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• Fortnite's New Ace Pack Is A Good Deal, Includes V-Bucks And A Skin

  28-08-2018 23:51 via gamespot.com
  
  Like many other free-to-play games, Fortnite features a variety of options for spending real-world money if you so choose, between its seasonal Battle Pass and various V-Buck bundles. Epic has introduced yet another bundle to Fortnite's in-game store, and it's a particularly good deal if you're looking to get more V-Bucks.The new Fortnite Ace Pack is now available to purchase on all platforms--PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC, and mobile. The pack costs $5 and includes two new cosmetics: the A
  
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• Three Of Nintendo's Best Switch Games Get New Bundles With Strategy Guides

  28-08-2018 23:50 via gamespot.com
  
  Nintendo has announced three new game bundles for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Splatoon 2, and Super Mario Odyssey. Each bundle goes for $60 and will launch on September 28.Referred to as "starter pack" versions of the games, each bundle includes both the game and a colored strategy guide to help players. Nintendo hasn't revealed what's exactly inside the guide, so it could be as simple as a collection of tips for getting started or as complex as a series of maps to every collectible
  
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• Vatican knew of Pennsylvania sex abuse cover-up, prosecutor says

  28-08-2018 23:47 via yahoo.com
  (Reuters) - The Vatican knew of a cover-up of child sex abuse by Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania through secret archives that bishops in the state shared with church leaders in Rome, the state's attorney general Josh Shapiro said on Tuesday.Shapiro first made the allegations against the Vatican during an Aug. 14 news conference to unveil a report on a two-year investigation into how Catholic clergymen in the state allegedly groomed and sexually abused children.
  
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• Texas police search for woman seen in mysterious doorbell video 

  28-08-2018 23:40 via yahoo.com
  Authorities in Texas are trying to find a woman who was captured on video ringing a doorbell in the middle of the night. It happened early Friday in Montgomery when a concerned resident shared the video with the sheriff's office. The video, taken on a home CCTV camera shows a barefoot young woman wearing a T-shirt and what could be broken restraints around her wrists. The woman was gone before the resident got to the door. The resident reviewed the security footage and sent it to polic
  
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• Surprise Nintendo Switch Game Out Now Is One Of The Year's Best: Into The Breach

  28-08-2018 23:30 via gamespot.com
  
  The Nintendo Direct-style presentation that preceded Gamescom brought with it word on a trio of new Switch games that all released that very day. A new broadcast, this one from Nintendo of America, only had one such game, but it's a stellar one: Into the Breach.Originally launched earlier this year on PC, Into the Breach is the latest title from Subset Games, the developer of the acclaimed FTL. The game is now available on the Eshop for $15/£11.39.Into the Breach is a turn-based strategy g
  
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• All 22 Switch Games Featured During Today's Nintendo Direct Stream

  28-08-2018 23:28 via gamespot.com
  
  Nintendo announced 22 indie games coming to Switch in the company's newest Direct-style broadcast. Most of the games are coming this year, including critically acclaimed titles like Into the Breach and Hyper Light Drifter, but a few are scheduled for 2019.Into the Breach is the biggest surprise to come out of the Direct. Previously a PC exclusive, the turn-based strategy game turned heads this past February with its superb storytelling written by Chris Avellone--who's previously written narrativ
  
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• History Of The Predator

  28-08-2018 23:23 via gamespot.com
  
  More than 30 years ago, one of film’s most iconic monsters made its debut in the 1987 action classic Predator. Before you watch Shane Black's The Predator this September, Ryan dives into the movie history, background, and characteristics of the Predator.
  
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• The Walking Dead Season 9 Trailer Shows People Are The Worst Part Of The Apocalypse

  28-08-2018 23:10 via gamespot.com
  
  While both Andrew Lincoln and Lauren Cohan are leaving The Walking Dead in Season 9, a big focus of the trailers for the new episodes are focussed on a rivalry between the two as to who should lead the group. The latest look at the new season is no different with their feud seemingly coming to a head."You told me that you'd be the one following me, but you didn't," Maggie (Cohan) tells Rick (Lincoln) in a new trailer for the series. "That changes now."For its previous eight seasons, the primary
  
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• A 9-Year-Old Colorado Boy's Death by Suicide Highlights the Challenges Facing LGBTQ Kids

  28-08-2018 23:02 via yahoo.com
  They're far more likely to attempt suicide
  
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• Destiny 2's Big 2.0 Pre-Forsaken Update Out Now; Patch Notes Show What's New

  28-08-2018 23:00 via gamespot.com
  
  With the big Forsaken DLC expansion drawing close, Bungie has released a major Destiny 2 update (as well as a Forsaken launch trailer). Patch 2.0 is now live and makes sweeping changes to certain areas of the game before the DLC launches. While some changes, like the overhaul of mods, won't come until the expansion hits, the patch does completely rework how weapon slots work, among many other things.As detailed in the patch notes on Bungie's website, most weapons are no longer locked to the Kine
  
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• Republicans resist plan to rename Senate building for McCain

  28-08-2018 22:59 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A proposal to rename the Senate's oldest office building for John McCain ran into resistance Tuesday from Republican senators reluctant to take away an honor already bestowed on an earlier Senate titan — and a leader of Southern senators during a tumultuous era in the nation's history.
  
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• Destiny 2: Forsaken Gives Guardians Their Voices Back In Launch Trailer

  28-08-2018 22:57 via gamespot.com
  
  The release of Destiny 2's biggest DLC expansion yet, Forsaken, is right around the corner, and to get players pumped for the game's next chapter, Bungie has released a new launch trailer (as well as a major new patch). It features a funeral of sorts for one of Destiny's most prominent characters, as well as the return of another--Uldren Sov--who serves as the primary antagonist in Forsaken.Bungie's new video starts out by capping off what we've seen previously, where Cayde-6 fights off countles
  
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• Time's Running Out To Get These Xbox One Games With Gold For Free

  28-08-2018 22:54 via gamespot.com
  
  If you have an Xbox Live Gold subscription, time is running out to download two of the Games With Gold for August 2018. As usual, Microsoft's freebies are available during staggered windows throughout each month. Come August 31, you'll no longer be able to download Forza Horizon 2 and Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two for free. To grab your games, either visit Microsoft's Games With Gold page online or from your Xbox One's home screen.Forza Horizon 2 is one of the Xbox One games available i
  
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• PS4, Xbox One, And Nintendo Switch Game Deals This Week At Best Buy In The US

  28-08-2018 22:53 via gamespot.com
  
  This week's Best Buy ad is up, meaning a whole new set of discounts on video games and hardware is live. Whether you spend your time playing on Xbox One, PS4, or Nintendo Switch, you can find a nice selection of deals at the big blue retailer this week. Let's dive in and take a look at what's on sale.In the market for a Nintendo Switch? If you buy Nintendo's latest console, you'll receive a (much needed) 64 GB microSDXC memory card for free. Basketball fans who are ready to pre-order NBA 2K19 ca
  
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• Last Chance To Buy This Square Enix RPG Before It's Gone From Steam

  28-08-2018 22:53 via gamespot.com
  
  If PC is your platform of choice and you're a fan of Square Enix's role-playing games, you might want to pick up The Last Remnant as soon as possible. The publisher says it will discontinue sales of both the digital and physical versions of the PC game on September 4. Anyone who already has a copy will be able to continue playing after that date, which makes acquiring the game now somewhat urgent. Between now and September 4, you can buy The Last Remnant on Steam for $10.First released in 2008,
  
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• Some Great Nintendo Switch Eshop Game Deals In The US

  28-08-2018 22:51 via gamespot.com
  
  Nintendo Switch owners who want to save money on games are in luck, because some great deals are live now on the Nintendo Eshop. But unlike the weekly sales on the Xbox and PlayStation stores, the discounts here don't all end at the same time, so if you see something you want, you're better off grabbing it sooner than later.Hollow Knight, one of the best games on the platform, is on sale now for $10, for a savings of 33%. This game is well worth it even at full price, so this is a killer deal. I
  
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• PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Game Deals At Amazon In The US

  28-08-2018 22:51 via gamespot.com
  
  Unlike most other retailers that offer games, Amazon doesn't put on official weekly video game sales. But that doesn't mean you can't find a deal at the online store. Whether the gaming deals available now are mostly to price-match other stores' deals or they were whipped up by an algorithm, it doesn't really matter. All that matters is that some great games are available for cheap on Amazon in the US right now. Let's take a look.Nintendo Switch owners are probably the best-served group at the m
  
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• South Sudan rebels to sign latest draft peace deal: Sudan

  28-08-2018 22:50 via yahoo.com
  President Salva Kiir and the leader of the main rebel group, Riek Machar, signed up to the ceasefire and power-sharing agreement earlier this month after an initial deal in June aimed to end fighting that first broke out in 2013.Kiir's government and some small opposition groups had initialled the draft at a ceremony hosted by Khartoum outside the Sudanese capital earlier on Tuesday, but Machar's SPLM-IO and another rebel group refused to sign, saying that disputes over power sharing and a new c
  
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• Shooting suspect was able to buy guns despite mental illness

  28-08-2018 22:37 via yahoo.com
  BALTIMORE (AP) — The young man who opened fire at a Florida video game tournament had shown abundant signs he was struggling with a mental disorder: He was prescribed an anti-psychotic drug as an adolescent and had been hospitalized at least twice for mental illness.
  
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• Jacob Caldwell, Ohio Boy Reported Missing 1 Year Ago, Found Safe by Police

  28-08-2018 22:23 via yahoo.com
  The teen had run away days after the murder of his father, police said.
  
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• Fortnite Finally Makes It Fun To Do Chest Challenges

  28-08-2018 22:11 via gamespot.com
  
  Alongside the release of a new update, the talk of the town in Fortnite over the past few days has obviously been the appearance of a mysterious giant purple cube. This almighty being (all hail cube) is covered in hieroglyphic symbols, shoots purple lightning, and is slowly moving somewhere, so the fascination with it is understandable. However, a few hours before the cube exploded onto the scene, a significant change happened to Fortnite's challenges that shakes up the weekly formula in a posit
  
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• Tesla wins court case against Ontario government over rebate cancellation

  28-08-2018 22:09 via yahoo.com
  A Canadian court has ruled in favour of Tesla Incafter the electric carmaker challenged the province of Ontario's wind-down of an electric vehicle rebate.In a ruling on Monday, Judge Frederick Myers of Ontario struck down the transition programme set up by the new Ontario government, which excluded Tesla customers from qualifying for rebates.A Tesla spokeswoman welcomed the decision.
  
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• The Latest: McConnell slows push to name building for McCain

  28-08-2018 22:07 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on a proposal to rename the Senate's oldest office building for John McCain (all times local):
  
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• Marriott International seals deal on mega-merger of rewards programs -- And the perks are seemingly endless

  28-08-2018 21:54 via yahoo.com
  Rewards programs are one of the best-kept secrets when it comes to hospitality
  
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• All In Match Card: The Biggest Indy Wrestling Show Of All Time

  28-08-2018 21:54 via gamespot.com
  
  If you follow wrestling, then you're probably well aware of the upcoming event All In, which comes to the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates, IL on Saturday, September 1. The show will feature talent from NJPW, ROH, NWA, Lucha Underground, and even one headed back to WWE pretty soon. Even Stephen Amell, the star of The CW's Arrow, is set to compete.This show all began because of a challenge on social media. Back in May 2017, wrestling journalist and insider Dave Meltzer answered a fan's question ab
  
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• Latest: 10th and final victim of Chicago apartment fire dies

  28-08-2018 21:51 via yahoo.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on the fire that killed nine children in Chicago (all times local):
  
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• PS4's Spider-Man Continues Its Story In A Three-Part DLC Expansion

  28-08-2018 21:48 via gamespot.com
  
  Insomniac Games community director James Stevenson has announced on the PlayStation Blog that Spider-Man will be getting post-launch DLC on October 23. Titled The Heist, the DLC is the first of a three-part expansion called The City That Never Sleeps. Each part seems to focus on a different character from Spider-Man's circle of friends and foes, with the first being about one of Spidey's ex-flames.One very small spoiler for Spider-Man follows. If you want to discover all the characters alluded t
  
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• DC's New Joker Movie Adds Alec Baldwin To Play Batman's Father

  28-08-2018 21:47 via gamespot.com
  
  The new Joker movie from The Hangover director Todd Phillips and starring Joaquin Phoenix in the title role has added another big name to its cast. According to Deadline, Oscar nominee Alec Baldwin will play Batman's ill-fated father, Thomas Wayne. Baldwin is a veteran TV and movie actor, known for his leading role on the comedy 30 Rock and more recently as the voice of Boss Baby in the movie of the same name. Baldwin picked up a Best Supporting actor nomination for his role in the 2003 movie Th
  
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• Star Wars: Episode 9 Adding Doctor Who's Matt Smith--Report

  28-08-2018 21:44 via gamespot.com
  
  Doctor Who travels throughout all of space and time, so it's certainly possible that the show's titular Time Lord could wind up stuck a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. While that's likely not how it will work, it looks like former Doctor Who star Matt Smith is ready to make his Star Wars debut.According to The Hollywood Reporter, Smith is in talks to join Star Wars: Episode IX, which is already in production. The news of the actor's potential role comes on the heels of the news that Lo
  
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• Fortnite 5.30 Content Update Out Now With Shockwave Grenade; Here Are The Patch Notes

  28-08-2018 21:42 via gamespot.com
  
  Epic has rolled out another update for Fortnite. The 5.30 content update is now available on all platforms--PS4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch, and mobile--and it introduces a new item and limited-time mode to Battle Royale, while Save the World receives a new hero and Horde Challenge to take on.On the Battle Royale side, the recently teased Shockwave Grenade has been added to the ever-expanding weapons list. The Shockwave Grenade is an Epic rarity item that can be found in Supply Drops, Vending
  
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• Russia to hold biggest military drills since Cold War

  28-08-2018 21:40 via yahoo.com
  Russia will flex its military muscles and hold the biggest war games since the Cold War era next month, including almost 300,000 troops and 1,000 aircraft, the defence ministry said Tuesday, leading NATO to warn of a "more assertive Russia".Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said the exercises would be similar in size to those held in September 1981 by the Soviet authorities, called Zapad-81, or West 81."This will be something of a repeat of Zapad-81, but in some senses even bigger," Shoigu said in
  
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• 'He Failed a Lot, But He Never Quit.' Watch Lindsey Graham's Emotional Farewell to John McCain

  28-08-2018 21:40 via yahoo.com
  Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of Sen. John McCain's closest friends, gave him an emotional sendoff on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday.
  
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• US midterms: North Carolina’s gerrymandered congressional map unconstitutional and must be redrawn, judges rule

  28-08-2018 21:38 via yahoo.com
  Federal judges have struck down North Carolina’s Republican-gerrymandered congressional map as illegal for a second time, in a decision that could leave officials in the state scrambling just months before the midterm elections in November.The ruling is the latest development in a case that fair elections advocates say features such drastically gerrymandered districts that it could represent one of the clearest chances for the Supreme Court to clarify the constitutionality of extreme parti
  
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• Aretha Franklin Lies in Gold-Plated Casket at Public Viewing

  28-08-2018 21:35 via yahoo.com
  The regal presence Aretha Franklin exuded in life was captured at her viewing on Tuesday, with the late Queen of Soul in a gold-plated casket dressed completely in red, including high-heeled pumps.
  
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• Effort To Rename Russell Senate Building For McCain Is Running Into GOP Resistance

  28-08-2018 21:34 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― A bipartisan effort to rename a Senate office building to honor
  
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• Jimmy Carter Calls Trump’s First Reaction To McCain's Death 'A Serious Mistake'

  28-08-2018 21:24 via yahoo.com
  Jimmy Carter remains unimpressed with President Donald Trump's belated effort
  
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• PS4 Game Deals This Week On The PlayStation Store In The US

  28-08-2018 21:21 via gamespot.com
  
  Last week's PSN sale was massive, but now that it's gone two new sales have taken its place. One is PS Plus Specials, which offers big discounts on games exclusively for PlayStation Plus members. The other is a publisher sale that temporarily brings down the prices of Rockstar's games. Let's dive in and see what games are discounted between now and September 4.You don't need a PS Plus membership to take advantage of this weeks' Rockstar deals. Grand Theft Auto V, which is often on sale nowadays,
  
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• Elon Musk Can't Stop Baselessly Calling Hero Cave Rescuer A Pedophile

  28-08-2018 21:20 via yahoo.com
  Elon Musk, a tech billionaire who can't keep his mouth shut, continues to
  
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• Nintendo Direct Showcases 22 Games Coming To Switch

  28-08-2018 21:14 via gamespot.com
  
  Nintendo announced 22 indie games coming to Switch in the company's newest Direct. Most of the games are coming this year, including critically acclaimed titles like Into the Breach and Hyper Light Drifter, but a few are scheduled for 2019.Into the Breach is the biggest surprise to come out of the Direct. Previously a PC exclusive, the turn-based strategy game turned heads this past February with its superb storytelling written by Chris Avellone--who's previously written narratives for games lik
  
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• Jacksonville Shooting Survivors Retain Morgan & Morgan For Expected Lawsuit

  28-08-2018 21:11 via yahoo.com
  Orlando-based law firm Morgan & Morgan announced that it is filing a
  
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• U.S. envoy Haley questions Palestinian refugee numbers

  28-08-2018 20:57 via yahoo.com
  U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Tuesday appeared to question the world body's count of Palestinian refugees, the latest in a series of steps by the Trump administration challenging how relief aid is delivered to the Palestinians.In remarks at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington think tank often sympathetic to Israel, Haley agreed with a questioner who suggested that the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA), which helps Palestinian refugees, overcounts the
  
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• All Of The Combat From Cyberpunk 2077's Gameplay Demo

  28-08-2018 20:57 via gamespot.com
  
  Thirsty for just the combat in the Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay reveal? Watch all the thrilling combat sequences from the demo here for PS4, Xbox One, and PC.
  
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• Streets Of Rage 4 Is Finally Happening, 24 Years Later

  28-08-2018 20:56 via gamespot.com
  
  In case you didn't know, the '90s are coming back in full force. And who doesn't remember the era's iconic beat-em-up, Streets of Rage? Although it's been almost a quarter of a century since Streets of Rage 3, publisher DotEmu has announced the return of the side-scrolling beat-em-up with Streets of Rage 4.Developed by Lizardcube (Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap) and Guard Crush Games (Streets of Fury), Streets of Rage 4 will further Sega's arcade brawler with new mechanics, an original story, and
  
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• Three New Nintendo 2DS XL Bundles Up For Pre-Order

  28-08-2018 20:54 via gamespot.com
  
  The Nintendo 3DS family of systems just might live forever. The first iteration of the hardware debuted in 2011, and here we are seven years later with Nintendo releasing three new bundles containing a game that also launched seven years ago. The bundles contain various color designs of the New Nintendo 2DS XL with Mario Kart 7 pre-installed.The bundles come in Black and Turquoise, Orange and White, and a new color combination: Purple and Silver. You can see how they look in the images below. Th
  
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• Canada's Trudeau says he will defend dairy farmer protections in NAFTA

  28-08-2018 20:53 via yahoo.com
  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday his position on the supply management system that protects Canada's dairy farmers has not changed and he will defend it as Canada works to renew the NAFTA trade deal with the United States and Mexico."My position on defending supply management has not changed," he told reporters during a visit to the province of Quebec.
  
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• Journalist who helped pen pope bombshell says author wept

  28-08-2018 20:51 via yahoo.com
  ROME (AP) — An Italian journalist who says he helped a former Vatican diplomat pen his bombshell allegation of sex abuse cover-up against Pope Francis says he persuaded the archbishop to go public after the U.S. church was thrown into turmoil by revelations in the Pennsylvania grand jury report.
  
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• Puerto Rican Governor Raises Official Hurricane Maria Death Toll From 64 To Nearly 3,000

  28-08-2018 20:46 via yahoo.com
  The governor of Puerto Rico on Tuesday raised the government's official death
  
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• Destiny 2's Big 2.0 Update Patch Notes: Weapon Slots Overhauled, Exotics Changed

  28-08-2018 20:28 via gamespot.com
  
  With the big Forsaken DLC expansion drawing close, Bungie has released a major Destiny 2 update (as well as a Forsaken launch trailer). Patch 2.0 is now live and makes sweeping changes to certain areas of the game before the DLC launches. While some changes, like the overhaul of mods, won't come until the expansion hits, the patch does completely rework how weapon slots work, among many other things.As detailed in the patch notes on Bungie's website, most weapons are no longer locked to the Kine
  
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• Watch New Nintendo Direct Focused On Switch Games Right Here

  28-08-2018 20:27 via gamespot.com
  
  Update: The 15-minute broadcast has concluded, and is often the case with these videos, there were a ton of games on display. You can rewatch the entire thing below, and we've rounded up all of the Switch games that were featured. Additionally, a particularly stellar one, Into the Breach, is out now on the Eshop. The original story follows.A new Nintendo Direct is on the way soon. Following Nintendo UK's surprise Indie Highlights video earlier this week, Nintendo of America has announced it will
  
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• Defenders rally around pope, fear conservatives escalating war

  28-08-2018 20:27 via yahoo.com
  Francis' supporters say the accusations in Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano's 11-page public statement aim to pave the way for a conservative pope to succeed him who would reverse his openings to divorced and homosexual Catholics.In the statement published at the weekend, Vigano, the former Vatican ambassador to Washington, called on Francis to resign on the grounds the pope knew for years about the sexual misconduct of an American cardinal and did nothing.
  
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