOP's hold on the chamber beyond 2026 grows uncertain.More than two dozen federal court seats sit vacant, along with the Labor secretary, FDA...
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The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear President Donald Trump's appeal of the E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse verdict, leaving a $5 million judgment against him intact.A jury found Trump liable in 2023 for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll in a New York department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.They also found he defamed her when he...
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As reporting increasingly suggests that the U.S. federal aid cuts spearheaded by trillionaire Elon Musk last year have led to preventable deaths abroad – and potentially millions by 2030 – the Tesla CEO issued his critics a challenge to "cite a single name of someone who died,” but grew notably silent after being given countless...
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A Republican caller's live argument that citizenship should be limited to white people drew an instant rebuttal from a Democratic woman who blamed President Donald Trump for riling up white supremacists.During Monday's Washington Journal program on C-SPAN, Jim, a North Dakota man calling on the Republican line, invoked America's first citizenship...
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President Donald Trump's nomination of an obscure Oklahoma state trooper to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement has set off a revolt inside the agency and raised fresh questions about whether Stephen Miller's influence in the White House is fading.Sources told The Daily Beast's PunchUp that Richard "Lance" Schroyer, a former highway patrolman...
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President Donald Trump has boasted about the crowds flocking to the Great American State Fair, but photos show the semiquincentennial celebration has been thinly attended.The 80-year-old president claimed last week that 45,000 people attended the fair's kickoff celebration, although independent reporting estimated a far smaller crowd, and MS NOW's...
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A professor of political science weighed in Monday on the latest controversy surrounding President Donald Trump and his family, one that involves allegations of corruption so blatant, the professor said, that a graphic outlining the alleged corruption bore resemblance to "an inbred family tree.”According to an explosive report from The New York...
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Bill Maher challenged Vice President JD Vance on President Donald Trump's false claims of election fraud, and a well-connected Washington, D.C., reporter flagged a sneaky maneuver the V.P. used to avoid heckling from the talk show's live audience.The vice president agreed that candidates should not refuse to concede elections but claimed that...
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A senior GOP official revealed a key strategy Republicans plan to employ heading into the midterm elections, but due to a number of new factors at play this year, the strategy remains "an open question” and could very well end up backfiring, NOTUS reported Monday.That strategy largely centers around targeting voters who backed President Donald...
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Either I have firsthand evidence that the Republicans are barking up the wrong trees in their desperation to raise midterm funds, or I'm being trolled by them – or both.This started about a week ago when I received the strangest and most hilarious email from none other than JD Vance, who has been identified in some circles as the Vice President...
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The Wall Street Journal editorial board lambasted President Donald Trump over his efforts to secure a durable peace deal with Iran.U.S. and Iranian officials have agreed to halt their attacks on one another and meet Tuesday to talk out their dispute over the Strait of Hormuz, and the conservative newspaper's editors bashed the 80-year-old president...
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Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci is cautioning Democrats not to dismiss President Donald Trump's recent UFC appearance as mere showmanship, arguing it may signal the start of a "serious November ground game" aimed at a slice of the electorate the party routinely overlooks.In a post on social media, Scaramucci — who...
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President Donald Trump set off widespread mockery with the unveiling of his so-called "patriot passport," and one political analyst highlighted a surprising message sent by the official document.The passport design shows a glowering Trump standing at the Resolute Desk in front of the text of the Declaration of Independence, but the featured slogan...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will be forced, again, to navigate a "legislative minefield” this week due to President Donald Trump's controversial agenda, a challenge that risks leaving the entire chamber "paralyzed for a second week in a row” and sparking a GOP "disaster,” Punchbowl News reported Monday.At the heart of the difficulties...
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President Donald Trump took to social media Monday to lash out at former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden amid widespread mockery of his Great American State Fair, an event he insisted was "packed with happy people” and loved by all – despite ample evidence to the contrary."Do you think people appreciate what a fantastic job we did in...
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The number one complaint I hear from liberals is that Democrats "aren't doing anything” to push back against the illegitimate Trump regime. I understand why they might feel that way, but it also bugs me when people complain without offering solutions.We've needed a dedicated Democratic Press Secretary out there every day since January 2025 to...
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Barring any last-minute surprises, Andy Burnham will become prime minister three weeks today. But what is his 10-year mission for the country and how will he achieve it? In his first major speech in Manchester, Burnham will set out his plans for the economy, welfare and devolution with a pledge to deliver “good growth in […]
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A legal expert warned on Sunday that the Supreme Court seems willing to test the limits of America's constitutional multiracial democracy by approving a "wildly illegal" executive order from President Donald Trump. Leah Litman, a law professor at the University of Michigan and co-host of the "Strict Scrutiny" podcast, said during a new interview on...
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Political analysts piled on a MAGA lawmaker on Sunday after he issued a bizarre warning about the upcoming 4th of July holiday. Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL), who is widely considered one of the most controversial members of Congress, wrote in a new post on X that the upcoming 4th of July "might be [the] last" in American history, depending on how the...
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Political commentators took shots at President Donald Trump on Sunday after CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins posted a new photo of the Kennedy Center's newest renovation project. In May, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to remove Trump's name from the Kennedy Center facade after the administration abruptly put it up without going...
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President Donald Trump has had a hard time distancing himself from the Jeffrey Epstein saga, and a new development in the case might prove to be more of a headache than he wants, according to two legal experts. Earlier this month, convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein's assistant, Lesley Groff, testified before Congress about her relationship with...
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Fox News was roundly mocked on Sunday after one segment claimed that pictures of the sparsely attended Great American State Fair, organized by an entity linked to President Donald Trump called Freedom 250, did not tell the full story of the event. Kevin Corke, Fox News's senior national correspondent, claimed on "The Big Weekend Show" that the...
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A Nobel Prize-winning economist was aghast on Sunday while reacting to new reporting about President Donald Trump's corruption. Paul Krugman, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008 for his work on trade theory, said in a new video on his Substack that the report the New York Times published on Sunday about an agreement struck between the U.S....
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President Donald Trump has created a new threat to the 2026 midterms, one in which there is "little recourse" for those who could stand in his way, according to one analyst. Michael Feinberg, MS NOW's national security analyst, revealed on a new episode of MS NOW's "Deadline: White House Weekend" with host Nicolle Wallace that Trump's decision to...
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Political analysts and observers ridiculed President Donald Trump's rant on Sunday about the supposedly "criminally made algae" in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Trump has faced significant criticism over the last couple of weeks because of the state of the reflecting pool. The administration undertook a more than $16 million renovation...
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A political analyst lamented the "dark moment" that is President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair, a 16-day festival at the National Mall organized by a Trump-linked entity called "Freedom 250," during a new podcast interview on Sunday. Jon Lovett, co-host of "Pod Save America" and a former speechwriter for President Barack Obama, discussed...
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Santos, BHP, Woodside and others have an "extensive presence" in childhood settings through more than 260 programs, a new report identifies, as senators say classroom programs and lessons written by the industry should be examined through a senate inquiry.
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With "little fanfare,” the Supreme Court is quietly working to double its own police force, Politico's Josh Gerstein reported on Sunday, a push that justices and court officials apparently "loathe” discussing."The push for a rapid security buildout stems from the substantial threats to the justices at a moment of growing political violence in...
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President Donald Trump's unveiling of a redesigned U.S. passport — complete with a "welcome" message and an image of himself — drew ridicule this week, with critics arguing the greeting makes no sense on a document meant for Americans traveling abroad.Trump had posted an image of what he called the new commemorative passport, marking the...
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Former CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane expressed astonishment on Sunday at the viral reach of a Senate floor speech by Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) cataloging alleged corruption across the first 500 days of President Donald Trump's second term."Wow," MacFarlane wrote, noting that Murphy's floor speech on Trump administration corruption "has...
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An MS NOW host argued Sunday that President Donald Trump squandered a rare political gift — a bipartisan housing bill that could have eased financial pressure on millions of Americans — because he "threw a temper tantrum," choosing instead to hold the legislation hostage to his voter ID agenda.In an opening monologue, the host laid out what...
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President Donald Trump's decision to launch his unpopular war against Iran earlier this year has already sparked a global "shift,” renowned economic professor Richard Wolff argued recently, one that also set the president on an imminent path toward total irrelevancy in "only a few months.”A professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst...
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MS NOW host and former GOP lawmaker Joe Scarborough sharply rebuked House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday, accusing him of hypocrisy after the speaker claimed Democrats were trying to "steal" elections.The exchange stemmed from Johnson's appearance on Fox Business's "Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo," where, according to a clip shared by...
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President Donald Trump's late-night tirade against journalist Maggie Haberman over her new book backfired in real time this week, as critics — including a fellow conservative — seized on the attack to mock the president and, in at least one case, boost sales of the very book he was trashing.Trump had unloaded on Haberman in an all-caps Truth...
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Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance praised Justice Elena Kagan's dissent in the Supreme Court's recent ruling on Temporary Protected Status as a devastating rebuke of the conservative majority — one that forced into print the very comments her colleagues "cannot even bear to repeat."Writing in her newsletter, Civil Discourse, Vance broke down...
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Reporting from the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Fox News' Peter Doocy claimed that people were "still coming out” to the Great American State Fair, though he soon became the butt of a joke online after viewers noted a glaring contradiction directly behind him."It's really something!” Doocy said Sunday, speaking from an elevated news desk...
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Iranian state media has reportedly declared that the country now has "no choice but to obtain the atomic bomb," according to a post circulating online — a statement that, if accurate, would mark a dramatic escalation amid the ongoing exchange of strikes between the U.S. and Iran.The claim was relayed by the account The Hormuz Letter, which posted...
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President Donald Trump spent more than an hour and a half on a rainy Sunday morning inspecting renovation plans for a federal golf course in Washington, D.C. — a side project that drew mockery online, particularly given that it came just days after he blocked a housing relief bill.The outing was documented in real time by White House pool...
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The Supreme Court is "on the brink” of ruling on major cases regarding President Donald Trump's "most audacious gambits,” Bloomberg reported Sunday, and one law professor is predicting the outcome may bode poorly for the commander in chief.The Supreme Court is set to rule this week on two cases that will determine whether Trump can eliminate...
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President Donald Trump's claim that "everybody" stayed until the end of his State Fair kickoff speech was false — and it revived a boast he has been making, and getting wrong, for years, according to a CNN fact-check by Daniel Dale.Trump posted on social media on Thursday about the address he had delivered the previous day to launch the Great...
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Fox News host Laura Ingraham issued a grave warning to viewers last week in response to the recent progressive sweep of Democratic congressional candidates, a warning that included a potential "implication” that left two podcast hosts laughing hysterically."If we turn our government over to a bunch of Democrat socialists, Israel will be treated...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson floated the idea of getting a tattoo Sunday in honor of President Donald Trump and his agenda, telling Fox News exactly what it would say and where he would get it.Speaking with Fox News' Maria Bartiromo, Johnson was asked about Trump's controversial voter ID bill known as the SAVE Act, which Trump has furiously insisted...
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