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• Protesters across U.S. call on Trump to reunite immigrant families

  30-06-2018 22:48 via yahoo.com
  By Lesley Wroughton and Jason LangeWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of protesters marched in cities across the United States on Saturday to demand the Trump administration reverse an immigration crackdown that has separated children from parents at the U.S-Mexico border and led to plans for military-run detention camps.Outside the White House, protesters waved "Families Belong Together" signs and chanted "Shame!" as religious leaders and activists urged the administration to be more welc
  
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• Fortnite's Countdown Lead To A Tear In The Sky

  30-06-2018 22:14 via gamespot.com
  
  We've been seeing Fortnite's countdown tick for a while now, and it finally hit zero. Today's event was the launch of the rocket in Anarchy Acres, and it's left a tear in the sky.Fortnite's countdown was to a one-time event, a rocket launch. We've speculated that it might have something to do with Season 5. Season 4 began in a similar way with the impact of the meteor, and so far, we know Season 5 has been teased with a mysterious siren.In @FortniteGame, the rocket just launched causing a bunch
  
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• Embattled Merkel draws up new measures to tackle migration

  30-06-2018 22:12 via yahoo.com
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel has drawn up a raft of measures to tighten controls on the influx of migrants, according to a document submitted to her coalition partners Saturday as she battles for political survival.Two of the countries mentioned -- Hungary and the Czech Republic -- denied that any such deal had been reached.Merkel's move came after the European Union's 28 members hammered out a hard-fought deal Friday to tackle migration and avert a crisis that has threatened the very fabric
  
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• Thieves drain bank account of nation's oldest veteran

  30-06-2018 22:07 via yahoo.com
  The family of a World War II veteran and oldest-living man in the country says someone stole his money.
  
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• There Was a Families Belong Together Rally at the U.S. Border Patrol Station in Texas

  30-06-2018 22:07 via yahoo.com
  And another in nearby Brownsville
  
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• Syria regime advances in south as air strikes kill 15

  30-06-2018 21:59 via yahoo.com
  At least eight battered rebel-held towns in southern Syria returned to regime control under Russian-brokered deals on Saturday as air strikes killed at least 15 civilians, a monitor said.Since June 19, backed by its ally Russia, the Damascus regime has carried out a deadly bombing campaign in southern Syria as it pushes to retake the strategic area bordering Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.As of Saturday, government forces controlled more than half of Daraa, up from just 30 percent
  
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• Capital Gazette staff 'are like family', says mourning Annapolis community

  30-06-2018 21:28 via yahoo.com
  Before a mass shooting turned the Capital Gazette into a national news story, it was simply “the paper”.Residents of Annapolis, Maryland, used the phrase as shorthand for the local newspaper when they weren’t referring to it by its nickname, “the Capital”.Prosecutors say 38-year-old Jarrod Ramos – a local man who had a long-standing grudge against the Capital – carried out a “targeted attack” on the paper’s offices, barricading the exit
  
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• Jordan army sends aid to southern Syria displaced

  30-06-2018 21:15 via yahoo.com
  The Jordanian army has sent cross-border deliveries of aid to displaced people in Syria's southern province of Daraa, where Damascus is pressing an offensive to oust rebels, officials said."The Jordanian armed forces have started sending convoys of humanitarian aid to the Syrian brothers... inside Syria," Jordanian government spokeswoman Jumana Ghanimat told AFP.
  
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• Rebel-held Syrian towns accept Assad rule after regime bombardment

  30-06-2018 21:10 via yahoo.com
   A string of Syrian rebel-held towns and villages accepted government rule on Saturday as insurgent lines collapsed in parts of the southwest under an intense bombardment that the United Nations says has forced 160,000 people to flee. The southwest was an early hotbed of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad and defeat there would leave rebels with just one remaining stronghold - the area around Idlib province bordering Turkey in the northwest. Rebels met Russian negotiat
  
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• Great white spotted off Spain in decades first: marine group

  30-06-2018 21:08 via yahoo.com
  A great white shark was spotted in waters off Spain's Balearic Islands this week in what is the first such sighting by scientists in at least 30 years, a marine conservation group said Saturday.The Alnitak group captured footage of the shark, which it said was five metres (16 feet) long, on Thursday in the seas off Cabrera island and followed it for over an hour, it said on its Facebook page, posting a picture."In the past years there have been possible unconfirmed sightings and various rumours,
  
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• 12-Year-Old Black Kid Has Police Called On Him For Mowing A Lawn

  30-06-2018 21:05 via yahoo.com
  A 12-year-old child who started his own summer lawn-mowing business had the
  
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• Merkel moves to placate coalition partners in crucial migrant meeting

  30-06-2018 21:02 via yahoo.com
  Angela Merkel will move to end the rebellion in her creaking coalition government on Sunday after announcing bilateral deals with 14 EU member states to accept the return of asylum seekers to the countries where they first arrived. The agreements announced yesterday are aimed at placating her conservative Bavarian CSU coalition partners who have threatened to unilaterally shut Germany’s borders if Mrs Merkel does not adopt a more hardline migration policy. Analysts said
  
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• Nintendo Switch Weekly Recap: Nintendo Labo X Mario Kart 8, And Nintendo Europe Sees New Leadership

  30-06-2018 20:31 via gamespot.com
  
  As we're heading into the thick of summer, this week's Nintendo Switch news is particularly light. We got a few more details on games that are to come, but few new releases and updates. But that doesn't mean we didn't see any interesting headlines.Mario Kart 8 and Nintendo Labo's toy-cons are now compatible. Instead of all those bulky, plastic gaming accessories you'll never know what to do with after this generation, recycling is now an option. The Switch might also see more Monster Hunter tit
  
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• Xbox One Weekly Recap: Big Titles In July's Game Pass, Forza Horizon 4 Leaks

  30-06-2018 20:30 via gamespot.com
  
  Xbox One is headed into summer with a bang. Not only are three huge RPGs hitting Games Pass this coming month, but one of it's exclusive titles may have had a major leak. Games Pass, or Xbox One's "Netflix of games," will see nine new titles in July, including The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Fallout 3, and Warhammer: Vermintide 2. Overwatchhas a brand new hero, a space hamster in a death ball, Hammond. Gears 5had a new character and gun teased this week, and Forza Horizon 4's full car list might
  
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• PS4 Weekly Recap: Sony Comments On Cross-Play And Get PS Now With PS Plus Bonus

  30-06-2018 20:30 via gamespot.com
  
  Summer is here, and we're looking a loads of news for PS4 this week. This week was lighter than others in terms of new games, but we did see updates for competitive shooters Overwatch, Fortnite, and PS4's exclusive H1Z1, and more regarding cross-play on the platform. Sony Interactive America president and CEO Shawn Layden spoke at a Gamelab conference in Spain about PlayStation's legacy. Eurogamer popped the will we see cross-play on PS4 question--the short answer is Sony is listening, but it's
  
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• Donations Help Bail Out Oregon Mom Charged With Manslaughter After 1-Year-Old Dies in Hot Car

  30-06-2018 20:01 via yahoo.com
  She forgot her daughter was in the car, her attorney said.
  
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• Trump Is Following Arizona's Playbook On Immigration. We Know How To Fight Back.

  30-06-2018 19:37 via yahoo.com
  The "total chaos" of the Trump administration's handling of immigration on the
  
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• Trump preparing to announce Supreme Court pick

  30-06-2018 19:25 via yahoo.com
  Left's rhetoric heats up as president prepares to reveal nominee to replace Justice Kennedy.
  
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• Mother, 100, meets daughter, 79, for the first time in emotional reunion

  30-06-2018 19:07 via yahoo.com
  A mother and daughter aged 100 and 79 have met for the first time after both had been told decades earlier that the other had died.  Lillian Ciminieri, the mother, spent her life thinking her daughter had died at birth. Joanne Loewenstern, the daughter, was adopted and similarly told her mother had passed while giving birth.  Thanks to the wonders of DNA tracing and the efforts of family members the pair were finally reunited - and found to be living just 100 miles apart on the Florida
  
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• Respawn's Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order -- What We Know And Want

  30-06-2018 19:00 via gamespot.com
  
  At Last, The Jedi Are No More...
  We don't have much information on Respawn's Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order, but here's what we do know. The game will star a young Jedi Padawan who escaped Order 66 after the events of Revenge of the Sith when, as Respawn CEO Vince Zampella puts it, the galaxy was at its darkest. As a Jedi apprentice, you will have access to a lightsaber. It's not much to go on, but it's enough to make an educated guess as to who and what we might see in Jedi Fallen Order.By the ev
  
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• Report: Merkel secures deal with 14 EU nations on migrants

  30-06-2018 18:56 via yahoo.com
  BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel has reportedly secured agreements with 14 European Union countries to rapidly return some asylum seekers as she seeks to end a schism in her government over migration policy.
  
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• Here Are The Best ‘Families Belong Together’ March Signs

  30-06-2018 18:45 via yahoo.com
  Thousands of people who attended the national 'Families Belong Together'
  
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• Rescue of deaf puppy stuck in hole for 30 hours draws thousands

  30-06-2018 18:30 via yahoo.com
  After 30 hours of effort, volunteers were able to rescue a 7-week-old deaf puppy that fell down a 50-foot crevice behind a house in Alabama.
  
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• 11 Things That Would Make Fortnite: Battle Royale Even Better

  30-06-2018 18:30 via gamespot.com
  
  What Would Make Fortnite Better?
  Fortnite: Battle Royale is a household name at this point; whether you keep up with the world of games or pay no mind to the industry, you've likely heard the name Fortnite (or Fork Knife). Rarely do we see a game explode to this level of popularity, but developer Epic Games struck at the right time with its version of the last-person-standing game mode. Players scavenge a huge map for not only weapons and health items, but also raw materials to build structures.
  
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• Plastic a big part of human life and a major source of pollution

  30-06-2018 18:02 via yahoo.com
  So many of the items we use are made of plastic, but much of it doesn’t get recycled and pollutes the land and seas. Many cities are moving to ban certain products and some families are trying to live plastic-free.
  
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• Battle Royale Games Explained: PUBG, Fortnite, And What Could Be The Next Big Hit

  30-06-2018 18:01 via gamespot.com
  
  With the rapid and tremendous success of Fortnite and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, other developers plan to jump into the battle royale craze 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 even celebri
  
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• Best Mobile Games of 2018 (So Far) For Android, iPhone, And iOS

  30-06-2018 18:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Best Mobile Games of 2018 (So Far) For Android, iPhone, And iOS
  Sometimes, the best kinds of games are the ones you can play away from your television or monitor, the kinds of games you can play on the couch horizontally while bingeing a television show, or while you're waiting for a friend. But we're not talking about your Nintendo 3DS or Switch here--sometimes you need something smaller, a game for when you're standing shoulder to shoulder on the bus to work, something portable enough you can
  
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• These Celebrities and Public Figures Are Supporting the Families Belong Together March

  30-06-2018 17:55 via yahoo.com
  Including Chrissy Teigen, Mindy Kaling and more
  
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• Temporary housing program for hurricane survivors ends

  30-06-2018 17:52 via yahoo.com
  The FEMA program that helped Americans impacted by Hurricanes Maria, Irma and Harvey has come to an end. The agency said the program was meant to be a temporary solution, but nearly 2,000 displaced survivors struggle to find permanent housing.
  
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• 12-Year-Old Boy Mowing Lawn Has Police Called on Him: 'Who Does That?'

  30-06-2018 17:50 via yahoo.com
  He accidentally mowed a piece of a neighbor's lawn.
  
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• North Korea is keeping nuclear program alive, officials say

  30-06-2018 17:43 via yahoo.com
  After President Trump’s historic summit with Kim Jong Un, more than a dozen U.S. intelligence officials tell NBC News that North Korea is pushing ahead with its nuclear program.
  
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• 21 Stellar Games You Probably Missed Out On From E3 2018

  30-06-2018 17:41 via gamespot.com
  
  The underdogs of E3 2018
  E3 2018 was packed with some fantastic games that immediately captured the attention of many. Whether it was CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077, EA's blowout of Anthem and Battlefield V content, Sony's impressive demos for Ghost of Tsushima and Spider-Man, or the reveal of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's massive roster--there was definitely a lot to take in, leaving little room to properly digest some of the more lesser-known games. We at GameSpot explored the E3 show floor an
  
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• Rare Plans To Give Sea Of Thieves Fans What They Want

  30-06-2018 17:39 via gamespot.com
  
  Rare's high-seas adventure experiment Sea of Thieves for PC and Xbox One has gone through several noteworthy changes since its launch. The game focuses on a pirate's life in a shared world, where players embark on missions, sail across the seas, find hidden treasure, and even take on the occasional Kraken lurking beneath the waters. While the game found a passionate audience, it received some notable criticisms for lack of content and a repetitive gameplay loop, which the developers have spent t
  
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• Hundreds of ‘Families Belong Together’ rallies held across the country

  30-06-2018 17:39 via yahoo.com
  Hundreds of thousands marched in more than 700 ‘Families Belong Together’ events around the country to protest the nearly 2,000 migrant children separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
  
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• Mourners remember 5 people slain at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Md.

  30-06-2018 17:34 via yahoo.com
  Hundreds of people gathered on Friday evening to remember the five people gunned down at a community newspaper office in Annapolis, Md., one of the deadliest attacks on journalists in U.S. history.
  
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• Ballots and bullets: Mexico's bloody election campaign

  30-06-2018 17:25 via yahoo.com
  It is one of the lasting images of Mexico's election campaign: as a Congressional candidate poses for a selfie with a supporter, a man in a baseball cap calmly approaches and shoots him in the back of the head.Fernando Puron, who was running for Congress in the northern state of Coahuila, is one of 136 politicians murdered since candidate registration for Sunday's elections in Mexico opened in September, according to the consulting firm Etellekt.It is by far the bloodiest Mexican campaign on rec
  
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• For cannabis legalization in New England, it's a slow burn

  30-06-2018 17:12 via yahoo.com
  BOSTON (AP) — New England may still be the next U.S. frontier for legal cannabis; just don't try shopping for it quite yet.
  
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• Rebels surrender as the Syrian army advances

  30-06-2018 16:45 via yahoo.com
  The Syrian rebel-held town of Dael accepted government rule on Saturday as insurgent lines collapsed in parts of the southwest under an intense bombardment that the United Nations says has forced 160,000 people to flee. Anna Bevan reports
  
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• Net Neutrality Supporter Threatened to Murder FCC Chairman's Children, DOJ Says

  30-06-2018 16:11 via yahoo.com
  Markara Man, 33, threatened to kill Pai's family in December 2017, officials say
  
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• Deaf Alabama puppy rescued

  30-06-2018 16:00 via yahoo.com
  A deaf puppy that fell into a crevice in Huntsville, Alabama was rescued early Saturday morning, ending a 31-hour ordeal. Diane Hodges reports.
  
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• Palestinians call for 'revenge' at funeral of boy killed by Israeli fire

  30-06-2018 15:44 via yahoo.com
  Thousands of Palestinians on Saturday attended the funeral of the 11-year-old son of a Hamas military commander killed by Israeli fire in the southern Gaza Strip, with mourners demanding "revenge".Yasser Abu al-Naja, whose father is a member of Hamas's military wing, was shot in the head on Friday in border clashes near the southern city of Khan Yunis.Senior members of Hamas, which rules the blockaded Gaza Strip, and commanders of its Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades attended the funeral.
  
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• Inside the classes where people are learning how to overthrow Trump's family-splitting immigration policy

  30-06-2018 15:43 via yahoo.com
  The attendees are looking for ways to respond directly to what they see as a crisis caused by ICE, or the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.The federal agency has been weighing heavily on the national conversation this past month, particularly following revelations over the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, which has caused widespread outrage at the separation of families at the border.The people here have come to a “non-violent direct actio
  
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• Eight south Syria towns return to regime control under deals: monitor

  30-06-2018 15:10 via yahoo.com
  At least eight battered rebel-held towns in southern Syria on Saturday returned to regime control under Russian-brokered deals after nearly two weeks of bombardment, a Britain-based monitor said.Since June 19, the Damascus regime has pressed a deadly bombardment campaign in southern Syria in a bid to retake the strategic area bordering Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.The agreements for the eight towns were reached even as regime air strikes on Saturday pounded other opposition hold
  
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• Donald Trump says Democrats want to see 'all police' abolished in early morning Twitter rant

  30-06-2018 14:31 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has falsely claimed Democrats want to see "all police" abolished.In an early morning Twitter rant defending Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the US president insisted the agency was doing a "fantastic job" of removing "the worst criminal elements" from the country.ICE has been under fire in recent months over its aggressive targeting of undocumented migrants and its separating of families crossing into America at the border with Mexico.
  
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• Justice Anthony Kennedy’s Retirement Puts Key Issues On The Line

  30-06-2018 14:00 via yahoo.com
  The likely replacement of Justice Anthony Kennedy by a hard-right
  
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• Divers progress in search for missing Thai children trapped in cave 

  30-06-2018 13:51 via yahoo.com
  Rescue divers reached several kilometres inside a flooded cave Saturday where 12 boys and their football coach have been trapped for a week, offering a flicker of hope for the harrowing search. There has been no contact with the boys, aged 11 to 16, and their coach since they went into the Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand last weekend and were hemmed in by heavy rains that blocked the entrance. The desperate, round-the-clock search for the team has been beset by torrential downpours that sub
  
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• Afghan forces resume offensive operations after govt ceasefire ends

  30-06-2018 12:58 via yahoo.com
  Afghan security forces resumed offensive operations on Saturday after President Ashraf Ghani declared an end to the government's unilateral ceasefire with the Taliban.Ghani said the ceasefire, which lasted 18 days after it was extended once and overlapped with the Taliban's unilateral three-day truce for Eid, had been "98 percent successful".The Afghan security and defence forces are allowed to restart their military operations," Ghani told reporters.
  
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• As Thai search enters seventh day, divers cling to hope of finding lost boys

  30-06-2018 12:17 via yahoo.com
  By Panu Wongcha-umCHIANG RAI, Thailand (Reuters) - Having failed to find any sign of 12 boys and their soccer coach during a week-long search of flooded cave complex in northern Thailand, rescuers held out hope on Saturday that the group could have found safety on a rocky mound in one of the chambers.Divers were still some way from the potential safety spot, called "Pattaya Beach" after one of Thailand's best known tourist destinations.Meantime, a police search party has entered the cave from th
  
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• The Latest: College stabbing, police shooting leave 2 dead

  30-06-2018 12:13 via yahoo.com
  POMONA, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a stabbing and police shooting at a Southern California college (all times local):
  
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• The supreme court has taken a sledgehammer to the New Deal

  30-06-2018 12:00 via yahoo.com
  Of the three decisions the US supreme court handed down this week, the gay wedding cake case and travel ban cases were the latest battles in the culture wars that Republicans long have waged.The Janus decision declaring that public sector employees cannot be required to pay fees to the unions that represent them went beyond culture to the very meaning of the American government and how Republicans define it.Since the 1930s, when then president Franklin Delano Roosevelt promised to break the hold
  
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