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• Woman expected to become Marines' first ever infantry officer

  21-09-2017 23:59 via yahoo.com
  For the first time in American military history, the Marines are reportedly poised to have a female infantry officer.According to the Washington Post, an unnamed woman is expected to ascend to the leadership rank on Monday after having passed a required training course.The unprecedented development follows the American government opening military combat jobs to women during the Obama administration.
  
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• Tom Cruise Blamed In Part For Plane Crash That Left Two Dead

  21-09-2017 23:47 via yahoo.com
  A 2015 plane crash in Colombia claimed the lives of two pilots during filming of the upcoming Tom Cruise vehicle “American Made.”
  
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• The Evil Within 2 Doesn't Want To "Suffocate" You With Horror Elements

  21-09-2017 23:45 via gamespot.com
  
  The Evil Within 2 is very much a sequel to the first game: It continues the story of protagonist Sebastian Castellanos, who is now seeking his daughter Lily, whom he believed to be dead. But it also presents players with a larger, more open space to play in, despite the fact that it's being developed in less time than its predecessor.GameSpot recently spoke with The Evil Within 2 producer Shinji Mikami (best known for his work on the Resident Evil series) and director John Johanas. Mikami reiter
  
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• Minecraft's Better Together Update Out Now, Adds Cross-Play Between Xbox One, PC, And Mobile

  21-09-2017 23:27 via gamespot.com
  
  The next major update for Minecraft is out now for Xbox One, PC, VR, and mobile. Dubbed the Better Together update, it adds a number of new features to the popular sandbox title, most notably cross-play support between the different platforms.With the new update, players on Xbox One, PC, and mobile devices are now able to play together online regardless of what platform they're on. The update will also be released for the Nintendo Switch version to allow cross-play with Nintendo's console, thoug
  
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• Alabama Senate Frontrunner: Evolution Is Fake And Homosexuality Should Be Illegal

  21-09-2017 23:21 via yahoo.com
  U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore has approached his work over the decades as he once approached mastering kickboxing and building a house with own hands: with laser focus and a fervent belief that he has God on his side.
  
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• Alabama Senate Front-Runner: Evolution Is Fake And Homosexuality Should Be Illegal

  21-09-2017 23:21 via yahoo.com
  U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore has approached his work over the decades as he once approached mastering kickboxing and building a house with own hands: with laser focus and a fervent belief that he has God on his side.
  
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• Fearing far-right surge, Merkel urges Germans to vote on Sunday

  21-09-2017 23:15 via yahoo.com
  By Madeline ChambersBERLIN (Reuters) - Fears that apathy could boost the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in an election on Sunday have driven Chancellor Angela Merkel and her main rival to urge their backers to go out and vote.A GMS poll on Thursday said 34 percent were not planning to vote or were undecided, higher than the 29 percent who did not cast ballots in the last election in 2013."My request to everyone is that they vote, and vote for those parties that adhere 100 percent to our
  
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• GS News Update: All Star Wars Battlefront 2 Maps Revealed For Galactic Assault

  21-09-2017 23:05 via gamespot.com
  
  The 40-player mode will feature maps like Kashyyk, Endor, and Starkiller Base when Battlefront II releases on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
  
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• Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite - Space Stone Madness Gameplay

  21-09-2017 23:00 via gamespot.com
  
  A team of Haggar and Thanos goes crazy on Chun-Li and Hawkeye in this Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite full match.
  
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• Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite - Dante/Dormammu vs. Jedah/Strider Full Match Gameplay

  21-09-2017 23:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Dante and Dormammu take on Jedah and Strider Hiryu in this full match gameplay from Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite.
  
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• 7 Essential Tips For Divinity: Original Sin 2

  21-09-2017 23:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Divinity: Original Sin 2 can be a challenging overwhelming game so we got 7 tips to help you survive the world of Rivellon.
  
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• Llamas Stop Creepily Staring At You Thanks(?) To New Minecraft Update

  21-09-2017 22:56 via gamespot.com
  
  Sure, the latest update for Minecraft is a notable one for introducing cross-play to the wildly popular game--that's all well and good. But it's the bug fixes located in the patch notes that I think are the real highlight.The latest instance of "patch notes that are much funnier than they have any right to be" comes with this week's Better Together update for Minecraft. There are a wide range of new features and tweaks, including the aforementioned cross-play support, but it also fixes so many b
  
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• Riot Cops In St. Louis Cracked Down On A Peaceful Protest Before The Sun Set

  21-09-2017 22:42 via yahoo.com
  ST. LOUIS COUNTY ― There are a couple of ways you could describe what happened Wednesday night as demonstrators once again took to the streets to protest last week’s not-guilty verdict in the murder trial of Jason Stockley ― a former St. Louis Metropolitan Police officer who in 2011 shot and killed a black man fleeing a drug stop.
  
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• Pint-Sized Ventriloquist Darci Lynne Farmer Breaks Down in Tears as She Wins 'America's Got Talent'

  21-09-2017 22:41 via yahoo.com
  She was taught ventriloquism by none other than Miss Louisiana, Laryssa Bonacquisti.
  
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• Arizona Teacher Makes Students Recite Gender-Neutral Version Of Declaration Of Independence

  21-09-2017 22:39 via yahoo.com
  "What she is doing is indoctrination. It is against board and school policy so, therefore, she was in the wrong."
  
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• Storm Maria brings fear, pain and shock to Puerto Ricans

  21-09-2017 22:35 via yahoo.com
  By Dave Graham and Robin RespautSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - Miguel Cruz awoke to the descent of Hurricane Maria on his home on Wednesday morning when the massive storm peeled off most of the roof, sent his belongings flying in all directions, but left intact an icon of Jesus hanging above his bed.Cruz was one of thousands of Puerto Ricans picking through the wreckage left by Maria after the hurricane devastated basic services on the debt-laden U.S. territory, pitching most of its 3.4 milli
  
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• Valerie Plame Wilson Responds To 'Blaming' America's Jews For War In Middle East

  21-09-2017 22:26 via yahoo.com
  "I'm not perfect and make mistakes."
  
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• 18 Halloween Costume Ideas For People With Glasses

  21-09-2017 22:25 via yahoo.com
  Glasses wearers know all-too-well the struggle of finding a Halloween costume that fits their #brand.
  
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• Baby Born to Mother Who Died After Refusing Brain Cancer Treatment Has Also Died

  21-09-2017 22:19 via yahoo.com
  Life Lynn DeKlyen, who was born at 24 weeks on Sept. 6, died overnight, her family said Thursday.
  
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• Star Trek Discovery: Everything You Need To Know

  21-09-2017 22:18 via gamespot.com
  
  Star Trek: Discovery is coming to CBS and the network's streaming service, All Access, on September 24 at 8:30 PM ET/5:30 PM PT. It's the first time in 12 years that Trekkies have seen their favorite franchise on the small screen, with Star Trek: Enterprise ending in 2005. Now, a new ship and new crew are taking off into space on a whole new adventure, and we're going to break down everything you need to know about the new show before its premiere.Disclosure: CBS is GameSpot's parent company.
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• Deportations in Houston resume after Trump suspends them for Hurricane Harvey

  21-09-2017 22:16 via yahoo.com
  The United States is deporting people from southeastern Texas again after taking a brief break in enforcement during Hurricane Harvey rescue and recovery efforts.The administration of Donald Trump announced the change, saying that everyone in the country illegally is on the chopping block there, but that response operations would still not be subjected to raids.“Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have resumed regular, targeted immigration enforcement operations in the area &mdash
  
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• Chrissy Teigen needed 6 brown bananas, so she sent her mom to get them from one of her Twitter followers

  21-09-2017 22:04 via yahoo.com
  Chrissy Teigen just really wanted six brown bananas, you guys.
  
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• Drinking One Less Soda a Week May Help You Lose Weight

  21-09-2017 22:00 via yahoo.com
  People who drank one less soda a week also gained about a pound less over the course of a new study. Diet soda drinkers saw no change.
  
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• Russia says will target U.S.-backed fighters in Syria if provoked

  21-09-2017 21:56 via yahoo.com
  By Andrew Osborn and Phil StewartMOSCOW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia warned the United States on Thursday it would target U.S.-backed militias in Syria if Russian troops again came under fire, as the United States disclosed an unusual face-to-face meeting between U.S. and Russian generals meant to avoid such clashes.The Russian warning underscored growing tensions over Syria between Moscow and Washington.
  
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• Istanbul's Ataturk airport closed after private jet crashes: reports

  21-09-2017 21:48 via yahoo.com
  Turkey's main international airport was closed to traffic on Thursday after a private jet crashed on landing and burst into flames, reports said.The plane, which had four people on board, was making an emergency landing at Ataturk International Airport, the DHA news agency said.All four were injured but the fire was brought under control, NTV television said.
  
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• New Han Solo Image Teases A Famous Star Wars Event For Spin-Off Movie

  21-09-2017 21:43 via gamespot.com
  
  While most Star Wars sets have extremely high levels of secrecy, the production of the upcoming Han Solo movie has been surprisingly open. Director Ron Howard has been steadily releasing on-set images throughout its prolonged shooting period, and the latest picture provides another clue about what fans might expect when it arrives next year.It's a picture of what looks like a mine entrance, captioned by Howard with the word "spicey?" This is very possibly the part of the spice mines of Kessel, a
  
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• Why Spec. Counsel Mueller Wants Records From Air Force One

  21-09-2017 21:27 via yahoo.com
  Special Counsel Robert Mueller has requested records from Air Force One on the day that the President supposedly dictated a statement from his son about meetings that Donald Trump Jr. had with a Russian Lawyer.
  
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• 7 Foods That Can Help Save Your Memory

  21-09-2017 21:20 via yahoo.com
  Watch this video for 9 foods that researchers think will keep your whole body—including your brain—healthy.
  
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• Cassini captured mysterious 'glitch' on Saturn's rings before death dive

  21-09-2017 21:12 via yahoo.com
  Cassini sent home one last batch of photos from Saturn before plunging to its death Friday and among them was an attempt to record a mysterious object embedded in the planet's rings, otherwise known as "Peggy."
  
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• Watch 8 Minutes Of Doom On Nintendo Switch

  21-09-2017 21:09 via gamespot.com
  
  Doom appearing on the Nintendo Switch was one of the highlights of the most recent Nintendo Direct. We managed to get some quality time with this acclaimed shooter using Switch's portable screen setup. Note that we played this non-final build on a Switch debug unit, so the frame rate and performance is subject to change. We also encountered some sound glitches during our direct-line audio recording due to the nature of the debug.Doom looks to be one of the bloodier games for the Switch as we wer
  
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• Communication in Puerto Rico paralyzed after mobile networks knocked out by Hurricane Maria

  21-09-2017 21:07 via yahoo.com
  The mobile phone network in Puerto Rico is either mostly unavailable or has entirely failed, according to numerous reports from people trying to get in touch with relatives and loved ones.  Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico on Wednesday as a Category 4 storm, the most intense in nearly a century. Power is out on the entire island, and cellphone towers were reportedly knocked over—leaving the prospect that communication on the island could be a continuing problem.  A T-Mobile spokes
  
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• The Lego Ninjago Movie Review

  21-09-2017 21:00 via gamespot.com
  
  There was an incredible perfection to 2014's The Lego Movie that continued into its sequel, The Lego Batman Movie. Against all odds, these films felt like so much more than the commerce-fueled Lego cash grabs they could have been. The Lego Ninjago Movie doesn't quite capture that same perfection--which isn't to say it's a bad Lego movie. It's just slightly disappointing in light of how great the last two were.These brick-building blockbusters have become well known for their meta humor and four
  
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• Hurricane Maria left over 15 dead in Dominica: prime minister

  21-09-2017 21:00 via yahoo.com
  Hurricane Maria left more than 15 people dead in hard-hit Dominica, the small Caribbean island's Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit announced on Thursday.The toll from Dominica brings the overall number of confirmed deaths caused by Hurricane Maria to 18, including two in Guadeloupe and one in Puerto Rico."So far, we would have buried in excess of 15 people," Skerrit told a television network of Antigua and Barbuda, a neighboring country.
  
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• Here’s When Flights to Puerto Rico Will Start Again After Hurricane Maria

  21-09-2017 20:54 via yahoo.com
  Many airlines are looking to bring back flight service soon
  
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• The Mexico City Earthquake Is a Warning for Americans

  21-09-2017 20:51 via yahoo.com
  It's not a matter of whether a major quake will occur in the U.S., but when
  
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• GS News Update: New Dragon Ball FighterZ Screenshots Show Off Tien, Yamcha, And Original Character Android 21

  21-09-2017 20:40 via gamespot.com
  
  Bandai Namco has released the first images of the Dragon Ball fighting game's three newest characters.
  
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• All Star Wars Battlefront 2 Maps Revealed For Galactic Assault

  21-09-2017 20:37 via gamespot.com
  
  EA and DICE have revealed all 11 locations that will serve as maps in Star Wars Battlefront II's Galactic Assault mode at launch. This includes some we've already seen, like Naboo, as well as some newly revealed ones, such as Mos Eisley.The companies teased the maps earlier this week, providing the number of letters and spaces in each one's names and allowing fans to make predictions. As previously announced, Battlefront II includes content from multiple eras, and not just a single one of the fi
  
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• Nintendo Switch's Best-Selling Third-Party Game Is Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle

  21-09-2017 20:35 via gamespot.com
  
  It may have seemed like an unusual premise at first, but Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle is proving to be a critical and commercial success. The Ubisoft game is now Nintendo Switch's top-selling non-Nintendo title, according to sales numbers from the NPD Group and Chart-Track GFK and reported by Eurogamer.While Nintendo titles like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Splatoon 2 have continued to dominate the sales charts, other third-party games like Super Bomberman R have sold well. Sti
  
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• FIFA 18 Review Roundup

  21-09-2017 20:34 via gamespot.com
  
  EA's FIFA 18 is still a week away from release, but critics have already begun offering their thoughts on the new soccer game. FIFA 18 doesn't differ radically from last year's installment, but EA has made some notable tweaks to the gameplay that make the game an improvement over its predecessor. In GameSpot's FIFA 18 review, critic Oscar Dayus said the game's "on-pitch improvements represent the beginnings of a recovery for the series," though it is "still lagging far behind PES 2018's more flu
  
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• Turnout down in second French protest against Macron's labour reforms

  21-09-2017 20:31 via yahoo.com
  Protesters demonstrated Thursday against an imminent overhaul of France's labour laws but in far lower numbers than organisers hoped, just days before President Emmanuel Macron's flagship reforms enter the statute books.The interior ministry estimated the crowds at 132,000 across France, just over half the numbers who took part last week in the first major street protests organised by trade unions since Macron was elected in May.The 39-year-old centrist president is certain to welcome Thursday's
  
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• Winner of $338 Million Powerball Jackpot Charged With Sexually Assaulting Child

  21-09-2017 20:27 via yahoo.com
  Pedro Quezada became a millionaire overnight in 2013. "It will not change my heart," he reportedly said at the time.
  
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• Entire towns in Mexico flattened as scale of earthquake damage emerges

  21-09-2017 20:17 via yahoo.com
  Hopes that rescuers will find more survivors trapped beneath collapsed buildings in central Mexico were fading on Thursday, as the scale of the devastation wreaked by the country’s deadliest earthquake for a generation started to become clear.At least 250 people died and 1,900 were injured in the 7.1 magnitude quake which struck Mexico on Tuesday – 32 years to the day after the country’s deadliest earthquake killed thousands and laid waste to the capital city.
  
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• Russia: U.S. War With North Korea 'Is Not an Option'

  21-09-2017 20:15 via yahoo.com
  Russia did not appreciate President Donald Trump's vow to "totally destroy" North Korea, and has plans of its own to solve the nuclear crisis.
  
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• US-backed force says 'victory near' against IS in Syria's Raqa

  21-09-2017 19:58 via yahoo.com
  Syrian fighters backed by US special forces battled Thursday to clear the last remaining Islamic State group jihadists holed up in their crumbling stronghold of Raqa."Victory is near" and would be declared in coming weeks, a spokeswoman for the operation to capture Raqa told AFP in the city where US-led air strikes sent clouds of grey smoke into the air.Across the border in Iraq, security forces were attacking all remaining territory held by the extremists, who are fighting to prevent the all-ou
  
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• WATCH: Trump cracks joke after South Korea's Moon Jae-in uses the word 'deplorable'

  21-09-2017 19:52 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump participated in a bilateral meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Thursday, and took the opportunity to crack a joke when Jae-in used a particularly charged word.
  
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• Photos from Puerto Rico reveal the devastating power of Hurricane Maria

  21-09-2017 19:48 via yahoo.com
  This year has been a historic one for hurricanes, with major storm after major storm churning through the Atlantic. Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose, and Maria all reached "major hurricane" (Category 3 or above) status as they spun through those warm waters.  And as these storms have lashed not only the U.S. mainland but many of the smaller islands that populate the Caribbean and the Atlantic, we've been reminded of what a devastating and destructive force nature can be.  SEE ALSO: Report
  
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• New Pictures Reveal Bone Fragments Found In Natalee Holloway Investigation

  21-09-2017 19:42 via yahoo.com
  The bone fragments were undergoing DNA testing to determine whether they belonged to Natalee.
  
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• North Korea: Donald Trump announces new sanctions as China orders banks to stop working with regime

  21-09-2017 19:41 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has said the US will impose new sanctions on North Korea in response to the country's developing nuclear programme and increasingly aggressive missile demonstrations.The announcement came as the Chinese central bank told banks to strictly implement United Nations sanctions against Pyongyang amid American concerns, Beijing isn't being tough enough in response to North Korea's nuclear threat."We will be putting more sanctions on North Korea," Mr Trump said during a meeting with Afghan
  
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• Pakistan army pushed political role for militant-linked groups

  21-09-2017 19:28 via yahoo.com
  By Asif ShahzadLAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - The backing of a candidate in a by-election last weekend in Pakistan by a political party controlled by an Islamist with a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head was in line with a plan put forward by the military last year to mainstream militant groups, according to sources familiar with the proposal.The Milli Muslim League party loyal to Hafiz Saeed - who the United States and India accuse of masterminding the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people
  
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• Four Halo Xbox One Backwards Compatible Games Out Now With Free DLC

  21-09-2017 19:24 via gamespot.com
  
  Picking up a copy of Halo: The Master Chief Collection is no longer the only way to a handful of Halo games on Xbox One. Microsoft has added four more games to the backwards compatibility library, all of them Xbox 360 entries in the Halo series.As promised, Microsoft has made four games--Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, and Halo 4--playable on Xbox One. The full campaigns and multiplayer modes are included, and these are accompanied by all of their DLC packs, which are acc
  
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