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Received status code 403 from server: Forbidden
So I opened up a new project in Android studio 3.2 without kotlin or c++ support. When I try to view the design for activity_main.xml, all I see is "waiting for build to finish". I learn later on that this is because gradle sync failed. So I go to File>Sync Project with Gradle Files to try syncing again. During syncing, I get the error:

Gradle sync failed: Could not GET '<a href="https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/org/jetbrains/kotlin/kotlin-reflect/1.2.0/kotlin-reflect-1.2.0.pom"...