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Income Taxes (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2018
Income Taxes |
Schedule of loss before income taxes and income tax benefit |
|  | Three months ended June 30, |  | Six months ended June 30, |
|  | 2018 |  | 2017 |  | 2018 |  | 2017 |
|  | (in thousands) |
Loss before income taxes |  | $ | (265,659 | ) | $ | (34,158 | ) | $ | (281,716 | ) | $ | (43,045 | )
Income tax benefit |  | $ | (28,025 | ) | $ | (13,341 | ) | $ | (28,255 | ) | $ | (23,868 | )

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