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• Authorities Seize 16 Tons of Cocaine From a Ship Docked in Philadelphia, in One of the Largest Drug Busts in U.S. History

  18-06-2019 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Federal officials estimate the street value at over $1 billion
  
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• You Can Visit These 5 Vanderbilt-Family Homes

  18-06-2019 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Gloria Vanderbilt’s ancestors had an impressive real estate portfolio
  
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• Child's Play: How Mark Hamill Changed Chucky After The Movie Reboot Was Done Filming

  18-06-2019 23:37 via gamespot.com
  
  The Child's Play reboot movie filmed in late 2018, though at that point, nobody was signed on to give a voice to the maniacal Chucky doll. Instead, it was revealed at WonderCon in March that Star Wars and Batman: The Animated Series alum Mark Hamill was taking on the role.It presented an intriguing situation for both Hamill and director Lars Klevberg, as the physical embodiment of Chucky and the way he moves and acts was already set in stone. Still, as Klevberg told GameSpot during a recent inte
  
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• Attorney Michael Avenatti faces November trial in New York

  18-06-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  California attorney Michael Avenatti learned Tuesday that he faces a November trial date on charges he tried to extort millions of dollars from Nike.The Nov. 12 trial date was set by U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe at a pretrial hearing in Manhattan.Avenatti participated by telephone.
  
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• Egypt's ousted President Morsi buried after courtroom death

  18-06-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Egypt's first democratically elected president, Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi, was buried under heavy security early on Tuesday, a day after his dramatic collapse and death inside a Cairo courtroom, his family and a member of his defense team said.Morsi's family attended funeral prayers in the mosque of Cairo's Tora prison, followed by the burial at a cemetery in the Egyptian capital's eastern district of Nasr City, said Abdul-Moneim Abdel-Maqsoud, a member of Morsi's defense team.Morsi's son A
  
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• The Latest: Alex Jones sanctioned in Sandy Hook lawsuit

  18-06-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  A Connecticut judge has imposed sanctions on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for an outburst on his web show against a lawyer for relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook School shooting.Judge Barbara Bellis on Tuesday ordered the Infowars host to pay some of the relatives' legal fees and prohibited him from filing motions to dismiss their defamation lawsuit against him.The families of several of the 20 children and six educators killed in the 2012 shooting are suing Jones, Infowars and others for
  
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• Naval Expert: Why Russia Never Built Lots of Aircraft Carriers

  18-06-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The aviation capability of the Russian navy is dangling by a thread. Kuznetsov is old and in poor condition, and no carrier is even close to be laid down. Historically a land power, the Soviet Union grappled with the idea of a large naval aviation arm for most of its history, eventually settling on a series of hybrid aircraft carriers. Big plans for additional ships died with the Soviet collapse, but Russia inherited one large aircraft carrier at the end of the Cold War—that rema
  
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• What's Coming And Going From Hulu In July 2019? Movies, TV, And Originals

  18-06-2019 23:17 via gamespot.com
  
  July is almost here, and that means various streaming services will be adding new content for the month. Hulu has revealed what's coming to it service in the upcoming month and what's leaving as well. And there is plenty to check out starting July 1.There is a plethora of new content to binge on from TV shows to movies. Some of the highlights this day are the 1980 comedy Airplane, a parody of that era's disaster movies. And if you want more parodies in your life, the 1987 Star Wars parody Spaceb
  
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• McConnell Rejects Possibility of Slavery Reparations

  18-06-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that he is opposed to the idea of authorizing reparations for the descendants of slaves brought to the U.S. against their will.“I don’t think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago, for whom none of us currently living are responsible, is a good idea,” McConnell said, before going on to argue that the U.S. has taken other steps to atone for the "original sin of slavery."“We’ve tried to deal with
  
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• Boeing may rebrand the 737 Max so people are willing to fly in it again

  18-06-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Boeing has a serious problem on its hands. After a pair of fatal crashes that claimed hundreds of lives, the company's 737 Max jetliner has been seriously tarnished. Nobody really wants to fly on the planes, even if Boeing can figure out how to keep them from killing people, and that means the hundreds of planes sitting around in storage right now may have a tough road ahead.Now, Boeing says it might have a plan for dealing with the complete loss of public trust in the 737 Max line, and it could
  
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• Police: Arizona man beheads roommate's dog as she moves out

  18-06-2019 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  An Arizona man has been arrested on suspicion of mutilating and beheading his roommate's dog as she moved out of the home that the two shared in a Phoenix suburb.Jose Vega Meza, 21, told investigators that he killed the dog on Saturday because his roommate owed rent money to his mother, who owns the home in the city of Buckeye, police said.The man's roommate told police she lost track of her dog as she moved out her belongings and saw Vega Meza trying to sneak a box onto her truck.
  
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• As U.S. Boosts Pressure, Iran Tests Trump's Appetite for a Fight

  18-06-2019 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump’s campaign vow to get the U.S. out of costly foreign entanglements is colliding with the messy reality of America’s commitments in the Middle East, where tensions are rising between Washington and Tehran after attacks on two tankers last week.The dilemma emerged again as the administration ordered another 1,000 troops to the region on Monday in response to what Trump officials say was Iran’s role in the latest strikes. The Tehran government
  
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• UPDATE 1-Trump says U.S. is 'very prepared' with regard to Iran

  18-06-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump said on Tuesday the United States was very prepared with regard to Iran, as tensions ramped up after attacks on several oil tankers and Tehran's announcement it would step up uranium enrichment."We're very prepared for Iran.On Monday, the United States announced it would deploy about 1,000 more troops to the Middle East, citing concerns about a threat from Iran.
  
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• Sen. Rand Paul: It's a mistake to keep ramping things up in the Middle East

  18-06-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Foreign Relations Committee member Sen. Rand Paul on U.S. sending additional troops to Middle East amid tensions with Iran.
  
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• Cat filter accidentally applied to Pakistani politician's face during live stream

  18-06-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Call it a filter fail, a real social media CAT-astrophe.
  
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• Attorney: Deputy in clash with Raptors exec has concussion

  18-06-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  A deputy suffered a concussion and is on medical leave after an altercation with the president of the Toronto Raptors as he tried to join his team on the court to celebrate their NBA championship, a lawyer said Tuesday.The 20-year-veteran of the Alameda County Sheriff's Office also has a serious jaw injury and is considering filing a lawsuit against Raptors President Masai Ujiri, attorney David Mastagni said.The clash between the deputy and Ujiri happened as the deputy checked court-access crede
  
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• New Jersey man dies vacationing in Dominican Republic, family and State Department confirm

  18-06-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Joseph Allen, 55, was found dead in his hotel room at Terra Linda in Sosua on the morning of June 13, his sister, Jamie Reed, told ABC.
  
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• McConnell on reparations for slavery: Not a 'good idea'

  18-06-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday rejected reparations for slavery in part because it would be hard to know whom to pay.The Kentucky Republican spoke to reporters on the eve of a rare House hearing on what compensation, if any, the U.S. might owe for the economic and other damage done by slavery."We tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil war, by passing landmark civil rights legislation, elected an African American president," Barack Obama, in 2008, Mc
  
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• Jon Stewart keeping up pressure on Mitch McConnell

  18-06-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Comic Jon Stewart used his buddy Stephen Colbert's late-night show to keep the heat on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for passage of legislation to replenish a victims' fund for first responders to the 9/11 attacks.Stewart mocked McConnell on Colbert's "Late Show" Monday night, even though the Senate leader had said earlier Monday that the issue would be addressed.Stewart demanded greater urgency.
  
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• Trump says immigration roundup will start next week

  18-06-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump repeated on Tuesday that immigration authorities would next week target migrants in the country illegally in large-scale arrests, but still gave no details about the planned action."They're going to start next week, and with people coming to our country, and they come in illegally - they have to go out," he told reporters at the White House before a trip to Florida where he will formally launch his re-election campaign.Trump also praised Mexico for action he said it h
  
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• Facebook Unveils Cryptocurrency Despite Privacy Concerns

  18-06-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Facebook reveals plans for digital currency to allow billions of users to transfer money with close to zero transaction fees.
  
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• Facebook’s Libra coin isn’t even out yet, but it’s already facing opposition in Europe

  18-06-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Facebook on Tuesday announced the Bitcoin rival it has been developing for the better part of a year: Libra. From the start, Facebook insisted on how secure Libra would be, and on the fact that a subsidiary called Calibra will be in charge of Libra, and that a Libra Association would oversee the Libra blockchain.It's as if Facebook wanted to ensure everyone ahead of Libra's 2020 launch that the coin won't be another way for the company to make money off of its customers by collecting even more p
  
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• Oh, Hey, The Long-Awaited Bloodstained Is Finally Out Now

  18-06-2019 22:11 via gamespot.com
  
  They say the demons come out at night, and so does Miriam the demon slayer. Famed auteur Koji Igarashi's spiritual successor to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, is out now--but you might not have realized it after some delays and the recent E3 hubbub.Ritual of the Night recently underwent a huge graphics overhaul and made a brief appearance at E3 2019, but the buzz surrounding the game has been relatively quiet. Very few reviews have been published so far, w
  
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• Apex Legends Has Dragons Now, Apparently

  18-06-2019 22:09 via gamespot.com
  
  Apex Legends has been teasing something big coming to the game, and now it appears to have arrived. Players have reported hearing and seeing dragons roaming about the map, potentially laying the groundwork for a world event to come with Season 2.The flying beasts can be spotted in the game or on screens posted to the Apex Legends subreddit. The community has taken to calling them "Flyers" and if you bring one down you can get some loot. In a potentially related development, the Leviathan that wa
  
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• Exclusive: President Trump Says Hong Kong Protesters Are Having a 'Big Impact'

  18-06-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Following simmering trade tensions with China, Donald Trump spoke to TIME in an exclusive interview about the protests in Hong Kong.
  
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• Investigators crack cold case murder of South Dakota woman

  18-06-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  The murder of a pharmacist who was raped and strangled in her home in a South Dakota city more than half a century ago has been solved with the use of DNA technology and genealogy databases, police said.Investigators believe Eugene Carroll Field killed 60-year-old Gwen Miller in 1968 when he was a 25-year-old living in Rapid City, Detective Wayne Keefe said at a news conference Monday.It is "a little surreal" to finally identify the killer after 51 years and up to 5,000 hours of work, Keefe said
  
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• The Latest: Indiana AG's office plans vigorous defense

  18-06-2019 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  The Indiana attorney general's office says it will vigorously defend him against a federal lawsuit by four women who say he drunkenly groped them during a party last year.The lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges sexual harassment by Republican state Attorney General Curtis Hill on a state lawmaker and three legislative staffers in March 2018 at an Indianapolis bar.Hill has denied wrongdoing and rebuffed calls from Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb to resign.
  
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• Florida officer guilty of negligence for shooting caretaker

  18-06-2019 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  A Florida police officer has been convicted of a misdemeanor but acquitted of attempted manslaughter for shooting at a severely autistic man and wounding the man's caretaker.A jury deliberated for four hours late Monday before finding North Miami police Officer Jonathan Aledda guilty of culpable negligence in the 2016 shooting of caretaker Charles Kinsey, who was trying to protect 27-year-old Arnaldo Rios Soto.Aledda faces up to a year in jail but because he was acquitted of a felony, he might b
  
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• Mike Pompeo urges other countries to help protect tankers after Gulf attacks

  18-06-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Secretary of state says shipping security was not exclusively a US problem and stresses that Trump does not want war with IranWashington has blamed recent attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Iran. Photograph: -/AFP/Getty ImagesThe US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, has called on other nations to help safeguard tanker traffic in the Persian Gulf following a spate of attacks on ships which Washington blames on Iran.On a visit to US Central Command headquarters, Pompeo said shipping secu
  
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• The Best Xbox One Deals This Week: Sonic Classics, Wireless Controllers, And More (US)

  18-06-2019 21:40 via gamespot.com
  
  Now that the frenzy of E3 2019 is over, all those great game deals are no longer available, but while the big Xbox One game and console sale has ended, the Xbox Store is back on its regular schedule of offering new weekly game deals. The newest batch of Xbox One deals is available now, including a Sonic anniversary sale, discounted indie games, $10 off Xbox wireless controllers, and more.The spotlight is on everyone's favorite speedy hedgehog this week, as Sonic the Hedgehog debuted on the Sega
  
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• PS4 Sale: Persona 5 For $16, Shenmue 1 And 2 For $21, And More Deals To Grab Now (US)

  18-06-2019 21:38 via gamespot.com
  
  Sony's annual Days of Play sale, which ran during E3 2019 with steep discounts on games and consoles, is finally over. But a new week means new deals, and luckily, the PlayStation Store has some eye-catching bargains available now.Most notably, quite a few Persona games and DLC are currently scattered throughout the PSN deals section, including Persona 5, which is on sale for $16 (and only $14 if you have PS Plus). With well over 100 hours of content, this is a phenomenal deal on one of the cons
  
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• Google pledges $1 bn for housing crisis in Bay Area

  18-06-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Google on Tuesday pledged to commit more than $1 billion to help address the severe housing crisis in the region that includes its headquarters and Silicon Valley.Chief executive Sundar Pichai announced the initiative, saying the internet colossus wants to be "a good neighbor" in the area bursting with technology companies.The move comes with Silicon Valley firms under pressure over the spike in real estate prices, lack of affordable housing and growing homeless problem in the San Francisco Bay
  
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• As the trade war with China heats up this summer, who is feeling the chill?

  18-06-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  The number of visitors to the U.S. from China fell 5.7% to 3 million in 2018, the first decline In 15 years. So far, it’s not getting better in 2019.
  
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• Egypt's former president Morsi quietly buried in Cairo

  18-06-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Egypt's first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi was buried Tuesday, as the UN backed calls for an independent investigation into his death after he collapsed in a Cairo courtroom.The Islamist, who was overthrown in 2013 after a year of divisive rule and later charged with espionage, was buried at a cemetery in eastern Cairo's Medinat Nasr, one of his lawyers said.Abdel Moneim Abdel Maksoud said family members had washed Morsi's body and prayed the last rites early Tuesday at Leeman
  
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• FX's Y: The Last Man TV Adaptation Gets A New Showrunner

  18-06-2019 21:30 via gamespot.com
  
  After it was announced in April that the showrunners for FX's adaptation of the Y: The Last Man comic book series were leaving the project, it wasn't clear if the series would be delayed or was even moving forward at all. It's alive and well, though, with a new showrunner at the helm.In a press release, FX announced that The Killing and Animal Kingdom alum Eliza Clark would take over the duties on the show as showrunner, writer, and executive producer. "Eliza Clark is an enormously talented writ
  
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• Trump Admin Hid Shanahan’s Dark Past, Senators Say

  18-06-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Kevin Lamarque/ReutersThe senators tasked with vetting Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan say they were unaware of the accusations of domestic violence in his family that led to his resignation Tuesday. The altercations never came up during Shanahan’s 2017 confirmation hearing for the position of Deputy Secretary of Defense, lawmakers told The Daily Beast, nor did it arise as he was preparing to assume the role of Pentagon chief permanently.“We’ve been wondering why w
  
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• Nintendo, Cyberpunk, And FF 7 Topped Twitter Trends At E3 2019

  18-06-2019 21:22 via gamespot.com
  
  With E3 2019 behind us, Twitter has revealed its top trending moments and game announcements from the annual event.The Hollywood Reporter reports that the biggest moment overall was Nintendo's annual Direct presentation on Tuesday morning, which encompassed all of its games lineup including a surprise peek at The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2. Keanu Reeves' appearance at the Xbox conference came in second place, and Square's dual showings of the Final Fantasy VII Remake and Marvel's Aven
  
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• Suspected jihadists kill 15 soldiers at Nigerian army base 

  18-06-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Suspected jihadists killed 15 soldiers at an army base in restive northeast Nigeria, stealing weapons before looting shops in a nearby town, military sources said Tuesday.The raids late Monday came a day after 30 people were killed in a triple suicide bombing that also bore the hallmarks of the Boko Haram group."Fifteen bodies of soldiers have so far been recovered in a search and rescue operation," a military officer, who asked not to be named, told AFP after the latest attack.
  
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• Trump: Alleged Iranian oil tanker attacks 'very minor'

  18-06-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump, contradicting previous statements from that Iran had caused serious provocations in, called the alleged attacks 'very minor.'
  
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• Paul Manafort reportedly won’t go to Rikers Island prison, thanks to the Justice Department

  18-06-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign manager who was convicted of multiple federal crimes, will no longer be transferred to New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail after all, the New York Times reported on Monday.
  
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• Ex-ICE officials criticize Trump's tweet about upcoming deportation sweep

  18-06-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump issued a public warning Monday night, by tweet, of a mass deportation effort by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to start next week. His tweet prompted sharp criticism from some former ICE officials.
  
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• NASA says there’s ‘no doubt’ SpaceX Crew Dragon explosion has pushed back crewed flights

  18-06-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  NASA desperately needs a way to get its astronauts into space without paying for pricey seats aboard Russian rockets, but the agency's two best hopes -- SpaceX and Boeing -- are stumbling a bit at the finish line. Boeing's Starliner has been plagued by delays nearly from the start, and SpaceX is now dealing with its own list of problems.In remarks to reporters at the Paris Airshow, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine admitted that the recent destruction of a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule during stat
  
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• EU fights to keep nuclear deal alive amid US, Iran pressure

  18-06-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  A year after the United States pulled out of the Iran nuclear agreement, the pact is at severe risk of collapse and the European Union is caught in the middle, struggling to keep supply lines open to the Islamic Republic's wilting economy under the threat of U.S. sanctions.With few real options left, their trust in the Trump administration running low, and fears rising that conflict could break out, major powers Germany, France and Britain have been reduced to repeating calls for restraint as pr
  
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• UN chief calls on Russia, Turkey to 'stabilize' Syrian province

  18-06-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  UN chief Antonio Guterres called on Russia and Turkey Tuesday to "stabilize the situation" in the Syrian province of Idlib, rocked by intense fighting between pro-government and jihadist-led forces."I am deeply concerned about the escalation of the fighting in Idlib and the situation is specially dangerous given the involvement of an increased number of actors.
  
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• Boeing signs first deal for 737 Max jet since deadly crashes

  18-06-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Boeing is selling its 737 Max planes again.The company announced at the Paris Air Show on Tuesday that International Airlines Group, the parent company of British Airways and other carriers, signed a letter of intent for 200 Boeing 737 aircraft.Boeing said it's the first sale of the jetliner since the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max in March.
  
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• Take-Two's Future Games Might Be Shorter With More Post-Launch Content

  18-06-2019 20:32 via gamespot.com
  
  It took longer than usual for some of Take-Two Interactive's most recent successes--Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2--to hit the market. While the publisher is likely pleased with the results of such ambitious games, CEO Strauss Zelnick is convinced the development gap between releases will shorten thanks in part to post-launch content.In a GamesIndustry.Biz interview during E3 2019, Zelnick envisions the trend of extensive time between game releases coming to an end. "I don't see it
  
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• You’d have to be nuts to buy a $50 Echo Dot when this Alexa speaker is just as good for $19.99

  18-06-2019 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Amazon's Echo Dot is the company's best-selling Alexa speaker of all time. It's not because it's the biggest or loudest speaker Amazon has made, it's because it's the cheapest speaker Amazon has made. At $50 a pop, there's no cheaper way to fill your house with smart speakers so you can always call upon Alexa when you need to. Well, there's no cheaper way if you stick with Amazon, that is. The Eufy Genie Smart Speaker by Anker with Hands-Free Amazon Alexa is basically an Echo Dot with a differen
  
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• Trump's pick for defense secretary withdraws as past domestic incidents surface

  18-06-2019 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump announced that acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has withdrawn from consideration to be his permanent defense chief as reports surfaced about a messy divorce that involved a violent incident.
  
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• Bleeding Edge Brings Ninja Theory's DmC Design Sensibilities To Competitive Multiplayer

  18-06-2019 20:23 via gamespot.com
  
  The appearance of the next game from Ninja Theory, Bleeding Edge, was something of a surprise during Microsoft's press conference at E3 2019. It's a competitive game in the vein of something like Overwatch or Apex Legends, pitting teams of four players against each other as they try to capture objectives while wailing on each other. That's pretty far removed from the studio's past games--third-person narrative action titles such as Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice and DmC: Devil May Cry.Bleeding Edg
  
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• WWE Stomping Grounds PPV 2019: Match Card, Time, Date, And How To Watch

  18-06-2019 20:18 via gamespot.com
  
  On Sunday, June 23, the next WWE event, Stomping Grounds, is coming to PPV and the WWE Network. It's a bit of a summer-lull right now, coming out of a Saudi Arabia show, and the event formerly known as Backlash got a name change--probably because WWE didn't want a PPV named "Backlash" after all of the backlash they got for the Saudi show.The next WWE show takes place at the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington. If you're in the Seattle/Tacoma area, there are still plenty of tickets available, even
  
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