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• Chrissy Teigen Has Some Thoughts On The New Animal Crossing Game

  26-11-2017 23:14 via gamespot.com
  
  Model Chrissy Teigen has a lot to say about the newly released free-to-play Animal Crossing game for mobile devices. Across a series of tweets, Teigen said Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is probably fine for Animal Crossing "newbies" but it lacks the depth she expected for a "Tom Nook loyalist" like herself."Pocket animal crossing might be okay for you AC newbies but for us tom nook loyalists it is merely a hit of the crack that is actual, real, animal crossing," Teigen said. "It lacks the heart.
  
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• 'Ashamed' Franken says he won't quit Senate over groping accusations

  26-11-2017 23:14 via yahoo.com
  Franken, a Democrat and former comedian who has represented Minnesota in the Senate since 2009, said in a round of media interviews -- his first since the allegations surfaced on Nov. 16 -- that he looked forward to returning to his job on Monday.Franken resisted comparisons between his behavior and that of Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for a U.S. Senate seat from Alabama who has been accused of improper conduct involving teenage girls decades ago.In a separate interview with Minnesota Publi
  
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• Las Vegas Shooting Survivor Killed In Hit and Run

  26-11-2017 23:11 via yahoo.com
  A man who survived the Las Vegas shooting that killed 58 people has reportedly died in a hit and run
  
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• The Latest: Alabama Democrat shrugs off Trump's criticism

  26-11-2017 22:48 via yahoo.com
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Latest on the Alabama Senate race between Democrat Doug Jones and Republican Roy Moore (all times local):
  
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• Egypt jails 14 for homosexuality

  26-11-2017 22:47 via yahoo.com
  An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced 14 men convicted of being homosexuals to three years in jail each for "abnormal" sexual relations, a defence lawyer said.Homosexuality is not expressly outlawed in Egypt, but gays have previously been charged with debauchery in the deeply conservative Muslim society.In recent months, authorities have cracked down on people who practise so-called "abnormal" sexual relations, which in Egypt means homosexuality, or for inciting debauchery.
  
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• Destiny 2 Update Will Include New Rewards Systems, Economy Changes

  26-11-2017 22:45 via gamespot.com
  
  Destiny 2's next major update is coming alongside the Curse of Osiris expansion early next month, and now developer Bungie has shared some new details about it. Game director Luke Smith said on Twitter that on the systems side of the December update, you can expect the following changes:Economy updates (vendors & acquiring their gear, tokens, legendary shards).Investment updates (new reward systems for weapons & armor).Gameplay updates."And more." That's as specific as Smith got, but he
  
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• New York Times Defends Its Inflammatory Nazi Sympathizer Profile

  26-11-2017 22:32 via yahoo.com
  In the wake of widespread backlash against its profile of a Nazi sympathizer, The New York Times said on Sunday it regrets offending readers and defended elements of the story criticized as normalizing white extremism.
  
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• Bali's Mount Agung has first major volcano eruption since 1963

  26-11-2017 22:21 via yahoo.com
  Indonesian and regional authorities heightened flight warnings around Bali’s Mount Agung on Sunday as the volcano’s eruptions sent a plume of volcanic ash and steam more than 6,000 meters into the skies above the popular holiday island. The eruptions marked the first major activity from Mount Agung since 1963.Ash covered roads, cars and buildings near the volcano in the northeast of the island, while scores of flights were cancelled and overnight a red glow of what appeared to b
  
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• 'I’m Embarrassed and Ashamed.' Al Franken Speaks Publicly About Sexual Harassment Allegations

  26-11-2017 22:00 via yahoo.com
  He says he will return to work on Monday
  
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• Khloé Kardashian Puts Up Her Christmas Tree

  26-11-2017 21:47 via yahoo.com
  ‘Tis the season — to start decorating!
  
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• Celebs Rally For Cyntoia Brown, A Child Sex-Trafficking Victim Who Killed A Man

  26-11-2017 21:46 via yahoo.com
  Cyntoia Brown was just 16 years old she killed a Tennessee real estate agent who solicited her for sex, for which she was sentenced to life in prison.
  
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• 3 Teens Plotted to Kill New Classmate Who 'Disrupted' Social Order: Police

  26-11-2017 21:27 via yahoo.com
  Two boys and one girl, all 16, are accused of planning to kill an 18-year-old classmate who was new to Kiona-Benton City High School, the Benton County Sheriff’s Office said.
  
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• Franken says he's 'ashamed' by harassment allegations but 'looking forward to getting back to work'

  26-11-2017 21:13 via yahoo.com
  Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., said on Sunday that he is “embarrassed and ashamed” about the allegations by multiple women of sexual harassment against him, but added that he is “looking forward to getting back to work tomorrow.”
  
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• Franken ashamed amid groping claims, will return to work

  26-11-2017 21:09 via yahoo.com
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Sen. Al Franken broke his silence Sunday after being swept into a nationwide tide of sexual harassment allegations, saying he feels "embarrassed and ashamed" but looks forward to returning to work on Monday and gradually regaining voters' trust.
  
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• Restaurant Employee Helps Injured Vet With Meal in Heartwarming Video

  26-11-2017 21:04 via yahoo.com
  Without being asked, the woman walked over to the man and cut his food for him.
  
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• Israeli minister resigns over railway Sabbath 'desecration'

  26-11-2017 20:19 via yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's health minister, who heads a powerful ultra-Orthodox political party in Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition, resigned on Sunday, saying he opposed continued maintenance work on the country's railways on the Sabbath, when all labor is strictly prohibited by Jewish law.
  
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• Pakistani Islamists clash with police, paralyse cities

  26-11-2017 19:46 via yahoo.com
  By Asif ShahzadFAIZABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - A hard-line Islamist party's activists clashed with security forces in Pakistan's capital and other cities on Sunday, officials said, paralysing Islamabad a day after a failed clearing operation killed several people and wounded some 150.The religious activists, who accuse a government minister of blasphemy for a change in the wording of an electoral oath, burned several vehicles outside the capital before withdrawing in an uneasy stand-off at a prot
  
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• Pelosi: Conyers deserves 'due process' on misconduct claims

  26-11-2017 19:42 via yahoo.com
  House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi defended Michigan Rep. John Conyers as an "icon" for women's rights and declined to say whether the longtime Democratic lawmaker should resign over allegations that he sexually harassed female staff members. She insisted that he will do the "right thing."
  
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• Pelosi defends Conyers as 'an icon' amid sexual harassment claims

  26-11-2017 19:25 via yahoo.com
  House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi defended Rep. John Conyers on Sunday amid accusations of sexual harassment, calling the 88-year-old Democratic congressman from Michigan “an icon in our country” who “has done a great deal to protect women.”
  
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• Iran, Turkey sign deal with Qatar to ease Gulf blockade

  26-11-2017 19:24 via yahoo.com
  Iran and Turkey signed a deal Sunday with Qatar aimed at boosting commercial ties with the Gulf state which is under blockade by its Arab neighbours, Iranian state television said.The broadcaster's website said the agreement provides for the creation of a "joint working group to facilitate the transit of goods between the three countries".It also said the three nations aimed to tackle "obstacles to sending goods from Iran and Turkey to Qatar".
  
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• Elle UK Interviews Daisy Ridley While She Builds A Lego Millennium Falcon

  26-11-2017 19:08 via yahoo.com
  She’s talented and beautiful and she plays Luke Skywalker’s new padawan, Rey, in one of the most anticipated “Star Wars” films of all time, but now comes the true test: Can Daisy Ridley build the Millennium Falcon with Legos?
  
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• Egyptian village where mosque was attacked had been warned

  26-11-2017 19:02 via yahoo.com
  CAIRO (AP) — Elders of a village in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula where militants killed 305 people in a mosque had been warned by Islamic State operatives to stop collaborating with security forces and to suspend rituals associated with Islam's mystical Sufi movement, security officials and residents said Sunday.
  
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• Mass Effect: Andromeda Deluxe Edition Added To EA Access

  26-11-2017 18:55 via gamespot.com
  
  Mass Effect: Andromeda might have put the franchise on the back burner for a while, but EA hasn't given up on the sci-fi game quite yet. Mass Effect: Andromeda deluxe edition is now available via EA Access on Xbox One and PC.If you've already played Mass Effect: Andromeda, this might be the perfect opportunity to revisit it. Revealed via Twitter after a tease in October, all EA Access members will be able to play the base game itself, but get a few extras for the journey as well.The deluxe versi
  
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• Mount Agung, Bali's Massive Volcano, is Spewing Fresh Magma

  26-11-2017 18:31 via yahoo.com
  The volcano last erupted in 1963.
  
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• Grand coalition 'best option' for Germany, says CSU chief

  26-11-2017 18:29 via yahoo.com
  Hopes were raised for an end to Germany’s political impasse on Sunday, as Horst Seehofer, leader of Angela Merkel's sister CSU party, said a renewed grand coalition is "the best option” for the country. In a difficult week, chancellor Angela Merkel fought to save her political career and avoid snap elections, after negotiations between her Christian Democrats (CDU) and smaller parties broke down more than four weeks after they began, following Germany’s federal electi
  
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• Cuba holds municipal elections on road to Castro era’s end

  26-11-2017 18:29 via yahoo.com
  By Marc FrankHAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba took another step on Sunday toward the end of the Castro era, with millions of residents placing paper ballots in cardboard boxes for ward delegates to municipal assemblies.The vote comes the day after the first anniversary of revolutionary leader Fidel Castro’s death and precedes another election early next year for provincial and national assembly deputies.The new national assembly, where 50 percent of the deputies must be ward delegates elected on Su
  
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• Syria regime bombing kills 23 civilians near Damascus: monitor

  26-11-2017 18:14 via yahoo.com
  Syrian regime air strikes and artillery fire killed 23 civilians on Sunday across the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region outside the capital Damascus, a monitor said.Eastern Ghouta is already in the grip of a humanitarian crisis caused by a crushing regime siege of the area since 2013 that has caused severe food and medical shortages.
  
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• Mugabe was relieved after quitting, Zimbabwean mediator says

  26-11-2017 18:00 via yahoo.com
  CHISHAWASHA, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe's former President Robert Mugabe knew it was "the end of the road" days before he quit, and appeared relieved when he signed his resignation letter after 37 years in power, a Catholic priest who mediated talks leading to his ouster said Sunday.
  
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• Congressman Calls Trump 'An Idiot' For Using Egypt Mosque Attack To Promote Border Wall

  26-11-2017 17:44 via yahoo.com
  Rep. Filemon Vela (D-Texas) lashed out at President Donald Trump for using Friday’s deadly mass shooting at an Egyptian mosque to keep up his push for construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
  
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• Brexit without EU trade deal 'not end of world': WTO chief

  26-11-2017 17:42 via yahoo.com
  The head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) said Sunday it would not be "the end of the world" if Britain failed to reach a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, but there would be costs.Roberto Azevedo told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper that although Britain would be better off with an agreement, the impact of falling back on WTO rules would be "manageable"."About half of the UK's trade is already on WTO terms -- with the US, China and several large emerging nations where the EU doesn't have
  
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• A company you've probably never heard of became bigger than Facebook last week

  26-11-2017 17:41 via yahoo.com
  A tech company barely known in the western world briefly eclipsed Facebook as one of the top five largest corporations in the world.Tencent, a 19-year-old company which now offers games and a WeChat messaging service, hit a market capitalisation value of $529.9 billion last week, overtaking its Silicon Valley counterpart at $528.5 billion.Around 750 million Chinese internet users are flocking to online games, messaging apps and online shopping, propelling Tencent and Alibaba, another Chinese com
  
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• Advocates say Texas exploiting day laborers after Harvey

  26-11-2017 17:35 via yahoo.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — Guillermo Miranda Vazquez starts his day in a parking lot near the Home Depot where he easily finds work alongside other day laborers who are cleaning up Houston after Hurricane Harvey.
  
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• Man Who Survived Las Vegas Massacre Killed in Hit-and-Run

  26-11-2017 17:34 via yahoo.com
  Roy McClellan, 52, was killed Nov. 17 when he was struck by a Chevrolet Camaro in Pahrump, about 60 miles west of Las Vegas, officials said.
  
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• Nancy Pelosi Won't Say If John Conyers Should Resign

  26-11-2017 17:33 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
  
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• Women get chance to 'one-up' the men in mixed infantry units

  26-11-2017 17:27 via yahoo.com
  The Army's introduction of women into the infantry has moved steadily but cautiously this year. As home to the previously all-male infantry and armor schools, Fort Benning had to make $35 million in renovations, including female dorm rooms, security cameras, and monitoring stations.
  
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• No Irish border deal before EU trade agreement: British minister

  26-11-2017 17:27 via yahoo.com
  Britain will not resolve the question of the Irish border after Brexit until it has also agreed the outline of a trade deal with the European Union, the country's International Trade Minister Liam Fox said on Sunday.The EU has said "sufficient progress" needs to be made on the border between the Republic and Northern Ireland, along with two other key issues, before EU leaders meeting at a summit on Dec. 14-15 can approve the opening of trade talks next year.
  
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• Sparring escalates over interim leader of U.S. consumer finance agency

  26-11-2017 17:24 via yahoo.com
  The White House's plan to appoint an interim leader for the top U.S. regulator for consumer finance came under further scrutiny on Sunday as a senior Democratic senator said the move would violate the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law.Richard Cordray, a Democrat, stepped down on Friday as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was created after the financial crisis to protect consumers from abusive lending practices.President Donald Trump then named White House budget direct
  
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• Trump Stands By Roy Moore, As GOP Senators Keep Their Distance

  26-11-2017 17:20 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Republican senators on Sunday continued to distance themselves from alleged sexual predator Roy Moore, while President Donald Trump reiterated his implicit support of the Alabama GOP Senate candidate.
  
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• Arrest In Florida Road Rage Shooting

  26-11-2017 17:12 via yahoo.com
  After a manhunt for a gunman who opened fire on a major highway in Florida, a suspect has been arrested. Authorities are investigating it as an act of road rage, a growing problem in the United States.
  
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• Syria: At least 23 civilians killed ahead of UN talks

  26-11-2017 17:07 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — Government airstrikes and shelling outside the Syrian capital killed at least 23 civilians, activists reported Sunday, as fighting in the area showed no signs of letting up ahead of the resumption of U.N. peace talks in Geneva.
  
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• George H.W. Bush Is the Longest Living President in U.S. History

  26-11-2017 17:07 via yahoo.com
  He surpassed predecessor Gerald Ford
  
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• Trump makes the case for voting Roy Moore — again

  26-11-2017 16:59 via yahoo.com
  President Trump reiterated his tacit support for Moore in Alabama Senate race despite multiple allegations of sexual misconduct and assault against the former judge.
  
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• Grandma Who Texted Wrong Teen Last Thanksgiving Invites Him Again

  26-11-2017 16:36 via yahoo.com
  One of the best Thanksgiving invite mixups has become a holiday tradition.
  
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• A Star Psychiatrist Swerves From Nuclear Armageddon To Climate Change

  26-11-2017 16:33 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK ― Robert Jay Lifton has spent his life trying to understand some of the most unfathomable milestones of the 20th century.
  
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• Naya Rivera Charged with Domestic Battery After Alleged Altercation with Husband Ryan Dorsey

  26-11-2017 16:32 via yahoo.com
  Former Glee star Naya Rivera was arrested and charged with misdemeanor domestic battery after an alleged altercation with her husband Ryan Dorsey on Saturday night in Kanawha County, West Virginia, police confirm to PEOPLE
  
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• Illinois' GOP governor faces challenge from right in 2018

  26-11-2017 16:28 via yahoo.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has so infuriated some far-right members of his Republican party with his actions on abortion, immigration and other issues that he's now facing a primary challenge as he seeks a second term.
  
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• Islamic State raises stakes with Egypt mosque attack

  26-11-2017 16:21 via yahoo.com
  By Yusri Mohamed and Mahmoud MouradISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - The mosque was packed with hundreds of worshippers for Friday prayers in Egypt's North Sinai when gunmen in military-style uniforms and masks appeared in a doorway and at windows.The ease with which they mounted an attack - killing more than 300 people in the worst bloodshed of its kind in Egypt's modern history - highlighted the threat militant groups pose in the most populous Arab country.After four years of battling Islamic State
  
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• Jared Kushner marginalised in the White House as Chief of Staff John Kelly asserts control

  26-11-2017 16:16 via yahoo.com
  Once seen as unassailable in the White House, Jared Kushner's influence on his father in law, Donald Trump, is reported to be on the wane. Reports circulating in Washington suggest that Mr Kushner's wings have been clipped as John Kelly, the White House chief of staff, asserts his authority over an at times chaotic administration riven by infighting. Mr Kushner, 36, who once enjoyed unfettered access to the president, is now expected to go through Mr Kelly according to several sources in Washing
  
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• Puerto Rico's Farmers Face A Long Road To Recovery Post-Hurricane Maria

  26-11-2017 15:55 via yahoo.com
  HATILLO, Puerto Rico ― Clusters of bruised plantains and bags of oranges hung from René “Papo” Cruz’s fruit and vegetable stand on the side of the road.
  
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• U.S. warns of repercussions for Pakistan over freed militant

  26-11-2017 15:51 via yahoo.com
  The White House said on Saturday there would be repercussions for U.S.-Pakistan relations unless Islamabad took action to detain and charge a newly freed Islamist accused of masterminding a 2008 assault in Mumbai, India.
  
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