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• Venezuela's Maduro offers few fresh ideas as economy circles drain

  14-01-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  After promising ambitious economic measures ahead of Monday's speech, Maduro's proposals included a 300 percent minimum wage hike, dialogue with business leaders, and increased use of an inexistent state-backed cryptocurrency.There is nothing there that allows one to think that Venezuela will exit the deep crisis it's experiencing," said Asdrubal Oliveros, director of Caracas-based consultancy Ecoanalitica, on Twitter.The socialist government, they say, funds wage hikes by increasing the country
  
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• Red Dead Redemption 2 Facing Legal Action From The Real Pinkertons

  14-01-2019 23:52 via gamespot.com
  
  In Red Dead Redemption 2's world, the Pinkerton Detective Agency, a team of detectives hunting down Arthur Morgan and the rest of the Van der Linde gang, is the main antagonist organisation. Now, the real-life Pinkerton company is taking action against Rockstar Games over the way in which Red Dead Redemption 2 uses its name. For its part, Take-Two is claiming fair use with respect to the Pinkerton name.Court documents discovered by The Blast reveal that Pinkerton Consulting & Investigations-
  
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• McConnell Denounces Steve King’s NYT Remarks

  14-01-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell on Monday became the latest Republican lawmaker to speak out against comments made by Representative Steve King last week expressing bafflement that “white supremacy” had become an offensive term.“Rep. King’s statements are unwelcome and unworthy of his elected position,” McConnell told the Washington Post.“I have no tolerance for such positions and those who espouse these views are not supporters of American ideals
  
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• Trump's evolving foreign policy challenges top US diplomat

  14-01-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — If Mike Pompeo was surprised, he didn't show it. But the secretary of state had woken up in the capital of Saudi Arabia on Monday to find that President Donald Trump had tweeted a threat to NATO ally Turkey warning of economic harm should the Turks attack U.S.-backed rebel forces in Syria.
  
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• New York Pastor`s Son Charged with Raping His Teenage Daughter

  14-01-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Community members are demanding the Progressive Baptist Church be shut down after the Bishop`s son was arrested for allegedly raping his daughter on church property.
  
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• WWE Royal Rumble Match Card, Date, And Location For The 2019 PPV

  14-01-2019 23:44 via gamespot.com
  
  When it comes to the Royal Rumble PPV, the card for the WWE event is changing, since we're still a few weeks out. Most recently, Braun Strowman was taken out of the picture for the Universal Championship and replaced with Finn Balor, a former champ who had to vacate the belt because of injury.WWE's yearly event, the Royal Rumble, is almost here. It has one of the most interesting matches of the year, where 30 participants enter the ring, one by one, and have to eliminate each other until there i
  
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• WWE Royal Rumble 2019: Match Card, Date, And Location

  14-01-2019 23:44 via gamespot.com
  
  WWE's yearly event, the Royal Rumble, is almost here. It has one of the most interesting matches of the year, where 30 participants enter the ring, one by one, and have to eliminate each other until there is only one superstar left standing. The winner of the event gets to challenge their brand's champion at Wrestlemania, so the stakes are high.This year's Royal Rumble is coming to PPV and the WWE Network live on Sunday, January 27 at 7 PM ET / 4 PM PT, with a Kickoff Show starting two hours pri
  
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• Pokemon Go Hoenn Event Announced, Features Gen 3 Pokemon And Legendaries

  14-01-2019 23:40 via gamespot.com
  
  Pokemon Go's ongoing Adventure Sync Hatchathon may be coming to an end soon, but a new event is set to kick off immediately afterward. Beginning January 15, Niantic will hold a two-week-long celebration of the Hoenn region, featuring a ton of Pokemon originally from Ruby and Sapphire.Throughout the event, Gen 3 Pokemon such as Numel, Zigzagoon, and Taillow will spawn much more frequently in the wild. On top of that, players will have a chance to encounter Shiny forms of Zigzagoon and Taillow, wh
  
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• Latest: California governor urges end to LA teacher strike

  14-01-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on a strike by Los Angeles teachers (all times local):
  
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• Steam Outlines Plan For Improvements In 2019

  14-01-2019 23:31 via gamespot.com
  
  Valve has announced its plans for Steam in 2019 and beyond. The PC game store isn't ready to reveal the exact details behind each upcoming change, but it has announced enough to give us a basic idea of what to expect in the future.The biggest planned change seems to be for game discoverability on the Steam Store. "We're working on a new recommendation engine powered by machine-learning, that can match players to games based on their individual tastes," Steam revealed in a blog post. The post wen
  
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• Kidnapping suspect targeted girl after seeing her get on bus

  14-01-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  BARRON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man accused of abducting 13-year-old Jayme Closs and holding her captive for three months made up his mind to take her when he spotted the teenager getting on a school bus, authorities said Monday.
  
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• Super Bowl 53 Will Use Augmented Reality, 115 Total Cameras

  14-01-2019 23:24 via gamespot.com
  
  Super Bowl LIII is coming up soon, and now CBS--which is GameSpot's parent company--has announced some of the technological advancements it is planning to broadcast this year's big game.Perhaps the most exciting advancement is the use of "augmented reality graphics." In a first for a live sporting event broadcast, Super Bowl LIII will have camera operators working with a "live, wireless handheld camera" that will show augmented reality graphics, as well as "up-close camera tracking" on the field
  
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• Trump defends trade policies to farmers, vows fair deal with China

  14-01-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump dedicated much of his speech to explaining why the U.S. needs a wall on its southern border in his second consecutive visit to the American Farm Bureau Federation's annual convention.U.S. farmers, numbering some 3.2 million, have been reliable Trump supporters, despite struggling financially since Beijing imposed a tariff on imports of U.S. soybeans in July in retaliation for Trump's tariffs on Chinese goods.China has also implemented duties on other U.S. farm goods, including pork and gra
  
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• US car buyers swerve away from compact cars, sedans

  14-01-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  A persistent question shadowed all of the shiny new vehicles and highly-produced, glitzy debuts at the Detroit auto show this week: Where are the sedans?Volkswagen was among the few to trumpet a new sedan -- those compact and mid-sized cars that shuttled generations of American children to school in the morning and soccer practice in the afternoon.The middle-class sedan -- as opposed to luxury brands and high-performance sports cars -- is hard to find this week on the Detroit auto show's floor,
  
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• California college student found dead, fraternity suspended

  14-01-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California college student has been found dead in a home near campus and his fraternity has been suspended, authorities said Monday.
  
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• In Lebanon, U.S. State Department official calls Hezbollah 'unacceptable'

  14-01-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. State Department criticized Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group on Monday for digging tunnels into Israel and stockpiling rockets, as Washington steps up efforts to isolate Tehran.In recent weeks, Israeli forces uncovered tunnels they said were dug by Hezbollah, and Lebanon complained about Israel's construction of a barrier along disputed parts of the border.The United States, Israel's closest ally, regards Hezbollah as a terrorist group and has pledged tougher steps to counteract Ir
  
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• Los Angeles teachers strike, claiming 'existential battle' over schools

  14-01-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  More than 30,000 Los Angeles teachers demanding pay raises and smaller classes walked off the job in America's second-largest school system on Monday, marching downtown in the rain after negotiations over a new contract broke down.Students arriving for classes at some 900 campuses across the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) were met by their teachers carrying picket signs in the city's first teachers' strike in three decades."It's an existential battle for the future of public educati
  
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• Fraternity suspended after student dies at off-campus home

  14-01-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Police were called to the off-campus home early Sunday morning, but there are still few details about Noah Domingo's death.
  
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• Here's When Fortnite's Glider Redeploy Update Drops

  14-01-2019 22:50 via gamespot.com
  
  Like clockwork, Epic has another update lined up for its hit battle royale game, Fortnite. The developer confirmed that this week's 7.20 patch is set to arrive on all platforms--PS4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch, and mobile devices--on Tuesday, January 15, and it's bringing back a controversial gameplay element from Season 6: redeployable gliders.Downtime for the update is scheduled to begin at 2 AM PT / 5 AM ET / 10 AM GMT. Epic hasn't estimated how long this downtime will last, but once serve
  
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• Newmont buys Goldcorp to create world's top gold company

  14-01-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  US gold miner Newmont Mining Corporation said in a statement Monday it was buying Canadian rival Goldcorp Inc for $10 billion, creating the world's largest gold mining company.Colorado-based Newmont said it would buy all of Goldcorp's outstanding common shares in a stock-for-stock transaction, acquiring each share for 0.3280 of a Newmont share, "which represents a 17 percent premium based on the companies’ 20-day volume weighted average share prices," a company statement read.The industry
  
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• AP sources: Gillibrand moving toward 2020 bid in coming days

  14-01-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is expected to move toward launching a 2020 presidential campaign within days by forming an exploratory committee, according to several people familiar with her plans.
  
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• Massive US teachers' strike affects half million pupils

  14-01-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  More than 30,000 public school teachers in Los Angeles walked off the job on Monday to press their demands for better pay, smaller class sizes and more educators.The strike -- the first in 30 years -- is affecting some 500,000 students in the nation's second largest school district, with intense negotiations in past weeks failing to lead to a breakthrough."Here we are on a rainy day in the richest country in the world, in the richest state in the country, in a state that's blue (Democrat) as it
  
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• 'Bolsonaro is Hitler!' Venezuela's Maduro exclaims amid Brazil spat

  14-01-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday called Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro a modern Adolf Hitler, days after Brasilia officially recognized an opposition leader as the legitimate head of the increasingly isolated country.Brazil on Saturday said it recognized Juan Guaido, head of Venezuela's opposition-run Congress, as legitimate president after Maduro was sworn in to a second term that countries around the world described as illegitimate.
  
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• Kidnapping suspect watched 13-year-old as she got on bus

  14-01-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  BARRON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man suspected of abducting a 13-year-old girl made up his mind to take the teen when he spotted her getting on a school bus, and he made two aborted trips to her family's home before finally carrying out an attack in which he killed Jayme Closs' mother in front of her, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday.
  
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• Democrat unveils resolution to censure Steve King over white nationalism comments

  14-01-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  A Democratic lawmaker said he intends to propose a resolution to formally censure Rep. Steve King over the Iowa Republican's comments on white nationalism.
  
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• GM electric vehicle strategy last chance for Cadillac's success - executive

  14-01-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  General Motors Co'sstrategy to make its luxury Cadillac marque its lead electric vehicle brand is the automaker's final opportunity to turn the unit around and make it a success, a top executive said on Monday."We don't have any chances left with taking Cadillac to a really new place," newly appointed GM President Mark Reuss told Reuters on the sidelines of the Detroit auto show.In a move first reported by Reuters, GM said on Friday that a Cadillac would be the first vehicle built on the No. 1 U
  
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• Trump a Russian agent? 'Never,' he says

  14-01-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Standing outside the snow-covered White House on Monday, Donald Trump made an astonishing declaration for a US president: no, he has never been an agent of Russia."I never worked for Russia," Trump told reporters on the South Lawn.Trump's angry comments sought to bat down a mounting controversy over his alleged ties to the Kremlin, but the fact that he even had to issue such a denial illustrates how far the unprecedented scandal has already gone.
  
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• The Latest: Lawmaker says customers, wildfire victims lose

  14-01-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on utility PG&E seeking bankruptcy protection (all times local):
  
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• Man charged for chasing 14-year-old who allegedly caused deadly wreck in north Houston

  14-01-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  A man accused of chasing a teen who allegedly damaged his car with eggs and caused a deadly wreck has been charged.
  
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• Resident Evil 2 Remake Brings Back Tofu Mode

  14-01-2019 21:32 via gamespot.com
  
  Capcom has announced that the remake of Resident Evil 2 will see the return of both The 4th Survivor and The Tofu Survivor bonus modes. Both come included in the game at launch, but you'll need to unlock them.The 4th Survivor mode allows you to play as Umbrella Security Service special Agent HUNK, the fourth person to survive the events of Raccoon City, in a standalone canon story. Meanwhile, The Tofu Survivor puts you in control of a person-sized piece of tofu. This story, unfortunately, is not
  
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• Maduro accuses opposition of staging arrest of parliament president

  14-01-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accused his opponents Monday of staging the arrest of parliament president Juan Guaido by intelligence service agents.Guaido was detained for around an hour after SEBIN agents stopped his car on a highway outside the capital Caracas, picking him up as he traveled to a political rally in a nearby town."Ah, what a coincidence! A camera perfectly placed... professional, which caught the moment the deputy... was detained in a strange event," said Maduro, speaking
  
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• U.S. government shutdown drags into fourth week amid stalemate

  14-01-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  At a speech to an American Farm Bureau convention in New Orleans, Trump again urged Congress to grant him the money, saying drones, sensors and other technology cannot do what a wall can do to stop illegal border crossings.Farmers, a key bloc of Trump supporters, have been hit by the shutdown as federal loan and farm aid applications have stalled and key farming and crop data has been delayed."If you want to help farmers, re-open the government," Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said in a
  
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• Witness at US trial says El Chapo wanted informant killed

  14-01-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — To cohabitate with Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was to see his excitement about the prospect of getting his life story on film, to evade the soldiers hunting him at a moment's notice and to hear him order the killing of an informant, a witness testified Monday at Guzman's U.S. trial.
  
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• Impact of public opinion on shutdown showdown as polls show support for a border wall trending upward

  14-01-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Republicans and Democrats put their own spin on a pair of recent polls about the government shutdown; insight from Republican pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson, Washington Examiner contributor and author of 'The Selfie Vote.'
  
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• Three children dead after being 'trapped in freezer' in Florida

  14-01-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The bodies of three children – aged 1, 4 and 6 —have been discovered in a chest freezer left outside a home in Suwanee County, Florida.Deputies from the Suwannee Country Sheriff's Office said they responded to a 911 call at a residence where three children were found not breathing.Adults were reportedly performing CPR on the children when the deputies arrived at the scene.
  
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• Richard Clarida Hints Fed May Not Raise Rates as Much as Projected

  14-01-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  “A lot has really happened since the first week of December,” Clarida said Monday in an interview on Fox Business Network.In the so-called dot-plot released after the Dec. 18-19 meeting, the median projection from policy makers was for two rate hikes this year.Clarida, however, downplayed the significance of those individual forecasts.
  
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• Another PS4 Game Now Supports Cross-Play

  14-01-2019 20:50 via gamespot.com
  
  Rocket League is now the second PS4 game to support cross-play with other consoles. Developer Psyonix announced that its hit vehicular soccer game has joined Sony's cross-play beta program, allowing players on PS4 to be matched up with those on Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.According to Psyonix, cross-play will be enabled on PS4 by default, although players will be able to opt in or out of it by going to the Options menu and checking the Cross-Platform Play box in the Gameplay tab. When on, it wi
  
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• Julian Castro visits Puerto Rico in bid for presidency

  14-01-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.S. presidential candidate Julian Castro joined dozens of high-profile Latinos in Puerto Rico on Monday to talk about mobilizing voters ahead of the 2020 elections and increasing Latino political representation to take on President Donald Trump.
  
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• Government shutdown: Passenger takes gun through airport security check onto international flight

  14-01-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  A passenger managed to board plane with a gun in their hand luggage after being screened by security at an American airport.Having accidentally packed their firearm, the unnamed traveller managed get on to the Delta Air Lines plane to Tokyo at the Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on 3 January, the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has admitted.After realising their mistake after the aircraft had taken off, the passenger immediately alerted staff on board, who in tur
  
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• Uncharted Movie Signs 10 Cloverfield Lane Director

  14-01-2019 20:24 via gamespot.com
  
  10 Cloverfield Lane director Dan Trachtenberg has been tapped to helm the Sony Pictures adaptation of Uncharted, Variety reports. This comes following reports late last year that the film adaptation had lost director Shawn Levy due to scheduling conflicts with another game adaptation, Free Guy.Tom Holland (Spider-Man: Homecoming, Avengers: Infinity War) is still set to star as a young Nathan Drake, and will detail his first encounter with his thieving mentor, "Sully" Sullivan. The production dat
  
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• Snafu at Detroit auto show: Infiniti concept electric car dies before reaching the stage

  14-01-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Infiniti wanted to debut the QX Inspiration concept car but it failed to make the stage.
  
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• Los Angeles teachers strike for higher pay, 640,000-student system shuts

  14-01-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  About 640,000 students arriving for classes at some 900 campuses in the Los Angeles County School District were met by teachers carrying picket signs.
  
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• The New Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Uses the Same Supercharger as the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1

  14-01-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Put down your fists; it's not as bad as it sounds.
  
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• Student's death under investigation as fraternity is suspended

  14-01-2019 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  An investigation is underway after a University of California - Irvine student died at an off-campus home and a fraternity was placed under suspension.
  
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• Standoff at New Jersey UPS facility ends with police shooting suspect

  14-01-2019 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The unidentified suspect, who had barricaded himself and two women inside the UPS facility in Logan Township in the southern part of the state, was taken to a hospital after police rushed him, Gloucester County Prosecutor Charles Fiore told reporters.
  
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• Trump-Putin meeting: Top Democrat says he's considering subpoena for interpreter's notes

  14-01-2019 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  House Foreign Affairs chair Eliot Engel's comments came amid revelations Trump has tried to shield key details of his discussions with Vladimir Putin.
  
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• Young Justice: A Beginner's Guide To The DC Comic And Cartoon

  14-01-2019 19:44 via gamespot.com
  
  Chances are, the name Young Justice has come up in your life from some corner of pop culture, but with not one but two major returns for the brand dropping this month, the specifics can be a bit confusing. There's the cartoon, Young Justice: Outsiders, the third season of the cult classic that's been six years in the making, and there's the new Young Justice #1, a comic reviving a long defunct superhero team that was shelved back in the early 2000s.To make matters even weirder, the two propertie
  
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• Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway says president ‘did not destroy’ records from meetings with Putin

  14-01-2019 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway has said that Donald Trump did not destroy any notes from a meeting with Vladimir Putin and that “leaks” may have led the president to be secretive about his talks with the Russian leader.A recent report from The Washington Post have alleged that Mr Trump went to “extraordinary” lengths to conceal his discussions with Mr Putin, including reportedly taking the notes from his interpreter after a meeting with the Russian leader in
  
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• Woman caught drinking wine from Pringles can is banned from Walmart

  14-01-2019 19:34 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman who was caught chugging wine out of a Pringles can while riding an
  
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• Rocket League Full Cross-Platform Play Available

  14-01-2019 19:27 via gamespot.com
  
  Rocket League has made it into PlayStations Cross-Platform Beta which now opens up the possibility to play the game across all platforms.
  
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