Trump: ‘I am bringing out the military’ to stop border crossings
President Trump said in an early morning tweet on Thursday that he is “bringing out the military” to secure the border with Mexico, calling it a “National Emergency.”
“Brandon Judd of the National Border Patrol Council is right when he says on @foxandfriends that the Democrat inspired laws make it tough for us to stop people at the Border,” Trump tweeted. “MUST BE CHANDED [sic], but I am bringing out the military for this National Emergency. They will be stopped!”
Trump tweeted last week that he would use the military to stop a caravan of migrants from Central America, which has reportedly swelled beyond 7,500, if Mexico did not stop it.
“I must, in the strongest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught — and if unable to do so I will call up the U.S. Military and CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER!” Trump tweeted.
He said Wednesday night at a rally in Wisconsin that the “military are ready” to help secure the border against the caravan, according to NBC News.
The Mexican ambassador to the U.S., Gerónimo Gutiérrez, said Monday that Mexico will continue to work to halt illegal immigration into its country and work with the Trump administration to block the caravan from passing into the U.S.
The Hill could not reach the Pentagon for immediate comment on whether has received formal orders to enforce immigration law.
Last week, a spokesman for the Pentagon, Lt. Col. Jamie Davis, said the military had not be tasked to support those working to secure the border.
“Beyond the National Guard soldiers currently supporting the Department of Homeland Security on our southern border … the Department of Defense has not been tasked to provide additional support,” Davis said in a statement.
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US mid-terms latest: How handwriting could affect your vote
The US mid-term elections in just under two weeks’ time will help define the rest of Donald Trump’s presidency.
Americans will vote for members of both chambers of Congress, as well as for governors in 36 out of 50 states.
Between now and then, we’ll bring you updates and all the best analysis every weekday in this round-up.
Today we look at a court battle over absentee ballots in Georgia, a new Trump law on opioids and different views at political rallies.
One court case
How good is your handwriting? A federal judge has ruled Georgia must stop throwing out absentee ballots when a voter’s signature doesn’t match their voter registration card.
“This ruling protects the people of Georgia from those who seek to undermine their right to vote,” American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) staff attorney Sophia Lakin said, calling the court’s decision a huge victory.
Judge Leigh Martin May issued a temporary restraining order, saying the state must notify voters first before they can reject their ballots or their applications.
“The court does not understand how assuring that all eligible voters are permitted to vote undermines the integrity of the election process,” she said.
Not all signatures are created equal
The ACLU argued Georgia election officials aren’t required to be trained in spotting differences in your signature, and there’s no rule or law defining differences between one person’s handwriting and another’s.
Georgia has until noon on Thursday to comment on the ruling, Judge May said.
The rules for absentee ballots differ across the country – 27 states and the District of Columbia allow absentee ballots from any qualified voter, but 20 states need an excuse from the applicant.
A Northern Illinois University study has drawn up a Cost of Voting Index, to measure how easy it is to vote across the US.
One law
“Together we are going to end the scourge of drug addiction in America,” President Trump said as he signed a sweeping new law on opioids.
The bill expanded access to substance disorder treatments for Medicaid users and aims to boost research efforts to find non-addictive pain killers.
In a rare show of bipartisan action, the Senate passed the legislation 98-1 earlier in the month. The House voted 393-8 in favour.
Last year, 72,000 died from drug overdoses, and both parties are focusing on the issue in their mid-term campaigns.
The Wall Street Journal reports that political ads about opioids have aired more than 50,000 times across 25 states in the run-up to the midterms.
One video
Remember Barack Obama? The former Democratic president is back on the campaign trail, trying to boost support for his party’s platform.
Donald Trump is also criss-crossing the nation, rallying the Republicans ahead of the midterms.
Both men are loved and loathed – so the BBC’s Rajini Vaidyanathan went to a rally on each side to ask people their thoughts.
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Kroger shooting: At least 2 dead and suspect in custody
Both victims died at the store, authorities said.
JEFFERSONTOWN, Ky. — A male suspect fatally shot a man and a woman at a Kroger grocery store on the outskirts of Louisville, Kentucky, and then exchanged fire with an armed bystander before fleeing the scene, police said. He was captured shortly afterward.
Both victims died at the store, said Jeffersontown Police Chief Sam Rogers. He did not say whether police had determined a motive in Wednesday’s shooting. He also did not identify the suspect.
Police received a call about 3 p.m. reporting the shooting, Rogers said. He said the suspect fired multiple rounds at the man inside the store, and shot the female victim multiple times out in the parking lot. A citizen armed with a gun engaged the shooter in the parking lot, but the suspect was able to flee before he was captured on a nearby road, Rogers said.
Eric Deacon, who identified himself as an EMT, told The Associated Press that he was in the self-checkout lane of the store when he heard the first shot, in the pharmacy.
He said a man came around the corner and “the look on his face, he looked like he just didn’t care.”
Deacon said he saw another man in the store with a gun who appeared to be shooting at the suspect, trying to get him out of the store. Deacon went outside and saw a woman in her mid-50s or early 60s who had been hit, and tried to resuscitate her.
“She was gone, there’s nothing I could do,” Deacon said. “I think she just got caught in the crossfire.”
As police officers swarmed the scene and blocked off the area with yellow crime tape, a man identified by the Louisville Courier Journal as Tim King stood in the parking lot waiting for his wife to come out. He said he drove to the store after she called him sobbing to tell him what had happened.
“I said, ‘What’s wrong?'” King said in a video posted on the newspaper’s website. “And she said, ‘There’s someone shooting up here.'”
King said his wife said she heard popping noises, then someone ran around a corner and said, “Oh my God, he’s killed her.”
Customers were moved to the back of the store, she said.
“It’s just a very, very scary situation,” King said.
The Kroger Co. issued a statement saying that company officials were “shocked and saddened by the shooting.”
“Thanks to the quick response of the local police department, the suspect was apprehended and our store is secure.”
The store was closed and will not reopen until the investigation is complete, the release said.
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Airstrike kills at least 19 civilians at vegetable market in Yemen’s Hodeidah, official says
At least 19 civilians were killed and 10 others injured on Wednesday in an airstrike at a vegetable market in Yemen, a local health minister told NBC News.
The airstrike hit a market in the city of Yemen’s Hodeidah province, Sana’a-based heath minister Taha Mutawakil said. Eight of the injured were in critical condition and at a local hospital, he said.
The minister added that the bodies were so badly damaged that it was not yet possible if those killed were men, women or children.
A Saudi-led coalition that intervened in Yemen’s civil war in 2015 has conducted frequent airstrikes targeting the Iran-aligned Houthi group and has often hit civilians, although it denies doing so intentionally, according to Reuters.
News of the airstrike comes as Saudi Arabia is facing international condemnation for the killing of writer Jamal Khashoggi at a consulate in Istanbul. When the kingdom finally acknowledged Khashoggi’s death — 17 days after he disappeared after entering the consulate to obtain documents for his upcoming marriage — Saudi Arabia claimed the writer died following a “quarrel and fighting by hand.”
That explanation, and repeated claims that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince was unaware of the operation, even though some of his lieutenants were involved, has drawn international skepticism.
On Tuesday, the Saudi government said a 15-member squad was sent to take Khashoggi, a legal resident of the U.S., to a safe house in Turkey for up to two days to try to convince him to return to his homeland.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his country has “strong signs that this murder did not stem from a momentary incident, but it is rather a planned operation.”
Residents in Yemen told Reuters violent clashes erupted in the southern outskirts of Hodeidah, a port city that pro-government forces have been trying to capture from the Houthis since the renewal of an offensive in September.
A spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition, Colonel Turki al-Malki, told Reuters the alliance is investigating the incident.
“We take this report very seriously and it will be fully investigated, as all reports of this nature are, using an internationally approved, independent process. Whilst this is ongoing, it would be inappropriate to comment further,” he said.
The coalition sometimes admits “errors” and has in the past pledged to hold accountable anyone who caused civilian deaths, according to Reuters.
The coalition entered Yemen’s conflict after the Houthis ousted the internationally recognized government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
The war has killed more than 10,000 people, displaced more than 2 million and driven the country, already the poorest on the Arabian Peninsula, to the verge of widespread famine.
On Tuesday, the United Nations humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock said, “There is now a clear and present danger of an imminent and great big famine engulfing Yemen: much bigger than anything any professional in this field has seen during their working lives.”
The U.N. said that revised assessments showed that the number of people facing pre-famine conditions could soon reach reach 14 million, three million more than the estimate last month.
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Rae Carruth released from prison 17 years after conviction in murder of son’s mother
In 2001, Rae Carruth went to prison, convicted for conspiracy to murder his pregnant girlfriend, Cherica Adams.
Monday he walked free, having completed his sentence. At 8:02 a.m. ET, Carruth, the former Carolina Panthers wide receiver, walked out of Sampson Correctional Institution, got in a white Chevy Tahoe and drove away without speaking to an assembly of reporters outside the facility.
“I’m excited about just being out of here. I’m nervous just about how I’ll be received by the public,” Carruth said in a phone interview with WSOC-TV on Sunday. “I still have to work. I still have to live. I have to exist out there and it just seems like there is so much hate and negativity toward me. I’m actually somewhat frightened.”
Whether he will seek a relationship with his son, who was born with brain damage after being removed from his dying mother’s womb, is unclear.
Carruth’s son born with cerebral palsy
Chancellor Lee Adams, now 18, was born with cerebral palsy after Carruth’s accomplices shot his 24-year-old mother in her BMW while she was eight months pregnant in Charlotte, North Carolina. He requires a caregiver.
Adams said in a Nov. 16, 1999, 911 call that Carruth, then a third-year wide receiver with the Carolina Panthers, stopped his car in front of her as she was following him from a movie date. That’s when three accomplices of Carruth’s pulled up and shot her through the driver’s side window of her car, according to her account.
Adams survived long enough to have a C-section to save her son, but died four weeks later from her injuries. She was 24.
Carruth jumped bail, hid trunk of a car
Carruth was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit murder and attempted murder after the shooting. When Adams died, he jumped bail and fled. FBI agents found him hiding in the trunk of a car in the parking lot of a Tennessee Best Western motel.
Carruth was eventually convicted of conspiracy to commit murder, shooting into an occupied dwelling and using an instrument to destroy an unborn child. He was sentenced to 18-to-24 years in prison. He escaped a first-degree murder conviction, which could have carried the death penalty.
Now 44, Carruth is a free man.
Carruth wanted custody of his son after prison release
Carruth reached out publicly during his final months in prison, wavering on his desire to have a relationship with his son and confronting Chancellor’s caretaker Saundra Adams, Cherica’s mother.
He broke a 17-year silence in February in an interview with Charlotte’s WBTV in a letter to Saundra Adams he gave to the TV station. He didn’t detail the specifics of the night of Cherica’s murder, but he did apologize, though he’s never done so directly for conspiring to murder Adams.
“I’m apologizing for the loss of her daughter,” Carruth told WBTV of Saundra. “I’m apologizing for the impairment of my son. I feel responsible for everything that happened. And I just want her to know that truly I am sorry for everything.
“If I could change anything, I’d change the whole situation. His mother would still be here and I wouldn’t be where I’m at. So that’s what I’d want to change. I want the incident to never have happened at all.”
His outreach wasn’t all conciliatory. Carruth’s letter lashed out at Saundra and declared his desire to “debunk the lies that Ms. Adams continues to tell about me.”
Carruth hasn’t seen son since he was a baby
Carruth met his son twice in the early years of his life — once on the night of his birth and another during a court-ordered visitation when Chancellor was around 1 year old. Carruth hasn’t seen him since, according to The Observer. But he has watched from afar via news reports and developed an attachment to his now-grown son.
He made a plea, via WBTV, for custody of the son he almost killed in the womb.
“I let him down as he came into this world, and the only way that I can make that right, and the only way I can work out my relationship with my son is to be there for him, Carruth said.”
“I should be raising my son. His mother should be raising her son. Ms. Adams should not be doing this, and I want that responsibility back. I feel like he might not ever have his mother in his life, but he could still have me, and I could still make a difference, and I don’t think that’s anyone’s responsibility when I’m still here.”
His letter echoed that plea.
“I mean come on, Ms. Adams, the reality is you aren’t going to be around forever,” Carruth wrote. “At some point, someone else will have to be responsible for Chancellor’s care. … I would like to be in a position to be seriously considered as a viable option.”
Saundra Adams: Carruth won’t get custody
Saundra, 60, told The Observer that she had forgiven Carruth and was open to him seeing his son.
She has watched Chancellor as he defied doctors’ expectations that he would never walk, graduating to a walker and eventually able to take steps on his own. She has family that she says will take over Chancellor’s care when she’s not able.
Custody for Carruth is not on the table.
“I’ve forgiven Rae already, but to have any type of relationship with him, there does have to be some repentance,” Adams said. “And I think this opens the door. But I can say definitively he’s not ever going to have custody of Chancellor. Chancellor will be raised either by me or, after I’m gone, by someone else who loves him and who knows him. He will never be raised by a stranger – someone he doesn’t know and who tried to kill him.”
Carruth’s accomplice not so forgiving
Saundra isn’t the only person not ready to give Carruth the benefit of the doubt. Carruth’s accomplices all received prison sentences for Cherica’s murder. While two of them — Michael Kennedy and Stanley Abraham — have been released, the third remains behind bars.
Van Brett Watkins admitted to firing five shots into Cherica’s car the night she was killed. He’s not scheduled to be released from prison until 2046 on a second-degree murder conviction. He sounded vindictive in a letter sent to The Observer.
“I believe the public should see what Rae Carruth ‘PAID’ me to do,” Watkins wrote. “Unlike Mrs. S. Adams … I don’t forgive Carruth. He owes me.”
Carruth has change of heart
In March, Carruth wrote another letter to Adams, this time shared with Observer columnist Scott Fowler. He’d experienced a change of heart on his desire to connect with his son.
“For all involved or invested in this ordeal, please calm down,” Carruth wrote. “I will no longer be pursuing a relationship with Chancellor and Ms. Adams. I promise to leave them be, which I now see is in everyone’s best interest.”
“I now understand that any notions of me one day being welcome to Sunday dinner is totally out of the question. And lastly, I didn’t foresee the media and general public being unanimous in its belief that I shouldn’t be allowed to ever have anything to do with Chancellor.”
What’s next for Carruth is a mystery. He’s walking into a world he won’t recognize, that’s seen more than 17 years of rapid social and technological change.
However he deals with the transition, it seems unfathomable that he would be allowed to have a relationship with Chancellor, a son he didn’t want and tried to have killed. That’s a conclusion he appears to have reached in March.
Whether he still feels that upon release and if he plans to approach his son are unknown.
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Kanye West, Brett Kavanaugh And Alex Jones Audition For Big Bird On ‘Colbert’
Actor and puppeteer Caroll Spinney is leaving his post as Big Bird after playing the role for nearly 50 years. That certainly leaves a sizable hole in the heart of “Sesame Street.” But who can possibly Spinney’s very big and oddly shaped shoes?
On Friday’s “Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” some famous would-be replacements auditioned to take over for our big feathered friend. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh brings up beer a lot during his tryout, Infowars host Alex Jones rants about conspiracy theories, and rapper Kanye West uses his time to talk about… well, Kanye West.
See the whole clip above.
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WWE Raw preview (Oct. 22, 2018): Outshined
WWE is starting a busy week in Providence, Rhode Island.
The Headliner(s)
We all know why WWE’s muted the promotion of the other pay-per-view (PPV) on their calendar for next week, Nov. 2’s Crown Jewel. But as a side-effect, they’ve kept the volume down on the top men’s belt. Which might be by design as a way to make something other than Universal champion Roman Reigns the focus of fans’ ire for a change. But after Brock Lesnar’s lengthy reign, you’d think they’d have wanted to use all the feelings people have about the Big Dog to make the title feel important for the first time in its existence.
Adding to the weirdness was the decision to turn Braun Strowman, one of their most popular characters/performers, in order to face Reigns. But is he really? Facing Roman, that is. Yes, they battled to a no contest at Hell in a Cell during a match (which also removed Strowman’s Money in the Bank briefcase from the equation). But even the build to that was overshadowed by the reforming of The Shield, and Strowman recruiting his own allies. Sure, Paul Heyman shows up every once in a while to remind us his client has a rematch coming, but when neither of his opponents appear that concerned…
And they’re not concerned because the post-HiaC story has been even more about the two groups. More puzzling, it’s been about the fighting within the teams as much as it’s been about Strowman vs. Reigns (vs. Lesnar, but we knew he wasn’t coming back to promote his payday in the desert). We’ve been so inundated with variations of matches between Hounds of Justice and Dogs of War that there’s nothing special about Braun and Roman facing off any more.
Even worse, the buzz coming out of last week’s show was about a program between Strowman and Drew McIntyre. And I’m looking forward to that too! But that they’re selling, and we’re buying, a possible future match, says a lot about what everyone thinks of the next one on the calendar.
The title scene
Sticking with that story, because even though it’s not doing a great job selling one of the main events for Crown Jewel, it’s the one Raw spends what feels like 90% of its three hour runtime on each week, Dean Ambrose is a wild card! Does that mean he’s going to go after the tag team belts held by Strowman’s teammates/sparring partners McIntyre & Dolph Ziggler? His brother Seth Rollins’ Intercontinental title? We don’t know! Wild card, b****es!
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‘The Real’ Co-Hosts Explain Why They Never Replaced Tamar Braxton After Dramatic Exit
“You’re leaving too?” Tamera Mowry-Housley asks celebrity make up artist Renny Vasquez with that signature pout we all fell in love with on Sister, Sister.
He along with several other members of The Real‘s glam squad had been with the co-hosts since 5 a.m. that morning, and it was now close to 5 p.m. in the evening.
“OK! I love you!” she says when he confirms that he indeed has to run.
As Mowry-Housley plops down onto the couch beside her co-host, Adrienne Houghton, she scratches at a persistent stain on the singer’s knee. It was the smallest of gestures between the two co-hosts, but one you’d only expect from a sister just making sure her girl looks presentable for the last interview of the day.
When the ladies of The Real are in a room together, it is a complete love fest peppered with inside jokes. And the love is contagious. No one is exempt from it. Not this interviewer, not the make up artist, not even the show’s publicist.
Five seasons after being placed together by some very smart executives at 495 and Telepictures Productions, the co-hosts of The Real have sort of crossed the burning sands. Their Emmy win is proof of that. Their guests — which have included Issa Rae, Jada Pinkett Smith and forever first lady Michelle Obama — is also proof.
And they’ve been through some things. Most of which they’re happy to open up about during their popular “Girl Chat” segment.
“Back when you used to watch our show we had lots of games,” Jeannie Mai admitted. “Now, we’ve gotten so close and intimate with our fans, it’s a lot of ‘Girl Chat’ because we have a lot to talk about.”
“When you’re vulnerable, that’s when people start relating…and that is a powerful and beautiful thing,” Mowry-Housley added.
“There was a time when we were flooded with talk shows and they were just chopping them after the second season,” Loni Love continued. “We are continuing because…you have this chemistry of women who are discovering themselves, and opening themselves up and people are relating all across the world.”
Co-host and big sister of the foursome, Love, said proudly that “the hosts have not changed” during all five seasons. But fans who’ve been with them since earlier seasons have noticed one person indeed dropped the line — or if we’re forgetting the sorority analogy altogether — was forced off the show after season two.
The co-hosts only recently decided to open up about Tamar Braxton’s 2016 departure during their New York City press run earlier this month.
“That’s embarrassing when you get let go of a show. That’s embarrassing so sometimes it’s better to just not say nothing and let the process play out,” Love said of why the co-hosts remained silent. “Timing is everything.”
Mai added, “And we couldn’t say anything either because we have a job to uphold, and we also didn’t know what was going on because it’s just our job.”
Houghton said it’s also the reason why The Real hasn’t replaced Braxton, even after rumors swirled that she was being replaced by reality stars Joseline Hernandez, or Ray J.
“The same way we can’t get rid of people on the show, we also can’t stop them from adding one,” Houghton said, noting that the co-hosts preference is for the slot to remain unfilled.
She added that the ordeal was hard on the hosts, but it’s forged a sisterly bond between the foursome — one that they don’t take for granted.
“In all honesty, there was a moment in time when we said, ‘Why is this happening to us?’” Houghton recalled. “But because of going through that, we more than ever value this…and what we went through has made our bond so much stronger. And we’re grateful for that so we value this; its precious to us; and we don’t allow anything to infiltrate this.”
Looking over at Houghton, Mowry-Housley chimed in, finishing her sentence, “You can’t force this.”
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Researchers just found a bizarre ‘headless chicken monster’ swimming deep in the Antarctic Ocean
A “headless chicken monster” was spotted swimming in the Antarctic Ocean, Australian researchers announced Sunday.
The bizarre creature that does indeed look like it’s missing a head is actually a sea cucumber scientifically known as Enypniastes eximia. As if looking like a headless chicken wasn’t enough, it also has a webbed veil and a transparent body that shows its internal organs. The “monster” is also extremely active for a deep sea creature, and can measure up to 9-inches, past research has shown.
It was previously filmed in the Gulf of Mexico, and now the Australian Government announced researchers with the Australian Antarctic Division captured clear video of this odd sea cucumber flapping its veil and appearing to feed or crawl using its tentacles across the ocean floor.
This is the first time the headless chicken monster has been sighted in southern ocean waters, the Australian government noted in a release.
“The Southern Ocean is home to an incredible abundance and variety of marine life, including commercially sought-after species, the harvesting of which must be carefully managed for future generations,” Gillian Slocum, Australia’s Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources Commissioner, said in a statement.
Australian researchers were able to capture the rare sight using new technology attached to toothfish longlines.
“Some of the footage we are getting back from the cameras is breathtaking, including species we have never seen in this part of the world,” said Dirk Welsford, Australian Antarctic Division Program Leader.
The collected images and data, which will be presented at the annual CCAMLR meeting this week, will also show what areas of the ocean might be adversely affected by fishing, Welsford said.
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Tamar Braxton’s Birthday Shout Out to Snoop Dogg Is Quickly Taken Over By Fans More Concerned with His Marriage
Tamar Braxton showed love to her friend rapper Snoop Dogg by reposting his wife Shante Broadus’ message to her husband on his birthday. Fans were not amused by Snoop and Broadus’ relationship due to the rappers past infidelity.
Broadus post’s on Saturday, included a picture of the rapper with the caption, “Happy C Day @snoopdogg?? #10-20-71.” The rapper responded to his wife’s post, “Love everything about u thank u for my kids and for being the boss of me. Aka @bosslady_ent I’m nothing without you.
Braxton admired their relationship and commented on their love in the post she reshared on her Instagram. In her caption she wrote, “See THIS is what i Be talmbout!!! It’s THIS man @snoopdogg birthday but his love for his woman @bosslady_ent mean more to him than HIMSELF!!!” She continued, “If I don’t mean this to the man I love then #bye You can HAVE IT!!!! Some of y’all is worried about the wrong thing @otgenasis said… “ but who gone FCK wit u tho?? In the end???” Happy birthday unc!! You two have inspired me THIS morning!!!❤️????”
Although the singer was making the couple relationship goals, fans were not feeling it and criticized Tamar and Snoop’s wife.
“He’s cheated on his wife several times and this inspires you??OK”
“Chile this man cheats cheats”
“he’s got hoes, and has cheated several time, his wife is a dummy”
Back in July, known socialite Celina Powell revealed that she and Snoop have been in relations with each other. She alleged that she’s been dealing with the rapper for months and revealed multiple text messages and direct message conversations. The rapper has openly refuted those claims.
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