Misinformation at public forums vexes local boards, big tech
By DAVID KLEPPER and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Public forums before local school boards and city councils are…
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By DAVID KLEPPER and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Public forums before local school boards and city councils are…
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian emergency officials say over 830 people have been evacuated from a summer camp in the southern Urals because of a forest fire…
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By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina has recently developed a dubious reputation: as a regional destination…
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Police a bus traveling on a highway in Hungary crashed through a guardrail and tipped over early Sunday. At least eight…
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By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany is forecast to record its biggest rise in greenhouse gas emissions since 1990 this year as…
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By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — More than two dozen Rohingya refugees are feared drowned after their boat capsized off the…
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MOSCOW (AP) — Emergency officials say rescuers have recovered one more body following a helicopter crash in Russia’s far eastern region of…
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GALESBURG, Mich. (AP) — A deputy in Michigan has died after being wounded during a chase with a gunman. The Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Office…
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BEIJING (AP) — A team of 200 Chinese police, emergency workers and experts is trying to rescue 19 trapped coal miners in the northwestern province…
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By RAF CASERT Associated Press HOBOKEN, Belgium (AP) — Days after the alarming warning of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres that there was a…
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By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — After a brutal wave of infections driven by the delta variant, many Ugandans seeking a…
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KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani officials say the death toll from a grenade attack on a truck carrying women and children in Karachi has risen…
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan has marked the 76th anniversary of its surrender in World War II. At the somber ceremony,…
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By TERRY SPENCER and ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The National Hurricane Center said Fred has regained tropical…
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By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin appears set to resign this week after…
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HONG KONG (AP) — A pro-democracy group that organized some of the biggest protests during months of political upheaval in Hong Kong in 2019 says it…
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NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s prime minister says his government will soon launch a $1.35 trillion national infrastructure plan that will boost the…
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By EVENS SANON and MARK STEVENSON Associated Press LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — The death toll from the magnitude 7.2 earthquake that battered Haiti is…
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By EUGENE GARCIA and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press QUINCY, Calif. (AP) — Thousands of Northern California homes remain threatened by the…
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By BASSEM MROUE and ZEINA KARAM Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A warehouse where fuel was illegally stored has exploded in northern Lebanon,…
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TOKYO (AP) — Torrential rain has triggered a mudslide and more floods across Japan, leaving three people presumed dead and forcing the evacuation…
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By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Tyler Gilbert became the first pitcher in 68 years to throw a no-hitter in his first big league…
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By AHMAD SEIR, RAHIM FAIEZ, TAMEEM AKHGAR and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban swept into Afghanistan’s…
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By SAM METZ Associated Press / Report for America GARDNERVILLE, Nev. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton told a crowd of about 4,000 Nevada Republicans…
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By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is heading to the governor general’s residence and is expected to…
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Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Police Department and local media say a man was stabbed and a reporter was attacked Saturday at…
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By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Those entrusted with securing the nation’s voting systems must remain…
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By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Officials say a tour bus bound for Niagara Falls ran off the New York State Thruway and rolled…
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By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — President Joe Biden has called school district superintendents in Florida and…
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By KEN MILLER Associated Press A storm system that stalled for days over West Texas led to what a National Weather Service meteorologist calls an…
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Temperatures are expected to reach up to 94 degrees Fahrenheit on Saturday in Portland, Oregon, as an excessive heat warning…
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By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — Lionel Messi smiled and looked transfixed as Paris Saint-Germain fans chanted his name before the…
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By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Several thousand LGBT supporters took to the streets in the Romanian capital of…
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By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa voting rights advocate Deidre DeJear has announced she is running for governor.…
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By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian Foreign Ministry says it could renew a visa for a BBC journalist to let her…
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A judge has ruled that part of a ballot question that will soon be before Minneapolis voters on the future of the city’s…
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By BOUBCAR BENZABAT Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Thousands of people, from families to far-right sympathizers, marched in cities across France for…
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By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A top medical center in Lebanon is warning that long power cuts and severe shortage in fuel will…
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By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A prominent internet fact-checker has admitted to plagiarizing from dozens of news stories over several…
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By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged authorities to strengtnen their efforts to fight…
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By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese police have detained two men on suspicion of sexual assault in a high-profile case…
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By The Associated Press The Latest developments on Afghanistan, where a weeklong Taliban offensive is now approaching the outskirts of the capital,…
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By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, KELLI KENNEDY and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — As coronavirus infections rise among young Americans, so too…
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By VANESSA GERA and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Israel is condemning Poland’s approval of a law that restricts the…
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By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press As the United States ends the nearly 20-year war in Afghanistan and as the Taliban recapture much of the…
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By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press HENNING, Tenn. (AP) — The life and legacy of late author and former Tennessee resident Alex Haley is being honored…
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By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press NORWALK, Conn. (AP) — Gov. Ned Lamont calls Connecticut’s shoreline the Napa Valley of Oysters. A quarter…
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A former accounts manager for a nonprofit affiliated with the University of South Florida’s medical school has pleaded guilty…
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By TAMEEM AKHGAR and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban offensive is encircling the Afghan capital and there’s…
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By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press At just short of 20 years, the now-ending U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan was America’s longest war.…
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By EVENS SANON and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s civil protection agency says at least 304 people have been…
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PERRYVILLE, Alaska (AP) — The U.S Geological Survey says a 6.9 earthquake struck off the coast of the Alaska Peninsula. Despite the size of the…
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By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press As the United States ends the nearly 20-year war in Afghanistan and as the Taliban recapture much of the…
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By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Two amateur Chinese computer coders are set to be released next week after more than a year…
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Hundreds of people have attended a gay pride march in Bosnia’s capital of Sarajevo. Organizers said that…
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By JENNIFER O’MAHONY Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain has set a new provisional heat record of 47.2 degrees Celsius (116.96 Fahrenheit)…
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ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — The Russian Defense Ministry says 8 Russian and Turkish crew members were killed…
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MADRID (AP) — Human rights groups have denounced Spain’s expulsion of unaccompanied children to Morocco, calling the deportations illegal and…
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MOSCOW (AP) — Heavy rains have flooded broad areas in southern Russia, forcing the evacuation of more than 1,,500 people. Authorities in the…
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MOSCOW (AP) — Rescuers have recovered the bodies of three out of eight people who went missing when a helicopter carrying tourists plunged into a…
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state media says authorities will impose a six-day-long “general lockdown” in cities across the country, after…
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By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Supporters of Zambian opposition candidate Hakainde Hichilema have begun celebrating as…
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By MARIA CHENG and LORI HINNANT Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Low-income countries were supposed to get COVID-19 vaccines through a shared…
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BERLIN (AP) — Luxembourg has rejected an application by Russian state broadcaster RT for a license to distribute its German-language service via…
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By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s police watchdog says it has launched an investigation into why a 22-year-old man who…
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By LIUDAS DAPKUS and DAVID KEYTON Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuanian officials say a recent influx of thousands of migrants from…
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KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say attackers targeted a truck in the port city of Karachi, killing at least nine people and wounding…
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By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s disaster agency says the death toll from severe coastal flooding and mudslides…
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By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press GARDONY, Hungary (AP) — Activists and environmental experts in Hungary say the effects of climate change and…
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By MARIA CHENG and LORI HINNANT Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Low-income countries were supposed to get COVID-19 vaccines through a shared…
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HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police are reportedly investigating the group that organizes an annual protest march marking the semiautonomous…
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By TERRY SPENCER and ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Remnants of Fred have entered the lower Gulf of Mexico amid…
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By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press EILAT, Israel (AP) — The Red Sea reefs off the Israeli resort of Eilat host some of the greatest coral diversity…
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SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The sweeping $1 trillion infrastructure bill approved by the Senate this week includes funding…
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By AHMAD SEIR, TAMEEM AKHGAR, RAHIM FAIEZ and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban have captured a large, heavily…
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Torrential rain continues to trigger floods in wide areas of southwestern Japan, damaging homes and…
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By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Midnight on Sunday is the deadline for consumers to take advantage of a special…
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By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and PAUL DAVENPORT Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Albuquerque’s police chief said the boy who was shot and…
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By ROBERT BURNS and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has authorized an additional 1,000 U.S. troops for deployment…
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By EUGENE GARCIA and DAISY NGUYEN Associated Press QUINCY, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters battling the Dixie Fire face “another critical day” as…
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By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press While suburban congressional districts are swelling with new residents, lawmakers in large swaths of rural America…
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge has tossed most of the civil claims brought in a wrongful death suit by the family of an Arizona rancher who…
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — James Hormel, the first openly gay U.S. ambassador and a philanthropist who funded organizations to fight AIDS and promote…
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By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz has fired the two police officers who authorities say violated…
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By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The Haitian judge assigned to oversee the investigation into the assassination of…
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DALLAS (AP) — A Texas man who was scheduled for trial on murder charges this week has instead been granted release on bond. That’s after…
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By MICHELLE LIU Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Democrats are getting $100,000 from the Democratic…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday news…
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By ASTRID GALVAN and MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press For the 2010 Census, René D. Flores, a Mexican American college professor, marked his race as…
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By SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press EL CEIBO, Guatemala (AP) — Hundreds of Central American migrants _ many families with young children _ expelled…
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By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration is offering its full-throated support for local cities and…
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By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s governor says she will deploy up to 1,500 National Guard troops to…
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By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The fight over mask and vaccine mandates moved to the center of…
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By PAUL J. WEBER and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican officials in Texas say law enforcement is now helping in the…
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By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A judge has rejected the federal government’s request to provide classified…
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By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A rural county in Mississippi is being overwhelmed with COVID-19 cases, two weeks…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest terrorism alert bulletin from the Department of Homeland Security warns that the upcoming 20th anniversary of the…
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A new Oregon law that suspends a requirement for a basic-skills test in math, reading and writing to graduate high school is…
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president is on a drive to convince people to send their kids back to school in September, and the government has…
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By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico authorities say one student was killed and another was taken into…
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