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• Indictment: Waterslide in fatal accident was 'deadly weapon'

  23-03-2018 23:36 via yahoo.com
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas waterslide hyped as the world's highest was a "deadly weapon" that had already injured more than a dozen people before a 10-year-old boy was decapitated on it in 2016, according to a grand jury indictment unsealed Friday that charges the water park operator and an executive with involuntary manslaughter.
  
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• If The Law Says Scott Walker Has To Call Early Elections, The GOP Will Rewrite It

  23-03-2018 23:21 via yahoo.com
  A day after a judge said Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) was violating state
  
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• US Justice Department to ban rapid-fire ‘bump stocks’ used by Las Vegas shooter

  23-03-2018 23:15 via yahoo.com
  The Justice Department announced it would move to prohibit a device, used in America’s worst mass shooting, that enables guns to fire more rapidly.“After the senseless attack in Las Vegas, this proposed rule is a critical step in our effort to reduce the threat of gun violence”, Attorney General Jeff Sessions.Bump fire stocks, also known as bump stocks, have come under intense scrutiny after authorities revealed that Stephen Paddock was equipped with a dozen of devices when he
  
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• Kingdom Come: Deliverance Graphics Sure Can Look Bad

  23-03-2018 23:05 via gamespot.com
  
  Kingdom Come: Deliverance looks pretty great. The game is a beautifully harsh recreation of life in the medieval ages. In this first-person RPG, you play as a peasant trying to stay alive in 1400s Bohemia amid a brutal civil war, and the experience can be punishing at times thanks to a steep learning curve. Rob and Joey have decided to take a dive back into Kingdom Come to dial the game's graphics back to an equally punishing level.In this episode of Potato Mode, the guys slowly take the game's
  
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• Nintendo Switch Eshop Adds 12 New Games And Pokken Tournament DLC This Week

  23-03-2018 23:04 via gamespot.com
  
  Some more games are now available for Nintendo Switch. This week is fairly light in terms of releases; only 12 new titles have been added to the Eshop, but they include a couple of notable games that are worth a download if you're looking for something new to play on Nintendo's console.Headlining this week's Switch releases is Shantae and the Pirate's Curse, the third installment in WayForward's well-received platforming series. It's joined by Attack on Titan 2, the video game adaptation of the
  
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• UK investigators search London office of firm at centre of Facebook data storm

  23-03-2018 23:01 via yahoo.com
  Investigators from Britain's data watchdog on Friday searched the London offices of Cambridge Analytica, the data analytics firm at the centre of a storm over allegations it improperly harvested Facebookdata to target U.S. voters.About 20 officials, wearing black jackets with "ICO Enforcement" on them, arrived at the firm's central London offices soon after a High Court judge granted a search warrant sought by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).The officials, who were let into the build
  
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• Netflix's Game Over, Man! Review: It's Dumb, Fun Die Hard

  23-03-2018 23:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Adam Devine, Blake Anderson, and Anders Holm may go by different names in Netflix's Game Over, Man!--Alexxx, Joel, and Darren, respectively--but they're basically still doing their Workaholics characters. Netflix's latest original comedy is a variation on everything Workaholics fans love; it wouldn't be surprising at all to learn that Game Over, Man! began as a Workaholics movie, or an idea for a parody episode where the boys recreate Die Hard as only they could: dumber, gorier, meaner, and extr
  
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• Eagles DE Bennett charged with injury to elderly paraplegic

  23-03-2018 22:58 via yahoo.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities issued a warrant Friday for the arrest of three-time Pro Bowl defensive end Michael Bennett, who is accused of injuring a paraplegic woman as he tried get onto the field at last year's Super Bowl to celebrate with his brother.
  
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• Trump should insist on Libya-style denuclearization for North Korea: Bolton

  23-03-2018 22:48 via yahoo.com
  John Bolton, U.S. President Donald Trump's new national security adviser, said Trump should insist that any meeting he holds with North Korea's leader must be focused squarely on how to eliminate that country's nuclear weapons program as quickly as possible.Bolton, a hawk who Trump named on Thursday to replace H.R. McMaster in the key security role, told Radio Free Asia on Monday that discussions at the proposed summit with Kim Jong Un should be similar to those that led to components of Libya's
  
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• Sea Of Thieves Beginner's Guide: Tips On How To Get Started

  23-03-2018 22:42 via gamespot.com
  
  For better or worse, Sea of Thieves is a game that grants players a lot of freedom. While there are quests and goals, you aren't led by the hand with an objective marker from one place to the next. You can go where you want and do what you want, but with that level of flexibility, actually getting started can be a bit overwhelming.That's where we come in. With the Xbox One and PC game now available, we've put together some advice on exactly how to get started. In the video above, we explain what
  
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• PUBG's New Smaller Map Shown Off For The First Time

  23-03-2018 22:37 via gamespot.com
  
  PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is in line to get a third map in the near future. And while developer PUBG Corp. has shown off some artwork previously that offered a sense for the map's layout, we've now gotten a peek at what it looks like in-game.Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene offered the glimpse during a panel at the Game Developers Conference. He subsequently shared it in the tweet you see below. It appears to have a more tropical setting than the existing maps, and it has some new types of bui
  
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• H1Z1 Review: Still On The Ground Floor

  23-03-2018 22:29 via gamespot.com
  
  Battle royale games have evolved rapidly in the past year with the likes of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and Fortnite, but H1Z1's early access version captured the magic of the last-person-standing shooter well before the genre's current front-runners. With the official full release of H1Z1, however, it's apparent that not enough has been done to help it stay in the larger conversation.H1Z1 drops up to 150 players (solo, duos, or squads of five) on a sprawling rural map where small towns, gas s
  
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• Infinity War: Which Avenger Will Kill Thanos?

  23-03-2018 22:25 via gamespot.com
  
  When Avengers: Infinity War hits theaters, the galactic warlord named Thanos, played by Josh Brolin, will leave his space throne and land on Earth, prepared to tear the planet apart to get his hands on the Infinity Stones. What's an Avenger to do when faced with such a threat? The only answer is that the team of Marvel Cinematic Universe superheroes have to kill the mad titan.Is that even possible, though? After all, Thanos practically has the power of a god--and a more powerful one than Thor (C
  
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• Historians resolve fatality count of USS Indianapolis

  23-03-2018 22:24 via yahoo.com
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two historians have resolved a decades-old mystery about how many men died when the USS Indianapolis was struck by Japanese torpedoes during World War II.
  
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• WWE Wrestlemania 34 Match Card

  23-03-2018 22:22 via gamespot.com
  
  WWE's biggest PPV of the year, Wrestlemania 34, is quickly approaching, and this year's event is going to be jam-packed. As of this writing, there are 11 matches on the card with at least two more to be added between now and Sunday, April 8 when Wrestlemania comes to the WWE Network and PPV.New Orleans will host this year's event at the Superdome, and already, there have been some huge surprises going in, like Smackdown general manager Daniel Bryan being cleared to wrestle at the show. In additi
  
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• This Is What John Bolton Will Be Responsible For As National Security Adviser

  23-03-2018 22:12 via yahoo.com
  John Bolton infamously promoted the false justification for the Iraq War. He
  
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• United Airlines gives woman $10,000 after taking her off overbooked flight

  23-03-2018 22:11 via yahoo.com
  A woman has received a $10,000 travel voucher from United Airlines after she was bumped from her flight.United reportedly had an issue with one of the seats on a fully booked plane leaving from Washington and headed to Austin.In a series of tweets, the experience is documented on Ms Preiss’ Twitter feed as she shifts from outrage that United was forcing a traveller off a flight, to still-inconvenienced surprised delight.
  
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• Roy Moore supporters tried to buy off his accuser’s lawyer using 10,000 dollars and Steve Bannon

  23-03-2018 22:07 via yahoo.com
  A jaw dropping new storyline surrounding last year’s Alabama special election ties Steve Bannon and Breitbart to a plot aimed to undermine Leigh Corfman’s accusations on Roy Moore
  
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• Roseanne Barr’s outburst on ‘Kimmel’ wins cheers

  23-03-2018 22:02 via yahoo.com
  “I’ve always liked Roseanne, she holds nothing back.” “Finally someone on a talk show with a dissenting opinion.” After her headline-making appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Rosie’s got Newsroom commenters talking — and applauding.Things got a bit awkward during the Thursday appearance. Barr, who voted for President Trump (and makes no apologies), shut down the late-night host after he questioned her political views. A defiant Roseanne replied: “A l
  
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• Last Chance To Buy Wii Shop Channel Games Before It Shuts Down

  23-03-2018 22:02 via gamespot.com
  
  Last fall, Nintendo announced that it will shut down the Wii Shop Channel. While the digital storefront will still be operational until next January, this weekend is effectively your last chance to buy any titles from it.From March 26, players will no longer be able to purchase points for the Wii Shop on either Wii or Wii U. Points that are already in your account following that date can still be redeemed for titles until the service is discontinued next January, but you won't be able to add any
  
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• PSA: You Only Need One Copy Of A Way Out To Play Co-Op With A Friend

  23-03-2018 21:56 via gamespot.com
  
  Prison-break game A Way Out launches today, and it aims to give players an interesting cooperative experience. The co-op aspect of the game is so important that you can't even choose to play it solo--you either need a friend or to be matchmade into a session with a stranger. But A Way Out makes this particularly easy, as you only need one copy of the game for online co-op with a friend.EA announced this functionality a while ago, and recently director Josef Fares explained how it works in a (som
  
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• Former Cop Who Killed Sam DuBose Awarded $350,000 Settlement

  23-03-2018 21:54 via yahoo.com
  The University of Cincinnati on Thursday awarded the officer who shot and
  
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• Far Cry 5's Weirdest Mission Features Annual Testicle Festival

  23-03-2018 21:53 via gamespot.com
  
  Like previous games, Far Cry 5 deals with some serious subject matter. Its story centers around a radical apocalyptic cult in a small Montana town that's led by a crazed figure known as The Father. For better or worse, its developers claim they weren't trying to offer a commentary on present-day issues by setting the game in the United States. And while the game's opening is certainly eerie, that's not a tone that's maintained throughout.That's evidenced by nothing better than one side mission i
  
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• Nintendo Switch Pro Controller Is (Slightly) Cheaper Right Now In The US

  23-03-2018 21:38 via gamespot.com
  
  The Nintendo Switch's Joy-Cons work pretty well for most games, but sometimes you might find yourself wishing you had a more conventional controller. The Pro Controller is the solution, although it usually has a steep $70 price tag. Right now, though, you can grab one for $11 off.The Pro Controller is on sale for $59 right now at Amazon. It's not a fantastic deal, but Switch accessories rarely get price cuts. This sale at the very least brings the price of the traditionally shaped controller dow
  
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• Investigators say missing Iowa family found dead in Mexico

  23-03-2018 21:38 via yahoo.com
  CRESTON, Iowa (AP) — The bodies of an Iowa couple and their two children were found in a rented condo in Mexico on Friday, though it wasn't immediately clear what caused their deaths, according to investigators.
  
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• Police chief on Iowa family's deaths in Mexico

  23-03-2018 21:36 via yahoo.com
  Police Chief Paul Vermeer of Creston, Iowa, talked with reporters about the news that a local family of four died while vacationing in Mexico.
  
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• The "$35,000 Tesla Model 3" Still Doesn't Exist

  23-03-2018 21:25 via yahoo.com
  And it won't until at least the end of 2018.
  
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• Teen wounded in US school shooting dies after life support removed

  23-03-2018 21:24 via yahoo.com
  A teenage girl left brain dead after she was wounded in a school shooting in Maryland died after she was removed from life support, local officials said Friday.The girl, 16 year old Jaelynn Willey, was shot in the head by the attacker, with whom she had had a relationship."My daughter was hurt by a boy who shot her in the head and took everything from us," said her mother, Melissa Willey, according to The Washington Post.
  
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• WWE Wrestlemania 34 Rumors Roundup And Upcoming Surprises

  23-03-2018 21:23 via gamespot.com
  
  Wrestlemania is quickly approaching. The 34th annual installment of WWE's biggest event of the year takes place on Sunday, April 8, coming to the Superdome in New Orleans. The match card for the event is still being filled out, and there is room for a few more matches.That being said, there are plenty of rumors drifting around the 'net about additional matches, future plans for wrestlers, and surprise returns of injured wrestlers. One longstanding rumor that came true this past week was Daniel B
  
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• Star Wars Open-World Game In The Works At EA, According To Job Listing

  23-03-2018 21:22 via gamespot.com
  
  Electronic Arts is at work on a new open-world Star Wars game, if a newly discovered job opening is any indication. Although the publisher has shared little information about what to expect from the rebooted version of Visceral's game following the studio's closure, we may now have a clue as to what form it will take.The job listing in question was recently published on EA's jobs site. It's for the position of lead online engineer in Burnaby, at EA's Vancouver studio, and it makes no attempt to
  
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• Trump asks Congress to reinstate presidential power Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional in the 1990s

  23-03-2018 21:20 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump has asked Congress to reinstate the line-item veto, which was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the 1990s.Mr Trump made the call for that governing power — which allows a president to veto specific portions of a bill or budget, while leaving the rest in-tact — as he complained that he was not completely satisfied with a budget bill that he signed.The president chided Congress for not including as much military funding as he would like, saying that
  
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• Ex-Cambridge Analytica insider says firm worked for pro-Brexit group: report

  23-03-2018 21:19 via yahoo.com
  A former Cambridge Analytica political consultant said the company's management misled the British public about work the firm did for a pro-Brexit group before the vote to leave the European Union, the Guardian reported on Friday.Brittany Kaiser, a business development director at the company from 2014 until earlier this year, said in an interview that Cambridge Analytica was carrying out data crunching and analysis work for Leave.Late on Friday, a High Court judge granted an application by the
  
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• Philadelphia Eagles Player Michael Bennett Charged With Injuring a Paraplegic Woman

  23-03-2018 21:12 via yahoo.com
  Bennett tried to get on the field after the New England Patriots won the 2017 Super Bowl
  
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• Why Did Elon Musk Delete His Facebook Pages?

  23-03-2018 21:11 via yahoo.com
  This week’s revelations about a British political consultancy’s use of data from 50 million Facebook users for potentially shady purposes has prompted many people to declare they will quit the social network in protest. One of the newest additions to the bandwagon is Elon Musk, the wealthy entrepreneur with companies like Tesla and Space X to his name—and he followed through in a very public way.
  
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• PUBG's New Map Shown Off For The First Time

  23-03-2018 21:09 via gamespot.com
  
  PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is in line to get a third map in the near future. And while developer PUBG Corp. has shown off some artwork previously that offered a sense for the map's layout, we've now gotten a peek at what it looks like in-game.Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene offered the glimpse during a panel at the Game Developers Conference. He subsequently shared it in the tweet you see below. It appears to have a more tropical setting than the existing maps, and it has some new types of bui
  
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• Sacramento PD says officers receiving death threats after fatal shooting of Stephon Clark

  23-03-2018 21:07 via yahoo.com
  Sacramento police told ABC News that the two officers involved in the shooting death of 22-year-old Stephon Clark are now receiving death threats.
  
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• The Latest: No signs of violence in deaths of Iowa family

  23-03-2018 21:05 via yahoo.com
  CRESTON, Iowa (AP) — The Latest on an Iowa family of four found dead in a condo in Mexico (all times local):
  
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• Taylor Swift Just Shared Her Support for Gun Control Activism

  23-03-2018 20:57 via yahoo.com
  "No one should have to go to school in fear of gun violence."
  
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• Who makes tyres for the world's most expensive car?

  23-03-2018 20:53 via yahoo.com
  Well, Pirelli does now. It's just announced a new addition to its historic range – for the 65-year-old, £30-million Ferrari 250 GTO...
  
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• Elon Musk Pulls Tesla, SpaceX Facebook Pages In Nod To #DeleteFacebook

  23-03-2018 20:49 via yahoo.com
  Elon Musk has joined the #DeleteFacebook movement, and we can safely assume
  
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• WWE Wrestlemania 34 Predictions: Roman Reigns Vs. Brock Lesnar

  23-03-2018 20:48 via gamespot.com
  
  Roman Reigns is going to beat Brock Lesnar at Wrestlemania 34. This much we know, with near 100% certainty. Sorry to disappoint you.There will be contrarian predictions over the next two weeks, but those predictions will be wrong. There will be no Seth Rollins plot swerve. There will be no eleventh-hour booking change by Vince McMahon. Lesnar won the WWE Universal title from Goldberg at Wrestlemania 33, and since then, he has defeated every other conceivable threat to his dominance. He defeated
  
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• Thousands Of Teens To Descend On Washington For Historic March Against Gun Violence

  23-03-2018 20:46 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON -- The student-led national movement against gun violence will face
  
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• Pokemon Go's Next Community Day Event Starts Very Soon

  23-03-2018 20:46 via gamespot.com
  
  The next real-world event for Pokemon Go is nearly here. Niantic is hosting the third Pokemon Go Community Day this Sunday, March 25, giving players around the world a chance to earn bonuses and capture rare Pokemon, including one that may know an exclusive move.Like previous Community Days, this month's event will be held during a specific three-hour window, which will kick off at different times depending on where you live. In the US, the event begins at 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET and runs until 2 PM
  
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• Venezuela oil workers clash with security officials in PDVSA cafeteria protest

  23-03-2018 20:31 via yahoo.com
  By Alexandra Ulmer and Deisy BuitragoCARACAS (Reuters) - Angry Venezuelan oil workers demanding better benefits to counter crushing hyperinflation and food shortages clashed with security officials during a rare protest in the cafeteria of state oil company PDVSA's headquarters on Friday.Venezuela is home to the world's largest crude reserves but its creaking state-led economic model has all but collapsed, sparking four-digit inflation and long lines for everything from milk to medicines.Many st
  
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• Maryland school shooting victim has died

  23-03-2018 20:29 via yahoo.com
  A teenage girl who was shot when a classmate opened fire inside their Maryland high school has died, authorities said Friday.
  
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• Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon Creator Leaves Ubisoft

  23-03-2018 20:24 via gamespot.com
  
  Dean Evans, best known as the creative director on Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, has left Ubisoft. Evans worked at the company for almost 12 years, contributing to Splinter Cell and Assassin's Creed games as well as the Far Cry series; now, he plans on taking some time off to travel.According to Game Informer, Evans was most recently working on an unannounced project at Ubisoft that was canceled. The company offered to transfer him to a different team in Paris, but Evans decided to leave the company
  
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• Pod of Dolphins Trapped by Ice Freed in Community Effort Led by Excavator

  23-03-2018 20:11 via yahoo.com
  A local heavy machine operator drove his excavator into the wharf to break up some of the ice.
  
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• Which Avenger Will Kill Thanos? | Avengers: Infinity War

  23-03-2018 20:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Soon, we will witness the true strength of Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War. It's going to take a MCU team effort between the Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy and more to defeat the mad titan and his Black Order. Greg is here to share the best strategy to kill Thanos, what happened in the comics, and our predictions on how the heroes will win the Infinity War.
  
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• Top HUD Official Worked At Cambridge Analytica -- But It's Not In His Bio

  23-03-2018 20:00 via yahoo.com
  A top official at the Department of Housing and Urban Development previously
  
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• The Most Popular Destinations In The World, According To TripAdvisor

  23-03-2018 20:00 via yahoo.com
  TripAdvisor recently unveiled their top destinations around the world in 2018,
  
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