Animal rights activists protest octopus farm plans in Spain
MADRID (AP) — Animal rights activists have gathered in Madrid to protest plans for the construction of a large-scale octopus farm. They said Sunday…
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Zelensky says fiercely contested Bakhmut ‘not occupied’ as Russia claims capture
By Darya Tarasova, Sugam Pokharel, Thom Poole and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Bakhmut was not occupied…
Continue Reading ‘They’re opposed to government. But now they are the government.’ One county’s hard-right shift
By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press GALLATIN, Tenn. (AP) — Conservative groups that have targeted and won majorities on local boards and…
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By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press GALLATIN, Tenn. (AP) — Shortly after being sworn in last fall, the new majority of the Sumner County…
Continue Reading Stepping into Spielberg’s shoes, James Mangold takes Indiana Jones on one last adventure
By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — When the lights came up after a screening on the Walt Disney lot of “Indiana Jones and the…
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BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese government report says a building collapse that killed 54 people last year was caused by shoddy, illegal construction and…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX is set to launch four passengers — including three paying customers — toward a weeklong stay aboard…
Continue Reading Back in hoodies and gym shorts, Fetterman tackles Senate life after depression treatment
By MARY CLARE JALONICK and MARC LEVY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Before Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman checked himself in to the hospital…
Continue Reading Zelenskyy denies Ukrainian city of Bakhmut occupied by Russian forces
By ZEKE MILLER, ELISE MORTON and SUSIE BLANN Associated Press HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russian forces…
Continue Reading On debt ceiling, Biden, McCarthy to meet Monday as negotiators ‘keep working’ to resolve standoff
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Continue Reading 1,200-pound great white shark is swimming off the coast of South Carolina
By Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — A 12-foot great white shark was spotted off the coast of South Carolina this week, about a year after it was…
Continue Reading Police: 3 dead, 2 wounded in early morning shooting at Kansas City bar
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A security guard was one of the three people killed in a shooting at a Kansas City bar early Sunday that also wounded two…
Continue Reading Sinn Fein wins in Northern Ireland local elections, urges return of government
By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein has made sweeping gains in Northern Ireland’s local elections. The…
Continue Reading Alabama police: 4 people wounded in exchange of gunfire outside Birmingham bar
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Four people were shot and wounded outside an Alabama bar early Sunday in what police described as an exchange of gunfire.…
Continue Reading How Pacific Islanders in the US are keeping their culture alive through dance
By Rachel Ramirez, CNN New York (CNN) — In a dance studio nestled inside a building next to New York City Hall, Tamara Bejar Hernandez counts…
Continue Reading Mothers wanted to watch horrific footage of their children escaping the Robb Elementary massacre. Here’s why we showed them. And why they want others to see
By Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman and Rachel Clarke, CNN Uvalde, Texas (CNN) — Editor’s note: This story contains graphic images and…
Continue Reading Mothers wanted to watch horrific footage of their children escaping the Robb Elementary massacre. Here’s why we showed them. And why they want others to see
By Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman and Rachel Clarke, CNN Uvalde, Texas (CNN) — Editor’s note: This story contains graphic images and…
Continue Reading Mothers wanted to watch horrific footage of their children escaping the Robb Elementary massacre. Here’s why we showed them. And why they want others to see
By Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman and Rachel Clarke, CNN Uvalde, Texas (CNN) — Editor’s note: This story contains graphic images and…
Continue Reading State TV says armed group kills 5 Iranian border guards in clash near Pakistani border
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state TV says five Iranian border guards were killed in a clash with an unknown armed group trying to enter the country…
Continue Reading Extremist Israeli Cabinet minister visits sensitive Jerusalem holy site
By TIA GOLDENBERG and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A far-right Israeli Cabinet minister has visited Jerusalem’s most…
Continue Reading G7 ends with Ukraine in focus as Zelenskyy meets world leaders and Russia claims disputed gains
By ADAM SCHRECK, FOSTER KLUG and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy huddled with some of…
Continue Reading Boston debuts a digital pop-up libraries pilot program at 20 bus stops
By Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — Boston is making reading on-the-go more accessible through a pilot program that will allow riders to access…
Continue Reading Russia and China hit back at a G7 that saw them as a threat
By Simone McCarthy (CNN) — Moscow and Beijing lashed out against the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Hiroshima, where leaders of major…
Continue Reading An engaged North Carolina couple is planning their dream wedding after fiancé wins $150,000 lottery prize
By Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — One couple’s dream wedding will become reality after a North Carolina man won the first top prize of $150,000…
Continue Reading A missing Texas woman has been found dead and a man is in custody on suspicion of murder, police say
By Andy Rose and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — A 20-year-old woman who had been missing for more than a week in western Texas was found dead…
Continue Reading As the West surges toward electric cars, here’s where the unwanted gas guzzlers go
By Nimi Princewill and Ella Nilsen, CNN Cotonou, Benin (CNN) — Standing on the stony ground in the bustling Fifa Park car lot, Rokeeb Yaya is…
Continue Reading Floods ruin crops and drown livestock in one of Italy’s gastronomic heartlands
By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome, Italy (CNN) — When the rain started falling in the north Italian region of Emilia Romagna last week – one…
Continue Reading What should I do on the death anniversary? More are asking as US mass killings rise
By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — As the number of people who die in mass killings in the U.S. continues…
Continue Reading Using ‘he/him,’ ‘she/her’ in emails got 2 dorm directors fired at small New York Christian college
By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Shua Wilmot and Raegan Zelaya, two former dorm directors at a small Christian university in…
Continue Reading Kinsey Institute experts study sex, gender as misconceptions block state dollars
By ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press/Report for America BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Unfounded claims about Indiana University’s sex research…
Continue Reading New York City has a right to shelter, but will it establish a right to sleep outside?
By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York Mayor Eric Adams has hailed his city’s right to shelter as…
Continue Reading Conservative party of Greek prime minister in big election lead, to seek outright majority
By ELENA BECATOROS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The conservative party of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis…
Continue Reading Mexico prosecutors withdraw case against woman sentenced to prison for killing man raping her
By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican prosecutors announced Saturday night that they are withdrawing a case against a woman…
Continue Reading At least 12 killed in crush at soccer stadium in El Salvador
By Marlon Sorto, Heather Chen, Omar Fajado and Valentina González Galvis CNN (CNN) — At least 12 people were killed and dozens injured…
Continue Reading Japanese atomic bomb survivors worry Zelenskyy’s G7 visit overshadows nuke disarmament message
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Assocaited Press HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s participation in the Group of Seven summit…
Continue Reading At least 9 dead in stampede at soccer stadium in El Salvador
By MARCOS ALEMÁN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — At least nine people were killed and dozens more injured when stampeding soccer…
Continue Reading Japan, South Korea leaders pray at memorial for Korean atomic bomb victims in Hiroshima
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol have…
Continue Reading Protests in Georgia outside hotel where Russian foreign minister’s relatives were allegedly staying
By Niamh Kennedy and Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — Police in Georgia removed protesters who targeted a hotel following reports relatives of Russian…
Continue Reading Smoke from Canada wildfires prompts air quality alerts in Colorado, Montana
DENVER (AP) — Smoke from dozens of raging wildfires in western Canada has drifted south into the United States and prompted the states of Colorado…
Continue Reading A transgender girl misses her high school graduation after Mississippi judge denies emergency plea to permit her to go in a dress and heels
By Isabel Rosales, Paradise Afshar and Jaide Garcia, CNN (CNN) — A transgender teen in Mississippi missed her high school graduation after a…
Continue Reading Leaders of Sudan’s warring factions agree to 7-day ceasefire, US State Department says
By Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — The Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces – the two warring factions in Sudan –…
Continue Reading ‘The water took them.’ Myanmar residents describe horror of Cyclone Mocha
By Helen Regan, Teele Rebane, Salai TZ and Paula Hancocks, CNN (CNN) — Abdul Hussein wipes away tears as he describes the day waves churned by…
Continue Reading Lawyer who quit Trump legal team cites disagreements with Trump adviser as basis for departure
By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer who quit Donald Trump’s legal team this past week attributed his decision Saturday…
Continue Reading Warring factions in Sudan agree to temporary ceasefire, say US-Saudi mediators
By MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sudan’s warring factions have agreed to a new short-term ceasefire, U.S. and Saudi mediators…
Continue Reading One Baffert horse euthanized on track on undercard before another Baffert entry wins Preakness
By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer BALTIMORE (AP) — A horse trained by Bob Baffert was euthanized on the track because of a leg injury during the…
Continue Reading British author Martin Amis dead at 73, his publisher says
By Paradise Afshar and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — British author Martin Amis, best known for the 1984 novel, “Money,” and 1989’s…
Continue Reading Baffert back from ban, wins Preakness with National Treasure after another horse euthanized
By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer BALTIMORE (AP) — Bob Baffert choked back tears and his voice cracked while he tried to juggle the conflicting…
Continue Reading Minnesota bill legalizing recreational pot passes Senate, heads to governor’s desk
By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Senators in Minnesota passed a bill Saturday that would allow recreational…
Continue Reading Arizona student arrested and accused of bringing AR-15 and ammunition to high school
By Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — A student in Phoenix faces “a number of serious felony charges” after police accused him of bringing an…
Continue Reading New York lawmaker connected to non-profit accused of lying about homeless vets being pushed out of hotel for migrants says he’s no longer affiliated with foundation
By Mark Morales, CNN (CNN) — A New York state assemblyman and former volunteer spokesperson for the non-profit accused of lying about homeless…
Continue Reading Former Arkansas U.S. Rep. Marion Berry, who served 7 terms, dies at 80
By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Former Rep. Marion Berry, who was known for his blunt rhetoric and his advocacy work…
Continue Reading Scorsese debuts ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ in Cannes to thunderous applause
By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Martin Scorsese unveiled “Killers of the Flower Moon” at Cannes on Saturday, debuting a…
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By Zenebou Sylla and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — A 3-year-old child shot and injured two people in Indiana on Thursday evening, which led to the…
Continue Reading Brazilian club president who helped uncover alleged match-fixing scandal has no regrets
By MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer GOIANIA, Brazil (AP) — Lifelong soccer fan and full-time police officer Hugo Jorge Bravo felt there was only…
Continue Reading San Francisco announces inaugural Drag Laureate, the first position of its kind in the country
By Eddie Sun and Jeffrey Kopp, CNN San Francisco (CNN) — D’Arcy Drollinger, a veteran of San Francisco’s vibrant drag scene, has been named…
Continue Reading Volcanic ash from Popocatepetl temporarily shuts down Mexico City airports
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City’s two main airports temporarily resumed operations after shutting down for a few hours due to ash spewing from…
Continue Reading Martin Amis, British novelist who brought a rock ‘n’ roll sensibility to his work, has died at 73
NEW YORK (AP) — British novelist Martin Amis, who brought a rock ‘n’ roll sensibility to his stories and lifestyle, has died. He was 73. His…
Continue Reading Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson tells law students ‘Survivor’ offers helpful lessons
By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called herself a “Survivor superfan” on…
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ALBANY, Ore. (AP) — The victims of one of Oregon’s deadliest highway crashes were farmworkers traveling in a van at an hour when agricultural…
Continue Reading Vatican: Pope Francis tasks cardinal with mission aimed at paving ‘paths to peace’ in Ukraine
ROME (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis has tasked a leading Italian cardinal with a mission it hopes it can “ease tensions” in the…
Continue Reading Small plane crashes in Croatia on flight from Slovenia, unclear how many were aboard
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Emergency teams in Croatia have found the remains of a small plane that crashed Saturday in a remote area. A police…
Continue Reading Pete Brown, co-writer of ‘Sunshine of Your Love,’ ‘White Room’ for rock group Cream, dies at 82
NEW YORK (AP) — Songwriter and poet Pete Brown, who co-wrote “Sunshine of Your Love” and “White Room” for the short-lived rock supergroup…
Continue Reading Italy’s Meloni rejects criticism from Canada’s Trudeau over LGBTQ+ rights at G7 Summit
ROME (AP) — Italy’s far-right Premier Giorgia Meloni has rejected criticism of her government’s stance on LGBTQ+ rights, delivered…
Continue Reading Israelis protest government’s plans to weaken Supreme Court amid talks for compromise
TEL AVIV (AP) — Thousands of Israelis are protesting against contentious plans by their hard-line government to overhaul the judiciary, as the…
Continue Reading Pennsylvania man wins $50,000 lottery prize in Maryland for a second time in 2 months
By Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — Most people aren’t lucky enough to win a $50,000 lottery prize, but a Pennsylvania man did it twice in a…
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By MEG KINNARD Associated Press LEXINGTON, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Republicans have selected Drew McKissick as their chairman for a fourth term…
Continue Reading Weeks before graduating high school, he was shot and paralyzed. 7 years later, he walked across the stage to accept his college degree
By Nicki Brown and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — Seven years ago, the chance to walk at graduation was stripped from Khalil Watson, a…
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SUMMERLAND Key, Fla. (AP) — A shark in the Florida Keys bit the foot of a fisherman who had reeled it in, sending the man to the hospital, the…
Continue Reading Biden, McCarthy to speak on debt limit; talks stalled as Republicans seek deep spending cuts
By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — President Joe Biden planned on Sunday to speak directly with House Speaker…
Continue Reading Russia warns West of ‘enormous risks’ if Ukraine is supplied with F-16 jets
By Darya Tarasova (CNN) — Russia’s deputy foreign minister has warned Western countries of “enormous risks” if Ukraine is provided with…
Continue Reading Russia warns West of ‘enormous risks’ if Ukraine is supplied with F-16 jets
By Darya Tarasova (CNN) — Russia’s deputy foreign minister has warned Western countries of “enormous risks” if Ukraine is provided with…
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By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — New York state education officials have released new guidance about recently enacted regulations that prohibit…
Continue Reading Louisville inmate captured after escaping from custody
By Paradise Afshar and Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — An inmate in Louisville, Kentucky, is back in custody after escaping from a police vehicle,…
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LONDON (AP) — Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein is set to take the most seats in Northern Ireland’s local elections. That would be a repeat of…
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By Stefano Pozzebon and Caitlin Hu, CNN (CNN) — As the Colombian military frantically searches for four children missing after a jungle plane…
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By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For decades, the week in May when television executives revealed what new shows were coming and…
Continue Reading Mother of ‘Baby India,’ the newborn who was found alive in a plastic bag in Georgia woods nearly 4 years ago, arrested and charged
By Rebekah Riess and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — Nearly four years after an abandoned newborn girl was found alive in a plastic bag left in…
Continue Reading DeSantis asks that judge be disqualified from Disney’s free speech lawsuit
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Gov. Ron DeSantis is asking that a federal judge be disqualified from the First Amendment…
Continue Reading Zelensky says fiercely contested Bakhmut ‘not occupied’ as Russia claims capture
By Darya Tarasova, Sugam Pokharel, Thom Poole and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Bakhmut is not occupied…
Continue Reading Jonathan Glazer rocks Cannes with a chilling Holocaust drama from a different perspective
By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest,” a chilling Auschwitz-set drama shot through…
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By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A transgender girl in Mississippi is not participating in her high school graduation…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Have you ever imagined what it might be like to live on Mars? Soon, four researchers will have the chance to…
Continue Reading Zelensky says fiercely contested Bakhmut ‘not occupied’ as Russia claims capture
By Darya Tarasova, Sugam Pokharel, Thom Poole and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Bakhmut was not occupied…
Continue Reading Zelenskyy says ‘Bakhmut is only in our hearts’ after Russia claims control of Ukrainian city
By SUSIE BLANN and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that Bakhmut was “only…
Continue Reading Pakistani transgender activists to appeal Shariah court ruling against law aimed at protecting them
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Transgender activists in Pakistan say they plan to appeal an Islamic court’s ruling that guts a law aimed at protecting their…
Continue Reading Takeaways from AP’s report on secretive networks helping women circumvent Honduras’ abortion ban
By MARÍA VERZA and GINNETTE RIQUELME Associated Pres TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras has one of the world’s strictest abortion bans, with…
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By MARÍA VERZA and GINNETTE RIQUELME Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Inside a little wooden house among the pine and oak forests of…
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By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — An F-18 fighter jet crashed at an airbase in the Spanish city of Zaragoza but the pilot…
Continue Reading Will Biden’s hard-hat environmentalism bridge the divide on clean energy future?
By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When John Podesta left his job as an adviser to President Barack Obama nearly a decade ago, he…
Continue Reading Oklahoma prisons locked down following inmate stabbing in northeastern Oklahoma
HOMINY, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Department of Corrections has locked down all prisons statewide and canceled all visitations following a stabbing…
Continue Reading More states are requiring patients to give consent for medical students performing pelvic exams
By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON and JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A new batch of states are looking to legislate…
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By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press SIOUX CENTER, Iowa (AP) — LaTomah Hauff stopped at the red-draped table on her way into Dean’s Classic…
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By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer Jim Brown’s legs, ever-churning and sturdy as tree trunks, helped propel him to fame on the football field.…
Continue Reading Activist moms spy on each other in culture wars over schooling
By Elle Reeve and Samantha Guff, CNN Colorado Springs, Colorado (CNN) — Members of the conservative parental rights group Moms for Liberty are…
Continue Reading Activist moms spy on each other in culture wars over schooling
By Elle Reeve and Samantha Guff, CNN Colorado Springs, Colorado (CNN) — Members of the conservative parental rights group Moms for Liberty are…
Continue Reading Ukraine’s Zelensky and India’s Modi hold first face-to-face since Russian invasion
By Simone McCarthy (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the Group of…
Continue Reading G7 ‘outreach’ an effort to build consensus on global issues like Ukraine, China, climate change
By ELAINE KURTENBACH and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy democracies are sitting down…
Continue Reading G7 urges China to press Russia to end war in Ukraine, respect Taiwan’s status, fair trade rules
By ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — The Group of Seven wealthy democracies have urged China to push Russia to end its war…
Continue Reading Zimbabwe releases prisoners in amnesty, reducing overcrowding
By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe has begun releasing more than 4,000 prisoners under a presidential amnesty.…
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