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• Avengers Directors Brings On Tom Holland For New Movie About Drugs And Bank Heists

  11-03-2019 23:56 via gamespot.com
  
  Avengers directors Joe and Anthony Russo have announced the first details on their first non-MCU film. According to Variety, Spider-Man actor Tom Holland is in discussions to have a starring role in the new Russo brothers movie, Cherry.The brothers are directing the movie, with Jessica Goldberg (Hulu's The Path) serving as the writer.The movie is based on the 2018 book "Cherry" by Nico Walker; it tells the story of a former Army medic who comes home addicted to opiates and starts robbing banks t
  
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• New Fallout 76 Expansion Delayed, But Not For Very Long

  11-03-2019 23:42 via gamespot.com
  
  Bethesda has announced the first piece of its three-part 2019 roadmap for Fallout 76 is delayed. Don't worry, though, it's only been delayed by a day."We are moving the release of Wild Appalachia back one day on all platforms," Bethesda tweeted. "We just need a little more time to brew. Experience the new quest, crafting station & much more starting now on March 13." Wild Appalachia was first announced on Fallout 76's 100 day anniversary, alongside the game's two other major follow-up expans
  
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• Google Cloud hires another Oracle veteran for top role

  11-03-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Zavery left last week as executive vice president for Oracle cloud platform.Oracle Corp declined to comment.Google gained some similar tools through its $625 million acquisition of Apigee in 2016.
  
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• U.S. says North Korea diplomacy 'very much alive,' but watching rocket site

  11-03-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Stephen Biegun told a conference in Washington that although U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un parted on good terms after their Feb. 27-28 summit in Hanoi, biggaps remained between the two sides and North Korea needed to show it was fully committed to giving up its nuclear weapons.Biegun, the U.S. special representative for North Korea, stressed that U.S.-led sanctions, which Pyongyang wants dropped, would stay in place until North Korea completed denuclearization.
  
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• Venezuela's Guaido calls for new rally as lawmakers declare 'alarm'

  11-03-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido on Monday called for a new mass demonstration as the country's devastating blackout that has left millions without power entered its fifth day."Tomorrow at three o'clock in the afternoon, all of Venezuela will be on the streets" to protest against President Nicolas Maduro, Guaido said in a speech to the National Assembly legislature, which he heads.Parliament accepted the 35-year-old's request to declare a "state of alarm" to pave the way for the delivery
  
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• US Democrats choose Milwaukee for 2020 election convention

  11-03-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats have chosen Milwaukee as the site of their 2020 election convention, in an effort to win back swing voters in the American "Rust Belt" who helped elect Donald Trump.In announcing the decision Monday, the Democratic Party emphasized it is the first time a Midwestern city other than Chicago has been chosen to host a party convention in more than 100 years.Midwestern states -- where steel, automobile and other manufacturing industries have withered in recent decades -- were crucial to Tru
  
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• Nintendo Switch's Next Splatoon 2 Event Has A Neat Gimmick

  11-03-2019 23:15 via gamespot.com
  
  Nintendo is holding a new Splatfest event in Splatoon 2 this weekend. The 24-hour competition kicks off on Friday, March 15 at 9 PM PT (12 AM ET on March 16), and as usual, it asks players to represent one of two opposing teams in Turf War. This time, however, you'll be able to face off in special outfits.The theme for this month's Splatfest is knights vs. wizards. As always, players will choose one of the two sides from the Splatfest terminal in the game's main plaza and try to rack up as many
  
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• Call Of Duty WW2 Boss Says He Pitched Activision A New IP And They Said No

  11-03-2019 23:14 via gamespot.com
  
  A former Activision creative higher-up pitched the company on a new IP, but the Call of Duty publisher didn't go for it. Glen Schofield, the Dead Space co-creator who later established Call of Duty: WWII studio Sledgehammer Games, spoke about this in a new interview for what appears to be the first time."Did a little prototype for them--they didn't go for it, but they should have," Schofield told Game Informer.Schofield pitched this new game--which he didn't share any more details on--after he l
  
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• 34 Random Avengers: Infinity War Thoughts Before Endgame

  11-03-2019 23:03 via gamespot.com
  
  Did you know it's been nearly a year since Avengers: Infinity War hit theaters, crushing all of our spirits as we watched our favorite superheroes turn to dust? Now, 11 months later, we are ready to see the conclusion of that particular story in Avengers: Endgame, which will hopefully bring them all back to life and allow them to live happily ever after.Ahead of that movie's release, though, I went back and watched Infinity War through a new lens. Now I know how the movie plays out, so I was ab
  
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• Boy, 14, killed in after-school stabbing over brownie, friend says

  11-03-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Police say Brian Angel was arguing with the juvenile suspect over food when he was stabbed.
  
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• Remedy's Upcoming Supernatural Thriller, Control, Is Scheduled For This Summer

  11-03-2019 22:51 via gamespot.com
  
  Control, an upcoming game by developer Remedy, is scheduled to come out this year, more specifically this summer. The tease was included in an interview for the cover story in the most recent issue of Game Informer magazine, with the rest of the article detailing the abilities that Control's protagonist has at her disposal.In Control, you play as Jesse Faden, a woman with supernatural abilities. At the game's start, Jesse breaks into the Federal Bureau of Control--a fictional government agency t
  
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• Division 2 Early Access Gameplay

  11-03-2019 22:49 via gamespot.com
  
  The Division 2 is now live with those who have early access to the game. Jean-Luc and Ben load up the PC version to see how the final game is shaping up.
  
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• The nations grounding their Boeing 737s

  11-03-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  A number of countries grounded Boeing's 737 MAX 8 medium-haul workhorse jet on Monday in response to an Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed all 157 people on board.There are some 350 of the 737 MAX 8 planes currently in service around the world and while some countries and airlines have opted to ground the planes, others are continuing to fly the aircraft pending an investigation into the crash and possible guidance from Boeing itself.Boeing has sent experts to assist in the Ethiopia probe and
  
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• It’s not too late to get SanDisk’s lightning-fast portable SSD at its lowest price

  11-03-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  The good thing about the SanDisk 500GB Extreme Portable External SSD is that it's compact and lightning fast, with support for transfer speeds of up to a whopping 550Mbps. But the downside is that you have to pay a pretty penny for all that speed -- the retail price on this model is $170. Amazon is running a sale right now though, and it slashes the price all the way down to $89.99. That's the best price we've seen, and we doubt it'll last very long.Here are some bullet points from the product p
  
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• Game Of Thrones Season 8's First Two Episodes Aren't Extra Long - GameSpot Universe News Update

  11-03-2019 22:33 via gamespot.com
  
  The not-so-long night.
  
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• The Entire Devil May Cry Anime Series Is Now Free On PSN (US)

  11-03-2019 22:32 via gamespot.com
  
  Whether you're already deep into Devil May Cry 5, which just released on March 8, or haven't had a chance to pick up the latest game, you may find this news exciting: Devil May Cry: The Animated Series is currently available for free from the PlayStation Store.If you're thinking, I didn't even know Devil May Cry had an anime, here's a quick catch-up: The DMC anime released in Japan in 2007 and consists of 12 episodes. Set between the events of Devil May Cry and Devil May Cry 2, the anime follows
  
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• Fox News condemns host Jeanine Pirro's comments about Rep. Omar's hijab

  11-03-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  "Think about it. Omar wears a hijab," Pirro said, questioning if the head covering signals an "adherence to Sharia law."
  
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• Which Avengers Know Coulson Lives? Clark Gregg Has Some Thoughts

  11-03-2019 22:21 via gamespot.com
  
  Agent Coulson is a bit of an anomaly in the MCU as one of the few characters who straddle the line between the movie and TV sides of the universe--two worlds that don't always play well with one another. Captain Marvel gives us a chance to see the SHIELD back on the big screen for the first time since his "death" in The Avengers back in 2012.The death thing is a little complicated, though. While Coulson did genuinely die on screen in 2012's Avengers, he was resurrected by Fury over on Marvel's
  
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• Woman seriously injured after being attacked by bull in New Jersey

  11-03-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  A bull attacked its owner in New Jersey Friday afternoon, sending the woman to the hospital with lacerations and bruises.
  
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• Grounding the Boeing 737 a touchy subject for US authorities

  11-03-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  American officials face a difficult task in reassuring the flying public, as passengers take to social media, saying they are afraid to board a 737.The Federal Aviation Administration said it has a team on-site working with investigators on the cause of the crash, and pledged to take "immediate" action if it finds any issues with the aircraft.In addition to the FAA, the US National Transportation Safety Board and Boeing all have sent officials to Ethiopia to help investigate.
  
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• Fortnite Update 8.10 Downtime Set For Tomorrow

  11-03-2019 22:05 via gamespot.com
  
  Like clockwork, Epic is rolling out another update for Fortnite. The developer has confirmed the game's 8.10 patch will drop on PS4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch, and mobile devices on Tuesday, March 12, with downtime set to begin at 2 AM PT / 5 AM ET / 9 AM GMT.As usual, Epic hasn't detailed what's coming in this week's update, although we did get a look at a new vehicle on the way to the game: the Baller. The vehicle was recently spotted in Fortnite's in-game News feed and bears a strong rese
  
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• Trump news: President demands billions for border wall as Pelosi says he 'isn't worth' impeaching

  11-03-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump will reportedly ask Congress for $8.6bn (£6.6bn) to build his southern border wall on Monday under proposals for his 2020 fiscal budget, a $3bn (£2.3bn) increase on his last estimate for the job.
  
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• Samsung Galaxy S10 Cheaper Options

  11-03-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Don't Want to Shell Out for a Samsung Galaxy S10? Here Are Cheaper Options Smartphones can be expensive, but you don't need to spend top dollar to find great features and performance. You just m...
  
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• Trump condemned for budget cutting welfare while boosting spending for border wall and military: ‘This is for the billionaire class’

  11-03-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has been accused of proposing a budget for the “military industrial complex and the billionaire class”, after the White House released details of a plan that would cut spending on welfare and education while boosting money for the military and a border wall.The $4.7 trillion (£3.5 trillion) budget proposal, which is all but certain to be rejected by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives and once again put the president on a collision course with congre
  
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• Pelosi: 'Not worth it' to impeach Trump

  11-03-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that barring “overwhelming” new evidence she would not pursue impeachment against President Trump because it would be too divisive and “he’s just not worth it.”
  
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• Trump’s 2020 Budget Asks Congress for $8.6 Billion for Border Wall

  11-03-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump released his $4.7 trillion 2020 budget proposal to Congress Monday, requesting $8.6 billion for border security.The plan includes funding for 722 miles of wall at the southern border, an issue that caused a record 35-day partial government shutdown beginning just before Christmas. In that fight, Trump requested $5.7 billion to build the wall, while Democrats refused to approve more than $1.6 billion for non-wall border security. Trump eventually relented, signing a bill
  
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• Deficits don't matter in Donald Trump's budget

  11-03-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  President's proposal would add $4.8 trillion in debt over next five years, as Republicans and Democrats race to not make America great again: Our view
  
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• White House won't say if Trump thinks Democrats hate Jews

  11-03-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  All nine of the Jews in the U.S. Senate are Democrats, and all but two of the 36 members of Congress. Jews overwhelmingly supported Democrat Hillary Clinton over Trump in 2016.
  
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• Nvidia outbids Intel to buy Israel's Mellanox in data centre push

  11-03-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  The all-cash offer of $125 per share represents a premium of 14 percent to Mellanox's closing price on Friday.Mellanox shares rose 8.2 percent to $118.35 and Nvidia shares gained 7percent to $161.23 on Monday.Nvidia, once known as a provider of gaming chips, now also provides chips to speed up artificial intelligence tasks such as teaching servers to recognise images.
  
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• Apple confirms March 25th ‘It’s show time’ event with media invites

  11-03-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  News that Apple would host a March event to discuss its latest services broke last month via a BuzzFeed report, but on Monday, Apple confirmed the date and location of the event by sending out invites to the press. As expected, the event will take place on March 25th at 10 a.m. from the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino. Apple, unsurprisingly, only hinted at the contents of the event with the following phrase: "It's show time."The initial report claimed that Apple's paid news subscription service
  
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• Tucker Carlson is another victim of the leftist mob: Today's talker

  11-03-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  'Carlson's comments could have been brought up when he was an employee of other networks, but they weren't,' argues Tim Young.
  
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• Israel's Netanyahu to face indictment hearing after polls

  11-03-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will face a hearing after polls to defend himself against corruption allegations which have dogged his election campaign, the justice ministry said Monday.Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit last month announced his intention to indict the premier on charges of fraud, breach of trust and bribery, following up on police recommendations."The hearings shall take place before July 10," the justice ministry said in a statement which told the relevant parties
  
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• The Latest: Oman Air questions Boeing over MAX 8 planes

  11-03-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  BEIJING (AP) — The Latest on Boeing's 737 MAX 8 model after a crash in Ethiopia (all times local):
  
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• Pagan Online - Anya Combat Highlights And Boss Fight

  11-03-2019 20:28 via gamespot.com
  
  Pagan Online brings qualities of various favorite loot rpg games but with a tactical twist in its movement system. Combat, loot, and an electric boss fight at the end are all included in this highlight clip of Anya, one of the many Pagan Online characters. Captured on PC
  
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• Minnesota politician thanks Fox for condemning Jeanine Pirro

  11-03-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar thanked Fox News on Monday for condemning comments made on the network by weekend host Jeanine Pirro centering on the freshman Democrat's wearing of a traditional Muslim head covering.
  
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• Guaido calls mass demos in Venezuela to protest blackout

  11-03-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido called for mass demonstrations throughout the country on Tuesday to protest against a blackout that has left millions without power for the past four days."Tomorrow at three o'clock in the afternoon, all of Venezuela will be on the streets," Guaido -- recognized as interim president by more than 50 countries -- said in a speech to the National Assembly.The 35-year-old National Assembly leader has challenged President Nicolas Maduro by calling on the oppos
  
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• 'Wonder Woman' urges calm in Israeli civil rights fight

  11-03-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Hollywood star Gal Gadot has leapt to defend a fellow actress who was chided by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for challenging his party's treatment of Arab citizens.Netanyahu and his Likud party have been accused of using scare tactics and demonising Israel's Arab population ahead of April 9 elections in a bid to motivate their right-wing base."Love your neighbour as yourself," Israeli-born Gadot wrote on Instagram late Sunday after popular Israeli model and television actress Rotem
  
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• Kurd-led Syria force pounds final IS redoubt

  11-03-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Kurdish-led forces on Monday pounded the last scrap of land held by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria after hundreds more people surrendered.The jihadists once ruled over millions in a swathe of Syria and Iraq, but they have since lost all that territory except for a riverside slither of land near the Iraqi border.The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces paused its months-old offensive against the shrinking holdout multiple times for thousands of dust-covered women, children and men to flee
  
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• Captain Marvel Has Massive Opening At The Box Office - GameSpot Universe News Update

  11-03-2019 20:03 via gamespot.com
  
  That's a lot of money.
  
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• Design Talk Series, Michael Menn Honored with Award, and More News This Week

  11-03-2019 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Here’s what you need to know
  
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• New Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Trailer Sees The Wolf Take On Monstrous Creatures

  11-03-2019 19:54 via gamespot.com
  
  A new trailer for From Software's upcoming game, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, has been released. The video showcases more of the abilities the protagonist, The Wolf, will have at his disposal, as well as the fierce enemies and bosses he'll encounter. You can watch it above.The trailer begins with The Wolf facing off against a massive bull-like creature--its horns are a log tied to its head, and both ends are on fire. The bull crashes through and destroys every bit of the environment in its path, b
  
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• Fortnite Dance Lawsuits Dropped--For Now

  11-03-2019 19:50 via gamespot.com
  
  Epic has been the target of numerous lawsuits recently over its massively popular battle royale game, Fortnite. Last year, Backpack Kid, rapper 2 Milly, and Fresh Prince of Bel-Air star Alfonso Ribeiro all filed suits against the company alleging it stole their signature dance moves for the game's emotes, and now all three plaintiffs have dropped their claims--at least, temporarily.According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ribeiro has dropped his suit against Epic after the US Supreme Court unanimous
  
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• New Anthem Update Fixed Loot Bug, Much To Player's Annoyance

  11-03-2019 19:42 via gamespot.com
  
  For a brief period on Friday, March 8, a bug in Anthem was causing players to receive above average amounts of Masterwork and Legendary items. However, the issue was quickly rectified with a rather large update, Patch 1.0.3, which reinstated Anthem's grind. As you can probably surmise, Anthem's playerbase is not happy about the bug being patched.According to Kotaku, when the bug was first discovered, players went to Reddit to ask BioWare to keep the changes in the game. The bug might have stuck
  
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• Actor Jussie Smollett indicted on 16 counts of lying to Chicago police

  11-03-2019 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  (This March 8 story has been refiled to correct amount of alleged payment by Smollett to $3,500 instead of $35,000 in paragraph 8)By Suzannah GonzalesCHICAGO (Reuters) - Television actor Jussie Smollett, arrested last month on a single charge of perpetrating a hate-crime hoax, has been newly indicted on 16 felony counts of falsely reporting to police that he was assaulted by two strangers shouting racist and homophobic slurs.The indictment, returned by a Cook County grand jury on Thursday and ma
  
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• Which Airlines Fly the Boeing 737 MAX 8? Here's a List of North American Operators

  11-03-2019 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  All North American operators are sticking by the aircraft despite crashes
  
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• Planes grounded after deadly Ethiopia crash

  11-03-2019 19:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Safety doubts over Boeing's best-selling 737 MAX 8 drove several carriers to ground the aircraft Monday after a new jet crashed in Ethiopia, killing all 157 people on board.Investigators recovered the black-box flight recorders from the Nairobi-bound jet that went down early Sunday near Addis Ababa, the carrier Ethiopia Airlines said.Ethiopia decreed Monday a day of national mourning.
  
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• Bloodborne Returning To Yharnam Livestream

  11-03-2019 19:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Jean-Luc and Erick head back to Yharnam for a bloody good time in today's livestream of Bloodborne.
  
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• UN mourns after 21 staff killed in Ethiopia plane crash

  11-03-2019 18:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Flags flew at half-staff at the United Nations on Monday after 21 UN employees were killed in an Ethiopian Airlines plane crash that Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said marked a "sad day" for the world body.Guterres led delegates at the opening of the annual gathering on women's rights at the General Assembly in observing a moment of silence in honor of the victims."A global tragedy has hit close to home — and the United Nations is united in grief," he said at the Commission on the Sta
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says the jobless in America are ‘left to die’ but US must 'embrace automation'

  11-03-2019 18:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says that the jobless in America are “left to die”.Ms Ocasio-Cortez’s comments came during an appearance at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, over the weekend.
  
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• Ilhan Omar thanks Fox News for denouncing Jeanine Pirro's comments

  11-03-2019 18:21 via news.yahoo.com
  “We strongly condemn Jeanine Pirro’s comments about Rep. Ilhan Omar,” Fox said. “They do not reflect those of the network and we have addressed the matter with her directly.”
  
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