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• Montreal Is Ending Its Ban On Pit Bulls

  09-12-2017 23:30 via yahoo.com
  A ban on pit bull-type dogs in Montreal that’s been slammed by animal protection groups will be rolled back later this month.
  
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• California firefighters make gains ahead of strong winds

  09-12-2017 23:25 via yahoo.com
  By Caroline AndersonVENTURA, Calif. (Reuters) - Firefighters in Southern California made progress on Saturday in their multifront battle against a slew of wildfires that have killed at least one person, destroyed hundreds of buildings and forced more than 200,000 people from their homes this week.As the dry Santa Ana winds that have fueled the blazes abated slightly, officials lifted evacuation orders for parts of Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, and crews started getting the upper hand in co
  
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• Priest who used to be KKK member apologizes 40 years later

  09-12-2017 23:11 via yahoo.com
  ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A former Ku Klux Klan member who burned a cross on a black couple's lawn 40 years ago, before becoming a Roman Catholic priest, has finally written his victims an apology.
  
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• Palestinians to snub Pence during visit over Jerusalem move

  09-12-2017 22:55 via yahoo.com
  By Mohamed Abdellah and Nidal al-MughrabiCAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will not meet U.S. Vice President Mike Pence during Pence's visit to the region this month in a snub over the U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, the Palestinian Foreign Minister said on Saturday.Violence erupted for a third day in Gaza in response to President Donald Trump's announcement on Wednesday, which overturned decades of U.S. policy towards the Middle East.Israeli air strik
  
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• Ukrainian author of Manafort op-ed says sought input to avoid errors

  09-12-2017 22:50 via yahoo.com
  By Pavel PolityukKIEV (Reuters) - The author of an article that U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller believes Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort ghost-wrote in violation of a gag order said on Saturday he had sought input on the op-ed before publishing to avoid errors.On Friday, Mueller unveiled evidence against Manafort to convince a judge that he wrote the article to improve his public image.Manafort is facing charges as part of an investigation into accusations of Russian meddling i
  
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• Papers, Please PS Vita Release Date Finally Confirmed

  09-12-2017 22:14 via gamespot.com
  
  Papers, Please, Lucas Pope's acclaimed indie game in which players assume the role of an immigration officer for the fictional country of Arstotzka, will be available for PlayStation Vita on December 12.Pope announced the date on Twitter, where he posted a picture of the game running on Sony's handheld with the date attached. Unfortunately, Pope didn't say exactly how much the game will cost, but noted that "it should be roughly if not the same as desktop." Currently, Papers, Please is available
  
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• U.N. envoy told North Korea urgent need to open channels to cut conflict risk

  09-12-2017 22:09 via yahoo.com
  By Jane Chung and Michelle NicholsSEOUL/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations political affairs chief told senior North Korean officials during a visit to Pyongyang this week that there was an "urgent need to prevent miscalculations and open channels to reduce the risks of conflict," the world body said.Jeffrey Feltman, the highest-level U.N. official to visit North Korea since 2012, met with Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho and Vice Minister Pak Myong Guk, the United Nations said in a statem
  
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• Outlast 1 And 2 Are Coming To Switch

  09-12-2017 22:03 via gamespot.com
  
  Outlast and Outlast 2 Switch ports are incoming. Right now, we know for sure that both ports will hit the hybrid system in Q1 2018.Developer Red Barrels announced the ports via Facebook, thanking fans for sticking around for the last five years, detailing a little more about the future of Outlast, and what fans can expect next year. We don't have a specific release date/price point yet, and no details have been released whether if either port will have any exclusive or additional content.As for
  
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• California fires: Year around blazes set to become 'the new normal' as Governor blames climate change

  09-12-2017 22:02 via yahoo.com
  California Governor Jerry Brown has told the state’s residents to get used to destructive wildfires in winter, declaring them “the new normal”.As six major fires ravage southern California, having led to the death of one person and the destruction of hundreds of homes and other buildings, Mr Brown said the state needed to face up to a new challenge.Visiting Ventura County, where the largest of the blazes – the Thomas Fire – is still growing, Mr Brown said drought an
  
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• New Spider-Man Animated Movie Starring Miles Morales Coming, And It Looks Amazing

  09-12-2017 21:49 via gamespot.com
  
  Sony and Marvel have released a trailer for an unexpected new Spider-Man movie titled Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse. Unlike the other big-screen Spidey flicks, this one is animated, and stars Miles Morales, who started life in the Ultimate Universe but has since crossed over into various other Marvel comic realities.The trailer, which you can watch below, is incredibly stylish, with vibrant colors and iconic Spider-Man motifs from start to finish. There's almost a sci-fi, Blade Runner-like qu
  
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• Fox News Corrects Story Claiming Roy Moore Accuser ‘Forged’ Candidate’s Signature

  09-12-2017 21:49 via yahoo.com
  Fox News updated a story that erroneously claimed one of Roy Moore’s accusers had “forged” evidence she’d presented to bolster her claim against him.
  
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• Honduras opposition demands 'rigged' vote be canceled

  09-12-2017 21:47 via yahoo.com
  Honduras's leftwing opposition is demanding a presidential election held two weeks ago be voided and its results annulled, alleging it was "rigged" in favor of incumbent President Juan Orlando Hernandez.The Alliance Against the Dictatorship coalition backing Hernandez's chief rival in the poll, Salvador Nasralla, lodged the demand late Friday with the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.Both Hernandez and Nasralla claimed victory after the November 26 election.
  
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• California's Getty museum survives wildfire, ready for quakes

  09-12-2017 21:32 via yahoo.com
  Southern California's Getty Center, one of the world's wealthiest art institutions, said it had survived a wildfire tearing through Los Angeles thanks to a disaster plan that has it ready for earthquakes as well.Fires that have chased almost 200,000 Californians from their homes covered the Getty's hillside location in smoke this week.Perched above the busy 405 freeway, an artery of California's traffic system, the Getty is among the most visited U.S. museums and reopened on Friday after two day
  
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• Trump visits Mississippi's Civil Rights Museum amid protests

  09-12-2017 21:30 via yahoo.com
  As Trump visited the new Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, protesters held up signs and shouted "No Trump, no hate, no KKK in the USA."
  
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• White Nationalists Have Been Saying 'Diversity Is Not Our Strength' For Years

  09-12-2017 21:24 via yahoo.com
  Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) has again flirted with being an open white nationalist.
  
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• Trump Watches Up To 8 Hours Of TV Per Day

  09-12-2017 21:20 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump, who just last month said he’s too busy “reading documents” to watch much television, spends up to 8 hours in front of the TV each day, according to a new report.
  
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• Al Franken Is Not Sorry

  09-12-2017 20:47 via yahoo.com
  Even as he resigned from the Senate in disgrace this week, Minnesota Sen. Al Franken couldn't resist a parting shot.
  
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• Norovirus Outbreak Sickens Students at North Carolina State University

  09-12-2017 20:41 via yahoo.com
  About 60 students have come down with the illness
  
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• Your Tax Dollars Are Being Used To Attack Patagonia

  09-12-2017 20:07 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON — The House Committee on Natural Resources has joined Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s fight against Patagonia, accusing the American outdoor retailer of lying in order to sell merchandise.
  
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• Recordings of Pilot president's epithets could disrupt trial

  09-12-2017 20:05 via yahoo.com
  CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Secret recordings of one of the defendants uttering racial epithets are threatening to disrupt the federal fraud trial of former executives and sales staffers at the truck stop chain controlled by the family of Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam.
  
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• China's 'tiger mothers' rebel against punitive homework for parents

  09-12-2017 19:33 via yahoo.com
  Fed up with picking up the slack in terms of helping her son with his heavy school workload, 39-year-old mother, Mrs Wang, has joined millions of like-minded parents who are calling for something that China’s ‘tiger mothers’ would have considered unthinkable only a few years ago – a break from homework. The campaign focuses on the frustrations of parents who believe they shouldn’t be spending their evenings tackling arithmetic questions or reciting complex sent
  
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• Detainees on agenda as top British diplomat arrives in Iran

  09-12-2017 19:22 via yahoo.com
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson arrived in Tehran on Saturday, where he is was expected to discuss the fate of detained dual nationals, including a woman serving a five-year prison sentence for allegedly plotting to overthrow Iran's government.
  
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• SOS Closed Beta Code Giveaway

  09-12-2017 19:15 via gamespot.com
  
  We're giving away 5,000 Closed Beta Codes for SOS on PC. SOS is an online multiplayer survival game where 16 players face off in a 30-minute challenge to escape La Cuna Island.The closed beta test takes place Monday, December 11th through Sunday, December 17th. Entry is open worldwide. You will receive an email with the code within 24 hours.Here's our hands-on experience with the game: Battle Royale Game SOS Puts Players In The Spotlight For A Live AudienceGrab your code below:
  
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• Egypt reveals artefacts, mummy from tombs in ancient city of Luxor

  09-12-2017 19:02 via yahoo.com
  Egypt's authorities on Saturday revealed artefacts and a linen-wrapped mummified body, possibly that of a top official, from two tombs that were discovered two decades ago in the Nile city of Luxor but had not been fully unexplored.The Ministry of Antiquities said the tombs, located in the Draa Abul Naga necropolis on Luxor's west bank, had been noted by German archaeologist Frederica Kampp in 1990s and were either unexcavated or had never been entered.Along with the mummy, archaeologists found
  
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• Battle Royale Game SOS Puts Players In The Spotlight For A Live Audience

  09-12-2017 19:00 via gamespot.com
  
  When you're trapped on an island with danger around every corner, you'll have to use anything at your disposal to survive. Outpost Games' upcoming battle royale game SOS takes this thinking to heart, but adds in some rather unorthodox twists that asks players--or "performers," as the developers say--to go out of their comfort zone. Taking part in a life-or-death game on a reality TV show, 16 performers, along with some dangerous infected creatures, have to fight to survive, and only a few will m
  
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• Iraq declares final victory over Islamic State

  09-12-2017 18:57 via yahoo.com
  By Maher Chmaytelli and Ahmed AbouleneinBAGHDAD (Reuters) - Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared final victory over Islamic State on Saturday after Iraqi forces drove its last remnants from the country, three years after the militant group captured about a third of Iraq's territory.The announcement comes two days after the Russian military announced the defeat of the militants in neighboring Syria, where Moscow is backing Syrian government forces.Iraqi forces recaptured the last areas still u
  
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• Archaeologists discover 2 ancient tombs in Egypt's Luxor

  09-12-2017 18:53 via yahoo.com
  LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — Egypt on Saturday announced the discovery of two small ancient tombs in the southern city Luxor dating back some 3,500 years and hoped it will help the country's efforts to revive its ailing tourism sector.
  
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• US hails end of IS 'vile occupation' in Iraq

  09-12-2017 18:37 via yahoo.com
  The United States hailed the end of the Islamic State group's "vile occupation" of Iraq Saturday after the Baghdad government declared victory in a three-year war, but warned that the jihadists still posed a threat."The Iraqi announcement signals the last remnants of ISIS's self-proclaimed 'caliphate' in Iraq have been erased and the people living in those areas have been freed from ISIS's brutal control," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said."The United States joins the government o
  
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• Substitute Teacher and Custodian Hailed Heroes After Gunman Opens Fire At School, Killing 2

  09-12-2017 18:28 via yahoo.com
  A 21-year-old opened fire and then killed himself.
  
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• Obama Warns Americans Against Following In The Path Of Nazi Germany

  09-12-2017 18:22 via yahoo.com
  It’s not that democracy is “fragile,” exactly, but it is “reversible,” according to former President Barack Obama.
  
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• Lebanon PM slams Iraq militia head visit to Israel ceasefire line

  09-12-2017 18:05 via yahoo.com
  Lebanon's prime minister on Saturday criticised a visit by an Iraqi Shiite militia leader to Lebanon's ceasefire line with Israel, saying it violated local law.The trip by Qais al-Khazali, the founder and leader of the Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia, was organised by Lebanon's Hezbollah, a powerful armed movement and arch-foe of Israel.A video of the visit began circulating on social media on Friday, showing Khazali wearing military uniform during a tour of parts of southern Lebanon.
  
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• Egypt archaeologists discover mummy in Luxor

  09-12-2017 17:47 via yahoo.com
  Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a mummy in one of two previously unexplored tombs across the Nile from the southern city of Luxor, the antiquities ministry said Saturday.The tombs were found in the 1990s by German archaeologist Frederica Kampp, though she had only reached the entrance gate "but never entered", the ministry said.Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Enany was in Luxor to announce the discovery in Draa Abul Nagaa necropolis near the famed Valley of the Kings, where many pharaohs,
  
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• Lebanon's Hariri denounces Iraqi Shi'ite paramilitary's visit to border

  09-12-2017 17:42 via yahoo.com
  The head of an Iran-backed Iraqi Shi'ite militia has visited Lebanon's border with Israel accompanied by Hezbollah fighters, a video released on Saturday showed, in a show of Iranian influence that Lebanon's prime minister called illegal.Qais al-Khazali, leader of the Iraqi paramilitary group Asaib Ahl al-Haq, declared his readiness "to stand together with the Lebanese people and the Palestinian cause", in the video footage widely circulating on social media.
  
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• Judd Apatow Dismantles White House Explanation For Trump's Slurred Speech

  09-12-2017 17:38 via yahoo.com
  Are you suffering from chronic or severe dry mouth?
  
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• Trump administration facing lawsuit for allowing fracking companies to dump waste in Gulf of Mexico

  09-12-2017 17:37 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump's administration is facing a lawsuit for permitting oil companies to dump fracking waste into the Gulf of Mexico.The Centre for Biological Diversity (CBD) filed a formal notice of intent against the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), arguing the practice endangers sea turtles, whales and other marine life.It comes just months after the EPA finalised a Clean Water Act that allows oil companies to offload unlimited amounts of waste into the ocean basin.
  
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• Tears, pomp, extravagance as France mourns rocker Hallyday

  09-12-2017 17:37 via yahoo.com
  PARIS (AP) — France bid farewell to its biggest rock star Saturday, honoring Johnny Hallyday with an extravagant funeral procession down Paris' Champs-Elysees Avenue, a presidential speech and a televised church ceremony filled with the country's most famous faces.
  
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• Opera student raises $40,000 in performance for college tuition

  09-12-2017 17:09 via yahoo.com
  Drew Anthony raised enough money in a single opera performance to pay for a year of college tuition. After hearing his story, several prestigious universities have tapped him for spots at their school.
  
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• As winds relent, scorched California hopes for fire relief

  09-12-2017 17:05 via yahoo.com
  Brutal winds that fueled southern California's firestorm finally began to ease Saturday, giving residents and firefighters hope for respite as the destructive toll of multiple blazes came into focus.Despite the intensity of the fires that raged on six different fronts -- stretching from areas north of Los Angeles down to the San Diego region -- authorities have reported only one fatality.In the mountain town of Ojai the air-quality index was hovering over 500 -- at the top of the "hazardous" sca
  
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• Trump has no authority “to give away Jerusalem to an occupying power,” Palestinian official says

  09-12-2017 17:04 via yahoo.com
  Palestinian leaders are vowing to snub the White House following President Trump’s decision Wednesday to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
  
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• Trump’s visit to Mississippi Civil Rights Museum underscores national tension

  09-12-2017 17:03 via yahoo.com
  President Trump delivered remarks at the opening event for the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum—while Congressman John Lewis—a civil rights icon -- boycotted the President’s visit as an “insult” to the people commemorated there.
  
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• Travel troubles: snow cancels flights along the East Coast

  09-12-2017 17:01 via yahoo.com
  Atlanta’s airport -- the nation’s busiest -- experienced the bulk of today’s travel troubles after an unexpected blast of winter weather headed southeast.
  
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• Southern California wildfires leave 800 structures in ashes

  09-12-2017 17:01 via yahoo.com
  While some evacuees were told it was safe to return home others are now being forced to flee their homes as 8,500 firefighters battle quickly moving flames around the clock in Southern California.
  
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• Steep: Road To The Olympics Review

  09-12-2017 17:00 via gamespot.com
  
  When Ubisoft Annecy's extreme sports game Steep launched last year, it sold itself on the promise of big mountain exploration. In light of this, Steep's newest expansion, Road to the Olympics, feels somewhat incongruous with the rest of the game. Something as regimented, restricted, and well-defined as the Olympics does not fit well with a game that challenges you to break all restrictions and find every nook and cranny hidden in the mountains. However, despite its name, Road to the Olympics inc
  
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• Nobel peace laureates urge US, NKorea to de-escalate nuclear threats

  09-12-2017 16:52 via yahoo.com
  Representatives of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), on Saturday called on the US and North Korea to reduce tensions and end the "urgent threat" posed byweapons of mass destruction."There's an urgent threat right now," ICAN head Beatrice Fihn told a press conference in Oslo."I would very strongly urge these two leaders to back down from this threat, stop threatening to use weapons of mass destruction to slaughter hundreds of thousa
  
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• North Korea Renews 'Dotard' Insult For Donald Trump Over Jerusalem Move

  09-12-2017 16:38 via yahoo.com
  North Korea reignited its feud with President Donald Trump on Saturday.
  
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• Powerful Iraqi militant appears on Lebanon-Israel border

  09-12-2017 16:36 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — A powerful Iran-backed Iraqi militant commander has visited the Lebanon-Israel border expressing support for the Lebanese and Palestinians against the Jewish state and sparking harsh criticism from Lebanon's prime minister who ordered him banned from entering the country.
  
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• Russia says it is fully committed to nuclear missile pact

  09-12-2017 16:29 via yahoo.com
  Russia said on Saturday it was fully committed to a Cold War-era pact with the United States banning intermediate-range cruise missiles, a day after Washington accused Moscow of violating the treaty.The U.S. State Department said on Friday Washington was reviewing military options, including new intermediate-range cruise missile systems, in response to what it said was Russia's ongoing violation of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
  
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• Man Charged With Murder After Allegedly Throwing 3-Year-Old For Not Putting on Pajamas

  09-12-2017 15:58 via yahoo.com
  She died days later.
  
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• Iraq: War Against Islamic State Group is Over

  09-12-2017 15:56 via yahoo.com
  Iraq said its war on the IS group is over after over three years of combat
  
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• Ancient Tombs Dating Back 3,500 Years Discovered in Egypt's Luxor

  09-12-2017 15:47 via yahoo.com
  The latest discovery in the city famed for its temples and tombs
  
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