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• California wildfires threaten wine country tourism lifeblood

  12-10-2017 23:52 via yahoo.com
  By Noel RandewichNAPA, Calif. (Reuters) - The wildfires burning through Northern California are sending visitors packing, threatening the $2 billion-plus spent annually by tourists on wine tours, fine food, limousine rides and much more, business leaders said.At the Inn on First bed and breakfast in the famous wine town of Napa, co-owner Jamie Cherry was encouraging callers to postpone rather than cancel visits, as wildfires burned largely unchecked across the region.With hundreds of wineries, e
  
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• The Best Cosplay From Brazil Game Show 2017

  12-10-2017 23:46 via gamespot.com
  
  Every year, hundreds of thousands of Brazilian gamers flock to Sao Paulo to attend the Brasil Game Show, the biggest consumer-focused games show in all of Latin America. GameSpot visited the show in 2017 and found some outstanding cosplayers, and here are a selection of some of the best we saw.
  
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• Cop Rescues 92-Year-Old Man Turned Away at Bank Because His ID Had Expired

  12-10-2017 23:41 via yahoo.com
  The 92-year-old man was told he couldn't withdraw money from his account because his ID had expired.
  
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• Black Man Attacked by Charlottesville Racists Arrested

  12-10-2017 23:40 via yahoo.com
  DeAndre Harris is accused of unlawful wounding of a white supremacist.
  
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• Leave Akira Alone: Here Are 7 Anime Hollywood Should Adapt Instead

  12-10-2017 23:38 via gamespot.com
  
  Listen to fans, for once
  The live-action Akira movie may have a director, with Thor Ragnarok’s Taika Waititi reportedly in talks to take charge. But maybe adapting Akira isn't a good idea to begin with? Hollywood's anime adaptations tend to deviate from the source material, throwing cultural and historical value to the wind, and fans rarely end up happy.Fortunately, there is a solution, but it involves taking risks with anime titles that may not be as popular as Akira. There are plenty of
  
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• GS News Update: Xbox One's Original Xbox Backwards Compatibility Is Still Coming In 2017

  12-10-2017 23:36 via gamespot.com
  
  Xbox boss Phil Spencer provides an update on original Xbox backwards compatibility and teases something related to Xbox One X.
  
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• Star Wars: Battlefront 2 Beta Ends, Here's What's Changing

  12-10-2017 23:34 via gamespot.com
  
  After a brief extension, the Star Wars: Battlefront II multiplayer beta wrapped up this week. Now, developer DICE has published a blog post in which it talks about what it learned from the beta and how the final game may be different as a result of the feedback.DICE did not say exactly how many people played the beta, only noting that it was in the "millions." More than 9 million people played the beta for 2015's Battlefront, which at the time was a record for the company. Whatever the case, DIC
  
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• Mass Effect, Dragon Age Veteran Mike Laidlaw Leaves BioWare After 14 Years

  12-10-2017 23:30 via gamespot.com
  
  Mike Laidlaw, a BioWare veteran who worked on Jade Empire, Mass Effect, and most recently served as the creative director for the Dragon Age franchise, has left the company. Laidlaw had been with BioWare for the past 14 years.In a statement posted on Twitter, Laidlaw said, "It's with a mix of emotions that I'm announcing my time with BioWare has ended. After 14 years and a chance to work on Jade Empire, Mass Effect, and all things Dragon Age, it's time for me to move on."Regarding Dragon Age spe
  
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• Mass Effect, Dragon Age Veteran Leaves BioWare

  12-10-2017 23:30 via gamespot.com
  
  Mike Laidlaw, a BioWare veteran who worked on Jade Empire, Mass Effect, and most recently served as the creative director for the Dragon Age franchise, has left the company. Laidlaw had been with BioWare for the past 14 years.In a statement posted on Twitter, Laidlaw said, "It's with a mix of emotions that I'm announcing my time with BioWare has ended. After 14 years and a chance to work on Jade Empire, Mass Effect, and all things Dragon Age, it's time for me to move on."Regarding Dragon Age spe
  
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• Star Wars Battlefront 2's Controversial Crates Addressed By DICE

  12-10-2017 23:22 via gamespot.com
  
  EA's beta test for Star Wars Battlefront II has concluded. It showcased the game's new weapons, maps, heroes, and increased depth, but much of the discussion surrounding the game has centered around something that wasn't actually in the beta: microtransactions. Battlefront II will give away things like maps and character DLC for free, but it will use a loot box-style system for unlocking various upgrades that has fans concerned. We recently discussed how Battlefront II's microtransactions work a
  
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• Ryan Coogler Speaks Out Against Harvey Weinstein

  12-10-2017 23:11 via yahoo.com
  Ryan Coogler, director of “Fruitvale Station” and the upcoming “Black Panther” movie, has released a statement condemning disgraced movie exec Harvey Weinstein.
  
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• Trump lays out new Iran strategy Friday, complicating European ties

  12-10-2017 23:07 via yahoo.com
  By Steve HollandnWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump will lay out a more confrontationalstrategy toward Iran by the United States on Friday in a speech in which he is likely to strike a blow at an international Iran nuclear deal, complicating U.S. relations with European allies.U.S. officials said Trump was expected to announce that he will not certify the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, believing the agreement is not in the national interests of the United States.
  
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• Cracks Emerge In Rodrigo Duterte's Horrific Philippine Drug War

  12-10-2017 23:07 via yahoo.com
  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday announced a major shift in the country’s infamous drug war, instructing the national police to end their operations and handing control to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency.
  
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• Big Warframe Update Out Now On PC, Adds New Open-World Area, Weapons, And More

  12-10-2017 22:56 via gamespot.com
  
  The next big update for Warframe is now available for some. The Plains of Eidolon expansion arrives today on PC (with a PlayStation 4 and Xbox One release on the way later), adding a sprawling new area, weapons, and a slate of other content to the space action game.The biggest addition with this update--both literally and figuratively--is the eponymous new Landscape, the first open-world area in Warframe to date. Up to 50 players can gather together here on the basecamp of Cetus and play mining
  
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• Tom Hanks Calls BS On Harvey Weinstein's Apology

  12-10-2017 22:53 via yahoo.com
  Tom Hanks is the latest actor to speak out against Harvey Weinstein after numerous women have come forward claiming the producer sexually assaulted or harassed them.
  
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• Teen's killer asks board to spare his life, cites bad health

  12-10-2017 22:50 via yahoo.com
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A condemned inmate scheduled to die next month for killing a teenage boy is in such poor health he should be spared, according to attorneys who are asking the governor for mercy for him.
  
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• Mark Ruffalo Explains Exactly Where His Standalone Hulk Movie Is

  12-10-2017 22:46 via gamespot.com
  
  There hasn't been a standalone Hulk movie in almost a decade, despite the character's significant presence in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Hulk actor Mark Ruffalo has never been shy about commenting on that fact, and he revealed more than ever during a press conference for the upcoming Thor Ragnarok."I'd love to do a Hulk movie, and I think we all would love to do one," Ruffalo began, echoing sentiments that have been expressed many times before. But then he continued with a story about a conv
  
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• Haunting Video Shows Postal Worker Delivering Mail To Scorched Homes

  12-10-2017 22:40 via yahoo.com
  As wildfires continue to ravage parts of northern California, evacuees have begun returning to recover whatever belongings they have left.
  
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• Every Futurama Episode And Movie Is Coming To Hulu Very Soon

  12-10-2017 22:40 via gamespot.com
  
  At long last, Futurama is going to be available to stream to your heart's content. The animated series from The Simpsons creator Matt Groening is being added to Hulu's library on Monday, October 16.The streaming selection includes every single episode of the series that aired over seven seasons, along with the four direct-to-DVD films that were produced, as well. The news of Futurama's arrival on Hulu comes shortly after Syfy announced it has also acquired the series for broadcast. It will debut
  
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• Success Involves More Than Just Xbox One Sales To Microsoft's Phil Spencer

  12-10-2017 22:33 via gamespot.com
  
  How soon we see the next proper generation of consoles is anyone's guess. Sony and Microsoft have modified their approach to console hardware to resemble something like the mobile phone market, first with the PS4 Pro last year and next month with the Xbox One X. You'd expect the impending launch of a new console to be a time for executives to pump up how everyone needs to get their hands on one. And indeed, Microsoft says that everyone stands to benefit from an Xbox One X, 4K TV owner or not. Bu
  
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• Police: Texas Tech student questioned hours before shooting

  12-10-2017 22:33 via yahoo.com
  DALLAS (AP) — Lubbock police officers questioned a Texas Tech University student about a stolen gun hours before he shot and killed a campus police officer, authorities said Thursday.
  
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• Emma Thompson Thinks There Are Many More Harvey Weinsteins In Hollywood

  12-10-2017 22:27 via yahoo.com
  Emma Thompson is joining a chorus of famous actresses condemning Harvey Weinstein in the wake of the many allegations of sexual assault and harassment leveled against him.
  
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• Cadaver dogs join grim search for bodies as California fires rage

  12-10-2017 22:19 via yahoo.com
  Body recovery teams with cadaver dogs were searching Thursday for victims of California's wildfires as reinforcements arrived to help exhausted firefighters battle some of the worst infernos the state has ever seen.The death toll rose to 24 meanwhile from the wildfires, which began on Sunday and have left thousands of people homeless.Gusty winds on Thursday were hampering the efforts of the 8,000 firefighters battling 21 blazes which have burned 191,437 acres (77,500 hectares), and weather condi
  
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• An asteroid came super close to Earth but NASA wasn't worried

  12-10-2017 22:03 via yahoo.com
  An asteroid passed 26,000 miles from Earth early Thursday morning, but NASA scientists weren't alarmed: They had been waiting for this space rock, named 2012 TC4, to cruise by for around five years. The asteroid is estimated to be about 45 to 100 feet in diameter, so it never had the potential to catastrophically harm the Earth. However, it still got pretty close in cosmic terms. A distance of 26,000 miles is about one-tenth the distance between Earth and the moon. There are also hundreds of sat
  
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• The Mortyest Moments From Season 3!

  12-10-2017 22:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Morty Smith is a strong character. Hecan handle Rick and his own crippling self doubt. In Rick and Morty Season 3 we got to see Morty C-137 grow and we got to see how different he is to Mortys from other Universes. Buddy Hutton lists his favorite moments from Season 3.
  
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• Sex Offender Discovered in Homemade Police Uniform When He's Pulled Over by Real Officer: Cops

  12-10-2017 21:59 via yahoo.com
  Two men were pulled over in Ohio, each with a history of sex crimes.
  
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• U.S. Military Sends Troops to Russian Border

  12-10-2017 21:40 via yahoo.com
  The arrival of new U.S. troops in Poland has Russia pondering deploying additional nuclear-capable Iskander missiles right across the border.
  
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• The Latest: House passes $36.5 billion disaster aid bill

  12-10-2017 21:38 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on federal aid for hurricane=ravaged Puerto Rico (all times local):
  
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• Energy drinks leave new father with hole in his skull, fighting for his life during son's birth

  12-10-2017 21:37 via yahoo.com
  A mother of one is speaking out after her husband's energy drink consumption nearly cost her family everything.
  
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• Wife of Fallen Soldier Asks His Comrades in Afghanistan to Help With Gender Reveal

  12-10-2017 21:30 via yahoo.com
  "I wanted them to be the first to know to let them know they're family," Britt Harris said.
  
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• Evan Rachel Wood on Why She Hasn't Named Her Rapist: 'I Want to Do It When I'm Ready'

  12-10-2017 21:15 via yahoo.com
  Evan Rachel Wood is opening up about why she has not yet named the people who she says raped her — and standing up for actresses who have come forward with sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein
  
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• Ryan Gosling On Weinstein: 'He Is Emblematic Of A Systemic Problem'

  12-10-2017 21:14 via yahoo.com
  Ryan Gosling joins the very few male actors in Hollywood who have spoken out in regards to the sexual misconduct allegations waged against film executive Harvey Weinstein.
  
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• The U.S. Navy Could Attack North Korea from Stealth Submarines (With Almost No Warning)

  12-10-2017 21:11 via yahoo.com
  The United States is continuing to up the ante in its confrontation with North Korea.While the vessels are normally hidden from view, the U.S. Navy recently allowed the Los Angeles-class (SSN-688) attack submarine USS Tucson (SSN 770) to visit US.
  
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• Watch for What John Kelly Didn’t say in White House Briefing

  12-10-2017 21:03 via yahoo.com
  Chief of Staff John Kelly answered questions in the briefing room after a series of reports that Donald Trump is "unraveling" in the White House, as a Republican insider says the leaks are a cry for help.
  
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• Mystery surrounding ancient Easter Island people deepens

  12-10-2017 21:01 via yahoo.com
  By Will DunhamWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The massive brooding stone figures peering from Easter Island's hillsides are emblematic of the enigmatic people who once thrived on the dot of land in the middle of the Pacific.Scientists said on Thursday an analysis of DNA from ancient skeletal remains ruled out the likelihood that Easter Island's inhabitants intermixed with South Americans before the arrival of Europeans on the island in 1722.A 2014 genetic study had indicated interbreeding between the peo
  
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• Shadow Of War Guide: 11 Tips We Wish We Knew Before Starting

  12-10-2017 21:00 via gamespot.com
  
  What We Learned
  Middle-earth: Shadow of War is a dense action-RPG with a lot of skills to unlock, systems to get your head around, and many, many orcs to kill. While our beginner's guide covered the opening hours of the game, in the intervening hours we've learned a fair number of tips that we wish we knew before starting the game.Shadow of War is out now for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. It was originally slated to launch in August, only for it to be pushed back to October. A free-to-play strategy RPG
  
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• Four U.S. 'sanctuary cities' may be violating law: U.S. Attorney General Sessions

  12-10-2017 20:54 via yahoo.com
  By Sarah N. Lynch and Mica RosenbergWASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States Justice Department singled out four cities and a county on Thursday for allegedly having so-called "sanctuary policies" that may violate a federal law that says local governments cannot limit information sharing with U.S. immigration officials.The department said New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, and Cook County in Illinois along with its largest city Chicago, "have preliminarily been found" to have pol
  
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• GS News Update: Xbox Boss Unsure If Cross-Play With PS4 Will Happen

  12-10-2017 20:52 via gamespot.com
  
  Microsoft talks with Sony "all the time," according to Spencer, but the conversations haven't gone anywhere.
  
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• U.S. believes current North Korea nuclear threat is manageable: White House

  12-10-2017 20:51 via yahoo.com
  White House Chief of Staff John Kelly said on Thursday the Trump administration thinks the threat posed by North Korea's nuclear weapons capability is currently manageable but Pyongyang cannot be allowed to develop the ability to strike the U.S. homeland.
  
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• Yamaha Gets Weird for the Tokyo Motor Show

  12-10-2017 20:50 via yahoo.com
  Yamaha Gets Weird for the Tokyo Motor Show The Tokyo Motor Show is a popular venue for new ideas from Japanese car and motorcycle builders. While most of those concepts are pretty solid, a good handful are so pants-on-head crazy that you wonder how they ever
  
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• Hamas, Fatah sign deal on Palestinian reconciliation

  12-10-2017 20:50 via yahoo.com
  Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah signed an agreement Thursday on ending a decade-long split following talks mediated by Egypt in Cairo, with president Mahmud Abbas calling it a "final" accord.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly condemned the deal, saying it would make peace with his country "much harder to achieve".Under the agreement, the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority (PA) is to resume full control of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip by December 1, according to a
  
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• Man Stabbed in the Heart Walks 5 Blocks to the Hospital With Knife Sticking Out of His Chest

  12-10-2017 20:48 via yahoo.com
  Mohamed Ramirez checked himself into a New York City hospital.
  
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• Hundreds missing, 24 dead in California wildfires as crews gain ground

  12-10-2017 20:47 via yahoo.com
  By Noel RandewichSONOMA, Calif. (Reuters) - Firefighters began to gain ground on Thursday against the spread of wildfires that have killed at least 24 people in Northern California and left hundreds missing in the pandemonium of mass evacuations in the heart of the state's wine country.A brief resurgence of dry, gusty winds threatened to push flames into the Napa Valley town of Calistoga, whose 5,000-plus residents were ordered from their homes on Wednesday night as conditions worsened and fire
  
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• Jason Momoa’s Tasteless 'Game Of Thrones' Rape Joke Resurfaces Amid Weinstein Scandal

  12-10-2017 20:46 via yahoo.com
  As allegations against Harvey Weinstein continue to surface, other men in Hollywood are being called out for their own lewd behavior toward women.
  
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• Movies Anywhere Puts Your Digital Film Library In One Place, But It Comes At A Silent Cost

  12-10-2017 20:45 via gamespot.com
  
  Disney has expanded the power of its Movies Anywhere digital locker service with the addition of several major Hollywood studios in an attempt to make their mark on the streaming world. Previously, the service allowed those who purchased Disney--or Marvel or Lucasfilm--movies on Amazon Video, iTunes, Google Play, or Vudu to house them all in a single app.Now, with the overhauled Movies Anywhere service, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Film, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros.
  
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• Friday The 13th Update Out Now, Here Are The Patch Notes

  12-10-2017 20:26 via gamespot.com
  
  One day ahead of Friday the 13th's physical release for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, developer IllFonic is rolling out a new update for the survival horror game. Today's patch adds some new content in the form of an additional map, counselor, and Jason, along with the usual assortment of bug fixes and gameplay adjustments.Both the new map and Jason are taken from the film series' fourth installment, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. The map is based on the Jarvis House and its surrounding premi
  
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• A Look Back At Eminem's Image Over The Years

  12-10-2017 20:17 via yahoo.com
  Truth be told, Eminem is sooner revered for his whip-smart, catchy and topical lyrics and hit-making ability than his style of dress.
  
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• John Kelly Doesn't Think He's Getting Fired Today

  12-10-2017 20:07 via yahoo.com
  White House chief of staff John Kelly told reporters on Thursday that he doesn’t think he’s getting fired.
  
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• How Mr. Robot Can Save Itself In Season 3

  12-10-2017 20:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Mr. Robot returned to television this week, bringing audiences back into the anxiety-ridden reality of hacker extraordinaire Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek). After the series suffered a Season 2 slump--buckling a bit under the weight of the increasingly layered, nuanced world Sam Esmail created--it’s hard not to wonder if the show can now reclaim a bit of the brilliance that made Season 1 so compelling.When the series premiered in 2015, the story introduced audiences to social outcast Alderso
  
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• U.S. Attorney General Sessions urges crackdown on asylum policies

  12-10-2017 19:57 via yahoo.com
  By Sarah N. LynchFALLS CHURCH, Va.,(Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Thursday the policies that allow immigrants to seek asylum in the United States were broken and subject to "rampant abuse and fraud."In a speech at the department's Executive Office For Immigration Review, Sessions said too many immigrants were taking advantage of the rules, and urged Congress to pass legislation that could make it harder for asylum petitions to be granted.Overhauling the U.S. asylum syste
  
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