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  "textContent": "Former President Obama is walking back his belief in aliens after touching off a mini-panic over the weekend. On an appearance on Brian Tyler Cohen's No Lie podcast , Obama was hit with a lightning-round question: \"Are aliens real?\" He replied, \"They're real but I haven't seen them,\" and added that...",
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