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Income Taxes (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2018
Income Taxes |
Schedule of loss before income taxes and income tax benefit |
|  | Three months ended September 30, |  | Nine months ended September 30, |
|  | 2018 |  | 2017 |  | 2018 |  | 2017 |
|  | (in thousands) |
Loss before income taxes |  | $ | (8,652) |  | $ | (26,206) |  | $ | (290,368) |  | $ | (69,252) |
Income tax expense (benefit) |  | $ | 301 |  | $ | (2,466) |  | $ | (27,954) |  | $ | (26,334) |

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