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Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, departs federal court after a plea hearing on two misdemeanor charges of willfully failing to pay income taxes in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. July 26, 2023. The indictment was secured in September by Special Counsel David Weiss after a plea agreement between Hunter Biden and prosecutors collapsed in August. Many Republican lawmakers who have relentlessly criticized Hunter Biden lauded the Bruen decision. Cases now being litigated will help determine how far the Bruen ruling lets courts go in invalidating gun laws. Even if Hunter Biden gets the possession charge dismissed, there is still the matter of the two counts accusing him of false statements on the background check form.

Persons: Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Jonathan Ernst, Joe Biden's, Bruen, David Weiss, Abbe Lowell, Biden, Maryellen Noreika, Lowell, Adam Winkler, Andrew Willinger, Hunter, Eric Ruben, Andrew Goudsward, Nate Raymond, Will Dunham, Scott Malone Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Supreme, New York, U.S, District, Reuters, Mr, Democratic, Republican, UCLA, Duke University's Center, Firearms Law, Circuit, Appeals, Southern Methodist University, Thomson Locations: Wilmington , Delaware, U.S, Delaware, United States, New Orleans, Atlanta, Florida, Texas, Washington, Boston

☆ Coal makes a quiet resurgence in the clean energy era
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —As momentum shifts toward clean energy, coal has had some unexpected staying power. A new report by the International Energy Agency found that global coal demand hit an all-time high in 2022 amid the energy crisis, eclipsing the previous record set in 2013. For example, Panasonic built a new electric vehicle plant in Kansas to aid its transition to clean energy. Why it matters: Coal, the highest carbon emitting and dirtiest energy source, is the single biggest contributor to human-created climate change. The Hollywood writers’ strike is overThe Hollywood writers’ strike is finally over after 148 days.

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☆ Kim Jong-un Inspects Missiles and Nuclear Bombers in Russia
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-16 | by ( Choe Sang-Hun | More About Choe Sang-Hun | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, inspected nuclear-capable strategic bombers in Russia on Saturday, according to Russian state media, as he continued a trip that has raised fears of the two nations deepening their military ties against a common enemy, the United States. Mr. Kim arrived in Primorsky Krai, in Russia’s Far East, on Saturday morning traveling via his armored train. When Mr. Shoigu visited Pyongyang in July, Mr. Kim took him to an exhibition of missiles and other weapons, raising fears that Russia was turning to North Korea for ammunition badly needed in its war against Ukraine. United States officials have repeatedly warned that North Korea was already shipping artillery shells and army rockets to Russia and that in return it wanted Russian technology to advance its own military capabilities. The prospect of such military exchanges presents a double challenge for Washington: Conventional weapons from North Korea could help Moscow prolong its invasion of Ukraine, while technical help from Russia would expand the North’s nuclear threat against the United States and its allies in the region, South Korea and Japan.

Persons: Kim Jong, Kim, Sergei K, Shoigu Organizations: RIA Novosti, Ukraine, Washington Locations: Russia, United States, Primorsky Krai, Russia’s Far, Russian, Pyongyang, North Korea, Korea, Moscow, Ukraine, South Korea, Japan

☆ I watched the newly-public security camera footage from January 6. I saw things I hadn't seen before — including eerie scenes of lawmakers fleeing for their safety on one of the darkest days in Americ
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

House Republicans have begun to make January 6 security camera footage publicly available. I watched as lawmakers fled for safety — and banded together — while rioters besieged the Capitol. AdvertisementAdvertisementRoger Stone in front of the O’Neill House Office Building, where the January 6 security camera footage can be viewed, in December 2021. Upstairs, I focused on a lone security camera in front of the House chamber. On another security camera in Longworth House Office Building, I watched lawmakers of both parties gathering near the secure location where they sheltered for the duration of the riot.

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U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. poses during a group portrait at the Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., October 7, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsSept 8 (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday rejected a push by Senate Democrats to have him recuse from a tax case that involves an attorney who interviewed him for a newspaper article and helped him "air his personal grievances." Alito, in a statement attached to a routine order issued by the court in the case, Moore v. United States, said, "There is no valid reason for my recusal in this case." "Mr. Rivkin's access to Justice Alito and efforts to help Justice Alito air his personal grievances could cast doubt on Justice Alito's ability to fairly discharge his duties in a case in which Mr. Rivkin represents one of the parties," the senators stated. The case in which he is involved was never mentioned; nor did we discuss any issue in that case either directly or indirectly."

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A simmering dispute between branches of government over Supreme Court ethics reform boiled over Friday when Justice Samuel Alito publicly rejected a senator’s call to recuse himself from an upcoming case due to a perceived conflict of interest. After Alito was interviewed for a report in the opinion pages of The Wall Street Journal and expressed the view that Congress has no authority over the high court, Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois in August urged Chief Justice John Roberts to take steps to ensure that the prominent conservative justice recuse himself from cases concerning legislation that regulates the high court. He also asked for Alito’s recusal in the case of Moore v. United States – a major tax case in which the petitioners are represented in part by one of the authors of the report in the Journal. Durbin, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has been among lawmakers leading a push for ethics reform at the high court that has come to a head amid bombshell reports in recent months questioning the ethics of some justices. He argued along with committee Democrats that, in this situation, the writer’s “access to Justice Alito and efforts to help Justice Alito air his personal grievances could cast doubt on Justice Alito’s ability to fairly discharge his duties” in the tax case.

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☆ Alito: Recusing from cases involving former employees, colleagues, and long-time acquaintances would 'distort' the Supreme Court's work
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

In mid-2023, Justice Samuel Alito met twice with a lawyer who later wrote two op-eds defending him. The attorney, David Rivkin Jr., is closely connected to a case the court agreed to hear in June. On Friday, Alito said he's refusing to recuse himself from the upcoming case. Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — delivered daily. "No provision in the Constitution gives them the authority to regulate the Supreme Court — period."

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☆ For Migrating Birds, It’s the Flight of Their Lives
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Emily Anthes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +17 min

Simone NoronhaFor Migrating Birds, It’s the Flight of Their Lives Leer en españolAmerica’s birds are in trouble. If migrating birds lose their winter refuges, the consequences will ripple across the hemisphere. MissouriMissouri provides breeding habitats for many grassland bird species, which have been faring especially poorly in recent decades. “This is a classic Pacific Northwest to west Mexico species,” Mr. Jiang said. The birds breed at marshes and wetlands across the Western United States and Canada.

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☆ With TikTok and Lawsuits, Gen Z Takes on Climate Change
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-19 | by ( David Gelles | More About David Gelles | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Do you think I really want to be on a stand saying, like, ‘I don’t have a future,’” said Mesina DiGrazia-Roberts, 16, another of the plaintiffs in the Hawaii case, who lives on Oahu. “As a 16-year-old who just wants to live my life and hang out with my friends and eat good food, I don’t want to be doing that. The state filed two motions to dismiss the case, but this month a judge set a trial date for next year. A nonprofit legal organization called Our Children’s Trust is behind the Montana and Hawaii cases, as well as active litigation in three other states. But in June, a different judge ruled the case could once again proceed toward trial.

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☆ Montana judge hands young plaintiffs significant victory in landmark climate trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Ella Nilsen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —A Montana judge handed a significant victory on Monday to more than a dozen young plaintiffs in the nation’s first constitutional climate trial, as extreme weather becomes more deadly and scientists warn the climate crisis is eroding our environment and natural resources. While Seeley’s ruling won’t prevent mining or burning fossil fuels in the state, it will reverse a recently passed state law that prohibits state agencies from considering planet-warming pollution when permitting fossil fuel projects. “Their same legal theory has been thrown out of federal court and courts in more than a dozen states. The federal climate case alleges the federal government’s activities allowing further fossil fuel development, including permitting and leasing for oil and gas drilling, is violating young people’s constitutional rights to life, liberty and property. Olson recently told CNN she hopes the state case will boost the Juliana case.

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☆ Senate Democrats accuse Justice Samuel Alito of violating Supreme Court ethics rules with WSJ interview, demand recusal in linked tax case
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Justice Samuel Alito recently blasted proposed SCOTUS ethics roles in an interview with WSJ. Senate Democrats say he violated the court's ethics rules by doing that. Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — delivered daily. Rivkin, the senators note, is representing one of the parties in a tax case currently pending before the court, Moore v. United States. Both Rivkin and a spokesperson for the Supreme Court did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

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☆ Brazil's Lula says 'neither Putin nor Zelenskiy ready for peace'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Lisandra Paraguassu | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Ueslei MarcelinoBRASILIA, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said his country is working for peace in Ukraine but neither its leader nor Russia's are prepared to talk peace. "Neither Putin nor Zelenskiy are ready," Lula told foreign correspondents in a news conference, adding that peace proposals he is seeking with other countries will be ready when Russia and Ukraine are willing to negotiate. Lula has tried to form a group of neutral countries to get peace talks going. Lula said the G7 group of advanced economies should no longer exist since the creation of the larger G20 group of leading and emerging economies. Lula said the BRICS group of emerging economies should allow new members "as long as they meet the requirements."

Persons: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Ueslei Marcelino BRASILIA, Putin, Lula, Anthony Boadle, Mark Porter, David Gregorio Our Organizations: REUTERS, Ueslei, Security, . Security, United Arab Emirates, New Development Bank, International Monetary Fund, Thomson Locations: Brasilia, Brazil, Ukraine, Russia, United States, Iraq, France, England, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Argentina

☆ Opinion: The Donald Trump and Hunter Biden surprises
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +20 min

So it was remarkable Wednesday when the deal for Hunter Biden to plead guilty to two misdemeanors for his failure to pay taxes on time fell apart in a federal courtroom after the judge raised questions about it. Special counsel Jack Smith unexpectedly added a major allegation to the indictment charging former President Donald Trump with mishandling classified documents. The Trump and Hunter Biden developments underlined how America’s political climate is being shaped by what happens in the courts. This addition, an alleged surveillance tape conspiracy, almost reads like a spy novel.”“It features Trump employee and co-defendant Walt Nauta’s surprise clandestine trip to Florida. To W. James Antle III, it was the Hunter Biden plea deal snafu that brought to the forefront the “powerful split screen that drives” how Republican voters see the emerging 2024 presidential race.

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☆ Women’s World Cup: Which teams are through? Which are out? Which can still qualify?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Matias Grez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —With some Women’s World Cup groups balancing on a knife edge, working out which team needs to get what result to still qualify can be a tricky process. Group ANorway vs. the Philippines, Switzerland vs. New ZealandPhilippines' Sarina Bolden celebrates after scoring the winning goal over New Zealand. The pressure is on New Zealand to avoid an unwanted piece of history by becoming the first host nation to go out of the group stages of a Women’s World Cup. The Norwegians need to win and hope either Switzerland or New Zealand win and they themselves earn a three-goal swing over Switzerland or New Zealand. Group FJamaica vs. Brazil, Panama vs. FranceJamaica earned the country's first ever Women's World Cup win with a 1-0 victory over Panama.

Persons: Sarina Bolden, Amanda Perobelli, Bradley Kanaris, Alessandra Tarantino, Lauren James, Justin Setterfield, Kim Price, Luisa Gonzalez, John Cowpland Organizations: CNN, CNN Sport, New, Reuters, Switzerland, New Zealand, Canada, Republic of Ireland, Nigeria Nigeria, Getty, Nigeria, C, C Costa Rica, Spain, AP Japan, China, England, Haiti, Portugal, US Women’s National, Jamaica, France Jamaica, Panama, Brazil, France, G Argentina, Italy Sweden, Italy, Argentina, Sweden Locations: Norway, Philippines, Switzerland, New Zealand Philippines, New Zealand, Zealand, Swiss, New, Australia, Republic, Nigeria, Canada, Republic of Ireland, C Costa, Zambia, Japan, Spain Japan, Costa Rica, Spain, England, Haiti, Denmark, China, United States, Vietnam, Netherlands, Portugal, Brazil, Panama, Reuters France, Jamaica, Sweden, South Africa, Italy, Argentina

☆ Patrol dogs are terrorizing and mauling prisoners inside the United States
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Hannah Beckler | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +64 min

But prison patrol dogs aren't deployed for chases; they are used inside the prison walls. Tri-State Canines training facility, Warren, OhioVirginia Department of Corrections patrol dogs are typically Belgian Malinois, Czech shepherds, or German shepherds. Department patrol dogs are trained to bite once and hold to minimize flesh tears and lacerations. Patrol dog kennels, Virginia Department of CorrectionsThe patrol dog kennels are even smaller, at 6 feet by 10. A veterinary technician who treated patrol dogs at a clinic in Lebanon, Virginia, said she was told not to touch the patrol dogs in her care without their handler present.

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Canada and the United States both have something to prove in this Women’s World Cup. Canada faces a different sort of pressure: their so-far-unrealized expectations on the World Cup stage. Philippines vs. Switzerland The Philippines, in its first Women’s World Cup, features a roster with 18 American-born players. It will face Switzerland, a team with only one previous Women’s World Cup appearance, in 2015. Spain vs. Costa Rica Spain, whose roster contains several players from the powerhouse European club Barcelona, has lost only once in the last year.

Persons: Phelan M Organizations: Associated Press, Canada, Canada Soccer, Olympic, Africa, Nations, Spain, Costa Rica Spain, Barcelona, Costa Rica, Costa Ricans, Thailand Locations: Canada, United States, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Nigeria, Philippines, Switzerland, Costa Rica, Costa, Vietnam Vietnam, it’s, United

☆ Trump classified docs judge skeptical of push to delay trial past 2024 election
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Attorneys for former President Donald Trump Chris Kise (C) and Todd Blanche (R) arrive at The Alto Lee Adams Sr. United States Courthouse on July 18, 2023 in Fort Pierce, Florida. The judge presiding over Donald Trump 's federal criminal case appeared skeptical Tuesday of the former president's argument that the trial over his handling of classified documents should be delayed beyond the 2024 election, NBC News reported. Walt Nauta, personal aide to former U.S. President Donald Trump, exits Fort Pierce U.S. courthouse after a hearing in Fort Pierce, Florida, July 18, 2023. Trump faces 37 criminal counts related to his alleged mishandling of classified documents after leaving the White House. But on Monday, Cannon told the parties to be prepared to discuss their proposals for when the trial should start.

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Tom Schroeder, the whistleblower accusing Medtronic of a kickback scheme, left, is interviewed by Morgan Brennan, in Kansas City, Missouri. Schroeder said rumors circulated that Medtronic sales representatives were bribing VA staff to purchase an excessive amount of the company's inventory. The veterans hospital purchased more devices than some of the largest veterans medical facilities, according to data the VA's investigation gathered. Medtronic also said that Schroeder has "admitted under oath that he has no firsthand knowledge of any problematic procedure involving Medtronic devices." Douglas Winger, one of the Medtronic sales representatives named as a defendant in Schroeder's lawsuit, won a Medtronic President's Club award in 2016 for his sales.

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☆ Trump seeks to delay trial in classified documents case
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

July 11 (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump and his aide Walt Nauta have asked a federal court in Florida to postpone their criminal trial in a classified documents case, saying Trump's busy presidential campaign schedule ahead of the 2024 election will make the current trial schedule "untenable." "President Trump is running for President of the United States and is currently the likely Republican Party nominee. In addition to citing his campaign schedule, Trump's lawyers also told the judge that the unprecedented indictment raises "significant" legal questions and challenges that will be posed by the classified nature of the evidence. The documents case will unfold under a strict set of rules prescribed by the Classified Information Procedures Act, which aims to protect classified evidence and manage disclosure of such records at a public jury trial. Nauta, Trump's aide, pleaded not guilty last week in a Miami federal courthouse to charges that he had helped Trump hide top secret documents taken when he left the White House.

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☆ Trump seeks to delay trial in Mar-a-Lago documents case
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Jane... Read moreJuly 11 (Reuters) - Donald Trump and an aide, Walt Nauta, have asked a federal court in Florida to postpone the criminal trial in the Mar-a-Lago documents case and drop the current date, a filing by the former U.S. president's lawyers showed. But in the filing late on Monday, Trump's lawyers said a December trial date would deny them reasonable time to prepare, and described the government's requested schedule as "unrealistic." "The court should therefore withdraw the current order setting trial and postpone any consideration of a new trial date," the lawyers said, adding that a continuance was both necessary and appropriate. In the filing, Trump's lawyers said a December trial was untenable in view of the logistical demands of his presidential election bid, a potentially large amount of evidence they might need to review, and other cases he faces. Nauta, Trump's aide, pleaded not guilty last week in a Miami federal courthouse to charges that he had helped Trump hide top secret documents taken when he left the White House.

Persons: Trump, Wilkie D, Ferguson Jr, Walt Nauta, Chris Kise, Todd Blanche, Jane, Read, Donald Trump, Aileen Cannon, Trump's, Jack Smith, Bharat Govind Gautam, Clarence Fernandez Organizations: U.S, United, REUTERS, Prosecutors, U.S . Justice, Trump, White House, Thomson Locations: Miami , Florida, U.S, Florida, Miami, Bengaluru

☆ Here's what a new Supreme Court case could mean for federal wealth tax proposals
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Kate Dore | Cfp | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The Supreme Court will soon hear a case that could affect broad swaths of the U.S. tax code, corporate revenue and federal wealth tax proposals. The case, Moore v. United States, is slated for the next court term and challenges a levy enacted through President Donald Trump's 2017 signature tax overhaul. But experts say the Supreme Court decision may have broader implications. It's a lingering question amid past billionaire tax proposals. While experts say Trump's 2017 tax works differently than a wealth tax, there are still concerns about the Moore case.

Persons: Moore, Donald Trump's, Biden, Amanda Parsons Organizations: Finance, University of Colorado Law School Locations: United States, India

☆ Debris and Presumed Human Remains From Lost Titan Are Recovered
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Remy Tumin | Rebecca Carballo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

The LatestDebris and presumed human remains from the Titan submersible have been recovered and returned to land, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Wednesday night, nearly a week after an international search-and-rescue operation ended and the vessel’s five passengers were presumed dead. At a Canadian Coast Guard pier in St. John’s, Newfoundland, on Wednesday, crews unloaded what appeared to be the Titan’s 22-foot hull, crinkled and twisted with exposed wires and cables. United States medical professionals “will conduct a formal analysis of presumed human remains that have been carefully recovered within the wreckage at the site of the incident,” the Coast Guard said in a statement. The U.S. Coast Guard is leading the investigation into why the submersible imploded and has convened a marine board of investigation, the highest level of investigation in the Coast Guard. The discovery suggested a “catastrophic implosion” with no survivors, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

Persons: “, Carl Hartsfield, Hartsfield, ”, Eduardo Medina Organizations: Titan, U.S . Coast Guard, Canadian Coast Guard, Canadian Press, Marine Board, Investigation, United, Coast Guard, Research Services, Oceanographic, World Records Locations: St, John’s, Newfoundland, U.S, United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, British

Nauta faces charges of helping Trump hide the documents from investigators after the former president left the White House in 2021. Nauta worked for Trump as a White House valet and has served as an aide since Trump left office. Prosecutors said Nauta moved boxes that contained classified documents so a lawyer for Trump could not find them and hand them over to federal investigators. Nauta and Trump are allowed to be in contact, but cannot discuss the facts of the case except through their attorneys. Legal experts have said the complexities surrounding the use of highly classified documents as evidence are likely to delay Trump's trial.

Persons: Walt Nauta, President Trump, Wilkie D, Ferguson Jr, Jane Rosenberg, Donald Trump, Edwin Torres, Torres, Stanley Woodward, Trump, Woodward, Nauta, Prosecutors, Aileen Cannon, Jack Smith, Cannon, Jacqueline Thomsen, Andy Sullivan, Scott Malone, Howard Goller Organizations: United, Courthouse, REUTERS, MIAMI, White House, Trump, U.S, Prosecutors, Thomson Locations: Miami , Florida, U.S, Florida, Nauta, Newark, Miami, White, New York, York, Lago

Federal court records did not make clear whether Nauta had since retained a Florida lawyer and he could not be reached for comment. The front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, Trump has pleaded not guilty both to the federal charges, which also include conspiracy to obstruct justice, and the New York charges. Prosecutors said Nauta moved boxes that contained classified documents so a lawyer for Trump could not find them and hand them over to federal investigators. Nauta and Trump are allowed to be in contact, but cannot discuss the facts of the case except through their attorneys. Legal experts have said the complexities surrounding the use of highly classified documents as evidence are likely to delay Trump's trial.

Persons: Walt Nauta, President Trump, Wilkie D, Ferguson Jr, Jane Rosenberg, Donald Trump's, Trump, Nauta, Edwin Torres, Prosecutors, Aileen Cannon, Jack Smith, Cannon, Jacqueline Thomsen, Scott Malone, Howard Goller Organizations: United, Courthouse, REUTERS, MIAMI, White, Trump, U.S, Prosecutors, Thomson Locations: Miami , Florida, U.S, Miami, Florida, White, New York, York, Lago

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