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• CBS Pledges $20M From Les Moonves' Severance To Combat Sexual Harassment

  14-12-2018 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Scandal-ridden CBS is shelling out $20 million to more than a dozen
  
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• The Latest: Police say fiancé the last to see missing woman

  14-12-2018 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  DENVER (AP) — The Latest on a police investigation into a Colorado woman's disappearance (all times local):
  
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• Here's What Robert Mueller Has Uncovered So Far, in His Own Words

  14-12-2018 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Robert Mueller and other federal prosecutors on related cases have put significant chunks of the investigation in the public record.
  
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• Ms. Marvel Co-Creator And Writer Passes The Series Off To Someone New

  14-12-2018 23:54 via gamespot.com
  
  Marvel has announced that G. Willow Wilson, co-creator of Kamala Khan's Ms. Marvel, is moving on and passing off the series to a new writer. A new comic for the shapeshifting superhero, titled The Magnificent Ms. Marvel, will begin in 2019 and be written by Saladin Ahmed."In February, I will have written sixty issues of this book--five years of Kamala's story," Wilson told EW. "She is now something much bigger than the miniseries Sana and I planned years ago. She will, in all likelihood, outlive
  
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• Johnson & Johnson shares plunge after report on asbestos in baby powder

  14-12-2018 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  US pharmaceutical and cosmetics group Johnson & Johnson saw its shares plunge Friday after a media report alleged the group had deliberately concealed for decades that its baby powder sometimes contained asbestos.A lengthy investigation by the Reuters news agency, which reviewed thousands of company documents, showed the company marketed talc-based products that, at least between 1971 and the beginning in the 2000s, sometimes contained asbestos.J&J stock closed down more than 10 percent
  
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• President Donald Trump names Mick Mulvaney as acting White House chief of staff

  14-12-2018 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump's next top aide will have to manage a president who doesn't like to be managed.
  
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• UNC system rejects $5M plan to house Confederate statue

  14-12-2018 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's public university system rejected a proposal Friday to build a $5 million structure to house a toppled Confederate statue, opting instead to "go back to the drawing board" to figure out what to do with the monument.
  
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• Prada Pulls $550 Keychains After Blackface Comparisons

  14-12-2018 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The keychain was compared to Little Sambo online
  
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• Pokemon Go Winter Event Announced, Adds New Shiny And Gen 4 Pokemon

  14-12-2018 23:23 via gamespot.com
  
  Niantic has announced a new holiday event for Pokemon Go. The festivities kick off next week and run into the new year, during which time players will be able to earn bonuses, hatch Eggs more easily, and even encounter more Pokemon originally from the Sinnoh region.The third annual winter event begins on Tuesday, December 18, and once again, it brings back the festive hat-wearing Pikachu for a limited time. On top of that, Niantic says that more Ice-type and Gen 4 Pokemon will appear during the
  
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• ‘Fox & Friends’ Calls Michael Cohen ‘Disloyal’ To His Former Client Donald Trump

  14-12-2018 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  > Fox & Friends worries what Michael Cohen had taped, says Trump needs an "A
  
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• Death of seven-year-old migrant girl in US custody sparks furor

  14-12-2018 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  The death of a seven-year-old Guatemalan girl last week in the custody of US border agents sparked furor Friday and raised new pressure on the Trump administration's efforts to halt the migration of Central American families.The Department of Homeland Security confirmed the December 8 death of the girl, saying she died in an El Paso, Texas hospital less than 24 hours after being detained as part of a group of 163 illegal border crossers in a remote New Mexico border area.A Guatemalan official id
  
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• Robert Mueller: No 'coercion' in Michael Flynn FBI interview; urges court to reject attempt to downplay crime

  14-12-2018 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Robert Mueller documents detail Flynn FBI interview, no 'coercion'
  
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• Lame-duck Wisconsin governor signs bill undercutting incoming Democrat

  14-12-2018 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats said the legislation and a similar set of pending measures in Michigan undermine the results of the Nov. 6 elections, when they captured the governorship in both states for the first time in eight years.The efforts take a page out of the playbook of North Carolina Republicans, who two years ago acted to limit the power of the incoming Democratic governor.Republicans in both Wisconsin and Michigan, who will maintain their legislative majorities next year, have defended the moves as good
  
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• Nearly $300,000 missing after truck spilled money on New Jersey highway

  14-12-2018 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  The incident led to several crashes as motorists exited their vehicles and scrambled to pick up the cash.
  
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• Obama-era rule leads to $150M in student loan forgiveness

  14-12-2018 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Education Department said it will forgive $150 million in federal student loans as part of a 2016 rule that Secretary Betsy DeVos previously tried to block.
  
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• Gun Deaths in the U.S. Are at Their Highest Rates in Decades, CDC Says

  14-12-2018 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  The problem is driven in part by suicides
  
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• New Mutants Release Date And Everything We Know About The X-Men Horror Movie

  14-12-2018 23:06 via gamespot.com
  
  The X-Men franchise is a strange beast to keep up with. The timeline is muddled, there's a variety of offshoots that include everything from Wolverine to Deadpool, and the quality of the movies is all over the map. For every X-Men: First Class and X2: X-Men United, there's an X-Men: Apocalypse or X-Men Origins: Wolverine.That's what makes one of the upcoming X-Men titles, The New Mutants, so interesting. For the first time in the franchise, this isn't your typical superhero film. New Mutants is
  
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• Montana man pleads guilty to killing 2, putting them in acid

  14-12-2018 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man pleaded guilty Friday to stabbing two people to death, including a teenage girl, dismembering their bodies and then trying to dissolve them in tubs filled with acid in the basement of a home.
  
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• Photos of the week: 12/7 - 12/14

  14-12-2018 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen was sentenced this week.
  
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• The easiest way to keep your dog’s paws safe in cold winter weather

  14-12-2018 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Winter weather can be so, so dangerous for your pupper's paws. When it gets very cold out, the snow or even the cold pavement can give your dog frostbite on its paws in a matter of minutes. Your dog's paws absolutely need protection, but not all pups are willing to leave those little booties on their feet. There's another option called Musher's Secret Pet Paw Protection Wax, and we can't recommend it highly enough.Here's what you need to know from the Amazon page: * Protects paws from sand, hot
  
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• GM says it has 2,700 jobs for workers slated to be laid off

  14-12-2018 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  DETROIT (AP) — General Motors' plans to lay off 14,000 salaried and blue-collar workers might not be as bad as originally projected.
  
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• Best Air Fryers of 2018

  14-12-2018 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Crispy fries without all the oil? That's the golden promise of air fryers, and it probably explains why roughly 4 million were sold over a recent 12-month period in the U.S. That represents a ten...
  
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• Wall St. tumbles on global growth worries, J&J decline

  14-12-2018 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  The S&P 600small cap index confirmed it was in a bear market after closing 20.05 percent below its Aug. 31 peak, falling 1.6 percent on the day.The Johnson & Johnsonreport, which the company has disputed, sent its shares tumbling 10 percent in heavy volume, making it the biggest weight from a single stock on the S&P 500 and the Dow Industrials.Investors focused on global growth concerns and worried about U.S. growth after China reported weak monthly retail sales growth and industrial
  
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• Cash deposited in Robinhood's 3% checking and savings isn't insured, SIPC says

  14-12-2018 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Cash in Robinhood's new checking and savings products that were rolled out this week is not insured by the Securities Investor Protection Corp.
  
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• McCain replacement Sen. Jon Kyl resigning at end of year

  14-12-2018 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  PHOENIX (AP) — Sen. Jon Kyl is resigning from the seat he was appointed to less than four months ago following the death of John McCain, Gov. Doug Ducey announced Friday, a development which gives Ducey a second opportunity to fill the position.
  
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• Johnson & Johnson knew about cancer-causing asbestos in baby powder for decades, new report claims

  14-12-2018 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Shares of the pharma and medical giant Johnson & Johnson have tumbled sharply after an investigation suggested the company had known for years its famous baby powder was contaminated with cancer-causing asbestos.Reuters published a lengthy enquiry into one of the company’s most celebrated products, that claimed as early as 1971, the New Jersey-based multinational was aware that small amounts of asbestos were present in the talc.It has continued to insist the baby powder, sold with the
  
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• Mueller Probe Has Cost Some $25 Million, Justice Department Says

  14-12-2018 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Mueller spent about $4.6 million from April to September of this year, according to his most recent statement of expenditures released on Friday.Mueller previously reported that Justice Department units spent $9 million from the investigation’s start in May 2017 through March 2018, compared with $7.7 million spent by his own team.Most of the money spent by Mueller in the latest period -- about $2.9 million -- went for personnel, with the rest going to travel, office space and con
  
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• Mueller rebukes Flynn, saying he knew better than to lie to FBI

  14-12-2018 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn knew better than to lie to the FBI and does not deserve sentencing leniency because he was not warned that lying to federal agents was a crime, U.S. prosecutors said on Friday.The rebuke by Special Counsel Robert Mueller came after Flynn's lawyers argued that the lack of an explicit warning before an interview with FBI agents in January 2017 should be a mitigating factor in his sentencing on Tuesday."A sitting National Secur
  
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• The 20 Funniest Tweets From Women This Week (Dec. 8 -14)

  14-12-2018 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  The ladies of Twitter never fail to brighten our days with their brilliant ―
  
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• Michigan Unions Dodge Republican Attack In Lame-Duck Session

  14-12-2018 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  A plan by Michigan Republicans to weaken public-sector unions in the state
  
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• From Mueller to Kanye West, here's this year's White House Christmas poem

  14-12-2018 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Since Bill Clinton was president, Greg Clugston's poems have detailed both the politics and headlines in the nation's capital.
  
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• Canada to Trump administration: Don’t play politics with Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou extradition case

  14-12-2018 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Canada's foreign minister warned the Trump administration not to politicize the pending extradition of Chinese technology executive Meng Wanzhou.
  
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• Robert Mueller's Russia investigation cost is now at $25 million and counting

  14-12-2018 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller reported Friday the investigation of Russia interference in the 2016 election cost $25 million so far
  
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• Russia probe cost surpasses $25 million since May 2017

  14-12-2018 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Russia investigation has cost more than $25 million since special counsel Robert Mueller's appointment, according to a new Justice Department report released Friday.
  
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• Get This Free PC Game From The Epic Game Store Before It Goes Away

  14-12-2018 22:25 via gamespot.com
  
  Steam may have revolutionized how PC games are sold, but it's no longer the only big player in town. The latest challenger to Steam's dominance is the Epic Game Store, where you can pick up titles like Fortnite and Ashen, as well as exclusives like Supermassive's early access title Hades. To help spark interest in the new digital storefront, Epic is giving away a different game for free every two weeks. The first freebie is the open-ocean game Subnautica, which is available until December 27.Nor
  
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• Woman punches bear, gets help from dog to survive attack

  14-12-2018 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman survived a mauling by a bear by repeatedly punching the animal and crawling into a bush as her Chihuahua-mix distracted the attacker.
  
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• Markets Right Now: S&P 500 sinks to lowest level since April

  14-12-2018 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):
  
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• Destiny 2: Forsaken - Where Is Xur? Exotic Weapons And Armor (Dec 14-18)

  14-12-2018 22:03 via gamespot.com
  
  Our favorite enigmatic vendor is back with some new rolls on some old favorites. Here's where to go and the wares he has. Captured on PC.
  
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• Trump Needs Patience, Pressure to Sway Kim, Ex-Negotiator Says

  14-12-2018 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump needs to reassure Kim Jong Un that the U.S. wouldn’t threaten his grip on power while also holding Pyongyang accountable for all the fissile material it has produced for bombs, said lawmaker Lee Soo Hyuck, an influential foreign policy figure in South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s Democratic Party.Trump, who held an unprecedented meeting with Kim in Singapore in June, expects a second summit as early as January.
  
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• Macron visits Strasbourg as police probe potential accomplices

  14-12-2018 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  French President Emmanuel Macron visited Strasbourg on Friday, a day after police shot dead a gunman who killed four people at the city's Christmas market, as investigators probe whether the jihadist had any accomplices.Macron placed a white rose on the Kleber monument, which has become a makeshift memorial in the centre of the city with thousands of candles, flowers and messages, as soldiers sang the Marseillaise national anthem.This is what I wanted to tell them tonight," said Macron, who had
  
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• DHS Secretary Blames Migrant Family For Child's Harrowing Death

  14-12-2018 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Friday blamed
  
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• Justice Dept. has spent $25.2 million on Russia probe through September

  14-12-2018 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  In a tweet on Nov. 29, Trump claimed without evidence that Mueller's investigation, which the president has dubbed a "witch hunt," had led to the wasting of more than $40 million."After wasting more than $40,000,000 (is that possible?), it has proven one thing-there was NO collusion with Russia.The report released on Friday showed that Mueller's office and other Justice Department offices assisting with the probe had spent $8.5 million combined from April 2018 through September 2018.
  
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• Palestinian killed as Israel hunts West Bank shooter

  14-12-2018 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  A Palestinian teenager was shot dead on Friday as Israeli forces carried out fresh raids in the occupied West Bank, the health ministry said, as troops searched for a Palestinian who killed two soldiers a day earlier.The 17-year-old killed was named by the Palestinian health ministry as Mahmoud Nakhla, who authorities said died after being shot in the stomach by Israeli fire near the Jalazone refugee camp in the central West Bank.The Israeli army did not immediately comment on the death, which c
  
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• Fighting breaks out in Yemen's Hodeidah after truce deal

  14-12-2018 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The main port used to feed Yemen's 30 million people is held by the Iran-aligned Houthi movement that also controls the capital Sanaa and has been battling against a Saudi-led Arab coalition seeking to restore a government ousted in 2014.Hodeidah has been the focus of fighting this year, raising global fears that a battle could cut off supply lines and lead to mass starvation.Yemeni forces backed by the Saudi-led coalition have massed on the city's outskirts.
  
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• Walker signs measures critics call a Republican power grab

  14-12-2018 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The Wisconsin GOP has held control of the governorship and both chambers of Wisconsin's Legislature — what’s known as a trifecta — for most of the last decade. This may help to account for the outgoing governor's attempt to pass this package of bills before a Democrat takes over.
  
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• Mueller submits documents on Flynn's 2017 interview with FBI

  14-12-2018 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Special counsel Robert Mueller's team releases key documents - some of which are heavily redacted - relating to the FBI's questioning of former national security adviser Michael Flynn as ordered by U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan; chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge reports.
  
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• Dark Phoenix: Everything We Know About The 2019 X-Men Movie

  14-12-2018 21:46 via gamespot.com
  
  X-Men: Dark Phoenix
  The X-Men franchise moves forward, and in 2019, the 11th movie in said franchise--including the three Wolverine movies--will hit theaters. Ignoring the fact that the newest line of X-Men films completely messes with the franchise's timeline, the new series of movies, which debut with First Class, has been a blast, filled with more highs than lows.The latest movie, titled Dark Phoenix, tries once again to tell the tale of Jean Grey turning into the Dark Phoenix. This is someth
  
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• Here's An Exclusive Look At Assassin's Creed's New Graphic Novel

  14-12-2018 21:35 via gamespot.com
  
  Titan has published a variety of comics based on Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed franchise this past year, but one of the more notable has been Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies, a two-part standalone series previously only available in French. If you missed out on the individual issues and would like to experience the saga in its entirety, Titan has announced it is releasing both parts together as one graphic novel, and it hits comic stores next week.The Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies collection releas
  
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• What Is The Deadline for Christmas Shipping? Here’s Everything You Need to Know

  14-12-2018 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Deadlines for USPS, UPS, FedEX and Amazon
  
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• Dishonored 2 And Death Of The Outsider Get New Free Content Out Of Nowhere

  14-12-2018 21:32 via gamespot.com
  
  Need a good reason to return to Dishonored 2 and its standalone DLC episode, Death of the Outsider, over the holidays? Bethesda has one--fire up the games and you'll unlock free new content, plus an old preorder bonus from before Dishonored 2 was released.Publisher Bethesda announced the release of new content for Dishonored 2 and Death of the Outsider in a blog post. It runs down the two new offerings for both Dishonored 2 and Death of the Outsider. First is a Black and White mode that can chan
  
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