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• Trump to name White House aide to homeland security post

  11-10-2017 23:59 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump will nominate Kirstjen Nielsen, who as top aide to his White House chief of staff has sought to instill order in Trump's team, to lead the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the White House said in a statement on Wednesday.If confirmed by the Senate, Nielsen would take the reins at a sprawling department with more than 240,000 employees that is responsible for U.S. border and airport security, immigration policy, disaster response, refugee admissions and other matters.
  
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• Hotel worker warned of shooter before Las Vegas massacre

  11-10-2017 23:59 via yahoo.com
  A maintenance worker said Wednesday he told hotel dispatchers to call police and report a gunman had opened fire with a rifle inside Mandalay Bay before the shooter began firing from his high-rise suite into a crowd at a nearby musical performance.
  
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• Counter-Strike's Most Famous Map Gets Revamped, Available To Test Now

  11-10-2017 23:58 via gamespot.com
  
  Dust2, one of the best-known Counter-Strike maps, has received an update in CS:GO. Described as an "updated, refined version" of the iconic map, the new version has quadruple the texture resolution compared to the original. The map looks brighter overall, along with fresh environmental effects such as worn walls and more. Fans may be happy to learn that the structure and layout of the new Dust2 doesn't feature any major changes. This is intentional. Valve's three main pillars for redesigning Dus
  
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• Watch Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite's First Three DLC Characters In Action

  11-10-2017 23:55 via gamespot.com
  
  On top of its packed roster of popular Marvel and Capcom heroes and villains, Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite will receive a handful of DLC characters, including Sigma, Black Panther, and Monster Hunter. Capcom recently released a trailer showcasing those three characters, and we got a chance to test them out ourselves at New York Comic-Con.In the video above, you can see us take on a Capcom representative in a full match that put the three DLC characters (plus Captain Marvel) through their paces. B
  
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• What Trump calls fake news is usually an inconvenient fact. The media’s right to report must be protected

  11-10-2017 23:51 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump, the entertainer-President, frequently highlights the importance of the US Constitution’s Second Amendment. In case you’ve forgotten, that’s the bit that allows pretty much any Tom, Dick or Stephen Paddock to nip into their local gun shop to pick up another semi-automatic to add to their burgeoning collection.
  
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• 7 Ways to Save Your Skin in Your 50s and Beyond

  11-10-2017 23:50 via yahoo.com
  It doesn't take much to look your best, no matter your number. Here's a concise (yet comprehensive) skin-care syllabus.
  
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• Watch Girl's Touching Reaction to Finding Out She's Finally Being Adopted: 'I Felt So Happy'

  11-10-2017 23:47 via yahoo.com
  Her sweet reaction was captured on cameras inside her school.
  
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• Léa Seydoux Recalls Being Sexually Harassed By Harvey Weinstein

  11-10-2017 23:40 via yahoo.com
  Léa Seydoux, who starred in “Blue Is the Warmest Color,” has come forward with her own allegation of sexual harassment against producer Harvey Weinstein.
  
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• At least 21 dead as resurgent winds fan California wildfires

  11-10-2017 23:35 via yahoo.com
  By Alexandria SageSONOMA, Calif. (Reuters) - Firefighters, facing resurgent winds and bone-dry conditions on Wednesday, battled to halt the advance of wildfires that have killed at least 21 people, destroyed 3,500 homes and businesses and blanketed Northern California's famed wine country in smoke.A rash of 22 blazes spanning nine counties have scorched nearly 170,000 acres (68,797 hectares) since the first flames erupted on Sunday night in what state fire officials say is one of the deadliest w
  
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• DuckTales, Darkwing Duck And More Disney Cartoons Get Funko Figures

  11-10-2017 23:25 via gamespot.com
  
  The Disney Afternoon lives again, thanks to Funko's new line of action figures. The company behind the billions of Pop vinyl figures everyone you know owns are expanding their product line with a series of action figures featuring characters from the early-90s afternoon lineup of Disney animated series.Firstly, the terror that flaps in the night is getting his own figure. Darkwing Duck comes complete with his signature gas gun as an accessory. From DuckTales, Scrooge McDuck is featured in the co
  
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• Steven Universe PS4 / Xbox One RPG Release Date Confirmed, And It's Very Soon

  11-10-2017 23:22 via gamespot.com
  
  Cartoon Network has announced a release date for Steven Universe: Save the Light, the first home console title based on the popular animated series. The game releases for PlayStation 4 in North and Latin America on October 31, while the Xbox One version launches globally three days later, on November 3.Those planning to pick the title up on Xbox One will soon have a chance to pre-order it. The game will be available for pre-purchase from the Xbox Store starting on October 23. The game will only
  
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• Destiny 2 Maintenance Complete, New Update Out Now On PS4 And Xbox One

  11-10-2017 23:08 via gamespot.com
  
  We've seen a number of Destiny 2 maintenance periods take the game's servers offline since its release. Today will see maintenance occur once again, but according to Bungie, it shouldn't impact your ability to play the game. [Update: Bungie has released Destiny 2 update 1.0.3.2, which addresses Tower crashes, and maintenance has been completed.]Server maintenance begins at 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET / 4 PM BST today, October 11 (2 AM AEDT on October 12). It's set to run for six hours, ending at 2 PM PT,
  
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• Las Vegas shooting victim sues hotel, festival organizer, 'bump stock' maker

  11-10-2017 23:03 via yahoo.com
  A California woman wounded in the mass shooting at a Las Vegas music festival has filed a lawsuit against the operators of the hotel where the gunman fired from, the festival organizers and the maker of a device that allowed weapons to be fired at a near-automatic rate.Paige Gasper, 21, said in the lawsuit that the defendants' negligence led to the life-threatening injuries she suffered when a bullet shattered her ribs and lacerated her liver.Paddock killed himself before the police stormed his
  
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• The Evil Within 2 - Stealth Side Mission Gameplay

  11-10-2017 23:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Take a look at this intense sneaking side mission in Evil Within 2!
  
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• Couple Married 75 Years Perishes in Napa Inferno: 'They Went Together, and That's the Way It Worked'

  11-10-2017 22:53 via yahoo.com
  He was 100. She was 98. Both perished when California's Napa wildfire swept through their neighborhood.
  
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• PUBG Passes Another Big Milestone On Steam

  11-10-2017 22:47 via gamespot.com
  
  PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds continues to grow, toppling milestone after milestone. It's left Dota 2--and everything else on Steam--in the dust in terms of players, and today it became the first game ever to top 2 million concurrent players on the platform.Steam's stats page highlights both the current number of players online in a game at any time, as well as its daily peak. Since it first surpassed Dota 2 back in August, PUBG has gone on to break the all-time Steam record for concurrent playe
  
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• Monster Hunter World Offers More Flexibility Than Before

  11-10-2017 22:44 via gamespot.com
  
  One of the biggest releases in early 2018 is Monster Hunter World, the first new installment in Capcom's long-running franchise to release on a home console since 2010. The move to PS4 and Xbox One has opened up new gameplay opportunities for the series, which we got to see firsthand during New York Comic-Con.The demo on display at Capcom's booth was the same one featured at this year's Tokyo Game Show; you can watch our full playthrough from that event above. The quest we selected dropped us in
  
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• All The Games With Halloween 2017 Events And Updates

  11-10-2017 22:34 via gamespot.com
  
  One thing you can count on every October, aside from a bunch of big game releases, are developers releasing Halloween-themed updates and events. Halloween is still weeks away, and already we've seen a number of such announcements, and some of these events are already underway.With so much going on, it can be difficult to keep track of everything that's happening. Given that many of these events, such as Overwatch's Halloween Terror, provide you with a limited amount of time to obtain items you c
  
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• Melania Trump and Sophie Trudeau don stylish outfits for White House meeting

  11-10-2017 22:22 via yahoo.com
  Melania Trump and Sophie Trudeau met on Wednesday alongside their husbands, President Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, at the White House.
  
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• Titanfall Developer Announces "Super Secret" VR Project For Oculus Coming In 2019

  11-10-2017 22:03 via gamespot.com
  
  As part of the annual Oculus Connect event to showcase advancements in virtual reality, Respawn Entertainment (developers of the Titanfall franchise) announced that it's working on a VR game in partnership with Oculus. Very few details on the project itself were shown, but we know it's going to be a first-person action game and it's coming sometime in 2019.Respawn director Peter Herschmann clearly stated that it is "super secret" and not related to Titanfall or Star Wars--back in March, the comp
  
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• Death toll from Mexican prison riot rises to 16

  11-10-2017 22:03 via yahoo.com
  The death toll from a major prison riot in northeast Mexico has risen to 16, authorities said Wednesday.Unrest at the prison in Cadereyta in Nuevo Leon state broke out on Tuesday morning and was put down, but flared again later as inmates started fires that sent up huge columns of black smoke."Sixteen people were killed, most of them convicted of serious crimes," said Bernardo Gonzales, the state prosecutor on Wednesday.
  
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• Parents Leave Child At Corn Maze, Don't Realize It Until Next Day: Cops

  11-10-2017 22:00 via yahoo.com
  A visit to a holiday corn maze turned into a truly scary scenario for a 3-year-old boy after police say he was left behind by his parents, who didn’t realize until the next day.
  
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• California Is On Fire. Here's How You Can Help.

  11-10-2017 21:59 via yahoo.com
  Twenty-two large, fast-moving wildfires in northern California this week have burned more than 170,000 acres, killed at least 18 people and destroyed around 3,500 homes and commercial structures.
  
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• How $1.8 Million in Gold Flowed Through Switzerland's Sewer System

  11-10-2017 21:58 via yahoo.com
  That's a lot of dirty money.
  
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• Utah police lieutenant demoted over arrest of nurse over blood draw

  11-10-2017 21:46 via yahoo.com
  James Tracy, a lieutenant who was the watch commander at the time of the July 26 incident, was demoted to officer.A lawyer for Tracy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Detective Jeff Payne, accused of assaulting and unlawfully arresting the nurse, was fired from the force on Tuesday, according to Salt Lake City police spokesman Detective Robert Ungricht and police records.
  
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• Farmer plows a message for the NFL: 'We stand for the national anthem'

  11-10-2017 21:46 via yahoo.com
  Retired farmer Gene Hanson, 77, has a special message for the NFL: “We stand for the National Anthem.”
  
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• Trump meets with Canadian prime minister in Washington

  11-10-2017 21:45 via yahoo.com
  After threatening to end NAFTA, Trump met with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
  
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• The Heirs to the Walmart Fortune Just Made $5 Billion in One Day

  11-10-2017 21:38 via yahoo.com
  The Walton's are the owners of Wal-Mart and they're killing it in the stock market.
  
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• In A Rare Move, Disney Pulls The Plug On Gigantic

  11-10-2017 21:38 via gamespot.com
  
  After first being announced in 2015 with a presentation at Disney's D23 convention, the studio has officially pulled the plug on their Jack and the Beanstalk adaptation, Gigantic. Originally set for a 2018 release before it was pushed to 2020, the project is a very rare cancelation for the studio.According to Walt Disney Animation Group president Ed Catmull, who gave a statement on the film to The Hollywood Reporter, the studio has ended active development on the project "for now," but has anoth
  
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• Melania Trump's emerald green Cefinn shirtdress may have been a subtle dig at Ivana Trump

  11-10-2017 21:25 via yahoo.com
  Is Melania Trump trying to send a message with her fashion?
  
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• Russia Is the Biggest Recipient of Chinese Foreign Aid

  11-10-2017 21:19 via yahoo.com
  China has given Moscow $36.6 billion in aid since 2000. The goal? Russian oil.
  
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• Dad Who Allegedly Drowned Daughter Phoned Wife At Her Office To Tell Her: Cops

  11-10-2017 20:52 via yahoo.com
  The wife called 911 to say her husband had just killed their toddler, deputies said.
  
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• Weinstein Exposed by Trail of Hush Money

  11-10-2017 20:44 via yahoo.com
  Jodi Kantor, investigative reporter for The New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about how the system Harvey Weinstein used to keep women quiet ended up helping expose what he was trying to cover up.
  
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• New EA And Origin Access Free Games Include Mass Effect: Andromeda For Xbox One And PC

  11-10-2017 20:44 via gamespot.com
  
  EA has announced the latest batch of games that EA and Origin Access subscribers will soon have free access to. The biggest of the bunch is this year's new entry in the Mass Effect series, Mass Effect: Andromeda.EA has outlined what members will get for free on Xbox One (with EA Access) and PC (with Origin Access) over the remainder of the year. Both platforms will get the full version of Andromeda "soon," although exact dates were not shared for this or any of the other upcoming Access content.
  
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• Horrifying Drone Footage Shows Wildfire Devastation In Santa Rosa

  11-10-2017 20:39 via yahoo.com
  Wildfires have turned entire neighborhoods in Santa Rose, California, to ash, according to drone footage The Association Press posted Tuesday.
  
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• GS News Update: PUBG Passes Another Major Milestone On Steam

  11-10-2017 20:34 via gamespot.com
  
  PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds had more than 2 million people playing online on PC at the same time, making it the first game ever to reach that figure.
  
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• Trump Dossier Holding Up Despite GOP Attacks

  11-10-2017 20:33 via yahoo.com
  Mark Hosenball, Reuters national security correspondent, talks with Rachel Maddow about portions of the Trump Russia dossier that have turned out to be true, and the Republican effort to undercut the Russia investigation by discrediting the dossier.
  
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• The First Hour of The Evil Within 2 On Nightmare Mode

  11-10-2017 20:27 via gamespot.com
  
  Watch the first hour of hard mode in The Evil Within 2 on PC with Erick and Jean-Luc.
  
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• 25 Halloween Costumes For Men With Beards

  11-10-2017 20:17 via yahoo.com
  Men with beards know how challenging it is to find a clever, smart and unique Halloween costume that works with their facial hair rather than against it.
  
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• How to Make 4 Slow Cooker Meals

  11-10-2017 20:16 via yahoo.com
  Love eating, hate cooking? All these delicious,home-cooked, healthy foods can be made in a slow-cooker. Just combine ingredients and press the On button! Watch the video to learn the recipes.
  
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• PlayStation Now Adds 14 More Games Today In Europe

  11-10-2017 20:08 via gamespot.com
  
  Sony has added a new batch of games to PlayStation Now in Europe. Another 14 PS4 titles are now available on the streaming service, which mostly consist of horror games to help you ring in Halloween.Today's batch of games features many of the same titles that were recently added to the service in North America, including Dead Island: Definitive Edition, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Soma, and Deadlight: Director's Cut. The two notable differences, however, are Beyond: Two Souls and Until Dawn,
  
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• Oculus Reveals Two New VR Headsets, Including Cheap Version That Doesn't Require A Phone Or PC

  11-10-2017 20:08 via gamespot.com
  
  Today at the Oculus Connect 4 event, Facebook detailed two new virtual reality headsets. First, it revealed a standalone VR headset called Oculus Go. It doesn't require a PC or smartphone to work since hardware is built into the headset itself. On top of cutting the cord and and hardware requirement, the Oculus Go will carry a $200 price tag. Development kits will be sent out in November, but Oculus Go is said to release in early 2018.Oculus Go shares many of the same functionalities as the Sams
  
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• Mexico readies for worst as 4th round of NAFTA talks open

  11-10-2017 20:07 via yahoo.com
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico appeared to be preparing for the worst as the fourth round of talks on the North American Free Trade Agreement were opening in Washington on Wednesday.
  
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• Zinke Having Awesome Time With Taxpayer Money

  11-10-2017 20:01 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow reports on the adventures and activities Donald Trump's Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is having while engaging in political activities using taxpayer money.
  
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• Oculus Rift Price Cut Again, And It's Already In Effect

  11-10-2017 19:52 via gamespot.com
  
  The price of quality virtual reality headsets continues to drop. As part of its Oculus Connect event today, Oculus announced that the Rift's price has been cut to $399/£399.This new price is in effect today--you can head over to the Oculus store right now and add it to your cart for that price. $399/£399 gets you the headset itself, two sensors, two Touch controllers, and seven free games for setting everything up: Lucky's Tale, Medium, Toybox, Quill, Dead and Buried, Dragon Front, a
  
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• Judge who granted custody to paedophile after 12-year-old victim gave birth to his child revokes access

  11-10-2017 19:50 via yahoo.com
  The joint custody was granted by a judge in Sanilac County, Michigan without the knowledge of the boy’s mother.Probate Judge Gregory Ross set aside the ruling which he originally issued on 22 September, according to The Detroit News.According to the victim and her attorney, Rebecca Kiessling, the custody was given after the victim filled out a questionnaire seeking reimbursement of child support.
  
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• Quick Reminder: A U.S. Soccer Team Can Still Qualify For The World Cup

  11-10-2017 19:32 via yahoo.com
  The U.S. men’s national soccer team lost to Trinidad and Tobago, 2-1, on Tuesday night and were eliminated from qualifying for the 2018 World Cup.
  
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• Boy Scouts Of America Announces Plans To Let Girls Join

  11-10-2017 19:20 via yahoo.com
  Following a unanimous vote by its board of directors, Boy Scouts of America announced Wednesday that the organization would be allowing girls to join its Cub Scout program.
  
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• Couple Uncovers Hidden Cameras In Nightmare Airbnb Stay: Police

  11-10-2017 19:18 via yahoo.com
  It was an Airbnb nightmare for a couple vacationing in Florida after they say they found their rental unit rigged with hidden cameras ― something experts tell HuffPost is happening more often, but there are ways to detect.
  
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• A Thousand-Year Volcano in the Pacific Northwest

  11-10-2017 19:12 via yahoo.com
  The fumes from that eruption may answer a long-held question about the planet's history.
  
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