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• U.S. judge blocks Mississippi 'heartbeat' abortion ban

  24-05-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant, a Republican, signed the so-called "hearbeat bill" into law in March, and the measure had been due to take effect on July 1.Mississippi is one of several states, including Georgia and Alabama, where Republican-controlled legislatures have enacted strict anti-abortion measures this year in direct challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy.Roe held that the due process clause of th
  
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• Trump row with Democrats takes harsh turn with impeachment at stake

  24-05-2019 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  US President Donald Trump doubled down Friday on his claim of an "attempted coup" against him as his battle with Democratic foes entered a vicious new phase of personal insults and strong-arm tactics.Hovering over it all: the looming question of whether or not the Republican leader will be impeached -- "the big I-word," as Trump put it recently.The president said he has given his attorney general wide latitude to declassify intelligence information as he probes the origins of the government's in
  
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• Federal lawsuit filed to block Alabama's new abortion ban

  24-05-2019 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal lawsuit filed Friday asks a judge to block an Alabama law that outlaws almost all abortions, the most far-reaching attempt by a conservative state to seek new restrictions on the procedure.
  
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• Trump Tariffs Could Raise Game Consoles Prices In The US

  24-05-2019 23:35 via gamespot.com
  
  Tensions between the United States and China have been escalating in recent months due to the countries' ongoing trade war, and the price of game consoles and accessories could be affected as a result. GameDaily reports that the Office of the United States Trade Representative has proposed implementing a 25% tariff on more goods imported from China, including video game consoles, controllers, and even board games like chess and checkers.Tariffs are effectively taxes paid by domestic companies. T
  
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• Life in prison for 'evil' loner who kidnapped US teen, killed parents

  24-05-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Calling him the "embodiment of evil," a US judge on Friday sentenced a 21-year-old man to life in prison for murdering a couple in their home in order to kidnap their 13-year-old daughter.Jake Patterson pleaded guilty in March to first degree murder and kidnapping for shooting dead James and Denise Closs in their rural Wisconsin home last October.In handing down the maximum sentence of life without parole, Judge James Babler rejected defense attorneys' pleas for the possibility of parole in seve
  
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• New US charges against Assange may slow extradition from UK

  24-05-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A new indictment against Julian Assange could further delay what was already expected to be a protracted battle to get the WikiLeaks founder out of a London jail cell and into a U.S. court, opening the door for his legal team to argue that the Espionage Act charges are political and thus not covered by an extradition treaty between the two countries.
  
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• French Authorities Investigating Lyon Explosion as Potential Terror Attack

  24-05-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  French authorities are treating an explosion in the city of Lyon on Friday evening as a possible terror attack.The explosion of what investigators believe was a parcel bomb filled with screws, nuts, and bolts injured seven people, including an eight-year-old girl, around 5:30 p.m. local time in a busy shopping area on Rue Victor Hugo. No one died in the blast. Authorities are searching for a male cyclist between 30 and 35 who was seen putting the parcel on the street outside a bakery,
  
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• Trump deploys 1,500 soldiers to Middle East after insisting more troops were unnecessary

  24-05-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  The US will order more troops to the Middle East, Donald Trump has said, despite just a day earlier saying he thought further deployments in the region were unnecessary.Mr Trump said around 1,500 troops would be sent amid rising tensions with Iran. Congressional aides confirmed that Congress was notified of the new plan before it was announced. "We want to have protection. The Middle East, we're going to be sending a relatively small number of troops," Mr Trump told reporters at the White House
  
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• AT&T is the first major US wireless carrier to let you pay via cryptocurrency

  24-05-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  If you're an AT&T mobile customer, and you have some extra bitcoin lying around that you're not doing anything with, you can now use it to pay your phone bill.AT&T just became the first big US wireless carrier to announce that its customers can now use cryptocurrency to make payments, as greater acceptance of this digital medium of exchange can be seen at companies ranging from AT&T to cable provider Dish, which also lets its customers pay via cryptocurrency. Likewise, Facebook on Fr
  
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• U.S. states want federal government to forgive disabled veterans' student loans

  24-05-2019 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Led by New Jersey Democrat Gurbir Grewal and Utah Republican Sean Reyes, the attorneys general said in a letter https://attorneygeneral.utah.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/NAAG-Letter-to-Sec.-DeVos.pdf they welcomed federal efforts to make loan discharges easier to obtain, but said the Department of Education should develop an automatic process to forgive loans rather than require veterans to apply for loan discharges.Attorneys general for the District of Columbia and three U.S. territories also
  
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• NASA executive quits weeks after appointment to lead 2024 moon landing plan

  24-05-2019 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  A top NASA executive hired to help strategize a plan for returning astronauts to the moon by 2024 has resigned, the space agency said on Thursday.
  
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• Layers of Fear 2 Review - Ghost Ship

  24-05-2019 22:21 via gamespot.com
  
  Peel back the layers and there's a clear connective tissue tying Layers of Fear 2 and its predecessor together. Both games are centered around an artist gradually losing their grip on reality. While the original game focused on a struggling painter in an opulent Victorian mansion, Layers of Fear 2 shifts art forms to tell the story of a Hollywood actor during the Golden Age of cinema, as he embarks on a new role in a movie being shot aboard a decadent ocean liner. Developer Bloober Team has crea
  
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• US orders new troops to Middle East to counter Iran 'threat'

  24-05-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States announced Friday it was deploying 1,500 additional troops to the Middle East in response to what the Pentagon called an "campaign" of recent attacks approved by Iran's top leadership.The escalation of the US military presence follows a decision in early May to send an aircraft carrier strike force and B-52 bombers in a show of force against what Washington's leaders believed was an imminent Iranian plan to attack US assets."This is a prudent response to credible threats from Ir
  
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• How Alien Changed Sci-Fi Movies Forever | Alien 40th Anniversary

  24-05-2019 22:14 via gamespot.com
  
  To celebrate Alien's 40th anniversary we take a look back at Ridley Scott's sci-fi classic and tell the story behind one of cinema’s greatest movies.
  
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• U.S. deploys more troops to Middle East, blames Iran for tanker attacks

  24-05-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump's administration also invoked the threat from Iran to declare a national security-related emergency that would clear the sale of billions of dollars' worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other countries without required congressional approval.The actions were the latest by the Trump administration as it highlights what it sees as a threat of potential attack by Iran, and follows decisions to speed the deployment of an aircraft carrier strike group
  
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• Google Stadia Price And More To Be Announced This Summer

  24-05-2019 22:10 via gamespot.com
  
  Google used its Stadia reveal event to explain the potential of its game streaming platform and sell some of its unique benefits, but some very big questions remained. Now the company has teased that we'll get those answers this summer.In an official tweet, Google promised more details are coming soon. More specifically, it promised a price reveal, game announcements, and launch information. Those are the three biggest lingering questions surrounding the platform, and it sounds as if Google is p
  
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• Game Of Thrones: What If Bran Stark Was Evil All Along?

  24-05-2019 22:09 via gamespot.com
  
  Did the series finale of Game of Thrones prove that Bran is actually evil? GameSpot Universe examines the popular fan theory.
  
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• U.S. Sends 1,500 Troops to Mideast After Blaming Attacks on Iran

  24-05-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. will bolster forces in the region by about 1,500 troops, though Trump and the Pentagon said that the deployment is for defensive purposes with a focus on missile defense, surveillance and keeping open shipping lanes in the Persian Gulf.“We’re going to be sending a relatively small number of troops to the Middle East,” Trump said as he departed the White House on Friday for Japan.
  
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• Iraqi protesters urge Baghdad to stay out of U.S.-Iran showdown

  24-05-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Protesters from the movement of Moqtada al-Sadr, who once led Shi'ite militiamen against U.S. forces and is also vocally critical of Iranian influence in Iraq, chanted "no to war" and "yes to Iraq" in central Baghdad and the southern city of Basra.Iraqis worry that their country will be caught up in any escalation of U.S.-Iranian tensions, which spiked earlier this month when President Donald Trump's administration said it had sent additional forces to the Middle East to counter alleged threats
  
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• Best Buy just canceled every preorder it took for the Galaxy Fold

  24-05-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  It's going to keep getting worse for Samsung before it gets better, as Best Buy confirmed this week that all preorders for the Galaxy Fold have been canceled. This is a drastic step for the retailer to take, but following the catastrophe of the review cycle that preceded the planned April 26th launch date, Samsung had no choice but to delay the phone in order to determine why so many reviewers experienced severe issues with the hardware.Samsung has reportedly made a few significant changes to th
  
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• Modi plots course after landslide Indian election win

  24-05-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met allies and former mentors Friday to plot a course for his second term after a landslide victory left the once-mighty Gandhi dynasty reeling.A considerable to-do list includes addressing India's lacklustre economic growth and reducing unemployment, as well as fixing a stricken agriculture sector on which 70 percent of households depend.Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 303 seats, its best ever score, giving it an even bigger majority
  
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• The Latest: Police defend Facebook likes deal with fugitive

  24-05-2019 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  TORRINGTON, Conn. (AP) — The Latest on the Facebook fugitive (all times local):
  
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• Jayme Closs: Abductor 'tried to steal me'

  24-05-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  BARRON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin teenager Jayme Closs said Friday she wanted to see the man who kidnapped her and killed her parents "locked up forever," saying "he tried to steal me. And he didn't care who he killed or who he hurt."
  
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• Trump's latest 'Infrastructure Week' is over in 3 minutes

  24-05-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Infrastructure Week continues to play a vital symbolic role in Washington.
  
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• ‘Embodiment of Evil’: Jayme Closs’ Kidnapper Sentenced to Two Life Terms

  24-05-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Minneapolis Star Tribune/Pool via REUTERSJayme Closs, the Wisconsin 13-year-old who was kidnapped for over three months in October after her parents were murdered, had a message for the courtroom at her abductor’s Friday sentencing hearing: “Jake Patterson will never have power over me.”Patterson was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences plus forty years with no possibility of parole on Friday for abducting the teenager on October 15, 2018, and hold
  
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• Is your iPhone 7 battery starting to die? Save $20 on Apple’s official battery case

  24-05-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  iPhones have gotten so expensive these days that you would have to be crazy to upgrade any sooner than you need to. Heck, Apple's latest iPhone models cost as much as $1,500! If you still have an iPhone 7, your smartphone has more than enough power to keep using for at least another year. What it might not have, however, is enough battery life to comfortably carry you through a full day. Don't worry, and definitely don't spend $1,000 or more on a new iPhone. Instead, pick up an authentic Apple S
  
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• Duke of Sussex will join Queen as she hosts lunch for Donald Trump at Buckingham Palace

  24-05-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The Duke of Sussex will join the Queen as she hosts a lunch for Donald Trump at Buckingham Palace on the US President’s first full state visit next month. His American wife, the Duchess of Sussex, is on maternity leave and will therefore avoid a potentially awkward encounter with Mr Trump, whom she has previously described as “misogynistic” and “divisive”. In 2016, the Duchess, who gave birth to Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor on May 6, said she was backing Hill
  
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• All The Free PC Games You Can Play On Steam This Weekend

  24-05-2019 21:26 via gamespot.com
  
  Steam is aiming to help gamers tackle their huge backlog of games with its new spring cleaning event, which went live today and runs until Tuesday, May 28 at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET. From games you used to love but haven't played in years to those you grabbed because they were free but never even installed, you can earn trophies by playing them this weekend, which unlocks badges for your Steam profile.But even if you're not interested in revisiting the neglected games in your Steam library, you can s
  
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• First 19 Minutes of Nioh 2 Closed Alpha Gameplay

  24-05-2019 21:25 via gamespot.com
  
  We get our hands on Nioh 2 Closed Alpha including the character creator as well as using the new twin axes.
  
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• 'I feel badly for Theresa' - world reacts to May resignation

  24-05-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Prime Minister Theresa May's resignation looks likely to make Britain's looming departure from the EU even more difficult, with some suggesting a hard or "no-deal" Brexit is now almost inevitable.The European Union said the resignation does nothing to change its position on the Brexit withdrawal deal agreed with Britain.EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker noted May's decision "without personal joy", a spokeswoman said, adding that the council of EU leaders has "set out its position" on t
  
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• E3 2019: Gears 5 - What We Know And What We Want To See

  24-05-2019 21:09 via gamespot.com
  
  Along with Forza and Halo, one of Xbox's most highly regarded exclusive franchises is Gears of War. Developed by The Coalition--formerly Black Tusk Studios--Gears 5 aims to up the scale of the series, while also shedding more light on returning Gears of War 4 character Kait Diaz, who is now the protagonist for the next game. Though the series has always stuck close with its cover-to-cover shooting gameplay, Gears 5 looks to be the most significant departure we've seen yet for the franchise, plac
  
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• Hundreds of Students Left Scrambling After NY Abruptly Shuts Down Charter School Expansion Plan

  24-05-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Middle school students at a NY charter school loved it so much that they all planned to stay on for high school, but now they're scrambling for spots in other classrooms.
  
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• Porsche 914 50th Anniversary Celebrated At Museum

  24-05-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The Porsche Museum in Germany opens a special exhibit dedicated to 50 years of the 914.“In the mid-1960s, Porsche was striving to expand its position in the market with a sports car in the promising segment beneath the 911,” the museum said in an announcement about its exhibit.
  
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• New drone video shows wide scope of Missouri tornado damage

  24-05-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Drone footage paints an eerie picture of the tornado damage in Jefferson City, Missouri.
  
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• U.S. Sending 1,500 More Troops to Middle East amid Iran Tensions

  24-05-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump announced Friday that the U.S. will send about 1,500 more troops to the Middle East to play a “mostly protective” role, amid escalating tensions with Iran."We want to have protection," Trump said at the White House as he left for Japan. "Some very talented people are going to the Middle East right now and we'll see what happens."About 1,000 troops will be sent to the region and close to 600 will have their deployments in the Middle East extended, according to the
  
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• Monster Hunter Movie Actress Milla Jovovich Talks At Cannes

  24-05-2019 20:56 via gamespot.com
  
  The Monster Hunter movie is steadily moving along, as producers Constantin Film and Impact Pictures--the team behind the Resident Evil movie franchise--locked down a 2020 release date earlier this year. Lead actress Milla Jovovich (Reisdent Evil series, Hellboy) spoke about the upcoming fantasy action flick at this year's Cannes Film Festival.In a brief interview, Variety asked Jovovich what fans should look forward to next. Jovovich immediately quipped back with "Oh, Monster Hunter 2020!" She t
  
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• Sonic The Hedgehog Movie Delayed As Sonic Gets A Redesign - GS Universe News Update

  24-05-2019 20:53 via gamespot.com
  
  After negative feedback on the design of Sonic the Hedgehog in the latest trailer, director Jeff Fowler has announced that the movie will be delayed.
  
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• Trump appeals ruling allowing banks to hand his financial records to Congress

  24-05-2019 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  "We remain committed to providing appropriate information to all authorized investigations and will abide by a court order regarding such investigations," Deutsche Bank spokeswoman Kerrie McHugh said in an emailed statement.A spokesman for the Intelligence Committee declined to comment on the appeal.Capital One and the House Financial Services Committee did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
  
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• Global Payments nearing $20 billion deal to buy Total System: source

  24-05-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Payment technology company Global Payments Inc is nearing a deal to acquire peer Total System Services Inc (TSYS) for about $20 billion in an all-stock deal, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday.The transaction, which the source said could be announced as soon as Tuesday, is the latest large-scale consolidation effort by payments technology companies as industry players seek domination when spending is increasingly cashless.Both companies' stock prices jumped on news of a potential d
  
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• New report teases crazy next-gen tech coming to the iPhone 11s next year

  24-05-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Forget about all those gorgeous renders that depict the new design changes coming to the 2019 iPhone 11 series phones, as there's a far more exciting rumor in town. A new report says the 2020 iPhone 11s models will come with a crazy next-gen feature that's not currently found on any other smartphone. Samsung's flagship Galaxy S10 was released earlier this year, bringing a brand new all-screen design, one that looks a lot better than alternatives. It also introduced another feature that nobody in
  
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• Pentagon to increase military deployments in Middle East amid rising tensions with Iran

  24-05-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said additional deployments might be required to protect U.S. interests in the Middle East, amid 'credible' threat from Iran.
  
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• Trump memo: Former intelligence officials and Democrats attack president's 'un-American' security instructions

  24-05-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump gave attorney general William Barr the unilateral authority to declassify intelligence documents and ordered the US intelligence community to “quickly and fully cooperate” with his work in an official memorandum.The move is meant to accelerate Mr Barr’s inquiry into whether US officials improperly monitored or carried out surveillance on the president’s 2016 campaign.The directive signed on Thursday night alarmed former intelligence officials and Democratic l
  
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• Anker’s most powerful robot vacuum is down to its lowest price

  24-05-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Everyone knows how awesome robot vacuums are. And everyone knows how great and affordable Anker products are. So it goes without saying that a robot vacuum is going to be both awesome and affordable -- especially when it's on sale at the lowest price ever. Clip the $20 coupon on the Eufy RoboVac 30C Self-Charging Robotic Vacuum Cleaner by Anker, and then use the promo code CLEAN555 at checkout. That'll slash the price of this $300 robot vacuum to just $209.99, which is an absolute steal!Here are
  
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• Fake Facebook accounts: the never-ending battle against bots

  24-05-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  The staggering figure of more than three billion fake accounts blocked by Facebook over a six-month period highlights the challenges faced by social networks in curbing automated accounts, or bots, and other nefarious efforts to manipulate the platforms.How did so many fake accounts crop up?Facebook said this week it "disabled" 1.2 billion fake accounts in the last three months of 2018 and 2.19 billion in the first quarter of 2019.
  
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• Microsoft xCloud Now Being Tested By Capcom And Other Game Devs

  24-05-2019 20:12 via gamespot.com
  
  Microsoft has offered only occasional updates on Project xCloud since debuting it last year, to the point that we assumed we had heard the last of it until at least E3 2019. But with the big event mere weeks away, Microsoft has shed a little more insight on the progress of its streaming service.In an update from gaming cloud VP Kareem Choudhry, Microsoft noted that it has deployed its xCloud tech to 13 Azure regions, allowing game developers like Capcom and other devs to test games using the xCl
  
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• Trump 'friend' Boris Johnson, who was born in the US, is the favorite to replace British Prime Minister Theresa May

  24-05-2019 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Boris Johnson was born in New York City to British parents and is the former mayor of London. President Donald Trump has called him a 'friend.'
  
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• Swamp Thing Review: DC Universe Nailed Horror

  24-05-2019 20:00 via gamespot.com
  
  The DC character Swamp Thing doesn't have the best track record with being adapted. There were two movies, an animated series, and the best of the lot, the live-action series which lasted three seasons. However, none of them truly tapped into the most obvious aspect of the character and the world he lives in: It's all terrifying. The DC Universe streaming service, which has already taken big swings with shows like Titans and Doom Patrol, finally does Swamp Thing justice by creating a show that i
  
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• Heart Aino Joins BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle | GameSpot Community Fridays

  24-05-2019 20:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Come join us on the PS4 version of BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle and duke it out with the new characters.
  
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• UPDATE 3-United Airlines extends cancellations of Boeing 737 MAX flights into August

  24-05-2019 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  CHICAGO/SEATTLE May 24 (Reuters) - United Airlines said on Friday it is extending by one month its cancellations of Boeing Co 737 MAX flights, through Aug. 3, as the jetliner remains grounded following two fatal crashes.United, which operates 14 737 MAX jets, said the decision would lead to about 40 or 45 daily canceled flights.The Chicago-based carrier joins rivals Southwest Airlines Co and American Airlines Group Inc which had already suspended 737 MAX flights into August as global carriers aw
  
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• UPDATE 1-United Airlines extends cancellations of Boeing 737 MAX flights through Aug. 3

  24-05-2019 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  United Airlines said on Friday it is extending by one month its cancellations of Boeing Co 737 MAX flights, now through Aug. 3, leading to about 40 or 45 daily canceled flights.It did not give a reason for the extension, but the August target date brings the airline more in line with rivals Southwest Airlines Co and American Airlines Group Inc , which have canceled 737 MAX flights through Aug. 5 and Aug. 19, respectively.Boeing's top-selling 737 MAX aircraft has been grounded since March in the
  
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