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• Erdogan, Putin agree joint push to end Syria war

  28-09-2017 23:53 via yahoo.com
  President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan Thursday agreed to step efforts to bring peace to Syria, with the Russian leader declaring the right conditions now existed to end the over six-year civil war.After late night talks at Erdogan's presidential palace in Ankara, Putin and Erdogan agreed to push for the creation of a "de-escalation" zone in Syria's key northern province of Idlib, currently controlled by jihadists.
  
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• 'Hatchet Man' Suspect Could Have Ties To Murder Of Teen Hikers, Police Say

  28-09-2017 23:52 via yahoo.com
  A sex offender suspected of threatening several people with a weapon in Colorado may have ties to the unsolved murders of two teen hikers in Indiana, authorities said.
  
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• Did Russian ads on Facebook make a difference?

  28-09-2017 23:41 via yahoo.com
  A study concluding it’s almost impossible to persuade voters to change their views raises provocative questions about how much impact foreign influence campaigns on Facebook might actually have had in 2016.
  
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• US Ambassador: Israel occupies just 2 percent of West Bank

  28-09-2017 23:39 via yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Israel raised eyebrows Thursday by saying that Israel occupies a tiny portion of the West Bank — just 2 percent — and that settlements there are part of the Jewish state proper.
  
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• White House Says Its Stance On Flag & Anthem Issue Is 'Pretty Black And White'

  28-09-2017 23:35 via yahoo.com
  Well, give Sarah Huckabee Sanders points for honesty ― even if that was the last thing she intended.On Thursday, the White House press secretary reiterated the Trump administration’s stance on whether sports stars should be allowed to protest during the national anthem.After all, the reason Colin Kaepernick began kneeling during the anthem in the first place was to protest police brutality and systemic racism against people of color.
  
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• Stranger Things Season 2: New Details And Images Revealed

  28-09-2017 23:31 via gamespot.com
  
  Stranger Things Season 2 hits Netflix this month, and anticipation is high for the return of the '80s-set sci-fi horror show. So far all we've seen is a short teaser and a few images, but now Entertainment Weekly have revealed a new batch of images, as well as some more information about what fans can expect from the second season.Creators Matt and Ross spoke to EW and explained that the show was going to be officially titled Stranger Things 2, despite some initial resistance from Netflix. "When
  
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• Millionaire Trump Adviser Says Americans Can 'Buy A New Car' With $1,000 Tax Cut

  28-09-2017 23:25 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump’s chief economic adviser — Gary Cohn, the former Goldman Sachs president worth an estimated $266 million — appears to be completely clueless about what the average American family spends on a car, vacation or home improvement project.
  
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• New My Nintendo Rewards Include More Free 3DS And Wii U Games

  28-09-2017 23:23 via gamespot.com
  
  Nintendo has added a handful of new rewards to the My Nintendo program. For the first time, the company is offering a selection of indie games for 3DS and Wii U as rewards, giving members with enough Gold points in their accounts a chance to snag them effectively for free.For a limited time, four well-received indie games will be available to download from the program. 3DS owners can redeem their Gold points for Zen Pinball 3D and the platformer Super Little Acorns 3D Turbo. Those with a Wii U,
  
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• GS News Update: PlayStation Boss Indicates Vita 2 Is Unlikely, Responds To Switch Success

  28-09-2017 23:18 via gamespot.com
  
  Sony says Nintendo's hybrid console setup is "great" but not something it would pursue.
  
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• Red Dead Redemption 2 Trailer Breakdown: Arthur Morgan, Dutch's Gang, And Marston Clues

  28-09-2017 22:56 via gamespot.com
  
  Red Dead Analysis
  It's been almost one year since Red Dead Redemption 2's announcement and first teaser trailer, but Rockstar finally released a second look at the upcoming open-world western. Despite its short length, there were a multitude of narrative and mechanical details confirmed about the game. Here are 12 cool things we caught from the latest Red Dead Redemption 2 trailer.Rockstar still hasn't announced a release date for Red Dead Redemption 2, but we do know it's expected to launch Spr
  
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• Louisiana Athletes Must Stand for National Anthem

  28-09-2017 22:44 via yahoo.com
  A Louisiana high school is giving athletes a choice: Stand during the national anthem or get kicked from team.
  
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• Red Dead Redemption 2's New Trailer Revealed By Rockstar, But Still No Release Date

  28-09-2017 22:40 via gamespot.com
  
  Rockstar teased some kind of Red Dead Redemption 2 news for today, and now it's delivered. A new trailer for the upcoming open-world game has been released, which begins teasing the game's story, combat, characters, and some notable moments from throughout.You can watch the trailer above, but be aware that there's no new release date shared. We get a look at protagonist Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde gang, as well as a bow weapon and crocodile, both of which are new. (You can also see our f
  
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• PTC Therapeutics Duchenne drug may work, data inconclusive: FDA panel

  28-09-2017 22:37 via yahoo.com
  PTC Therapeutics Inc's experimental drug to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a devastating degenerative disease that mostly affects young boys, may work but the company will need to do more work to prove it, an advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration concluded on Thursday.The panel's vote reduces the chance the drug will be approved soon since the FDA generally follows the advice of its advisors.In Europe the drug is approved on a conditional basis, meaning approval must be ren
  
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• Supreme Court's Gorsuch criticized over Trump hotel speech

  28-09-2017 22:36 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump's Supreme Court appointee Neil Gorsuch gave a speech to a conservative group on Thursday at a hotel in which Trump has a financial interest, drawing criticism from protesters outside the building and the top Senate Democrat.About 50 demonstrators appeared outside the Trump International Hotel located just blocks from the White House, saying Gorsuch's speech called into question his impartiality as the high court potentially weighs cases involving the Republican president,
  
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• Megyn Kelly's cameraman accidentally stepped on screen and yelled a curse word

  28-09-2017 22:32 via yahoo.com
  Another day, another controversy on "Megyn Kelly Today."
  
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• Relatives of Former Cheer Coach Accused of Killing Newborn Say Baby Was Stillborn

  28-09-2017 22:24 via yahoo.com
  Relatives and friends of the 18-year-old Ohio woman accused of killing her newborn baby before burying it in a shallow grave behind her parent’s home have opened up about the allegations — and they insist the child was stillborn
  
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• Cashier who stole $13 million at work gets 8 years in prison

  28-09-2017 22:21 via yahoo.com
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — A cashier convicted of stealing nearly $13 million from the monuments and engraving firm where she worked has been sentenced to just over eight years in prison.
  
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• Gigabyte Aero 15 X Review

  28-09-2017 22:14 via gamespot.com
  
  Aero 15 X Review
  Up until recently, to squeeze something like a GPU as powerful as the GeForce GTX 1070 into a gaming laptop meant the notebook had to be big and bulky. The mid-range GTX 1060 was the most powerful card you could get into a thin and light form factor. With Nvidia’s new Max-Q line of GPUs, that’s beginning to change. Gigabyte’s Aero 15 X is a slim gaming laptop that manages to squeeze in Nvidia’s venerable GTX 1070. While there are some performance compromi
  
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• Yom Kippur eve

  28-09-2017 22:01 via yahoo.com
  Jewish worshipers in Israel performed the Tashlich ritual and Kaparot ritual on Yom Kippur eve, the Day of Atonement, the most important day in the Jewish calendar, which will start at sunset on Sept. 29.
  
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• Tax Reform Could Mean A Cut For The Rich, An Audit For The Poor

  28-09-2017 22:01 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― The Republican tax agenda unveiled this week would repeal an inheritance tax that affects only the richest 0.2 percent of the population.
  
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• Call Of Duty: WW2's PC Open Beta Now Live

  28-09-2017 22:01 via gamespot.com
  
  Call of Duty: WWII's PC open beta has gone live ahead of schedule. The beta was originally slated to begin tomorrow, September 29, but developer Sledgehammer has brought it online one day early, allowing players to jump into it right now.The open beta runs all weekend and concludes on October 2. It features the same content as the final weekend of WWII's console multiplayer beta, including four maps (Pointe du Hoc, Ardennes Forest, Gibraltar, and Aachen), four multiplayer modes (Team Deathmatch,
  
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• Shooting For A Perfect Score In Cuphead's Platforming Levels Gameplay

  28-09-2017 22:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Cuphead has been heralded as a difficult game by many, but that doesn't mean a perfect score is out of the question! Watch as we perfectly run-and-gun our way through two of the game's platforming levels.
  
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• Kim Kardashian confirms that she's expecting her third child via surrogate

  28-09-2017 21:46 via yahoo.com
  Kim Kardashian confirms that she's expecting a third child via surrogate.
  
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• New Xbox One Game Pass Titles Announced For October

  28-09-2017 21:45 via gamespot.com
  
  The monthly catalog updates for Xbox Game Pass, the Netflix-style subscription service for Xbox One, continue in October. Microsoft has announced that seven more games will soon be playable for subscribers.Six of the seven games are Xbox One titles, and they include Costume Quest 2 just in time for Halloween. Among the other notable ones are open-world games of the silly (Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell) and not-so-silly (State of Decay: Year One) variety. There's also an Xbox 360 game, Street Fight
  
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• 12 Movies From The 1980s That Need A Remake

  28-09-2017 21:42 via gamespot.com
  
  While many movie remakes are simply a result of Hollywood looking to cash in on a big, recognizable property, there are those remakes that are more surprising. Flatliners is a prime example. The original 1990 movie was a hit in its day, and starred then-super-hot Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland, but it's hardly a movie with a dedicated fanbase demanding (or dreading) a new version. But it does have a great premise, and the remake hits theaters this weekend, so clearly someone thought it was
  
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• Russians 'bought Facebook adverts' targeting Black Lives Matter

  28-09-2017 21:38 via yahoo.com
  At least one of the targeted Facebook adverts bought by Russians during the 2016 presidential election campaign attacked the Black Lives Matter movement and specifically targeted areas where riots had taken place.Earlier this month Facebook admitted it probably had sold $100,000 (£74,000) worth of adverts to fake accounts operated from Russia.A post written by the social media giant’s chief security officer Alex Stamos said the adverts were mostly focused on promoting disunity rather
  
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• School says it will ban student athletes from playing if they take a knee during national anthem

  28-09-2017 21:34 via yahoo.com
  A Louisiana high school is ordering student athletes to stand during the national anthem, echoing Donald Trump’s calls to prohibit athletes from standing or kneeling in protest.In a letter to students and parents, Parkway High School Principal Waylon Bates said that the school “requires student athletes to stand in a respectful manner” and warned students who don’t bend to the rule would be punished with a loss of playing time or “removal from the team”.By man
  
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• Trump biographer: Trump's NFL attacks are 'flagrant race-baiting'

  28-09-2017 21:32 via yahoo.com
  Lawrence O'Donnell talks to Joy Reid and Tim O'Brien about Donald Trump's continued attacks on NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem, which O'Brien characterized as "flagrant race-baiting."
  
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• SNES Classic Will Be In Stock At Best Buy Stores Tomorrow

  28-09-2017 21:10 via gamespot.com
  
  We're on the eve of the SNES Classic Edition's launch, and those who missed out on pre-ordering the highly sought-after micro console still have a chance to pick one up in stores. Today, retailer Best Buy confirmed it will have "limited" quantities of the system in stock on launch day and shared more details for those trying to buy one in person tomorrow.In a post on the retailer's blog, Best Buy says that "about" 1,000 of its stores across the US will have supplies of the SNES Classic, which wi
  
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• New 'Big Three' celebrate the start of Presidents Cup

  28-09-2017 21:01 via yahoo.com
  The start of the Presidents Cup gave golf a new ‘’Big Three’’ — former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, posing with players and wives on each team in an opening ceremony unlike any other.
  
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• Figment Review

  28-09-2017 21:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Figment taught me that it's often easier to fight the phobias in our heads when they're singing catchy ditties and while dancing and spewing pseudoscience. Consider “Plague,” a spindly boss representing a fear of filth."I've got a vaccine for germs like you, full of autism, nausea, and flu," he chants. How rude.But that’s why the fight’s so satisfying. Figment literally lets me toss his filth right back at him and vanquish him by forcing his big, toothy mouth to take a sh
  
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• 7 More Essential Tips For Divinity Original Sin 2

  28-09-2017 21:00 via gamespot.com
  
  We've seen your comments and we're back with more essential tips for Divinity Original Sin 2!
  
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• Get your flu shots, US urges amid concerns about bad season

  28-09-2017 20:56 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — It's flu shot time, and health officials are bracing for a potentially miserable fall and winter.
  
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• A single genetic glitch may explain how Zika became so dangerous

  28-09-2017 20:44 via yahoo.com
  By Julie SteenhuysenCHICAGO (Reuters) - A single genetic change that occurred in 2013 may explain how Zika acquired the ability to attack fetal nerve cells, causing a severe birth defect in babies whose mothers were infected while pregnant, Chinese and U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.Scientists have posited many theories about why Zika, a mosquito-borne virus that had been linked with only mild symptoms since its discovery in 1947, could suddenly be associated with thousands of cases of th
  
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• GS News Update: Skyrim Getting A Tough-Sounding Survival Mode, Beta Out Now On PC

  28-09-2017 20:41 via gamespot.com
  
  Here's everything you need to know about Skyrim's newest mode.
  
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• Iran may drop nuclear deal if U.S. withdraws, foreign minister tells al Jazeera

  28-09-2017 20:25 via yahoo.com
  Iran may abandon the nuclear deal it reached with six major powers if the United States decides to withdraw from it, Iranianforeign minister told Qatar's al Jazeera TV in New York.U.S. President Donald Trump has called the 2015 deal an "embarrassment".The deal is supported by the other major powers that negotiated it with Iran and its collapse could trigger a regional arms race and worsen tensions in the Middle East.
  
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• Dog Dumped on Side of the Road Adopted by Loving Owners: 'Now We Can Give Her a Happy Home'

  28-09-2017 20:21 via yahoo.com
  The SPCA says KD the dog is lucky to have survived her ordeal.
  
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• Japanese Tsunami Debris Carried New Species to U.S.

  28-09-2017 20:20 via yahoo.com
  It's still coming, six years later.
  
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• Woman Who Allegedly Poisoned Niece's Breast Milk Didn't 'Feel an Ounce of Guilt,' Cops Say

  28-09-2017 20:18 via yahoo.com
  Sarai Rodriguez-Miranda, 19, allegedly wanted her brother's little girl out of the home.
  
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• Melania Trump means business in stylish look for session on opioid crisis

  28-09-2017 20:11 via yahoo.com
  Melania Trump has dazzled us in recent weeks with her casual ensembles -- like the $650 Calvin Klein shirt she wore after a weekend at Camp David or the $1,380 Balmain flannel she wore while gardening -- but it seems she has also mastered the art of business attire as well.
  
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• First lady listens and learns about opioid crisis

  28-09-2017 20:08 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Melania Trump is listening and learning about the nation's opioid epidemic.
  
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• ‘Killer clown’ shot woman dead and married her husband, say US police

  28-09-2017 20:05 via yahoo.com
  In the 27-years since the 1990 murder, no arrests had been made in connection with it until this week when police charged 54-year-old Sheila Keen Warren with first-degree murder.According to the Palm Beach Post, the woman, known at the time as Sheila Keen, is alleged to have dressed up in an orange wig and white face paint and driven a white Chrysler convertible to the home of Marlene and Michael Warren in Wellington, Virginia.Mr Aherns, who spoke about the killing of his mother with the Palm Be
  
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• Pokemon Ultra Sun And Moon Starter Trainer's Pack Announced, Here's What It Includes

  28-09-2017 19:49 via gamespot.com
  
  Those planning to pick up Pokemon Ultra Sun or Ultra Moon have another option to choose from when the games launch this November. In addition to the steelbook and Veteran Trainer's dual packs, Nintendo has announced that each game will be available as a special Starter Trainer's Pack.As its name implies, the Starter Trainer's Pack includes items to help newer players through the early portion of the adventure. It comes with a copy of either Ultra Sun or Ultra Moon, a download code for 12 Revives
  
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• US judge tells mother she will go to prison unless her son gets vaccinated

  28-09-2017 19:46 via yahoo.com
  Rebecca Bredow believes she has the right to choose whether to inoculate her child based on her “knowledge of vaccines”."I would rather sit behind bars standing up for what I believe in, than giving in to something I strongly don't believe in," Ms Bredow told the TV network.Ms Bredow said after reading books she applied for a waiver, which the state of Michigan allows for “religious convictions or other objections to immunisation”.
  
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• The last thing comet probe Rosetta saw

  28-09-2017 19:34 via yahoo.com
  Robotic comet explorer Rosetta sent home a last-gasp photo of her target's rocky facade before crashing into its surface to end a 12-year deep-space odyssey, ground controllers said Thursday.Almost a year to the day since Rosetta's demise on September 30 last year, the European Space Agency (ESA) issued the fuzzy image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, pieced together from the final bursts of data relayed by the orbiter.The image of a one-square-metre (3.3 foot by 3.3 foot) section of comet pr
  
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• Bar With Homemade 'Lynch Kaepernick' Doormat Can't Figure Out Why Everyone Is Calling It Racist

  28-09-2017 19:34 via yahoo.com
  Answer: When the “doormat” is just two NFL jerseys taped side by side on the ground so they read “Lynch Kaepernick.”
  
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• Meghan McCain Hits Back Over Report That Trump Has Been Mocking Her Dad

  28-09-2017 19:33 via yahoo.com
  Behind closed doors, President Donald Trump has reportedly been mocking the physical gestures and appearances of Sens.John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), and Meghan McCain is not happy.According to the story from Axios co-founder Mike Allen, Trump has been reenacting how McCain delivered his dramatic thumbs-down to the health care repeal bill this summer.
  
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• Supreme Court to hear major challenge to public-sector unions

  28-09-2017 19:27 via yahoo.com
  By Lawrence HurleyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday gave itself another chance to decide an issue that could choke off a vital source of money for unions around the country representing police, teachers and other government employees.The justices agreed to hear a case brought by a non-union government employee in Illinois that targets fees that his state and many others compel such workers to pay to unions in lieu of dues to fund collective bargaining and other organized
  
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• Celeb Spotter 035: Celeb Spotter 035: Gigi and Bella Hadid in Paris, J.Rod with their kids

  28-09-2017 19:07 via yahoo.com
  With Paris Fashion Week -- the last week of Fashion Month -- underway, the world's top models have all descended upon the city while rocking their chicest ensembles.
  
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• NBA 2K18 Video Review

  28-09-2017 19:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Is NBA 2K18 the basketball game we were waiting for, or should it be benched? Find out in our GameSpot review!
  
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