Austin shooting: At least 13 people injured in a shooting downtown, authorities say – CNN

(CNN)At least 13 people were injured early Saturday morning in a shooting in downtown Austin, Texas, officials said.

Two of the people injured are in critical condition, Austin Interim Chief of Police Joseph Chacon said at a news briefing Saturday.
Six people were taken to a hospital by the Austin Police Department, and the Austin-Travis County EMS brought in four others for medical treatment, Chacon said. Three other victims brought themselves to the hospital.
One hospital received 11 of the victims for treatment while another person was transported to a different hospital. One person went to an urgent care facility with multiple gunshot wounds, Chacon said.
Police have a very general description of the suspect and the incident appears to be isolated to the area, but could not say for certain that there was no additional public danger because the suspect is not in custody, Chacon said.
Police are currently reviewing camera footage from multiple sources, including the Public Safety Camera System, police body cameras and business surveillance video to determine what happened.
Detectives from the Aggravated Assault, Homicide, Organized Crime and Gang units are involved in the investigation, police said. Investigators have not ruled out gang involvement, but say the motive and circumstances that led to the shooting are not clear at this time.
The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force Team is also on scene, Chacon said.
Shortly after the shooting, the Austin Police Department had urged in a post on Twitter for people to stay away from the 6th Street downtown area.

Source: Austin shooting: At least 13 people injured in a shooting downtown, authorities say – CNN

Four people were rescued off a boat ‘teetering’ at the edge of a Texas dam, police say – CNN

 

(CNN)When police in Austin, Texas, responded to calls about a boat at the edge of Longhorn Dam earlier this week, they found it teetering over the edge — with four people aboard.

The group was rescued Thursday with the help of the Austin Police Department’s lake patrol unit and other first responders. But the situation could have been a lot worse if the officers hadn’t shown up so quickly, authorities said.
“This would have been very tragic had they gone over the dam,” Austin Police Department Assistant Chief Scott Perry said in a Friday news conference. “It’s a very high dam and there would have been probably severe injuries if not loss of life due to that.”
The group, which was visiting from out of town, was touring Lady Bird Lake on an electric boat Thursday afternoon and got close to the dam’s spillway, Perry said.

They were distracted and didn’t notice the boat had passed two marked buoys notifying them to turn around, officer Bradley Smith, with the police department’s lake patrol unit, said during the news conference. Smith was one of three Austin lake patrol officers who were part of the rescue.”

By the time they realized they were almost at the dam, they tried to turn around to avoid it but the suction was too powerful and pulled them against the dam,” Smith said.

Source: Four people were rescued off a boat ‘teetering’ at the edge of a Texas dam, police say – CNN

Part of PA Turnpike to close in Western Pa. this weekend

Part of the Pennsylvania Turnpike in western Pennsylvania will close in both directions over the weekend.

Part of the Pennsylvania Turnpike in western Pennsylvania will close in both directions over the weekend.

The turnpike will be closed in both directions between Allegheny Valley, Exit 48, and Pittsburgh, Exit 57, starting at 11:59 p.m. on Saturday through 5 a.m. on Sunday, weather permitting.

Source: Part of PA Turnpike to close in Western Pa. this weekend

Chicago police officer arrested, charged for alleged role in Capitol riot

A officer with the Chicago Police Department was arrested and charged Friday for his alleged role in the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol, according to the city’s police chief.

Karol J. Chwiesiuk, a 29-year-old officer with the Chicago Police Department, was arrested by FBI and CPD officers around 8 a.m. local time and charged with five misdemeanors Friday afternoon, including knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building and violent entry or disorderly conduct at the Capitol, according to Chicago Police Superintendent David O. Brown.

Brown said Chwiesiuk was relieved of his police powers on June 2, as soon as federal authorities informed the department of their investigation.

Source: Chicago police officer arrested, charged for alleged role in Capitol riot

New candidate for Pittsburgh mayor: Marlin Woods enters race as an Independent

PITTSBURGH —Marlin Woods gathered with supporters at the Highland Park Reservoir, not far from his East Liberty home, to announce Thursday he’s jumping into the race for mayor of Pittsburgh as an Independent candidate. Before the event, he spoke with Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 about why he wants the job and what he believes he can bring to the office.

“This is the responsibility that falls upon my shoulders with the burden of solution through service. And service is merely defined as raising the quality of life for another,” Woods said

Woods is a motivational speaker and business consultant who’s also worked as a minister.”

My product is leadership. That is what I am here to implement into this region — to make an impartation of leadership. That I can raise the quality of life for each resident and the small business community of this great city,” Woods said.

Source: New candidate for Pittsburgh mayor: Marlin Woods enters race as an Independent

Man shows up at the hospital after being shot in the face in Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh Public Safety said a man showed up at the hospital after being shot in the face in Pittsburgh.

The victim showed up at UPMC Mercy Hospital on Friday morning with a gunshot wound to the face.

Pittsburgh Public Safety said the man told officials he had been shot on Pittsburgh’s South Side, though a location was not confirmed.

Around the same time as this incident, there was police activity in the 200 block of Arabella Street in the city’s Knoxville neighborhood, although it was unconfirmed if that was related to this incident.

The victim was last reported to be in stable condition.

No arrests have been announced.

Source: Man shows up at the hospital after being shot in the face in Pittsburgh

Half of all unemployment money was stolen by criminals during pandemic, experts say | Fox Business

Unemployment fraud surged during the coronavirus pandemic, with billions of dollars likely ending up in the hands of foreign crime syndicates based in China, Russia and other countries, experts say.

As much as $400 billion in unemployment benefits may have been fraudulent, according to one estimate by ID.me, FOX Business confirmed. That amounts to about 50% of unemployment money, according to the company, which uses facial recognition software to verify identities.

Source: Half of all unemployment money was stolen by criminals during pandemic, experts say | Fox Business

Biden opens European tour with slap at Brits

Remember Clark Griswold, that happy-go-lucky Everyman who takes the trip of a lifetime, offends his hosts, and confirms every prejudice about Americans? Welcome to “Joe Biden’s European Vacation.”

The president is reviving the National Lampoon series on his trip to England for the G-7 summit. Too bad it’s his own nation he’s lampooning.

Like the Griswolds’ summer vacations, these trips are planned to the last detail, only for everything to go wrong. On Wednesday night, as President and Dr. Griswold bedded down on Air Force One, the British papers broke the story that Yael Lempert, the new American ambassador to the UK, had issued Boris Johnson’s government with a demarche.

A demarche isn’t one of the fancy foods the Griswolds eat in France. It’s diplo-speak for putting your enemies on notice. Or, as in this case, insulting your closest ally and making a delicate situation worse.

Source: Biden opens European tour with slap at Brits

Gutfeld says you can ‘Kiss the America first agenda goodbye’; Dana Perino calls Biden G-7 comments ‘offensive’ | Fox News

‘The Five’ criticizes the president’s remarks that global warming is America’s number one threat ahead of the G-7 summit.

President Biden is throwing the “American first” agenda out the windowing his comments ahead of the G-7 summit, claiming the biggest threat to America is global warming, Greg Gutfeld said Thursday on “The Five.”

The Five co-host Dana Perino added that the president’s comments were “offensive” considering the U.S. has been suffering through the coronavirus pandemic as well as facing a “second Cold War” with China.

“If China is building a coal-fired power plant a week, then if the global climate change issue is a global issue… you’re [pissing in the wind],” she said. “That’s basically what you’re doing.”

HANNITY: ROOT CAUSE OF MASS ILLEGAL MIGRATION IS JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS

“If you just have the EU and the United States and Canada and Australia trying to reduce emissions and they’re increasing emissions, then it doesn’t matter.”

Source: Gutfeld says you can ‘Kiss the America first agenda goodbye’; Dana Perino calls Biden G-7 comments ‘offensive’ | Fox News

Scoop: Bush family nonprofit’s $5 million deal with a China influence group – Axios

Axios obtained a written agreement dated 2019 that spells out the details of a $5 million grant

A nonprofit affiliated with the late former President George H.W. Bush agreed to accept $5 million from a policy group at the center of China’s U.S. influence efforts, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: As tensions escalate between the U.S. and China, leaders with the George H.W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations have sounded off for closer ties — and while criticizing Beijing in some cases, have toed China’s line on some major geopolitical issues.

Driving the news: Axios obtained a written agreement that spells out the details of a $5 million grant from the China-United States Exchange Foundation to the Bush China Foundation, established in 2017 with the former president’s blessing.

  • CUSEF leadership has close ties to Chinese government officials, and the group has a reputation as an arm of Bejing’s political influence operation. It provided a significant share of the funds for the Bush group’s efforts to improve Sino-American relations.

Source: Scoop: Bush family nonprofit’s $5 million deal with a China influence group – Axios

Coal plants in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Ohio to shut down

The owner of three coal-fired power plants in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Ohio said Thursday that it will shut them down.

Houston-based GenOn Holdings LLC said it will shut down a generating unit at both Avon Lake station on Lake Erie near Cleveland and Cheswick station on the Allegheny River outside Pittsburgh by Sept. 15.

It said it will shut down two generating units at the much larger Morgantown station on Maryland’s Cobb Neck peninsula by next June 1.Combined, the four coal-fired units can provide up to 2,421 megawatts.

In a statement, GenOn blamed “unfavorable economic conditions, higher costs including those associated with environmental compliance, an inability to compete with other generation types and evolving market rules that promote subsidized resources.

”Coal power has fallen out of favor in the climate change era amid a push for cleaner power sources that produce less pollution and greenhouse gases. U.S. coal production has been in steady decline, down by about one-third over the past decade.

Coal also has been buffeted by a flood of cheaper natural gas from shale formations, including the vast Marcellus Shale reservoir underneath Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio.

Shutdown of the units is subject to a 90-day reliability review period by the regional electric grid operator PJM, GenOn said.

Source: Coal plants in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Ohio to shut down

AOC tells Democrats time is running out because a DEATH in the party would lose them the majority  | Daily Mail Online

 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told Democrats time is running out because a death could cause them to lose the party’s Senate majority.

  • Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told Democrats time is running out because a death could cause them to lose the party’s Senate majority 
  • ‘During the Obama admin, folks thought we’d have a 60 Dem majority for a while. It lasted 4 months,’ the New York Democrat tweeted
  • She was talking about how Sen. Ted Kennedy August 2009 death cost the Democrats a filibuster-proof majority in early 2010
  • Republican Sen. Scott Brown was elected in a January special election to fill the Massachusetts Democrat’s seat 
  • ‘McConnell’s plan is to run out the clock. It’s a hustle. We need to move now,’ AOC said 
  • A number of House-passed bills have gotten stuck in the Senate, while infrastructure bill negotiations have also hit hurdles  

Source: AOC tells Democrats time is running out because a DEATH in the party would lose them the majority  | Daily Mail Online

El Chapo’s wife Emma Coronel Aispuro pleads guilty to federal charges – CBS News

Washington — The wife of notorious Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán pleaded guilty on Thursday to federal charges that stem from assisting her husband run his multi-billion dollar criminal empire.

Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, entered her plea during a hearing Thursday at the federal district court in Washington, appearing in person before U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras and wearing a green prison uniform and white mask. Speaking through a Spanish translator, Coronel Aispuro told the court she is pleading guilty to all three criminal charges related to her involvement in her husband’s sprawling drug enterprise.

Source: El Chapo’s wife Emma Coronel Aispuro pleads guilty to federal charges – CBS News

Flames burn out home in Pittsburgh’s Mount Washington neighborhood – WPXI

PITTSBURGH — A fire burned out a home in Pittsburgh’s Mount Washington neighborhood early Thursday morning.

The fire was reported shortly after 4 a.m. on Wyoming Street.

Flames charred the first and second floors of the home and caused siding to melt. Windows were also broken out.

No one was hurt.

Source: Flames burn out home in Pittsburgh’s Mount Washington neighborhood – WPXI

Pennsylvania House GOP Unveils Ambitious Proposal To Revamp Election Law

An ambitious Republican proposal to revamp Pennsylvania election law was unveiled Thursday, a 149-page bill that would change deadlines, adopt new rules for early voting, alter mail-in ballot procedures and mandate IDs for all in-person voters.

Source: Pennsylvania House GOP Unveils Ambitious Proposal To Revamp Election Law

Chris Harrison exits ‘The Bachelor’ franchise after racism controversy

Harrison stepped aside from his role in February after defending a contestant who was shown in past photos attending an antebellum plantation-themed party.

Chris Harrison is permanently exiting ABC’s reality dating series “The Bachelor” after coming under fire earlier this year for defending a contestant’s past racist behavior.

“Chris Harrison is stepping aside as host of The Bachelor franchise. We are thankful for his many contributions over the past 20 years and wish him all the best on his new journey,” Warner Horizon and ABC Entertainment said in a statement sent to NBC News on Tuesday.

Source: Chris Harrison exits ‘The Bachelor’ franchise after racism controversy

3 dead, including suspect, in shooting at Publix supermarket in Florida

A shooting at a Publix supermarket in Florida left three people dead, including the suspected shooter, authorities said Thursday.

The shooting occurred shortly after 11:30 a.m. ET inside a Publix store on the 1100 block of Royal Palm Beach Blvd., in Royal Palm Beach — about 15 miles west of Palm Beach — according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.

It was not immediately clear who the suspected shooter was, but authorities identified the three victims as one man, one woman and one child.

Source: 3 dead, including suspect, in shooting at Publix supermarket in Florida

Biden, Johnson sign new Atlantic Charter on trade, defense amid Covid recovery

The agreement commits to combatting cyberthreats and climate change and to bringing the pandemic to an end.

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson signed a new Atlantic Charter on Thursday, modeled after the 1941 agreement, that outlines eight key areas on which the U.S. and the United Kingdom plan to collaborate.

The revamped charter, which comes during Biden’s first trip abroad as president, says it builds “on the commitments and aspirations set out eighty years ago, affirms our ongoing commitment to sustaining our enduring values and defending them against new and old challenges.”

Source: Biden, Johnson sign new Atlantic Charter on trade, defense amid Covid recovery

Biden’s budget chief won’t commit to ending Wuhan lab funding | One America News Network

Biden administration budget chief Shalanda Young refused to say that Joe Biden would stop funding gain of function research at the Wuhan, China research lab. For clarity, the term gain of function is used to describe any field of medical research that alters an organism or disease in a way that increases transmissibility or pathogenesis.

This comes as mounting evidence shows Chinese scientists manipulated bat coronaviruses while increasing their ability to infect humans. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a Pentagon sub-agency were recently found to be giving money for those risky experiments. This is something Dr. Fauci had previously denied he was aware of regarding the lab in Wuhan.

“And the funds made available by the agency which Fauci heads, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, to the tune of $600,000 went to this Wuhan Institute of Virology,” stated Alan Jones, host of Sky News Australia. “This is a lab involved in gain of function research that is creating more dangerous pathogens.

”House Republicans said the remarks by Biden’s budget chief suggest this administration will continue to give taxpayer money to the Chinese lab that evidence increasingly suggests may have played a key role in the emergence of COVID-19 and a pandemic the rocked the entire world.

Source: Biden’s budget chief won’t commit to ending Wuhan lab funding | One America News Network

Conservative think tank creates ‘A to Z guide’ for stopping critical race theory in schools | Fox News

Parents across the country are standing up and speaking out against critical race theory in schools. From Loudoun County, Virginia, to Carmel, New York, school board meetings have become must-see TV. But what happens when the cameras turn off? How can parents turn their outrage into meaningful change?

“We are asking people to go into the arena in a situation where they are going to be called a racist,” said Russ Vought, president of the Center for Renewing America and former director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Trump. “They’re not, they’ve got the moral high ground, but no one wants to be called that.”

AOC, BLM SILENT IN WAKE OF TRAGIC SHOOTING THAT KILLED 10-YEAR-OLD QUEENS BOY

In documents obtained exclusively by Fox News, Citizens for Renewing America (the advocacy arm of Vought’s conservative think tank) has created an “A to Z guide” for stopping critical race theory.

Vought said the 33-page handbook is a crash course in CRT, a “one-stop shopping” for parents trying to hold their school board members accountable.

Source: Conservative think tank creates ‘A to Z guide’ for stopping critical race theory in schools | Fox News

‘Racist’ Hunter texts more proof of Bidens ‘projecting their White privilege’ onto America: Miranda Devine | Fox News

Newly-uncovered text messages from first son Hunter Biden are another example of the Biden family’s history of White privilege and derogatory attitude toward African-Americans, New York Post columnist Miranda Devine said Tuesday on “Hannity.”

Source: ‘Racist’ Hunter texts more proof of Bidens ‘projecting their White privilege’ onto America: Miranda Devine | Fox News

Police identify man who died after fall from Pittsburgh’s Riverwalk | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Allegheny County Medical Examiner has identified a man who was pronounced dead on Tuesday evening at a hospital after falling into the Allegheny River.

Officials said Lewis Mills, 37, fell from the Riverwalk near the Andy Warhol Bridge into the river on Tuesday at 4:15 p.m.

When River Recuse divers found Mr. Mills, he was in cardiac arrest, officials said.

Medics performed CPR on him and he was then taken to a hospital, where he later died.

 

Source: Police identify man who died after fall from Pittsburgh’s Riverwalk | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Building collapse in South Korea kills 9, injures 8

SEOUL, South Korea — A five-story building being demolished in southern South Korea collapsed on Wednesday, sending debris falling on a bus and killing nine people on board, officials said.

Concrete from the collapsed building in the southern city of Gwangju fell on the bus carrying 17 people which had stopped on a nearby street, the National Fire Agency said.

Emergency officers dispatched to the site rescued eight people from the bus, all seriously injured, before discovering the nine bodies, the agency said in a statement.

Fire officer Kim Seok-sun said in a televised briefing from the site that all workers at the building site had evacuated before its collapse. He said some of the workers told investigators that they had closed a pedestrian walkway near the building before the collapse.

Source: Building collapse in South Korea kills 9, injures 8

Kamala Harris is having a bad week (and it’s only Wednesday!) – CNNPolitics

(CNN)The first six-ish months of Kamala Harris’ time as vice president have, generally speaking, gone according to her plan. She’s been a consistent messenger for President Joe Biden while learning the possibilities (and limitations) that come with being second-in-command.

That smooth ride ended this week, thanks to a confluence of events — some within her control, others not.
* The White House made a big deal out of Harris’ two-day trip to Central America earlier this week. And Harris’ main goal was simple: To send a message to Central Americans to stop coming to the US southern border. Which she did, to the consternation of liberals but the satisfaction of Biden. But the visit wound up being overshadowed by her seemingly flippant answer to a question from NBC’s Lester Holt about why she hadn’t yet visited the southern border. (Biden has tasked Harris with leading the administration’s response to stemming the flow of migration from Central America.)
“At some point, you know, we are going to the border,” Harris said in the interview. “We’ve been to the border. So this whole, this whole, this whole thing about the border. We’ve been to the border. We’ve been to the border.”
Holt responded: “You haven’t been to the border.”
“I, and I haven’t been to Europe,” Harris replied to Holt, with a laugh. “And I mean, I don’t — I don’t understand the point that you’re making.” Which, not great. As CNN reported on Tuesday: “Several sources say there was a real hope inside the White House that Harris’ first trip abroad would be a success, and worry that what looked like ill-prepared answers to that inevitable question would overshadow it.”

Source: Kamala Harris is having a bad week (and it’s only Wednesday!) – CNNPolitics

Keystone XL Pipeline Project Is Canceled – The New York Times

The embattled project to carry oil from Canada to Nebraska had been on life support since President Biden’s first day in office and stalled by legal battles for years before that.

The Canadian pipeline company that had long sought to build the Keystone XL pipeline announced Wednesday that it had terminated the embattled project, which would have carried petroleum from Canadian tar sands to Nebraska.

The announcement was the death knell for a project that had been on life support since President Biden’s first day in office and had been stalled by legal battles for years before that, despite support from the Trump administration.

On the day he was inaugurated, Mr. Biden, who has vowed to make tackling climate change a centerpiece of his administration, rescinded the construction permit for the pipeline, which developers had sought to build for over a decade. That same day, TC Energy, the company behind the project, said it was suspending work on the line.

On Wednesday, the company wrote in a statement that it “will continue to coordinate with regulators, stakeholders and Indigenous groups to meet its environmental and regulatory commitments and ensure a safe termination of and exit from the project.”

Source: Keystone XL Pipeline Project Is Canceled – The New York Times

After a Year of Protests, Portland Is Ready to Move On. But Where? – The New York Times

PORTLAND, Ore. — Defund the police? City leaders in Portland tried it. A unit in the fire and rescue bureau, one of the first of its kind in a major city, began this year taking some 911 calls about people in crisis, especially those who are homeless.

Instead of police officers with flashing lights and guns, a paramedic and a social worker would drive up offering water, a high-protein snack and, always and especially, conversation, aiming to defuse a situation that could otherwise lead to confrontation and violence. No power to arrest. No coercion.

“Having someone show up and offer you goods rather than run you off is different, and people respond to it — it softens the mood,” said Tremaine Clayton, a burly, tattooed veteran of 20 years at the fire and rescue bureau who helps run the program.

But this spring, just as the project was preparing for a major rollout into more neighborhoods, there was another plot twist: The new policing alternative was itself mostly defunded. The city decided on a go-slow approach, and the promised $4.8 million expansion evaporated.

Violent crime, especially homicide, has spiked in most urban areas during the pandemic, and many police departments are facing new scrutiny about training and bias since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis a year ago.

Source: After a Year of Protests, Portland Is Ready to Move On. But Where? – The New York Times

Pittsburgh Ranked #1 City For LGBTQ+ Home Buyers – CBS Pittsburgh

By: KDKA-TV News Staff

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A new ranking lists Pittsburgh as the #1 city for LGBTQ+ home buyers.

According to Realtor.com, Pittsburgh ranks above a number of other major cities when comparing their levels of being gay-friendly as well as being affordable.

The criteria that went into ranking the cities included:

  • a 100 ranking on the Human Rights Campaign’s annual Municipality Quality Index
  • its own Pride celebration festival
  • the median list price of homes for sale in May

Pittsburgh has received a perfect score from the Human Rights Campaign for four years in a row.

The ranking of cities can be seen below:

  1. Pittsburgh, PA
  2. Providence, RI
  3. Virginia Beach, VA
  4. Fort Lauderdale, FL
  5. Madison, WI
  6. Bloomington, IN
  7. Atlanta, GA
  8. Salem, MA
  9. Austin, TX
  10. Long Beach, CA

Realtor.com limited the number of cities to one per state to allow for geographic diversity.

To read more about why each city was selected and how they were ranked, click here.

Source: Pittsburgh Ranked #1 City For LGBTQ+ Home Buyers – CBS Pittsburgh

Captain Kirk and ex-‘SNL’ star Jon Lovitz headline Steel City Con, returning June 11-13 at the Monroeville Convention Center| Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Steel City Con will finally take place June 11-13 at the Monroeville Convention Center.

Waiting so long turned out to have its perks, as Steel City Con will be operating at 100% capacity now that statewide gathering limits have been lifted. That means the Monroeville Convention Center’s 100,000-square-foot event space could reach its maximum capacity of 5,400 pop culture enthusiasts, vendors and celebrities such as Jon Lovitz who was on ‘SNL’ and headlined by “Star Trek” legend William Shatner.

Source: Captain Kirk and ex-‘SNL’ star Jon Lovitz headline Steel City Con, returning this weekend after 4 delays | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Woman struck and killed by train in Pittsburgh

A woman was struck by a train in Pittsburgh’s Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar neighborhood on Tuesday night.

The incident happened around 10:30 p.m. on the 800 block of Freeport Road.

Pittsburgh Public Safety said the woman was struck while walking on the tracks.

Early Wednesday morning the victim was identified as Ying-Fen Johnson, 78, of Oakmont.

Source: Woman struck and killed by train in Pittsburgh

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