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• Hawaii volcano spawns new fissure near geothermal plant

  12-05-2018 23:52 via yahoo.com
  VOLCANO, Hawaii (AP) — Hawaii's Kilauea volcano spawned a new lava fissure Saturday, emitting minor lava spatter less than a mile from a geothermal energy plant.
  
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• The Queen's official approval of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's marriage transcribed on vellum

  12-05-2018 23:44 via yahoo.com
  The official document granting permission for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to marry has been released, incorporating the symbols of America onto traditional vellum to represent the bride. The ornate Instrument of Consent, the official document confirming the approval of the Queen, features emblems for Ms Markle including a rose, the national flower of the United States, two golden poppies from her home state of California, and olive branches adopted from the Great Seal of the Un
  
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• North Korea details plans to dismantle nuclear bomb test site

  12-05-2018 23:40 via yahoo.com
  By Christine Kim and David BrunnstromSEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea has scheduled the dismantlement of its nuclear bomb test site for sometime between May 23 and 25 in order to uphold its pledge to discontinue nuclear tests, the country's state media reported on Saturday a month ahead of a historic summit.The official Korean Central New Agency said dismantlement of the Punggye-ri nuclear test ground would involve collapsing all of its tunnels with explosions, blocking its entrances, an
  
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• Record abstention in Iraq's first vote after defeating IS

  12-05-2018 23:23 via yahoo.com
  Iraqis on Saturday inflicted a blow on a political class they view as corrupt by shunning the first legislative elections since victory over Islamic State jihadists.More than half of the nearly 24.5 million voters did not show up at the ballot box in the parliamentary election, the highest abstention rate since the first multiparty elections in 2005, although it passed off largely peacefully.One policeman was killed and five wounded by mortar in eastern Iraq, a local official said, but there wer
  
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• Knife Attack In Paris Leaves 1 Dead, Several Injured

  12-05-2018 23:11 via yahoo.com
  A man wielding a knife was shot dead in central Paris on Saturday evening
  
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• Car transporting illegal immigrants races through Border Patrol checkpoint

  12-05-2018 23:04 via yahoo.com
  A Border Patrol Agent was seriously injured after the car struck a steel-framed stop sign.
  
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• Donald Glover Desperately Wanted To Play Lando Before Star Wars Solo Was Announced

  12-05-2018 22:58 via gamespot.com
  
  Donald Glover playing Lando Calrissian feels like a perfect fit, and it is not just Star Wars fans thinking that. Glover himself was incredibly excited to take on the role, even before the film was even announced, as the multi-talented actor explained at a recent Solo press conference, which took place two weeks prior to the May 25 release of the movie.Lando Calrissian was one of the few supporting characters that hasn't been included in the recent Star Wars sequels or Rogue One spin-off in the
  
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• Second US Democrat to support Haspel as new CIA chief

  12-05-2018 22:47 via yahoo.com
  A second Democratic senator said Saturday he would support Donald Trump's nominee to lead the CIA despite her past role overseeing the torture of terror suspects, likely assuring her confirmation.With Donnelly's support, Haspel appears to have the minimum 50 votes needed to be confirmed as the next head of the Central Intelligence Agency.Both Donnelly and West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin, who also supports Haspel, come from conservative states and face tough re-election bids in the November mi
  
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• The Latest: Iraq's election commissioner says turnout 44 pct

  12-05-2018 22:33 via yahoo.com
  BAGHDAD (AP) — The Latest on Saturday's national elections in Iraq (all times local):
  
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• Officer arrested after video shows him hitting daughter at school

  12-05-2018 22:31 via yahoo.com
  Surveillance video shows police officer beating his daughter at school while school workers do nothing to stop him.
  
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• Hawaii volcano: Lava spatters from new fissure after Trump declares major disaster in wake in eruption

  12-05-2018 22:23 via yahoo.com
  A new fissure has opened up on Hawaii’s Big Island in the wake of the eruption of Kilauea volcano.The new fissure, the 16th to appear, spattered lava according to the US Geological Survey (USGS) while also warning that more outbreaks are likely.
  
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• Episcopal Church leader to speak at royal wedding ceremony

  12-05-2018 22:04 via yahoo.com
  LONDON (AP) — Kensington Palace says the head of the Episcopal Church, the Most Rev. Michael Bruce Curry, will speak at the wedding of Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle.
  
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• Iraqis vote in first national election since ISIS defeated

  12-05-2018 21:55 via yahoo.com
  Iraqis voted on Saturday for the first time since the defeat of Islamic State.
  
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• Student presents thesis in underwear after professor says her 'shorts are too short'

  12-05-2018 21:32 via yahoo.com
  Letitia Chai, a senior student at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, took off her clothes during her presentation, which was filmed on Facebook live, to stand up against "oppressive beliefs and discrimination".Ms Chai organised the protest after her teacher allegedly questioned her choice of clothing during a test run of her thesis presentation and told her: "Your shorts are too short"."I think that I was so taken aback that I didn't really know how to respond," she told the Cornell Sun.
  
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• Scientists share warnings about Hawaii's Kilauea volcano

  12-05-2018 21:25 via yahoo.com
  Wendy Stovall of the U.S. Geological Survey shares insight about the history of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii.
  
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• Romania: Thousands stage anti-corruption, government protest

  12-05-2018 21:25 via yahoo.com
  BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Thousands of people gathered Saturday in Romania's capital and other cities to protest a contentious judicial overhaul they say will make it harder to prosecute senior officials for graft.
  
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• Israel bombs Gaza tunnel, closes key crossing after attack

  12-05-2018 20:55 via yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Saturday it was shutting down its main cargo crossing into Gaza after Palestinian protesters caused extensive damage to it, and that it had also destroyed an attack tunnel militants dug near its main pedestrian crossing.
  
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• Kumar: Trump's immigration plan is 'hurting people at scale’

  12-05-2018 20:54 via yahoo.com
  Marisa Teresa Kumar, president of Voto Latino, says President Trump’s approach to immigrants is harmful because of his penchant for creating more undocumented immigrants.
  
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• Trump administration reverses Obama-era prison rules to protect transgender inmates

  12-05-2018 20:53 via yahoo.com
  The Trump administration is reversing Barack Obama-era measures aimed at protecting transgender jail inmates, after four women prisoners challenged the policies in court.The Bureau of Prisons has rolled back rules that allowed transgender inmates to use facilities that match their gender identity, including cell blocks and bathrooms.
  
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• European cyclists found in Mexico ravine were 'robbed and murdered' on round-the-world trip, investigators say

  12-05-2018 20:42 via yahoo.com
  Two European cyclists found dead in a Mexican ravine may have been murdered, investigators say, discarding their earlier claims the men had fallen while riding.
  
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• Dinner diplomacy: Netanyahu's unusual run-in with UAE envoy

  12-05-2018 20:32 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Officially, their governments don't speak. The United Arab Emirates doesn't even formally recognize that Israel exists.
  
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• Say Goodbye To These Xbox Games Pass Games On May 31

  12-05-2018 20:24 via gamespot.com
  
  If you're an avid user of Xbox One's games streaming service Xbox Games Pass, get ready to say goodbye to a significant amount of 360 titles. On May 31, 21 titles are leaving the service's catalog.Out of the 21 titles on the way out, one two are Xbox One titles, and the rest are from 360. We're not sure why these titles in particular are leaving the service, but we do know that third-party titles aren't permanent additions--though this cut is probably the largest the service has seen so far. Som
  
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• Pakistan bars U.S. diplomat from leaving amid tense relations: media

  12-05-2018 20:20 via yahoo.com
  Pakistani authorities have barred a U.S. diplomat involved in a fatal traffic accident from leaving the country, forcing an American military aircraft flown in for his departure to leave without him, local media reported on Saturday.The move came a day after Pakistan said it would restrict the movements of all American diplomats in the country in response to Washington's similar restrictions on Pakistani embassy diplomats.A spokesman for the U.S. embassy in Islamabad declined to comment on the m
  
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• A Portable SNES - Going Old-School With Hyperkin SupaBoy SFC

  12-05-2018 20:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Hyperkin is known for offering new ways to play old games and the SupaBoy is a competent, portable way to play your PAL and NTSC SNES cartridges.
  
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• WHO chief heads to DR Congo over latest Ebola outbreak

  12-05-2018 19:35 via yahoo.com
  The head of the World Health Organization was due in DR Congo on Saturday to aid preparations for "all scenarios" in combatting the latest Ebola outbreak."WHO director general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is on his way to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to assess the needs of the response first-hand.The outbreak in the region northeast of Kinshasa near the border with the Republic of Congo has so far killed 18 people around the town of Bikoro in Equateur province, according to the WHO.
  
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• Three killed in attack linked by security services to Iraq's election

  12-05-2018 19:15 via yahoo.com
  Three men were killed by a bomb attached to their car in a Sunni Arab region south of the oil city of Kirkuk on Saturday in an attack which security sources linked to Iraq's parliamentary election.Two of the dead were voters and the third an observer in a voting station near the town of al-Khan, the sources said.Islamic State earlier claimed responsibility for the attack.
  
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• Cate Blanchett leads 82-woman Cannes red carpet '#metoo' protest 

  12-05-2018 19:09 via yahoo.com
  Cate Blanchett led female stars in an unprecedented red-carpet protest at the Cannes Film Festival last night to demand equal pay and an end to sexual harassment. Salma Hayek and Kristen Stewart were also among 82 actresses, female producers and directors who marched arm in arm to demand equality and “a safe workplace” seven months after the fall of Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood mogul accused of rape and sexual harassment. The protest highlighted that only 82 films directed by wome
  
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• 35 sickened in salmonella outbreak linked to massive 200M egg recall

  12-05-2018 18:59 via yahoo.com
  Eighty-eight percent of those with salmonella who were interviewed by local health officials reported eating shell eggs before they became sick.
  
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• Candidate says ‘f*** the NRA’ to spark gun control debate

  12-05-2018 18:58 via yahoo.com
  Pat Davis, a Democratic candidate in a New Mexico Congressional race, says being polite just gets “thoughts and prayers” from the NRA. The former police officer and shooting survivor aired the advertisement to “keeps the conversation moving forward.”
  
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• McQuade: Were payments to Michael Cohen ‘crime' or 'slime’?

  12-05-2018 18:46 via yahoo.com
  Former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade said the criminality of Michael Cohen’s advising to President Donald Trump depends on if payments from AT to Cohen changed the actions of the president.
  
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• North Korea's nuclear test site to be destroyed within weeks

  12-05-2018 18:43 via yahoo.com
  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's promise to dismantle his country's only known nuclear test site later this month has shone the spotlight on the secretive facility near the Chinese border.The Punggye-ri test site, located beneath a mountain in the country's northeast, has hosted all six nuclear tests Pyongyang has conducted -- most recently last September.The announcement comes as the diplomatic push for Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons gathers pace ahead of Kim's eagerly-awaited -- and
  
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• Hawaii braces for worse lava flows

  12-05-2018 18:40 via yahoo.com
  More destructive lava flows could soon hit Hawaii’s Big Island as the Kilauea volcano erupts, posing a greater threat than oozing magma that has so far destroyed dozens of homes and forced thousands to evacuate, scientists said. Havovi Cooper reports
  
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• US jets intercept Russian bombers off Alaskan coast

  12-05-2018 18:38 via yahoo.com
  Washington (AFP) - US fighter jets intercepted two long-range Russian "Bear" bombers in international airspace off western Alaska, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said Saturday.
  
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• Iraq holds first nationwide election since IS defeat

  12-05-2018 18:25 via yahoo.com
  Iraq voted Saturday in its first parliamentary election since declaring victory over the Islamic State group, with growing tensions between neighbouring Iran and the United States threatening a power struggle.Turnout appeared weak as polling stations closed across the country after 11 hours of voting that took place under tight security given the ongoing threat posed by the jihadists.There were no major incidents reported across the country, with the only flareup coming when, a local official sa
  
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• US embassy move to Jerusalem leaves hundreds of elderly residents facing eviction

  12-05-2018 17:52 via yahoo.com
  Workmen have been toiling around the clock in preparation for Monday’s grand opening ceremony of the new US embassy in Jerusalem.Rooms have been renovated, flowers planted in the design of the US flag and the seal of the US embassy has gone up.Security around the building has been upgraded, road signs installed and CCTV cameras set up in the area – all part of the renovations that President Trump says have cost a modest $400,000 (£295,000).
  
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• LGBTQ Groups Call New Oklahoma Adoption Law Discriminatory

  12-05-2018 17:51 via yahoo.com
  A new "faith-based" adoption law signed by Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin on Friday
  
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• Pope to give Chilean bishops a dressing-down on abuse errors

  12-05-2018 17:39 via yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican made it clear Saturday that Pope Francis had summoned Chile's bishops to Rome for a papal dressing-down because of their role in covering up sexual abuse by priests and their "grave omissions" in caring for victims.
  
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• Bloomberg warns of 'epidemic of dishonesty'

  12-05-2018 17:19 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Americans are facing an "epidemic of dishonesty" in Washington that's more dangerous than terrorism or communism.
  
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• North Korea to dismantle nuclear site ahead of Trump-Kim summit

  12-05-2018 17:18 via yahoo.com
  North Korea has announced it will hold a ceremony in late May for the dismantling of its nuclear test site.  The country’s central news agency said tunnels will be collapsed with explosions, blocking entrances, while observation facilities, research buildings and security posts will be closed.  The event, which journalists across the world including from America and South Korea will be invited to cover, will take place between May 23 and May 25, depending on weather.  The ne
  
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• North Korea Plans To Dismantle Nuclear Test Sites By End Of May

  12-05-2018 17:07 via yahoo.com
  SEOUL ― North Korea has scheduled the dismantlement of its nuclear test site
  
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• Monitor: 42 killed by Israeli strikes in Syria this week

  12-05-2018 17:07 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — A wave of Israeli strikes on suspected military positions in Syria this week killed 42 people, including at least 19 Iranians, a Syria war monitor reported Saturday.
  
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• Is Stormy Daniels seeking attention or is she on a political crusade?

  12-05-2018 17:03 via yahoo.com
  It has been a good week for Stormy Daniels.Donald Trump and his attorney Rudy Giuliani have tied themselves in knots trying to explain revelations about the shell company used by Michael Cohen to make payments to Daniels.Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti, boldly told the Guardian he believes the revelations from the scandal will lead Trump to resign.
  
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• Pillars Of Eternity Is Both A Weird And Familiar RPG

  12-05-2018 17:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire upends your expectations with an impressive amount of creativity. GameSpot discusses why it's anything but a typical CRPG.
  
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• Michael Cohen is 'in business'. But just what sort of business is he in?

  12-05-2018 17:00 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen arrives at his hotel in New York City this week.Michael Cohen, the most personal of the president’s personal attorneys, has cut an extraordinary figure in this totally abnormal administration.
  
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• Destiny 2: Warmind Review - Back To Work

  12-05-2018 17:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Destiny 2 has been struggling to keep its players invested for a while now. Going into its second expansion, Warmind, the biggest question was whether or not Destiny 2 can entice people to come back to it. This expansion is geared more toward the hardcore players, offering difficult endgame activities and a slower, more demanding level grind to get there. If you aren't interested in those things, though, there's not a lot here besides the same old Destiny 2 activities to draw you in.Warmind's ca
  
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• 15 Games That Were Way Better Than Expected

  12-05-2018 17:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Against All Odds
  Not all games receive positive fanfare upon their announcement or in the lead up to release. Heavy skepticism can follow a game for one reason or another. Sometimes it occurs due to a game being a drastic shift from past entries of a long-established franchise. Other times it's a prolonged development cycle that colors our expectations, typically resulting in cynicism or apathy.While there are games that ultimately fall in line with our worst expectations, there are plenty that
  
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• Trump declares 'major disaster' in Hawaii following volcano's eruption

  12-05-2018 16:59 via yahoo.com
  Hawaii tourism officials are hoping Kilauea's eruption won't deter travelers from visiting the state's largest island, even as geologists warn the volcano could soon shoot large boulders out of its summit.
  
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• Merkel says Europe should do more to stop Syria war

  12-05-2018 16:53 via yahoo.com
  Europe needs to do more to end the war in Syria, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday as she received a peace award from Franciscan monks in the birthplace of St. Francis.Merkel was given the Franciscan order's "Lamp of Peace," joining previous recipients such as former Polish president Lech Walesa, the Dalai Lama, the late Israeli president Shimon Peres and Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos.
  
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• Classic Castlevania-Style Prequel Game For Bloodstained Revealed, Releases Very Soon

  12-05-2018 16:34 via gamespot.com
  
  Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is getting its own 8-bit style companion piece from Inti Creates. The retro platformer specialists promised a smaller prequel game as a stretch goal during the Kickstarter campaign, and now the studio has announced the first details. It will be called Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, and it's coming on May 24.Curse of the Moon features four playable characters familiar to fans of its Castlevania inspirations: Zangetsu, who uses a sword; Miriam, with a whip; Alfr
  
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• Brooklyn Nine-Nine Saved By NBC After Being Canceled

  12-05-2018 16:26 via gamespot.com
  
  Update: Brooklyn Nine-Nine has been saved. After Netflix and Hulu reportedly passed on the opportunity to bring the show back, NBC has taken the plunge and renewed the acclaimed comedy for Season 6. The news was shared by numerous people involved with the show on Twitter, all of whom seemed quite excited about the news. NBC being the one to save the show actually makes sense, given that Brooklyn Nine-Nine is produced by Universal Television--a branch of NBC itself. There's not yet a premiere dat
  
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