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• When Are The Ideal Wrestlemania 34 Pee Breaks?

  02-04-2018 23:49 via gamespot.com
  
  Without a doubt, Wrestlemania is the biggest--and longest--event of the year, which may come in at over seven hours this year. That's a lot of time spent glued to a television, and while the question posed above may seem silly to the average person who doesn't watch WWE programming, it's a serious concern to everyone getting ready to watch Wrestlemania 34 on Sunday, April 8. Unlike traditional sporting events--which have breaks in between quarters--or innings or theater--which has intermissions-
  
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• Fighter. Liberator. Ungovernable Woman. Mother Of A Nation. And A Wife Too.

  02-04-2018 23:38 via yahoo.com
  JOHANNESBURG, South Africa ― The news that Winnie Madikizela-Mandela had died
  
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• Texas man who invoked 'affluenza' defense released from jail

  02-04-2018 23:28 via yahoo.com
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Ethan Couch, who as a 16-year-old driver drunkenly struck and killed four pedestrians but dodged prison after suggesting at trial that his irresponsibility was a result of his entitled upbringing, walked free Monday after serving almost two years in a Texas jail on a probation violation.
  
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• Rick And Morty NSFW April Fools' Prank Bushworld Is An Australian Nightmare

  02-04-2018 23:18 via gamespot.com
  
  If you weren't paying attention to Adult Swim on the evening of April 1, you may have missed the latest Rick and Morty April Fools' Day prank. A simple message appeared, telling fans of the animated series to visit Adult Swim's website, where a special and truly insane treat was waiting for them.A short titled Bushworld Adventures, from YouTuber Michael Cusack, debuted on the site and is easily one of the most disturbing and vulgar Rick and Morty-related things ever crafted. Don't believe us? Ta
  
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• Pokemon Go Adds Two New Gen 3 Legendary Pokemon

  02-04-2018 23:15 via gamespot.com
  
  Lugia may be leaving Pokemon Go very soon, but two more Legendary Pokemon are set to take its place. Beginning today, April 2, players around the world will be able to encounter Latios and Latias, the twin Eon Pokemon from Ruby and Sapphire.Both Legendaries arrive in the game simultaneously, but each one can only be found in a different part of the world for a limited time. From now until May 8, Latios can be encountered in North America, South America, and Africa, while Latias will appear acros
  
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• Papadopoulos reportedly says Sessions “encouraged” him to find out about hacked Clinton emails

  02-04-2018 23:11 via yahoo.com
  Former US Attorney Barbara McQuade speaks to Joy about new developments in the Mueller investigation involving George Papadopolous, Jeff Sessions and Alexander van der Zwaan.
  
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• First Dragon Quest Builders 2 Screenshots And Details Revealed

  02-04-2018 22:55 via gamespot.com
  
  Square Enix has shared some new information about Dragon Quest Builders 2, the sequel to its Minecraft-like Dragon Quest spin-off. On the game's newly launched Japanese website (via Siliconera), the publisher revealed new details and shared the first screenshots for the upcoming PS4 and Switch RPG.Like the first title, Dragon Quest Builders 2 is a building-centric sandbox RPG. Players assume the role of a Builder and must craft a variety of buildings and objects out of the materials they gather
  
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• Saudi crown prince says Israelis have right to their own land

  02-04-2018 22:40 via yahoo.com
  Saudi Arabia's crown prince said Israelis are entitled to live peacefully on their own land in an interview published on Monday in U.S. magazine The Atlantic, another public sign of ties between Riyadh and Tel Aviv appearing to grow closer.Asked if he believes the Jewish people have a right to a nation-state in at least part of their ancestral homeland, Mohammed bin Salman was quoted as saying:"I believe the Palestinians and the Israelis have the right to have their own land.
  
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• Family Guy Goes Full World Of Warcraft With Leeroy Jenkins Scene

  02-04-2018 22:38 via gamespot.com
  
  This April Fools' Day surprise was no prank. After teasing that it would incorporate a World of Warcraft joke into its April 1 episode, Family Guy fully embraced the MMORPG and the most famous meme it ever spawned.After being forced to join the Coast Guard, Peter, Cleveland, and Joe find themselves in a gunfight with a bunch of terrorist frat boys--because, of course. It's then that Cleveland suggests they try "what's referred to as a Leeroy Jenkins." He's speaking, of course, of the 2003 World
  
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• Democrats raise ethics questions about Trump defense fund

  02-04-2018 22:35 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Democrats raised ethics questions on Monday about the framework of a defense fund set up to help pay legal costs for White House, Trump campaign and transition officials caught up in investigations into Russian meddling in the election.
  
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• Dorian Harris Stole Beer From A Corner Store, So The Clerk Shot Him Dead: Police

  02-04-2018 22:26 via yahoo.com
  A corner store clerk in Memphis, Tennessee, shot a black teenager to death
  
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• Hubble Space Telescope spots the farthest star ever seen thanks to quirk of nature

  02-04-2018 22:25 via yahoo.com
  Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted the most distant star ever studied thanks to some cosmic luck. The star, named Lensed Star 1 (LS1 for short), was born about 9 billion years ago and is thought to be a huge, blue star with a surface temperature ranging from 11,000 degrees Celsius to 14,000 degrees Celsius. This makes the star more than twice as hot as our sun, NASA said in a statement. Under normal circumstances we wouldn't be able to see LS1 using even the most advanced t
  
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• Acclaimed Game Owlboy Finally Gets PS4/Xbox One Release Date

  02-04-2018 22:23 via gamespot.com
  
  Acclaimed side-scroller Owlboy is finally coming to PS4 and Xbox One. D-Pad Studio had initially planned to release the PC game on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One at the same time. Instead, only the Switch version released earlier this year. Now the developer has announced more digital versions are coming this month, with physical releases to follow next month.The digital PS4 and Xbox One versions of Owlboy will release on April 10. Physical PS4 and Nintendo Switch versions will als
  
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• Ted Nugent Says Parkland Survivors Are ‘Liars’ And ‘Have No Soul’

  02-04-2018 22:08 via yahoo.com
  Musician and National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent personally
  
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• Fire destroys historic farm, 2 houses, kills 23 farm animals

  02-04-2018 21:52 via yahoo.com
  WATERBURY, Vt. (AP) — A blaze that destroyed a historic family dairy farm, including two homes, and killed 23 cows and calves was an accident, Vermont fire officials said Monday.
  
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• Gaza toll rises to 18, Israel rejects excessive force claims

  02-04-2018 21:50 via yahoo.com
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel's military rejected new allegations Monday of unlawful use of force against unarmed Palestinians during mass protests in Gaza last week, as the Palestinian death toll rose to 18.
  
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• Syrian rebels begin evacuating last stronghold near Damascus

  02-04-2018 21:44 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian state media said Monday that the largest rebel group in the suburbs of Damascus has begun evacuating its last stronghold after seven years of war, but the rebels refused to say whether they had surrendered, and it was unclear who was on board a dozen buses seen leaving the town.
  
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• Study: This is the star sign most likely to become a CEO

  02-04-2018 21:41 via yahoo.com
  Whether you’re a loyal daily horoscope checker or a complete skeptic, it’s
  
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• British and American soldiers killed in Syria were on mission to capture Isil member, Pentagon says

  02-04-2018 21:41 via yahoo.com
  A British and an American soldier killed in Syria last week were on a secret mission to kill or capture a member of the Islamic State of Iraq in the Levant (Isil), the Pentagon has confirmed. Master Sgt. Jonathan Dunbar, from Austin, Texas, and Sgt. Matt Tonroe, a SAS sniper from Manchester, died in an improvised explosive devise blast in Manbij, Syria. The pair was killed and five other troops wounded on March 30. Few details have been released about the circumstances, but Major Adrian Rankine-
  
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• Does ASEAN Want the U.S. Navy in the South China Sea?

  02-04-2018 21:39 via yahoo.com
  In recent months it has become clear that the lull in Washington’s confrontation with China in the South China Sea is over.Following the election of President Donald Trump, concern over Beijing’s expanding naval presence took a back seat to preoccupation with cooperation on North Korea.America’s continued presence in the waters of Southeast Asia is predicated, in part, on Washington’s insistence that they are needed, and wanted, to help ensure stability.
  
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• 16 Tweets That Will Make Introverts Nod In Agreement

  02-04-2018 21:37 via yahoo.com
  If you're an introvert, you likely value your alone time. You think before you
  
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• Fighters start to quit last rebel pocket of Syria's Ghouta

  02-04-2018 21:36 via yahoo.com
  Syria's regime drew closer to taking full control of Eastern Ghouta on Monday as state media reported that fighters began evacuating the last rebel-held pocket of the former opposition stronghold near Damascus.A Russian-brokered deal had been reported on Sunday for fighters with Jaish al-Islam, the largest rebel group still in Ghouta, to leave the enclave's main town of Douma.The retaking of Eastern Ghouta would mark a major milestone in President Bashar al-Assad's efforts to regain control of t
  
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• Parkland students return from spring break to clear backpacks and TSA-style checkpoints

  02-04-2018 21:28 via yahoo.com
  Students returning from spring break to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Monday were greeted with metal barriers and clear backpacks — new safety measures put in place in the wake of February’s mass shooting at the school.
  
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• Man charged in serial killings isn't facing death penalty

  02-04-2018 21:28 via yahoo.com
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana prosecutors aren't seeking the death penalty against a suspect charged with killing three men and wounding a fourth in a string of shootings last year.
  
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• Clear bags among security measures at school where 17 died

  02-04-2018 21:24 via yahoo.com
  PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Students at the Florida high school where 17 students and staff members were massacred are now carrying their belongings in clear plastic backpacks in hopes that it will make it difficult to smuggle weapons onto campus.
  
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• Scott Pruitt Buffeted By Growing Pressure To Resign From EPA

  02-04-2018 21:22 via yahoo.com
  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt faces mounting
  
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• April Fools' Day 2018 Video Game Joke Roundup: Fortnite, Pokemon Go, And More

  02-04-2018 21:15 via gamespot.com
  
  April Fools' Day has come and gone. This year's event happened to fall on the same day as Easter, which made for an unusually early rollout of jokes from various video game and entertainment companies seeking to avoid having their efforts missed on a proper holiday. As a result, it was easy to miss some of what was out there.Below, we've rounded up many of the jokes that were shared this year, including those centered around battle royale (all the craze, thanks to Fortnite and PUBG), nostalgia,
  
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• Kellyanne Conway scoffs at claim that she's the biggest White House leaker

  02-04-2018 21:06 via yahoo.com
  Kellyanne Conway spoke out on Monday against a new book's claim that she is
  
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• Jurassic World 3 Bringing Back Colin Trevorrow To Direct

  02-04-2018 21:06 via gamespot.com
  
  Jurassic World 3 has found its director, as the rebooted series returns to the man who started it. Collider reports that Colin Trevorrow will come back to write and direct the third film, having done the same for 2015's Jurassic World.The upcoming Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom changed hands to J.A. Bayona, due to scheduling conflicts that kept Trevorrow from helming it. He had signed on to Star Wars: Episode IX, but was taken off that project last fall after reports of creative disagreements an
  
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• Rick And Morty NSFW April Fools' Prank Is An Australian Nightmare

  02-04-2018 20:59 via gamespot.com
  
  If you weren't paying attention to Adult Swim on the evening of April 1, you may have missed the latest Rick and Morty April Fools' Day prank. A simple message appeared, telling fans of the animated series to visit Adult Swim's website, where a special and truly insane treat was waiting for them.A short titled Bushworld Adventures, from YouTuber Michael Cusack, debuted on the site and is easily one of the most disturbing and vulgar Rick and Morty-related things ever crafted. Don't believe us? Ta
  
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• Laura Ingraham Learned The Hard Way She Can't Do What The Boys Do At Fox News

  02-04-2018 20:59 via yahoo.com
  Fox News Host Laura Ingraham may be the latest victim of sexism in the
  
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• Oklahoma Father Kills Daughter and Estranged Wife, Wounds Son Then Shoots Himself

  02-04-2018 20:45 via yahoo.com
  The son is recovering at a hospital and police say he's not a suspect
  
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• 'Affluenza' Texan, who killed four driving drunk, released from jail

  02-04-2018 20:45 via yahoo.com
  A Texan who killed four people while driving drunk as a teen, then avoided prison by blaming his wealthy upbringing, was released from jail on Monday after serving nearly two years for violating probation in the case, officials said.Ethan Couch garnered international attention in 2013 as the "affluenza teen" when his lawyers argued his privileged childhood impaired his ability to tell right from wrong.Now 20, he walked free from a jail in Fort Worth, where he served time after fleeing to Mexico
  
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• Alex Jones Hit With Another Defamation Lawsuit, And It Could Go To A Jury

  02-04-2018 20:42 via yahoo.com
  Alex Jones may soon learn that ruining the lives of innocent people comes with
  
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• Woman's Dream of Taking Disney Cruise Dashed as She's Turned Away Since She Was Too Pregnant

  02-04-2018 20:41 via yahoo.com
  Disney Cruise Lines forbids women more than 25 weeks pregnant from boarding its ships.
  
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• Wrestlemania 34: How To Watch The WWE Event, Even On Xbox One And PS4

  02-04-2018 20:38 via gamespot.com
  
  On Sunday, April 8, WWE's biggest event of the year, Wrestlemania, will come to a screen near you. Like every year, there are plenty of ways to watch the PPV, from on your TV to your phone, and we have a breakdown for the easiest ways for you.The best way to watch Wrestlemania 34, which will save you a ton of money, is through the WWE Network. Currently, you can get a month free to the network if you are a new subscriber, and you can cancel after Mania. If you enjoy the programming, you can cont
  
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• Opioids prescribed less in states where medical marijuana legal, studies find

  02-04-2018 20:31 via yahoo.com
  A woman holds the prescribed medical marijuana product used to treat her daughter’s epilepsy after making a purchase at a medical marijuana dispensary in Butler, Pennsylvania.The number of opioid prescriptions for the elderly and the poor declined in states where medical marijuana is legal, two new studies have found.In one study, researchers at the University of Georgia, Athens, used data from Medicare Part D, a government-run prescription drug program for people older than 65.
  
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• New My Nintendo Rewards And Game Discounts Now Available

  02-04-2018 20:30 via gamespot.com
  
  Nintendo has introduced a handful of new rewards to the My Nintendo program. As usual, the rewards come in the form of discounts, which are only applicable for select 3DS and Wii U games.The new discounts encompass a handful of recent and classic Mario titles for both consoles. On 3DS, My Nintendo members can get 40% off of Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam (120 Gold points), 30% off of Mario Sports Superstars (90 Gold points), and 30% off of Yoshi's New Island (50 Gold points).On the Wii U side, the
  
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• Jesse Hernandez Search: How Crews Found Boy Lost in Maze of Sewage Pipes

  02-04-2018 20:25 via yahoo.com
  The boy was found miraculously found alive Monday morning after hours of searching the complicated system of pipes.
  
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• Fortnite's Mysterious Comet Has Fans Speculating

  02-04-2018 20:25 via gamespot.com
  
  A celestial body above the world of Fortnite: Battle Royale has the community buzzing about what it could all mean. The skybox now houses a comet, which moves separately from the storm, and it appears to be getting progressively bigger.Kotaku reports that upon reaching out to Epic, it received only an image of Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, the television personality turned meme who appeared on Ancient Aliens. That could indicate something extraterrestrial, or more likely, is just poking fun at the wild
  
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• Oklahoma teachers go on strike and rally at state Capitol

  02-04-2018 20:20 via yahoo.com
  Teachers carried signs and marched during a rally at the state Capitol in Oklahoma City on Monday calling for higher wages.
  
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• Synthetic marijuana: Warning as drug kills two people and causes outbreak of 'severe bleeding' near Chicago

  02-04-2018 20:11 via yahoo.com
  Synthetic marijuana products have been linked to a spiralling public health crisis in Illinois, where authorities say two people have died and dozens more have been hospitalised.In dozens of cases that have rippled through the greater Chicago area in recent weeks, people have reported severe bleeding after using synthetic cannabinoid products, the Illinois Department of Public Health warned.The agency has sent warning notices to emergency medical workers and local health departments around the s
  
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• Elephants loose on Spanish motorway after circus lorry overturns

  02-04-2018 20:08 via yahoo.com
   One elephant died and several others ended up loose on a Spanish motorway on Monday after the circus lorry they were in overturned. Police had to close the A30 in Pozo Canada near Albacete south east of Madrid after the extraordinary crash. Motorists filmed the animals strolling towards waste ground and feeding by the side of the road. The dead animal was removed from a ditch by the side of the motorway where its body ended up following the drama around 4pm. Motorists in Spain we
  
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• Studies link legal marijuana with fewer opioid prescriptions

  02-04-2018 20:05 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Can legalizing marijuana fight the problem of opioid addiction and fatal overdoses? Two new studies in the debate suggest it may.
  
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• Teen Applies to 20 Colleges, and Gets Full Scholarships to All of Them

  02-04-2018 20:01 via yahoo.com
  Michael Brown is expected to make his decision by May 1.
  
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• New PUBG Map Beta Key Giveaway

  02-04-2018 19:58 via gamespot.com
  
  We're giving away 6,000 Early Access Keys for you to play PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' new map, Codename: Savage on PC. (Entry is open worldwide. Scroll down below to get your key.)The special early access keys we’ll be providing allow players, regardless of whether they own PUBG or not on PC, to drop into the Savage Closed Experimental Test during this period.The first experimental testing window will run from April 2 at 7pm PDT until April 5 at 4am PDT and access is limited to only pla
  
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• US Supreme Court nixes $655 million jury award against the PLO

  02-04-2018 19:54 via yahoo.com
  The US Supreme Court Monday rejected a bid to make the Palestine Liberation Organization pay $655 million in damages to victims of six attacks in Israel.The court's decision aligned with the view of President Donald Trump's administration, which in this case saw no reason for the high court to intervene despite strains in US relations with the PLO.The court upheld a New York appeals court ruling that in 2016 found that the US courts lacked jurisdiction over attacks in Israel, even though America
  
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• Mandela and his three wives: Evelyn, Winnie and Graca

  02-04-2018 19:37 via yahoo.com
  Nelson Mandela ducked out of an arranged marriage when he was a student, then went on to wed three times.In sharp contrast to Graca Machel and his feisty second wife Winnie, Mandela's first wife was a demure country girl who kept well away from politics.Like him, Evelyn Wase hailed from the rural Transkei and had come to Johannesburg in the early 1940s to carve out a living in the big city.
  
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• Winnie Mandela, former wife of Nelson Mandela dies at 81

  02-04-2018 19:35 via yahoo.com
  Winnie Mandela, the former wife of South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, died on Monday aged 81, triggering an outpouring of tributes to one of the country’s defining and most divisive figures.
  
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• U.S. top court will not revive verdict against Palestinian Authority, PLO

  02-04-2018 19:29 via yahoo.com
  By Lawrence HurleyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organization gained a legal victory at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday as the justices refused to consider reinstating a $655.5 million jury award won against them by 11 American families over militant attacks in Israel.The court declined to hear the families' appeal of a lower court's 2016 ruling throwing out the jury award that was secured in a lawsuit brought under the Anti-Terrorism Act, a law allowi
  
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