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• Star Wars: The Last Jedi Director On Why You May Want To "Absolutely Avoid" New Trailer

  08-10-2017 23:35 via gamespot.com
  
  A new trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi is coming on Monday, October 9. A teaser trailer released today shows Rey wielding a lightsaber, which is interesting. Now, director Rian Johnson has spoken up to say that, while he enjoys the trailer, you may want to avoid it if you're hoping see The Last Jedi with fresh eyes come December.That already basically goes without saying, as a trailer for anything--even a video game about a big, mean goose--will spoil something for you. But movie trailers th
  
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• Dove apologises for advert showing black woman transforming into white model 

  08-10-2017 23:20 via yahoo.com
  Dove has issued an apology for an advertising campaign branded “racist” which included an image of a black woman removing her top to reveal a white model underneath. The series of adverts, which have provoked outcry on social media after being circulated on Facebook, also showed a third image portraying a caucasian woman transforming into an Asian woman as she undresses. Following the furore, Dove published a statement which stated: “An image we recently posted on Facebook
  
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• See How Mortal Kombat's Fatalities Have Evolved Over Past 25 Years

  08-10-2017 23:00 via gamespot.com
  
  The original Mortal Kombat launched in 1992, meaning the fighting game series is now 25 years old. One of the franchise's trademark elements is the Fatality feature. It's an over-the-top finishing move that, with today's graphics, can make things like heads popping off and spines getting ripped out, look so extreme and brutal that it's sometimes hard to watch.We've put together a new video that shows off how some of the franchise's original Fatalities have evolved over the years. As you'll see,
  
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• Mortal Kombat 25th Anniversary - Fatality Compilation

  08-10-2017 23:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Happy Birthday Mortal Kombat! To celebrate the game's anniversary, here's a look at how someof the original fatalities have changed after 25 years.
  
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• Venezuela leader thanks hostile Trump for making him 'famous'

  08-10-2017 22:50 via yahoo.com
  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro baited U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday by thanking him for a barrage of criticism that had made him famous worldwide."It's an honor that the head of the empire mentions me every day," said the 54-year-old president, just back in Venezuela from a trip to Russia, Belarus and Turkey."That means I'm doing something right!" Maduro laughed, during his weekly program on state TV.
  
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• Donald Trump Revels In Recounting The 'Very Good Towels' He Threw To Hurricane Victims

  08-10-2017 22:20 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump congratulated himself on his trip to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico last week by celebrating the “incredible” cheering of the “crowd of a lot of people” who watched him throw rolls of paper towels.
  
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• Speaker's visit to Kurds divides Iraqi parliament

  08-10-2017 20:23 via yahoo.com
  BAGHDAD (AP) — A leading Iraqi parliamentarian upbraided the legislative body's leader for meeting with Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani on Sunday as Baghdad's politicians voiced their differences over how best to respond to a controversial Kurdish referendum for independence.
  
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• Mass Shooting Episode Of 'American Horror Story: Cult' Edited Following Vegas Attack

  08-10-2017 20:20 via yahoo.com
  Ryan Murphy has decided to re-edit an upcoming episode of “American Horror Story: Cult,” which included a graphic mass shooting scene, in the wake of the attack in Las Vegas that killed 58 people and injured almost 500 others.
  
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• Democrats look to distance themselves from Weinstein

  08-10-2017 20:12 via yahoo.com
  “This is a pretty bad guy who did some really awful things,” Sen. Chris Murphy said Sunday. “People that took money from him should probably give it back.”
  
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• Chris Cornell’s Widow Vicky Meets with Detroit Medical Examiner Four Months After Rocker’s Death

  08-10-2017 20:08 via yahoo.com
  Four months after Chris Cornell‘s shocking death, his widow is still searching for answers
  
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• Teenager 'thrown out of school' for sitting during Pledge of Allegiance

  08-10-2017 20:02 via yahoo.com
  A 17-year-old student is suing her high school district after she claims she was suspended for refusing to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance.India Landry, from Houston, said she was asked to leave Windfern High School after the incident, despite having sat during the Pledge to the flag hundreds of times before.The federal lawsuit alleges administrators at the school had been "recently whipped into a frenzy" by NFL players kneeling for the national anthem, according to the NY Daily News.
  
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• Should Divinity: Original Sin 2 Be Your First CRPG? - Reboot Episode 15.5

  08-10-2017 20:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Mike and Jake discuss their personal histories with computer role-playing games, as well as their recent adventures in Divinity: Original Sin 2, Larian Studios' stunning masterpiece.
  
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• Father of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock 'ran illegal bingo parlour and tried to start his own church'

  08-10-2017 19:55 via yahoo.com
  The father of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock was reportedly a self-ordained minister who carried out marriage ceremonies and wanted to start his own church as well as being on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list of fugitives.In the search to understand the psychology of the mass murderer, attention has focused on the colourful criminal life of his father Benjamin Hoskins Paddock.Although the killer had no previous criminal convictions and apparently lived in the shadows of society, rarely spe
  
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• South of New Orleans, Nate spares parish devastated by Hurricane Katrina

  08-10-2017 19:52 via yahoo.com
  By Jessica Resnick-AultBELLE CHASSE, La. (Reuters) - Residents of Louisiana's lower Plaquemines Parish, the swampy peninsula that shadows the Mississippi River as it empties into the Gulf of Mexico, know Nate let them off very easy, certainly when compared with hurricanes of years past.As the Category 1 storm approached this weekend, memories of the devastation of Katrina 12 years ago, and to a lesser extent, Issac in 2012, loomed large in the scattered hamlets that cling to the few spots of ter
  
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• Prayers and flamethrowers: Liberia's raucous rallies

  08-10-2017 19:48 via yahoo.com
  Liberia's presidential campaign neared its close on Sunday with a quiet day of prayer, but campaigning in the west African nation is not for the faint-hearted -- or those sensitive to noise.Liberians go to the polls on Tuesday to pick their first new president in 12 years as Ellen Johnson Sirleaf closes the page on two terms dominated by post-war reconstruction and the Ebola crisis.The biggest crowds, packed with young men, are usually reserved for footballing superstar turned politician George
  
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• Turkey shells Syria's northern Idlib province

  08-10-2017 19:45 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — Turkish forces on Sunday shelled areas along its border with Syria's northwestern province, an area dominated by al-Qaida-linked militants, as Turkey's president says an operation in the area to enforce a "de-escalation" zone was underway "without problems."
  
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• This JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Statue At NYCC Is Amazing

  08-10-2017 19:44 via gamespot.com
  
  New York Comic-Con is filled with a ton of eye-catching booths, events, and cosplayers everywhere. It's a sensory overload; however, I found calm and inner-peace when I was this life-sized JoJo's Bizarre Adventure statue at the Viz Media booth, which you can stare at for hours below.This statue coming in at around seven feet tall is quite possibly one of the coolest things at the convention. The attention to detail, the paint, and sculpting are amazing. After getting hypnotized by Jotaro's two b
  
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• White nationalists impose deadline for OK on campus speeches

  08-10-2017 19:37 via yahoo.com
  CLEVELAND (AP) — An attorney for associates of white nationalist leader Richard Spencer said Sunday he'll sue Ohio State University and the University of Cincinnati if they don't agree by Friday to make campus space available for Spencer to speak.
  
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• Kitten Rescued With Homemade Pole After Being Trapped in Pipe, 25 Feet Underground

  08-10-2017 19:32 via yahoo.com
  "Animals don't always understand that we are there to help, so making the grab is never easy," one of the rescuers said.
  
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• Sudan Airways seeks post-embargo Boeing, Airbus spare parts

  08-10-2017 19:30 via yahoo.com
  Sudan's national carrier aims to revive its fleet by procuring new components from Boeing and Airbus after Washington lifted its 20-year-old trade embargo on Khartoum, a minister said Sunday.Sudan Airways, one of the oldest airlines in Africa, has 12 of its 14-strong fleet of aircraft grounded after failing to source spare parts from Boeing and Airbus because of the sanctions imposed in 1997.
  
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• NRA backs down over possible ban on 'bump stocks' 

  08-10-2017 19:30 via yahoo.com
  The National Rifle Association, America's biggest gun lobby group appeared to backtrack on Sunday on calls for regulation of deadly "bump stocks", as the country's gun control debate returned to familiar impasse. Only days after the NRA appeared open to a possible ban on the devices which convert semi-automatic guns into fully automatic weapons, the group's leaders began to quibble over the idea. "We don't believe bans ever worked on anything," said Chris Cox, the NRA’s executive director,
  
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• San Juan Mayor Pleads For Help: 'We Need Water!'

  08-10-2017 19:29 via yahoo.com
  Carmen Yulín Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, said on Sunday that despite the compassion of the U.S. public, the federal government “does not want to help” Puerto Rico.
  
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• A handful of racists snuck back to Charlottesville under the cover of night for another 'protest'

  08-10-2017 19:23 via yahoo.com
  They're back with the same mission, and far, far fewer numbers. A group of white nationalists, led by Richard Spencer (a man who was punched in the face twice on President Trump's Inauguration Day) marched in Charlottesville, Virginia Saturday night with torches in hand toward the statue of Robert E. Lee.  Spencer dubbed the small gathering "Charlottesville 3.0" in a tweet, referencing earlier protests in May and August, the latter of which led to the death of one anti-hate protester Heathe
  
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• New Star Wars: The Last Jedi Trailer Teased With Clip Of Rey's Lightsaber Skills

  08-10-2017 19:03 via gamespot.com
  
  A new Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer will be shown on October 9 during Monday Night Football and, ahead of it, a teaser has been released. The video, which you can watch below, appeared on Twitter and shows Rey wielding a lightsaber.The scene seems to pick up shortly after the closing moments of The Force Awakens, during which Rey travels to Ahch-To to meet older Luke Skywalker. As you can imagine, Rey will no doubt undergo training under Luke's tutelage, and the video is a sneak peek at that.
  
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• The Best Cosplay From New York Comic-Con

  08-10-2017 18:55 via gamespot.com
  
  This year's New York Comic-Con was the place to be if you're into comics, television, movies, and especially cosplay. Over the course of the four day show, we saw some amazing and inventive costumes filling the Javits Center in New York City. Here are some of the best cosplayers we saw at NYCC.Make sure to check out our other galleries from NYCC!Creepiest Chucky, Beetlejuice, And Pinhead Collectibles At NYCC 2017All The Coolest Batman, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat Collectibles At NYCC 2017
  
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• Man Donates 58 Crosses to Honor Victims of Las Vegas Shooting

  08-10-2017 18:46 via yahoo.com
  Last year, Greg Zanis, of Illinois, also gave 49 crosses to Orlando to honor the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting.
  
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• Corker fires back at Trump: 'The White House has become an adult day care center'

  08-10-2017 18:40 via yahoo.com
  The Republican senator from Tennessee mocked Trump after the president suggested he “didn’t have the guts” to run for reelection and is now expected to “stand in the way of our great agenda.”
  
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• Hezbollah leader says U.S. actions aiding Islamic State in Syria

  08-10-2017 18:16 via yahoo.com
  Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday that the United States was serving the interests of Islamic State by preventing the Syrian army and its allies advancing in some areas of eastern Syria.American jets have this year targeted pro-government militias in eastern Syria that were advancing towards Washington's local allies.Nasrallah said the United States was delaying the Syrian military in its battle to retake territory from Islamic State.
  
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• Chef Cooks Up 130K Meals to Feed Hurricane Victims in Puerto Rico

  08-10-2017 17:56 via yahoo.com
  Renowned Spanish-American chef Jose Andres is serving up paella and lifting spirits on the ground in Puerto Rico, getting hot meals to those still recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Maria.
  
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• Donald Trump Says Tennessee Senator Is Retiring Because He Refused Endorsement

  08-10-2017 17:53 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) is retiring from office because Trump refused to endorse him for re-election next year ― a claim that a source familiar with the matter disputed.
  
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• Man Arrested After Living With Bodies of Dead Mother, Brother For A Year: 'I Am Not Some Nut Ball'

  08-10-2017 17:47 via yahoo.com
  He said he was traumatized.
  
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• Las Vegas Shooting: Survivors Struggle to Finance Recovery Costs

  08-10-2017 17:43 via yahoo.com
  For many of the hundreds injured in last week’s Las Vegas mass shooting, another nightmare is just getting started.
  
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• Las Vegas Shooter 'Rational Man' Claims Steve Wynn

  08-10-2017 17:38 via yahoo.com
  The owner of Wynn Resorts said his staff were stunned by what had happened.
  
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• Body-Cam Footage From Salt Lake City Police Shooting Continues To Raise Questions

  08-10-2017 17:38 via yahoo.com
  Salt Lake City police body-cam captured white officers shooting a black man who they say threatened them, but evidence of this remains unclear in footage of Patrick Harmon running away.
  
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• Sen. Corker Calls White House ‘Adult Day Care Center’ After Trump Attack

  08-10-2017 17:31 via yahoo.com
  Republican Senator Bob Corker questioned the president’s competence on security with Iran and North Korea, resulting in a heated Twitter clash between the two on Sunday.
  
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• Philippine president sees biggest ratings dip, but popularity intact

  08-10-2017 17:31 via yahoo.com
  Trust and satisfaction in Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte fell to the lowest of his presidency in the third quarter of this year, a survey showed on Sunday, although sentiment about his leadership remained positive overall.Net satisfaction, used by pollster Social Weather Stations (SWS) as a rating of the president's performance, was down 18 points from the second quarter to 48, classified as "good" in the survey of 1,200 Filipinos conducted in the last week of September.Duterte's net trust ra
  
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• Germany worries Trump will quit Iran nuclear deal

  08-10-2017 17:27 via yahoo.com
  German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said Sunday that he feared US President Donald Trump would quit the Iran nuclear deal next week.Trump is a stern critic of the 2015 accord, which he has called "the worst deal ever", and US officials say he intends to tell US Congress next week that Tehran is not honouring its side of the bargain."The United States is likely to quit the Iran agreement next week -- that is my great concern," Gabriel was quoted as saying by national news agency DPA.
  
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• Justice League Trailer Breakdown

  08-10-2017 17:25 via gamespot.com
  
  The latest Justice League trailer has dropped, and you can watch it here. The new video shows off the Super-friends coming together to battle a powerful new enemy and, as always, we've gone through it with a fine-tooth comb to pick out the noteworthy moments and a few things you might have missed.
  Clark's Home
  The trailer opens with Lois Lane on the front porch of her rural home, and she sees someone in the field. It's Clark, and he says, "I'll take that as a yes... The ring." Obviously, those
  
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• Khloé Kardashian Makes Her First Post-Pregnancy News Appearance and Talks About Mom Kris Jenner

  08-10-2017 17:20 via yahoo.com
  Khloé Kardashian isn’t keeping her baby bump to herself anymore!
  
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• Likely successor to Cuba's Castro rejects U.S. demands for change

  08-10-2017 17:19 via yahoo.com
  By Marc FrankHAVANA (Reuters) - The man forecast to replace Cuban President Raul Castro early next year rejected U.S. demands that the Communist-run country change its political and economic system.“The changes needed in Cuba will solely be carried out by the Cuban people,” Diaz-Canel said.
  
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• The Witness Dev On Overhauling The Game For Mobile, And Playing A Ton Of PUBG

  08-10-2017 17:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Jonathan Blow led the design of two iconic independent games that dug deep into the minds of those who played them: Braid and The Witness. Both were released on consoles and PC, but Jonathan and his team at Thekla broke into the mobile platform recently by porting The Witness to iOS. It brought up plenty of questions about how this style of game was adapted to a much different ecosystem and what it means for him and his team.The Witness received critical acclaim when it initially released in 201
  
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• Moscow warns it may restrict U.S. media in Russia

  08-10-2017 16:27 via yahoo.com
  Russia is within its rights to restrict the operations of U.S. media organizations in Russia in retaliation for what Moscow calls U.S. pressure on a Kremlin-backed TV station, a Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman said on Sunday.Russian officials have accused Washington of putting unwarranted pressure on the U.S. operations of RT, a Kremlin-funded broadcaster accused by some in Washington of interfering in domestic U.S. politics, which it denies.
  
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• Man Who Tortured Girlfriend's Autistic Son Gets 65-Year Prison Sentence

  08-10-2017 16:16 via yahoo.com
  He also abused the boy's younger brother
  
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• Senior Catholic cleric resigns after secret family revealed

  08-10-2017 16:09 via yahoo.com
  The former rector of a prominent Legion of Christ seminary in Rome is leaving the priesthood after admitting to having a secret family, including two children of his own, which he concealed for years from Roman Catholic authorities.  The conservative Catholic order announced this weekend that Father Oscar Turrion, a popular 49-year-old Spanish priest who was made rector of the Pontifical Maria Matter Ecclesiae International College in Rome in 2014, will leave the priestly min
  
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• J.T. Brown Becomes First NHL Player To Protest During National Anthem This Season

  08-10-2017 16:03 via yahoo.com
  Tampa Bay Lightning forward J.T. Brown raised his right fist during the national anthem before a game against the Florida Panthers on Saturday night, becoming the first NHL player this regular season to join the silent protests that have been sweeping the NFL and other U.S. sporting leagues.
  
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• 12 Coolest Horror Movie Origin Stories

  08-10-2017 16:00 via gamespot.com
  
  It's not just superheroes that have the monopoly on cool origin stories. The horror genre is filled with monsters, killers, ghosts, and demons, most of which have a backstory that explains who they are and why they became such iconic characters. Here's some of the best origin stories from the last few decades of big screen terror...
  Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th)
  While the masked killer of the seemingly endless Friday the 13th franchise is one of the 1980s' most famous horror villains, he did
  
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• Murder Trial Set to Begin for Teen Who Was Burned Alive and Left to Die

  08-10-2017 15:50 via yahoo.com
  Jessica Chambers had burns on 98 percent of her body when police found her
  
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• 'The Walking Dead' And 'Fear The Walking Dead' Will Finally Crossover

  08-10-2017 15:38 via yahoo.com
  “The Walking Dead” family just got a little bigger.
  
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• This Is the One Picture All of North Korea Fears Most

  08-10-2017 15:35 via yahoo.com
  Air power destroyed the DPRK in the 1950s.North Korea actually repaired the war damage faster than South Korea, which had been far less damaged during the war.As tensions between North Korea and the United States reach a fever pitch, it’s worth remembering the origins of the hostility: the Korean War.
  
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• Congo militants ambush and kill travellers in northeast - lawmakers

  08-10-2017 15:30 via yahoo.com
  By Fiston MahambaGOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Militants ambushed a group of about 30 civilians in northeastern Congo and killed many of them before fighting a fierce battle with the army, politicians said on Sunday.The spate of attacks raised serious questions about the state's ability to impose order over a region full of ethnic tensions and plagued by pockets of lawlessness where armed groups prey on populations and exploit rich mineral reserves.In the latest attack, on Satur
  
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