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As deadly drug overdoses climbed across Canada, decision-makers faced political backlash for funding programs that gave drug users prescribed opioids and, against their own experts' advice, scaled back their support of safe supply programs, an investigation by CBC's the fifth estate has found.
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A top House Democrat seemed to identify a trick President Donald Trump could use to prevent the Jeffrey Epstein files from being published, even though the president says he supports releasing the documents. On Sunday, Trump called on House Republicans to vote to pass legislation to release the Epstein files, a stark reversal from just days ago...
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) doesn't really buy Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) attempts to rebrand herself as a maverick who distrusts President Donald Trump and wants to reform her own party.She was asked about it Monday afternoon on CNN, as anchor Jake Tapper played a clip of Greene apologizing for "taking part in toxic politics" and saying...
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Mary Trump on Monday escalated her accusations that her uncle, President Donald Trump, is suffering from dementia, citing the "same look of confusion” she witnessed in her grandfather.As Trump took to the 2024 campaign trail and eventually returned to the White House, scrutiny of his potentially deteriorating mental state came to the foreground,...
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New York Attorney General Letitia James excoriated the conduct of President Donald Trump's lawyers in their attempts to prosecute her for mortgage fraud in a new court filing from Monday. James was indicted in October on two charges of mortgage fraud, a charge that Trump allies have used to go after other Trump adversaries such as Rep. Eric...
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A House Republican issued a stunning threat to the president of Mexico on Monday, telling her that she has "two weeks" to clean up the northern border with the United States or else the Trump administration would consider striking her country. President Donald Trump said on Monday that he is "open" to striking inside Mexico to stop the flow of...
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) attacked Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) character during a CNN interview on Monday after he claimed that Republicans were fighting to stop the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files to protect the victims. Crockett's comments come at a time when the House of Representatives is expected to vote on a discharge petition to...
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President Donald Trump is facing yet another bipartisan discharge petition that could see a Republican-controlled House rebuke him.On Monday, Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) announced he has gathered enough signatures to force a vote in the House on the Protect America's Workforce Act, a bill that would overturn Trump's executive order effectively...
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The Trump administration's moves to push for regime change in Venezuela have been far from discreet, and one former CIA official warns that this approach and the overall operation are liable to blow up in the president's face.Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump and his administration have pushed heavily for regime change in...
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The Trump Justice Department has made a motion to try to get around a devastating blow to their prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey that came from a lower court — but a former federal prosecutor doesn't see that effort going anywhere.The issue came down this week, as federal Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick highlighted the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (3 hours ago)
A high-profile conservative analyst claimed during a podcast interview on Monday that President Donald Trump is creating "vulnerabilities" for Republicans because of his sinking approval rating. Bill Kristol, editor-at-large for The Bulwark, discussed Trump's approval ratings during a new episode of "The Bulwark Podcast" with host Tim Miller. He...
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Former MSNBC host Chris Matthews gave President Donald Trump a tongue-lashing lashing Monday on CNN. Matthews responded to Trump's most recent comments during an Oval Office meeting and response to a press question about the Epstein files — and whether he planned to sign the bill to release them — during a live panel with CNN anchor Kasie Hunt....
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As experts and internet sleuths worked to dissect and decipher the explosive emails released last week by the U.S. House Oversight Committee from estate of deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein referencing President Donald Trump, the White House, reports The Poke, was working hard to change the narrative."Although the claims in the emails remain...
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The Heritage Foundation, billed as the "intellectual backbone” of the conservative movement, has just lost one of the nation's most prominent conservatives: Princeton Professor Robert P. George. His departure came after the organization's president, Kevin Roberts, publicly called Tucker Carlson a "close friend” of Heritage — even after the...
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A top emergency official is reportedly refusing to leave Texas — and potentially could force the Federal Emergency Management Agency to move to the Lone Star State. This could present "huge challenges" for the agency to coordinate with the Department of Homeland Security, a former FEMA official told Politico on Monday. DHS oversees FEMA, whose...
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Archbishop Stephen Wood, the senior-most official of the Anglican Church in North America, was suspended from his role over allegations of sexual misconduct, according to reports on Monday. Wood, 62, is a married father of four sons and has been archbishop since June 2024. He faces sexual misconduct allegations from two women, plagiarizing sermons...
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Let's be blunt: Michigan Republicans, like their counterparts nationally, are no longer merely questioning elections. They are actively seeking to undermine them. Their latest maneuvers, calling for federal intervention by baselessly smearing Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's ability to fairly oversee elections to cheering President Donald...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (4 hours ago)
President Donald Trump on Monday slammed a Republican lawmaker who defied his redistricting demands to gain more Republican seats in Congress, calling him "weak and pathetic." Trump had threatened to withdraw his support for Indiana GOP Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray, who announced on Friday that the state's chamber would not convene in...
ReadCBS News - Politics (5 hours ago)
This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, one of the Democrats who eventually voted with Republicans to fund the government after the GOP promised a vote next month on health care subsidies, joins to discuss, as does Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy. Plus, two members of the House Problem Solvers Caucus.
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One member of Kansas' U.S. House delegation has stepped up to demand government accountability in the Jeffrey Epstein case. The other three representatives? They're missing in action.Rep. Sharice Davids, a Democrat, has signed onto a discharge petition that would force a vote on releasing files about Epstein, his powerful friends and crimes against...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (5 hours ago)
The White House tried to blame Democrats for a lack of "transparency" on Jeffrey Epstein after President Donald Trump reversed course and encouraged Republicans to vote for a House petition calling for the Department of Justice to release files related to the notorious sex offender.After it became clear that Republicans were going to vote for Rep....
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Reactions erupted Monday after the acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency gave his resignation. David Richardson, a Kristi Noem ally who was criticized after he was publicly silent for a week following floods in Texas that killed more than 130 people, announced in his letter that he plans to step down in two weeks. Department of...
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Ever since members of the National Guard have been deployed for President Donald Trump's domestic law enforcement priorities around the country, they have faced "deeply uncomfortable" positions of explaining it to their family, friends, and coworkers, Slate reported on Monday.This comes as, according to Slate, guardsmen have been "asking questions"...
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President Donald Trump explained his raspy voice by revealing that he had recently shouted at "stupid" people "about something having to do with trade."During an Oval Office event on Monday, one reporter asked Trump if he was feeling well."Your voice sounds a little rough," the reporter noted."I feel great," the president insisted. "I was shouting...
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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) lost a critical fight to hamstring his Democratic successor's ability to oversee the administration of the state's public universities.According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Virginia Supreme Court declined to lift an injunction by a lower court that blocks Youngkin from making 22 appointments to the boards...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (5 hours ago)
President Donald Trump lashed out at reporters Sunday night after they questioned him on two sensitive issues—release of the files on late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson's interview with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes, HuffPost reports.Trump "raged against reporters during a media Q&A as he arrived back in...
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The next few days are viewed as critical to landing a deal on the proposed reforms to update the EPBC Act, amid hopes the Liberals will be more motivated to bolster their environmental credentials after ditching net zero.
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The acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has submitted a notice of intent to resign.In his resignation letter, David Richardson reportedly said he would step down in the next two weeks. Sources told CNN that Department of Homeland Security officials already had a plan to oust him.Richardson, a close ally of DHS Secretary...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (6 hours ago)
A special election in a deep red state is "scaring" Republicans, who are pulling out multiple tactics in a "last-minute rescue mission" to try and "avoid embarrassment," an analyst said Monday.The GOP is expected to use third-party groups to try and make gains in Tennessee's deep-red 7th congressional district ahead of the Dec. 2 election, as...
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An immigration raid at a Mexican restaurant in central Ohio has divided the population in a deep-red small town.Federal immigration agents pulled up to Panchos Tacos in unmarked cars on Oct. 9. They drew guns when they raided the family-owned restaurant in Mount Vernon, where they arrested five alleged undocumented workers when they arrived for...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (6 hours ago)
Insiders are saying the Department of Homeland Security's ICE hiring is in "chaos" and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller is reportedly angry over "lagging" deportation numbers. A DHS source told The Daily Beast on Monday that President Donald Trump's push to "throw money around" while "panic at the top of government” has unfolded with...
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Attempting perhaps to turn a story about his own leadership into a story about whether the media have unfairly focused on Conservative dissent, Pierre Poilievre challenged reporters to pay as much attention to criticism levelled against the federal budget by Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)
President Donald Trump called on House Republicans Sunday to vote in favor of releasing files on Jeffrey Epstein, but according to journalist Adam Cochran, he may have also "accidentally revealed” a plan to block their release.On his social media platform Truth Social, Trump called on GOP lawmakers to "vote to release the Epstein files,”...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)
Democrats are seizing the moment as the fight over releasing the Epstein files is far from over — and Republicans "desert en masse" from MAGA and President Donald Trump, according to an analysis.Trump appeared to admit defeat Sunday in a sudden U-turn in which he demanded release of the files, but some questions have surfaced over how much will...
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Policy expert and journalist William S. Becker writes in The Hill that the Supreme Court made a "horrendous mistake" giving President Donald Trump absolute power and says the court's conservative majority must correct this error."Their decision in Trump v. United States was naïve at best," Becker writes. "More likely, the court bought into the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)
New reporting suggests that Judge Emil Bove, a former member of President Donald Trump's legal team, spoke in favor of murdering people aboard alleged drug boats without proving they had done anything wrong.While serving as acting deputy attorney general after Trump took office, Bove told the federal government's top drug prosecutors that the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)
With three years of his second term still to go, President Donald Trump's ability to successfully bully Republican Party lawmakers appears to have run its course, as high-profile and state lawmakers have found out they can oppose him and come out on top.In a column for the Washington Post, longtime conservative D.C. watcher Jim Geraghty suggested...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
A federal magistrate judge ordered the Department of Justice to turn over grand jury materials to former FBI Director James Comey Monday — while suggesting Trump's hand-picked prosecutor may have already upended the case.Judge William Fitzpatrick called out possible "government misconduct" by allowing an FBI agent to present evidence that was...
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Reacting to increasing reports of Americans being dragged out of cars and arrested by out-of-control ICE agents only to be released later, MS NOW's Joe Scarborough singled out Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh for giving them legal cover.During a segment of the growing public mood about the immigrant snatchings by Department of Homeland...
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Dozens of former US Department of Justice attorneys have now gone on record to describe the unprecedented corruption of federal law enforcement taking place during President Donald Trump's second term.In a lengthy story published on Sunday by the New York Times, the former DOJ attorneys described rampant politicization of prosecutions, directives...
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Is Marjorie Taylor Greene leading the way, or the exception that proves the rule?By the shocking light of today's glaring headlines, it's time to ask a larger question that no one in the media appears to be willing to say out loud: at what point does the accumulation of misconduct by Donald J. Trump become so brazen, so corrosive, so frankly...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
Jay Clayton, Attorney General Pam Bondi's most recent appointment to investigate Democrats involved with late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after President Donald Trump's sudden reversal, has been chosen for what The New Republic's Michael Tomasky says is a "political task that has nothing whatever to do with justice."Clayton, a corporate...
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White House staff were forced to intervene in an effort to stop President Donald Trump from an Oval Office decoration plan that was feared to literally bring the ceiling crashing in, according to a new book. According to Republican strategist Scott Jennings' book, Trump told him directly he wanted a massive chandelier to hang above the famous...
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The heavy-handed push by President Donald Trump and his MAGA allies backfired with Indiana Republicans – but it hasn't forced him to back down, according to a report.The president called on GOP legislators to redraw congressional maps in states all over the country, but Indiana Republicans — even in deep-red Trump districts — made clear to...
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Hosts of the pro-MAGA Real America's Voice network accused Pope Leo XIV of a "woke turn" after a meeting with Hollywood stars did not include conservatives like Mel Gibson."It's time to stay awake, not woke," host Terrence Bates noted on Monday. "That is where Pope Leo the 14th just hosted a private meeting with Hollywood A-listers, Spike Lee, Kate...
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Steve Bannon, MAGA influencer and former White House chief of staff to President Donald Trump, promised to shield Jeffrey Epstein from prosecution just months before his death in prison, newly unearthed text messages suggested Monday.The text messages – highlighted by author and academic Karen Piper Monday – were part of a document dump of...
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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) lashed out at FBI Director Kash Patel for refusing to protect Democratic lawmakers facing death threats — while using agents to protect his girlfriend.According to MS NOW, Patel assigned elite SWAT agents to protect his girlfriend, country music singer Alexis Wilkins. The FBI director has also come under fire for using a...
ReadPolitico - Europe (9 hours ago)
Ein Wochenende, das nachbebt: Beim Deutschlandtag der Jungen Union in Rust trifft Kanzler Friedrich Merz auf unerwartet viel Widerstand. Der Streit um die geplante Rentenreform spaltet Union und Regierung. Die junge Gruppe im Bundestag droht mit Blockade, Karen Prien schlägt eine Vertagung vor, doch Merz hält dagegen: Das Gesetz müsse noch...
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While the criminal charges against President Donald Trump over his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election were dismissed last year, a "curious development” has led to the matter coming back into the fold — and in such a manner that it "could still be a problem for the president,” MS NOW reported Monday.Trump was indicted...
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President Donald Trump floated a new criminal indictment Monday after accusing former FBI Director Christopher Wray of having committed perjury."Wray lied!!!” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social Monday, sharing alongside his remarks another social media post alleging Wray had lied to Congress — and should be indicted.Wray, who...
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Comments made by Pope Leo and a widely spread attack on President Donald Trump by Catholic bishops on his harsh immigration policies should give his administration pause that the ground beneath them is shifting — and not in a good way, it was warned Monday.The hosts of "Morning Joe,” noted the Pope calling the treatment of undocumented...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
Donald Trump is in danger of crippling his presidency even among his supporters by threatening wars abroad on multiple fronts and ignoring the matters at home that got him elected, Morning Joe claimed Monday.Using Trump's rift with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) as a starting point, MS NOW host Joe Scarborough claimed the president has lost the...
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The most powerful Republican in Wisconsin stepped up to a lectern that was affixed with a sign reading, "Pro-Women Pro-Babies Pro-Life Rally.”"One of the reasons that I ran for office was to protect the lives of unborn children,” Assembly Speaker Robin Vos told the cheering crowd gathered in the ornate rotunda of the state Capitol. They were...
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On Monday last week, I was angry with the eight Democrats, under Chuck Schumer's direction, who voted with the GOP to reopen the government. I called them traitors who betrayed their party by surrendering before the fight was over.Later, I thought perhaps I was too hard. Then I read Bill Scher's assessment in the Washington Monthly. Turns out I...
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The new owner of Dominion Voting Systems raised concerns with a MAGA-friendly announcement of his purchase, but election experts have been reassured by his moves so far, according to experts.Scott Leiendecker, a former Republican election official from St. Louis, purchased the election tech company last month and renamed it Liberty Vote, but he...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
The reason the famous and prolific Harvard economist, John Kenneth Galbraith, is often referred to as a political economist can be seen in the continuing relevance of his book The Culture of Contentment (1992). His thesis explains in significant part why President Donald Trump's wrecking of America has not more significantly collapsed his support,...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
Donald Trump advisor Stephen Miller was raked over the coals on MS NOW on Monday morning after "Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough shared a New York Times report about small children being left behind as their parents are abducted and deported by ICE.To make his point, he held up the paper which showed a photo of a two-year-old child named...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (12 hours ago)
FBI Director Kash Patel's country music singer girlfriend has a security detail made up of elite federal agents, according to sources with knowledge of the situation.Performer Alexis Wilkins is being protected by FBI agents usually assigned to a SWAT team in the bureau's field office in Nashville, where she spends time for her work, and people...
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Following the blowout elections earlier this month that saw Democrats win several major races by significant margins, the lead consultant for Winsome Earle-Sears, the Republican gubernatorial candidate in Virginia, came out against his former boss for being a "weak candidate,” The Roanoke Times reported Monday.Democrats secured major victories...
ReadCBS News - Politics (12 hours ago)
This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Vice President JD Vance joins as President Trump heads to the Middle East amid the critical moment in the Israel-Hamas peace deal and at home, as the ongoing government shutdown drags on. Plus. Egyptian foreign minister Badr Abdelatty joins.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
The growing schism between Donald Trump and some of his most ardent supporters is the first shot in a coming war within the Republican Party as his more ambitious heirs to the MAGA throne start jockeying for position.That was a warning that conservative columnist Matt Lewis attempted to share during an appearance on MS NOW, the new name for MSNBC,...
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A newly unearthed 2019 email shows that Jeffrey Epstein was aware that President Donald Trump may have been misrepresenting the value of his assets — an allegation that would get president hit with a $454 million fraud judgment in 2024."Trump was a frontman for money laundering, according to Epstein,” wrote Mykhailo Golub, the general manager...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
President Donald Trump's choice to lead federal prosecutions in the Southern District of Florida actually flunked out of an entry-level job in that same office several years ago.Jason Reding Quiñones was hired as a prosecutor in 2018 and placed on drug and gun cases to gain trial experience, and while most of the office's new hires eventually get...
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Venture capitalist and supporter of President Donald Trump Peter Thiel became the latest billionaire to sell off all of his stock in the tech company Nvidia, according to new reporting Monday, sparking panic that a market "bubble” centered around artificial intelligence may burst at any moment and send the market into a downward spiral."Uh oh,”...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
Roger Stone, a longtime ally to President Donald Trump, officially challenged former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon to a bare-knuckle boxing match late Saturday, calling the MAGA influencer a "gutless piece of human garbage” and highlighted his past ties to Jeffrey Epstein."The folks at Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship have suggested...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
A former federal prosecutor predicted during a podcast interview on Sunday that the Department of Justice's "extraordinary" case against former FBI Director James Comey will either fall apart — or Attorney General Pam Bondi will get "completely destroyed" by the court's findings. Last week, Trump-appointed attorney Lindsey Halligan, who is...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
The answer to Project 2025, the infamous 920-page conservative leadership blueprint, is to be found in less than 200 pages, a historian, preservationist and independent congressional candidate turned author insists.Mike Bedenbaugh is the author of Reviving Our Republic: 95 Theses for the Future of America, a new book in which he outlines his plan...
ReadCBS News - Politics (15 hours ago)
Last month, in Surry, Virginia, 19-year-old Cameran Drew ran for a seat on the board of supervisors, taking inspiration from his high school civics class. His opponent? His civics teacher, Kenneth Bell. Steve Hartman reports on an election that could be a teachable moment.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (15 hours ago)
I feel emotionally whipsawed. I expect you feel the same.I was cheered by Mamdani's election and the Democratic sweep across America.But I was deeply upset this past week at Senate Democrats who snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by caving in to Republicans.I tell myself that this is what progress looks like in a tempestuous time — a roller...
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