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• Trump Has Essentially Abdicated The Basic Responsibilities Of A President

  27-08-2017 23:39 via yahoo.com
  On Sunday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson suggested that the president of the United States does not speak for American values.
  
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• Tropical Storm Harvey in photos: Views of the Houston flood from the ground

  27-08-2017 23:23 via yahoo.com
  Harvey is no ordinary storm. Those old enough to remember Hurricane Katrina in 2005 can recall chilling images and video of a city submerged. A storm surge washed across New Orleans, inflicting countless casualties and billions in property damage.  In Houston, it was not a surge of seawater that flooded the nation's 4th-largest city, but rather trillions of gallons of water from relentless rainbands rotating around a stationary storm. SEE ALSO: Houston's good Samaritans are watching out for
  
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• How to help victims of Harvey

  27-08-2017 23:23 via yahoo.com
  The devastating storm has left millions of Texas residents in need of aid — and there are many ways you can help.
  
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• 8 mountain climbers die in 3 accidents in Europe's Alps

  27-08-2017 23:03 via yahoo.com
  BERLIN (AP) — Eight mountain climbers have died in three different accidents this weekend in the Austrian and Italian Alps.
  
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• In a deal, remains of Lebanon soldiers held by IS located

  27-08-2017 22:52 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — The remains of eight Lebanese soldiers kidnapped by the Islamic State group three years ago were located Sunday, a senior Lebanese official said, in a negotiated deal that followed a military offensive to drive the militants out of the border area with Syria.
  
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• Bethesda Game Of Thrones Video Game Potentially Leaked

  27-08-2017 22:47 via gamespot.com
  
  The mother of massive RPGs may be working on a proper Game of Thrones video game. An unfinished page on Target's website may have just leaked what Fallout and Elder Scrolls developer Bethesda Game Studios has been working on.The page, spotted first by NeoGAF, went up today and has not gone down at the time of publication of this story. There's nothing special to it, just a header that says "Bethesda: Game of Thrones" and the category labels show that it's meant to be a featured product. It shoul
  
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• Bethesda Game Of Thrones Project Potentially Leaked

  27-08-2017 22:47 via gamespot.com
  
  The mother of massive RPGs may be working on a proper Game of Thrones video game or project of some sort. An unfinished page on Target's website may have just leaked what Fallout and Elder Scrolls developer Bethesda Game Studios has been working on.The page, spotted first by NeoGAF, went up today and has not gone down at the time of publication of this story. There's nothing special to it, just a header that says "Bethesda: Game of Thrones" and the category labels show that it's meant to be a fe
  
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• Here's how you can help with Tropical Storm Harvey relief efforts

  27-08-2017 22:44 via yahoo.com
  Tropical Storm Harvey is turning out to be one of the most powerful storms to hit the U.S. since 2005, and you don't have to sit on the sidelines as it continues to inundate parts of Texas SEE ALSO: Airbnb offers Hurricane Harvey evacuees free shelter The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other relief agencies are already taking stock of the situation to help with evacuations and rescue efforts in Texas. But if you're looking to pitch in sooner, here are some of the most reliable no
  
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• Trump renews threat to scrap NAFTA going into next round of talks

  27-08-2017 22:38 via yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump renewed his threat to scrap NAFTA and ripped on trading partners Canada and Mexico in a tweet early on Sunday, days before the three countries were scheduled to hold a second round of negotiations on rewriting the 23-year-old agreement."We are in the NAFTA (worst trade deal ever made) renegotiation process with Mexico & Canada.In a separate Sunday morning tweet, Trump repeated his pledge that Mexico will eventually pay for his proposed border wall, saying the barr
  
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• As Tropical Storm Harvey rages in Texas, Trump drops hodgepodge of tweets

  27-08-2017 21:40 via yahoo.com
  President Trump took to Twitter Sunday to indicate he was monitoring Tropical Storm Harvey, but wedged between well wishes were off-topic missives.
  
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• Lebanon finds suspected remains of troops held by IS

  27-08-2017 21:33 via yahoo.com
  Lebanese authorities Sunday located the remains of eight people they believe to be soldiers kidnapped three years ago by the Islamic State group along the restive eastern border with Syria.The announcement came hours after the army declared a pause in its nine-day assault on IS in exchange for information on the missing soldiers.Head of the General Security agency Major General Abbas Ibrahim said IS fighters who had surrendered led his agency and the Lebanese army to the remains.
  
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• Trump Rescinded Obama's Flood-Risk Rule Before Harvey

  27-08-2017 21:24 via yahoo.com
  The president wants to make it quicker to get infrastructure built.
  
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• Yakuza Online Brings The Series To PC And Mobile

  27-08-2017 21:00 via gamespot.com
  
  As part of the new line Yakuza games, Sega has announced that Yakuza Online, a free-to-play mobile and PC title, will debut in Japan in 2018.Gematsu reports that Yakuza Online will be the first in this new series of Yakuza games set after the events of Yakuza 6: The Song of Life. This title will follow new protagonist Ichiban Kasuga in Kamurocho, Tokyo. He's returning to the streets after 17 years in prison, looking to overtake the control the Omi Alliance has in the city.Of course, Kasuga could
  
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• Five climbers killed, one injured in Austrian mountain accident

  27-08-2017 20:33 via yahoo.com
  Five climbers were killed and one seriously injured after a mountain accident on Sunday in the Austrian state of Salzburg, the Austrian Press Agency reported.The tragedy involved a group of climbers in the so-called Mannlkarscharte, a gap in the mountains southwest of Salzburg at about 3,000 meters (10,000 ft) above sea level.The accident was observed by another group of climbers.
  
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• Social media is helping police make arrests related to the violence in Charlottesville

  27-08-2017 20:12 via yahoo.com
  Social media is helping track down the white supremacists responsible for brutally assaulting a counterprotester in Charlottesville. Per aNew York Times report, Daniel P. Borden, one of the multiple assailants who attacked 20-year-old Deandre Harris during the infamous "Unite the Right" rally on August 12 has been arrested. Police have also issued a wanted poster for Alex Michael Ramos, another man sought in connection to the crime. Both have face charges of malicious wounding.  SEE ALSO: Y
  
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• Destiny, Halo, And the Brilliance of Bungie - Reboot Episode 13

  27-08-2017 20:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Say what you will about Destiny, but there's no denying how influential Bungie has been on this industry. Even before Halo, the studio was altering the video game landscape with titles like Marathon and Oni. On this week's episode of Reboot, Mike follows Bungie's legacy.
  
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• Majority of people in France now dissatisfied with Macron: poll

  27-08-2017 19:58 via yahoo.com
  By Sudip Kar-GuptaPARIS (Reuters) - Most French voters are now dissatisfied with Emmanuel Macron's performance, a poll showed on Sunday, a dramatic decline for a president who basked in a landslide election victory less than four months ago.The poll, conducted by Ifop for newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD), showed Macron's "dissatisfaction rating" rising to 57 percent, from 43 percent in July.French government spokesman Christophe Castaner said the ruling party was going through a tricky tim
  
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• 'Out of bounds': Republicans criticize Trump over Joe Arpaio pardon

  27-08-2017 19:57 via yahoo.com
  The onslaught of criticism against Donald Trump’s decision to pardon former sheriff Joe Arpaio did not let up on Sunday, with members of the president’s own party calling the move “absolutely staggering”, “out of bounds” and a dangerous message to send to law enforcement.“It absolutely should be out of bounds for somebody to use [the power to pardon] as some sort of a political wedge,” said Ohio governor John Kasich, who competed against Trump in t
  
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• The Latest: Climbing accidents leave 8 dead in European alps

  27-08-2017 19:48 via yahoo.com
  BERLIN (AP) — The Latest on climbing deaths and mountain rescues in Europe (all times local):
  
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• Angela Merkel tells asylum seekers not to take holidays in their country of origin

  27-08-2017 19:47 via yahoo.com
  Harsher measures should be taken against asylum seekers if they take a holiday in their country of origin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an interview, in which she also said she had no regrets over her open-door refugee policy. "Taking holidays in the country in which you are being persecuted is not on," she said in an interview with Welt am Sonntag, adding that it could be a reason to re-examine an asylum case.  While there is no official data on asylum seekers returning to their
  
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• Police: Concrete slab may hold remains of long-missing woman

  27-08-2017 19:24 via yahoo.com
  MILTON, Pa. (AP) — Investigators hope tests on a three-ton hunk of concrete will soon solve the 1989 disappearance of a young mother, by determining whether her remains were fed through wood chipper and then entombed in the basement of a Pennsylvania duplex.
  
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• After Charlottesville, Tillerson says Trump 'speaks for himself'

  27-08-2017 19:21 via yahoo.com
  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declined to say Sunday whether President Trump’s values align with the United States’ values, instead maintaining that Trump “speaks for himself.” The comment was made during Tillerson’s appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” after host Chris Wallace questioned him about a U.N. committee’s criticism of Trump’s response to the violence in Charlottesville, Va.
  
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• Novartis hopeful for novel heart drug, despite 'modest' benefit

  27-08-2017 19:20 via yahoo.com
  By John MillerZURICH (Reuters) - Novartis will seek regulatory approval this year for a new kind of anti-inflammatory heart drug, though some experts fear fatal infection risks and a high price may overshadow the medicine's limited benefits.Keenly awaited clinical trial results released on Sunday showed heart-attack survivors on one of three doses of canakinumab were 15 percent less likely to suffer another major cardiac event than those on a placebo.Novartis had said in June that the drug met i
  
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• PUBG Becomes The Biggest Game On Steam, Briefly Surpassing Dota 2

  27-08-2017 19:16 via gamespot.com
  
  Playerunknown's Battlegrounds has continued to climb the Steam charts since its launch earlier this year, though there was no telling when it would stall out. It recently passed the 800,000 concurrent players mark, leaving it behind only Dota 2. Today, PUBG eclipsed even Valve's hugely popular MOBA game, making it the most-played game on Steam.PUBG today hit a peak of 877,844 players, almost 40,000 more than Dota 2's highest figure for the day. Although Dota 2 has since returned to the top spot
  
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• Ceasefire halts Syria-Lebanon border fight against Islamic State

  27-08-2017 19:08 via yahoo.com
  By Ellen FrancisBEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese soldiers in Islamic State captivity since 2014 are almost certainly dead, a senior security official said on Sunday, just hours after the army announced a ceasefire to hold talks over their fate.The ceasefire halted the fighting in an Islamic State enclave at the Syria-Lebanon border, where the militants have been battling the Lebanese army on one front and Hezbollah with Syrian troops on the other.Islamic State has held nine Lebanese soldiers captive
  
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• Pakistan postpones U.S. visit after Trump speech

  27-08-2017 19:06 via yahoo.com
  By Kay JohnsonISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan postponed a visit by a U.S. acting Assistant Secretary of State, officials said, as small protests broke out against President Donald Trump's accusations that Islamabad was prolonging the war in Afghanistan.The visit of Alice Wells, acting assistant Secretary of State for South and Asian Affairs, scheduled for Monday, would have been the first high-profile visit by a U.S. official since Trump's Afghan policy speech on Aug. 21.
  
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• Hundreds of thousands march in Barcelona to show unity after Islamist attacks

  27-08-2017 19:02 via yahoo.com
  Hundreds of thousands marched in Barcelona in a show of unity on Saturday evening amid chants of 'I am not afraid' after two Islamist militant attacks in the Spanish region of Catalonia last week left 15 dead.
  
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• Kind Police Officer Pays For Man's Gas Who Didn't Have Money To Fill His Tank

  27-08-2017 19:00 via yahoo.com
  The man didn't make it in time to cash his paycheck.
  
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• NBC News Special Report: Catastrophic Flooding in Houston

  27-08-2017 18:53 via yahoo.com
  The deadly Tropical Storm Harvey is bringing catastrophic flooding to Houston and the surrounding region. Lester Holt anchors the NBC News special report.
  
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• Stranded Texans turn to social media for help as flood waters rise

  27-08-2017 18:51 via yahoo.com
  Flood-stranded Texans in the Houston area took to social media on Sunday with desperate pleas to be rescued from their homes as Tropical Storm Harvey and its torrential rains slowly lumbered across the region.With authorities urging Houston's more than 2 million residents to stay in their homes rather than risk venturing outside, some 70,000 of them formed a Facebook group that many of them used to call for help.TOGETHER WE WILL REBUILD."Martinez said 20 people, including six children, an elderl
  
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• Ongoing Myanmar clashes leave 96 dead, including 6 civilians

  27-08-2017 18:46 via yahoo.com
  BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar's government and advocates for the country's Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority traded charges Sunday of killing civilians, burning down buildings and planting land mines, as clashes that began last week when insurgents launched attacks against police posts continued.
  
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• After Charlottesville, Tillerson says Trump 'speaks for himself'

  27-08-2017 18:35 via yahoo.com
  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declined to say Sunday whether President Trump’s values align with the United States’ values, instead maintaining that Trump “speaks for himself.”
  
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• 'Harvey The Hurricane Hawk' Hunkers Down With Cabbie During Storm

  27-08-2017 18:32 via yahoo.com
  Houston driver William Bruso said he was stocking up on supplies on Friday ahead of Hurricane Harvey when he returned to find the bird sitting on his passenger seat.“He’s been free to go, any time now, but they’re going to take him,” Bruso said as a woman with TWRC retrieved Harvey.
  
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• Rex Tillerson says Donald Trump 'speaks for himself' over Charlottesville response

  27-08-2017 18:31 via yahoo.com
  Rex Tillerson, the US’s top diplomat, has said Donald Trump “speaks for himself” on his values, but that there should be no doubts about the government’s commitment to long-held American principles in the wake of violence in Charlottesville.During an interview on Fox News Sunday, Mr Tillerson, the US Secretary of State, told host Chris Wallace that the State Department expresses America’s values.“We represent the American people, we represent America’s v
  
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• Gunfire heard near Bangladesh border as thousands flee Myanmar violence

  27-08-2017 18:28 via yahoo.com
  By Ruma PaulCOX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Myanmar's government said it had evacuated at least 4,000 non-Muslim villagers amid ongoing clashes in northwestern Rakhine state, as thousands more Rohingya Muslims sought to flee across the border to Bangladesh on Sunday.The death toll from the violence that erupted on Friday with coordinated attacks by Rohingya insurgents has climbed to 104, the vast majority militants, plus 12 members of security forces and several civilians, according to a Reu
  
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• Harvey plays havoc with people living on the margins

  27-08-2017 18:19 via yahoo.com
  Craig Uggen stopped short in his white Ford truck on Friday as gusting winds from Hurricane Harvey pushed waves from Corpus Christi Bay over the road. His anxiety rose with the water, now covering half his front wheels.
  
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• 8 mountain climbers die in 3 different accidents in Alps

  27-08-2017 18:03 via yahoo.com
  BERLIN (AP) — Eight mountain climbers have died in three different accidents this weekend in the Austrian and Italian Alps.
  
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• F1 2017 Review

  27-08-2017 18:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Formula One has been stagnant in recent years. With the domination of the Mercedes team all but guaranteed since the beginning of the hybrid-era, new rules have injected some much needed spark into the once unquestioned pinnacle of motorsport. F1 2017 is a virtual reflection of that renewed vigor. The wider, faster and more aggressively styled cars are designed to be driven harder; a fundamental shift that brings with it a greater adrenaline-rush than any of the previous F1 games have managed to
  
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• A Look at Why Houston Floods

  27-08-2017 17:48 via yahoo.com
  Experts say the “bayou city” is so vulnerable to floods — not only because it is low-lying — because explosive growth in the metro area has added 25 percent more pavement in the last 15 years...
  
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• Touching Photo Captures Woman Viewing Total Eclipse With Her Elderly Father

  27-08-2017 17:45 via yahoo.com
  He suffered a stroke four years ago.
  
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• Police arrest 2nd man in Buckingham Palace terror incident

  27-08-2017 17:45 via yahoo.com
  LONDON (AP) — London police arrested a second man Sunday in connection with a suspect who drove up to a police van not far from Buckingham Palace then reached for a 4-foot (1.2-meter) sword, an incident detectives called a terrorism attempt.
  
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• Harvey Response: White House Says Trump Will Visit Texas on Tuesday

  27-08-2017 17:44 via yahoo.com
  The president's team says they are working with state and local officials to figure out where the president can visit but not interfere with rescue efforts.
  
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• Houston TV station forced to evacuate as Harvey waters flood the newsroom

  27-08-2017 17:43 via yahoo.com
  As Hurricane Harvey continues to dump staggering amounts of rain over Houston, KHOU-TV, 11 News, one of the city's local TV news broadcasting stations, was forced to evacuate as flood waters surged in. SEE ALSO: Historic, catastrophic flooding underway in Houston from Tropical Storm Harvey The staff first evacuated to the second floor after flood water poured in during a live broadcast.Water coming into studio at #KHOU11... We are moving upstairs. pic.twitter.com/MMEljNatw7 — Doug Delony (
  
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• Houston faces catastrophic flooding in wake of Harvey

  27-08-2017 17:41 via yahoo.com
  ABC News' Rob Marciano reports the latest on Tropical Storm Harvey.
  
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• Houston Mayor Defends Decision to Not Issue Mandatory Evacuation Orders

  27-08-2017 17:40 via yahoo.com
  Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said it was not feasible to put "2.3 million people on the road," saying the controversial 2005 Hurricane Rita evacuation had taught the city a lesson.
  
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• T-Mobile’s plan is working: Customers actually like the network

  27-08-2017 17:38 via yahoo.com
  T-Mobile has made a big deal these past few years of being the "Un-Carrier." Led by outspoken CEO John Legere, it simplified plans, removed extra taxes and overage fees, and shifted away from the old buy-a-subsidized-device-on-two-year-contract plan.
  Underlying all of the efforts was the need to change how customers perceive their carriers. Telecoms companies, including wireless, are generally hated by customers, and T-Mobile figured that if it could change that, a lot of other things would fall
  
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• Startling Image of Flooded Texas Nursing Home Prompts Rescue

  27-08-2017 17:37 via yahoo.com
  An image of elderly women in a Texas nursing home surrounded by waist-deep flood waters went viral on social media on Sunday, prompting an emergency evacuation of the facility.
  
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• Rex Tillerson Says Trump Speaks Only For Himself On American Values

  27-08-2017 17:34 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― In an awkward interview, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson suggested that the president of the United States doesn’t necessarily speak for the nation in expressing American values.
  
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• Historic Floods Hit Houston as Hundreds Rescued from Water

  27-08-2017 17:32 via yahoo.com
  Officials reported answering thousands of calls from people trapped in Houston on Sunday as torrential rain from deadly Hurricane Harvey caused “catastrophic flooding” in the city and across southeast Texas.
  
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• Sebastian Gorka, Bannon protégé, leaves White House post

  27-08-2017 17:14 via yahoo.com
  Sebastian Gorka, the British-born deputy assistant to President Trump whose unsmiling, dark-bearded visage and plummy English accent made frequent appearances on political talk shows, left his post late Friday.
  
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