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• The Latest: Rep: "Hero teacher" released from hospital

  26-05-2018 23:59 via yahoo.com
  NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (AP) — The Latest on a shooting at an Indiana middle school (all times local):
  
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• Small plane makes emergency landing on Utah freeway

  26-05-2018 23:50 via yahoo.com
  OGDEN, Utah (AP) — No one was injured Saturday when a small plane clipped a car from behind while making an emergency landing on a major freeway in Utah, authorities said.
  
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• String of Hawaii volcano explosions shoot ash to 11,000 feet

  26-05-2018 22:16 via yahoo.com
  By Joyln RosaHONOLULU (Reuters) - A series of summit explosions on Saturday from Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano spewed ash up to 11,000 feet (3,353 m) and dusted the grey powdered rock on communities to the southwest, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said.The three explosions, which began around 12:42 a.m. (6:42 a.m. ET/1042 GMT)), marked the latest bursts of ash and volcanic smog from Kilauea during the fourth week of what geologists rank as one of its biggest eruption cycles in a century.Residents d
  
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• Alan Bean, moon-walking U.S. astronaut turned painter, dies in Houston

  26-05-2018 22:12 via yahoo.com
  Bean, 86, a former U.S. Navy test pilot who became one of only 12 people ever to set foot on the moon, died at Houston Methodist Hospital, his family said in a statement released by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)."Alan was the strongest and kindest man I ever knew.
  
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• Xbox One Weekly Recap: Loads of Free Game Events This Weekend And Beyond, Halo 6 In The Future

  26-05-2018 22:08 via gamespot.com
  
  This week in Xbox news brings a lot to the table. One of Microsoft's most cherished franchises has been confirmed to return at some point, E3 is just a couple weeks away, and there are tons of free events and DLC for your favorite titles to play this weekend and beyond.Yes, Halo will have yet another installment. Halo 6 has been confirmed to happen, but it likely won't happen for some time. Overwatch's anniversary event is live and free to play this weekend, and Monster Hunter World and Fortnite
  
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• Thousands march in France against Macron reforms

  26-05-2018 21:58 via yahoo.com
  Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across France on Saturday to demonstrate against Emmanuel Macron's policies, but the turnout fell short of expectations and the president said nothing would stop his economic reforms.The ministry estimated that just over 93,000 demonstrated in 142 places throughout the country, while the left-wing CGT union put the number at 250,000.In Paris, police reported just 21,000 protesters, while the CGT claimed 80,000.
  
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• The Latest: Restaurant shooting victims recovering

  26-05-2018 21:43 via yahoo.com
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Latest on a restaurant shooting in Oklahoma City that left the gunman dead (all times local):
  
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• OPEC, Russia prepared to raise oil output amid U.S. pressure

  26-05-2018 21:22 via yahoo.com
  (This story removes reference in paragraphs 1 and 4 to OPEC discussions being triggered by Trump’s tweet)By Katya Golubkova, Dmitry Zhdannikov and Rania El GamalST PETERSBURG/DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia and Russia are discussing raising OPEC and non-OPEC oil production by some 1 million barrels a day, sources said, weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump complained about artificially high prices. Riyadh and Moscow are prepared to ease output cuts to calm consumer worries about
  
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• Indiana School Shooting: 13-Year-Old Girl Shot Is in Critical But Stable Condition

  26-05-2018 21:22 via yahoo.com
  It is not clear if the shooting was targeted.
  
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• Pakistan announces general elections on July 25: presidential spokesman

  26-05-2018 21:07 via yahoo.com
  Pakistan will hold general elections on July 25, a presidential spokesman said Saturday, offering the prospect of what would be only the second ever democratic transfer of power in the nuclear-armed country."The president has approved July 25 as the date for holding general elections in the country," a spokesman from Mamnoon Hussain's office told AFP.The date was also confirmed by the government of Pakistan’s Twitter account and was reported by state media outlets.
  
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• Abortion stigma is gone, says Irish PM after vote

  26-05-2018 21:06 via yahoo.com
  Ireland on Saturday voted to erase the stigma and burden of shame from hundreds of thousands of women who secretly had abortions, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said.Speaking after a landslide referendum in favour of repealing the republic's ban on abortions, Varadkar said Ireland had emerged from the shadows and come of age."Today is an historic day for Ireland.
  
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• Service Dog Gives Birth to 8 Puppies at Florida Airport Gate

  26-05-2018 21:00 via yahoo.com
  They missed their flight.
  
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• E3 2018: All The EA Games Confirmed (So Far)

  26-05-2018 21:00 via gamespot.com
  
  E3 is traditionally the time for big video game companies make their biggest announcements, and EA has two major titles on the roster that will no doubt consume much of its press time this year: Anthem and Battlefield V. The company holds its big pre-E3 event, EA Play, on on Saturday, June 9 at 11AM PT / 2PM ET / 7PM BST, which kicks off three days of EA events until June 11. Unlike E3, EA Play is focused on player events, featuring lots of demos and fan-centric content.We now know Battlefield V
  
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• Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon Is A Reverent, Clever Treat

  26-05-2018 21:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon is a wonderfully clever idea. If Ritual of the Night is a riff on the classic Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, how brilliant the developers at Inti Creates must have felt when they thought of creating an homage to Castlevania 3: Dracula’s Curse to serve as its stage-setting prequel. As a bonus for a Kickstarter stretch goal it could have been left at that, as a clever “I see what you did there” concept wrapped around a merely so-so game. Thank
  
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• The Latest: Trump hails Indiana teacher who stopped shooting

  26-05-2018 20:42 via yahoo.com
  NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (AP) — The Latest on a shooting at an Indiana middle school (all times local):
  
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• Alan Bean: Fourth man to walk on Moon dies aged 86, Nasa announces

  26-05-2018 20:35 via yahoo.com
  Alan Bean passed away at Houston Methodist Hospital on Saturday after a short illness.Alan Bean flew twice into space, first as the lunar module pilot on Apollo 12, the second moon landing mission, in November 1969.“Alan Bean was the most extraordinary person I ever met,” said astronaut Mike Massimino, who flew on two space shuttle missions to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
  
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• Why Finding the Source of Tainted Romaine Lettuce Is so Hard

  26-05-2018 20:28 via yahoo.com
  The E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce started two months ago, and it has sickened 172 people and killed one. But federal investigators still do not know how the lettuce came to be contam...
  
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• California’s voting structure could leave openings for GOP

  26-05-2018 20:26 via yahoo.com
  The top two vote-getters in California primaries advance to the general election, regardless of the candidates’ party. This is known as the “jungle primary” system. A crowded field of Democrats could make it easy for Republicans to win.
  
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• AMBER Alert Issued for New York Toddler After Mom's Body Found Stuffed in Bag in Woods

  26-05-2018 20:25 via yahoo.com
  Police in western New York are searching for a missing 14-month-old boy whose mother’s dead body was found in the woods, stuffed in a plastic bag
  
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• Oil output could return to October 2016 level, says Russia's Novak

  26-05-2018 20:22 via yahoo.com
  By Vladimir SoldatkinMOSCOW (Reuters) - A return to the oil production levels that were in place in October 2016, baseline for the current deal to cut output, is one of the options for easing curbs, Russia's energy minister said on Saturday.Sources said this week that Saudi Arabia and Russia were discussing raising OPEC and non-OPEC oil production to ease 17 months of strict supply curbs amid concerns that a price rally has gone too far."When we extended the agreement until the end of 2018, we s
  
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• Anti-Macron protests as president claims victory is close in battle with unions

  26-05-2018 20:22 via yahoo.com
  Far-Left parties and unions led tens of thousands of protesters who marched against Emmanuel Macron’s reforms in cities across France on Saturday a day after the president suggested he could be close to victory in a public battle over his reform agenda. Rail and hospital workers, civil servants, students, community groups protesting against police violence and pro-Palestinian activists took part in the “Human Tide against Macron”. However, with the turnouts of the marches lower
  
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• Hero teacher saved lives during Indiana school shooting

  26-05-2018 20:21 via yahoo.com
  Jason Seaman, a science teacher at Noblesville West Middle School in Noblesville, Ind., subdued a student armed with two handguns who opened fire inside his classroom Friday, May, 25, 2018 .
  
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• Tynes: NFL kneeling rule submits to Trump’s ‘fear-mongering’

  26-05-2018 20:20 via yahoo.com
  Tyler Tynes, writer for SB Nation, says the National Football League overstepped its bounds by issuing its latest National Anthem regulation. However, former NFL safety Jack Brewer says the league has every right to dissuade protests in the workplace.
  
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• Putin and Abe discuss peace treaty over Kuril islands

  26-05-2018 20:16 via yahoo.com
  Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday pledged to move forward on a peace treaty to solve a territorial dispute over the Kuril Islands."We believe it is important to patiently continue the search for a solution that would satisfy the interests of Russia and Japan and that would be accepted by the nations of both countries," Putin said at a news conference following the talks.
  
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• Fortnite's New Close Encounters Mode Is Now Live After Being Disabled

  26-05-2018 20:10 via gamespot.com
  
  Fortnite's latest limited-time mode has been temporarily postponed. Shortly after the Close Encounters event began, Epic Games announced on Twitter that an issue had been discovered and the mode was being disabled across all platforms--PS4, Xbox One, PC, and iOS--while the developer investigated it. [Update: Close Encounters is now live.]Close Encounters was slated to be the second new limited-time mode in Fortnite: Battle Royale this week, following on the heels of Solid Gold v2, which began wi
  
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• Colombia to join Nato as country prepares for elections which could spell end of peace deal

  26-05-2018 20:10 via yahoo.com
  Colombia will become the first country in Latin America to join Nato, the outgoing president announced on the eve of the first presidential elections since its bloody civil war came to an end. Juan Manuel Santos, who signed a peace deal with the left-wing Farc guerrillas in 2016, ending the longest-running civil conflict in the western hemisphere and winning the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts, made the announcement on Friday night. Colombia will join next week as a "global partner", Mr Santos
  
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• Colombia to be Nato's first Latin American 'partner' as country prepares for elections which could spell end of peace deal

  26-05-2018 20:10 via yahoo.com
  Colombia will become the first country in Latin America to join Nato as a "global partner", the outgoing president announced on the eve of the first presidential elections since its bloody civil war came to an end. Juan Manuel Santos, who signed a peace deal with the left-wing Farc guerrillas in 2016, ending the longest-running civil conflict in the western hemisphere and winning the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts, made the announcement on Friday night. Colombia will join next week as a "glob
  
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• Battle Royale Games Explained: Fortnite, PUBG, And The History Of A New Trend

  26-05-2018 20:08 via gamespot.com
  
  With the rapid success of Fortnite and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, other developers are looking at the growing popularity of the battle royale sub-genre to find their next big hit. Bringing together dozens of players into an intense fight to determine who's number one, it's steadily become one of the hottest game modes in some time--with both PUBG and Fortnite having comfortable spots on Twitch's top streamed games. But as the sub-genre continues to make strides with online communities, with
  
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• E3 2018 PS4 Predictions: Death Stranding Gameplay, From Software's New IP, And More

  26-05-2018 20:01 via gamespot.com
  
  E3 2018 is approaching, and expectations for the big event are growing higher by the day. While it's looking like Microsoft, Nintendo, and several other publishers will have some compelling content for E3, a lot of eyes are on Sony. Recently, the company revealed that it'll have four major games to show at E3: Death Stranding, Ghost of Tsushima, Spider-Man, and The Last of Us: Part II. In addition to these titles, it'll also highlight several third-party games coming to the platform, but no new
  
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• Landslide Yes vote as Ireland referendum repeals tough abortion laws – what happens next?

  26-05-2018 19:58 via yahoo.com
  Ireland’s prime minister hailed the "quiet revolution” which delivered an overwhelming victory in favour of repealing its strict abortion laws on Saturday in a poll that marked voters' steady drift away from the grip of the country's conservative Catholic roots. The country voted 67 per cent in favour of reform and 33 per cent against in a landslide victory for the pro-choice Yes campaign.  "We have seen the culmination of a quiet revolution that's been taking place in Ireland o
  
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• Battlefield 5 Boss Defends Female Characters, Says They're Here To Stay

  26-05-2018 19:56 via gamespot.com
  
  Battlefield 5 is causing quite the commotion. With the reveal of the WWII period shooter, EA and DICE revealed the character on the front cover is a woman and multiplayer will feature playable female characters for the first time. DICE boss Oskar Gabrielson took to Twitter to defend the decision.Over the last couple of days since the reveal, a number of Battlefield's fans have been up in arms about the female character heading the game's cover art. Hashtags like "#notmybattlefield," have aimed t
  
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• Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4 Revamps Multiplayer For A Far More Tactical Experience

  26-05-2018 19:51 via gamespot.com
  
  Treyarch has big plans for the next entry in the Black Ops series. Along with revamped multiplayer, an expanded Zombies mode, and a series of solo missions centered around the Specialist characters, the developer plans to bring the battle royale craze to Call of Duty. During yesterday's Black Ops 4 reveal event, we got to play over an hour of multiplayer. We also spoke with studio design director David Vonderhaar about Treyarch's influence on the Call of Duty series and how the team is looking t
  
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• PS4 Zombie Game Days Gone Features An Impressive Open World, But Could Use More Original Ideas

  26-05-2018 19:48 via gamespot.com
  
  Days Gone goes out of its way to make it feel like you're in an oppressive and bleak setting. With many scattered survivors, bandits lurking in the streets and dense forests, and undead roaming among the remains of civilization--the zombie-apocalypse is a constant struggle to survive in. And the only thing keeping you going are the meager resources you can scrape together, and a motorcycle that's seen far better days. Coming from Bend Studio, the same developers behind the Syphon Filter series a
  
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• Mystery 'Wolf-Like' Animal Reportedly Shot In Montana, Baffles Wildlife Officials

  26-05-2018 19:40 via yahoo.com
  Montana wildlife officials are puzzled by the carcass of wolflike animal they
  
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• Twitter #PutStarWarsInOtherFilms And It Was Universally Entertaining

  26-05-2018 19:33 via yahoo.com
  "Solo: A Star Wars Story" hits this weekend and even though that film is
  
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• Ireland votes to liberalize abortion laws with 66 percent in favor

  26-05-2018 19:24 via yahoo.com
  DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland voted by a landslide to liberalize its highly restrictive abortion laws as 66 percent of the electorate backed a referendum, official results showed on Saturday. Voters in the once deeply Catholic nation were asked if they wished to scrap a prohibition that was enshrined in the constitution by referendum 35 years ago, and partly lifted in 2013 only for cases where the mother's life was in danger. Over 64 percent of eligible voters cast their ballot, one of the highest
  
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• Helio chasing No. 4 as his Indy 500 career winds down

  26-05-2018 19:24 via yahoo.com
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The screaming yellow firesuit made Helio Castroneves easy to find at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
  
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• Indiana School Shooting: Hero Teacher Recovering After Tackling Student Gunman

  26-05-2018 19:01 via yahoo.com
  The teacher was shot three times.
  
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• Indiana School Shooting: Hero Teacher, Jason Seaman, Recovering After Tackling Student Gunman

  26-05-2018 19:01 via yahoo.com
  The teacher was shot three times.
  
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• The Moment In Solo That Directly Calls Out George Lucas's Hated Remasters

  26-05-2018 19:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Solo: A Star Wars Story's many, many Star Wars Easter eggs and references aren't limited to simple in-universe callbacks. There's even one moment late in the film that directly calls out, in a very meta way, the most infamous change George Lucas made in his widely despised remasters of the original Star Wars trilogy. We're talking, of course, about "Han shot first."In Solo, Woody Harrelson's grizzled scoundrel Tobias Beckett repeatedly tells young Han not to trust anyone. After a predictable ser
  
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• E3 2018: All The PS4 Games Confirmed So Far

  26-05-2018 18:55 via gamespot.com
  
  E3 is just around the corner, and for publishers like Sony that means big splashy presentations and surprising announcements. The annual PlayStation showcase is one of the highlights of E3, especially since the company has fine-tuned its presentation to deliver one trailer after another.It's hard to say just how surprising this year's show will be, however. Sony has taken the unusual step of outlining its plans ahead of time, with a particular "deep dive" focus on four games: Death Stranding, Gh
  
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• France's far left leads protests against Macron reforms

  26-05-2018 18:32 via yahoo.com
  France's main far left party, the hardline CGT trade union and some 80 other organizations on Saturday led several thousand people in street protests across the country against President Emmanuel Macron's reforms of the public sector.Organizers hoped that the protests would grow further into agroundswell of opposition to Macron's reform of France's public service and some state enterprises such as the heavily indebted national railway company SNCF.CGT said 80,000 people participated in the prote
  
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• Erdogan asks Turks to help prop up plunging lira

  26-05-2018 18:20 via yahoo.com
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday urged compatriots to change their foreign currency to the lira to help prop up the embattled currency.The lira has lost 16 percent of its value against the greenback in a month as markets became jittery after Erdogan indicated he wanted a greater say in monetary policy if he won legislative and presidential elections on June 24.The lira hit 4.92 against the dollar on Wednesday before paring back some of its losses later this week after an emerge
  
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• Fight breaks out between passengers on American Airlines flight

  26-05-2018 18:12 via yahoo.com
  Cell phone video captures a flight attendant telling passenger Jason Felix that he can’t have more alcohol during a flight from St. Croix to Miami. A fight broke out after he threatened another passenger and Felix now faces federal charges.
  
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• Morgan Freeman 'Devastated' That Sexual Harassment Claims Could Undermine Legacy

  26-05-2018 18:04 via yahoo.com
  Actor Morgan Freeman spoke out again in the wake of sexual harassment
  
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• Syria says it has named a constitutional committee

  26-05-2018 18:02 via yahoo.com
  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's Foreign Ministry says it has handed to the Russian and Iranian ambassadors in Damascus a list of the members it has named to a committee to review the national constitution.
  
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• Toyota Corolla Crashes Into Parked 1931 Ford Model A

  26-05-2018 18:00 via yahoo.com
  Years of restoration painfully ends in the hands of a careless, distracted driver.
  
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• Solo: All The Star Wars Easter Eggs And References We Could Find

  26-05-2018 18:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Solo: A Star Wars Story spoilers ahead!
  Solo: A Star Wars Story tells the tale of famed space scoundrel Han Solo--and we mean the whole story. This movie covers how Han met Chewie, how he met Lando, how he won the Millennium Falcon, how he completed the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs, where he got his iconic blaster, and even how he got his name. If that sounds like a lot of origin to cram into one movie, it's because it is. But those aren't the only Star Wars references in Solo--not by a long shot.In
  
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• Venezuela releases imprisoned American Joshua Holt

  26-05-2018 17:48 via yahoo.com
  Sen. Bob Corker helped broker the release of Holt and his wife Thamy, who were accused of stockpiling weapons and held for two years without trial. They returned to the U.S. on Saturday.
  
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• Leaders of North and South Korea meet in surprise summit

  26-05-2018 17:42 via yahoo.com
  Kim Jong Un and President Moon Jae-in met in the Demilitarized Zone to discuss boosting ties between the two countries and salvaging talks with President Donald Trump.
  
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