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• Police seek person who last saw missing Utah college student

  25-06-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Police on Tuesday issued a public appeal for a person last seen with a University of Utah student before she disappeared more than a week ago. Mackenzie Lueck was last seen being dropped off at a Salt Lake City park at about 3 a.m. on June 17 by a Lyft driver who took her there from the airport after she returned from visiting family in California, authorities said. Salt Lake City assistant Police Chief Tim Doubt also released new photos of Lueck from immediately before her disappearance showing
  
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• Trump awards highest military honor to Iraq War veteran

  25-06-2019 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump on Tuesday awarded the nation's highest military honor to an Iraq War veteran who took on an insurgent stronghold and allowed members of his platoon to move to safety during heavy fighting in Fallujah.The president presented the Medal of Honor to former Army Staff Sgt. David G. Bellavia, of New York.The entire thing is impossible to think about unless you're talking about the men we lost," Bellavia said after the ceremony.
  
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• Stephanie Grisham, new White House press secretary, had controversial Arizona career

  25-06-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  During her time in Arizona, Stephanie Grisham weathered controversial stints with then-Attorney General Tom Horne and House Speaker David Gowan.
  
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• Mexico will not detain migrants at US border: president

  25-06-2019 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexico's president vowed Tuesday to investigate the controversial detention of migrants trying to cross the US border, saying the 15,000 troops he has deployed there have no such orders.President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a leftist who took office in December vowing to protect migrants' rights, has come under fire over an AFP journalist's images last week of heavily armed National Guardsmen forcibly detaining two women and a girl at the Rio Grande river, across from El Paso, Texas.Internation
  
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• Destiny 2 Treasure Map Guide: Salvaged Goods

  25-06-2019 23:21 via gamespot.com
  
  Each week in Destiny 2's Season of Opulence, Werner 99-40, one of the Tower robots hacked by Cabal Emperor Calus, gives you four bounties that can help you completely upgrade your Chalice of Opulence. Those bounties have the usual requirements--get a certain number of kills, for instance, or complete a certain type of activity. But completing that step of each bounty only earns you a Treasure Map, and it's up to you to follow it to find the Runes, Imperials, and legendary drops the bounties prom
  
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• YouTube Personality 'Etika' Found Dead

  25-06-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Desmond Amofah was best known for posting gaming videos on YouTube and Twitch
  
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• Legion Season 3 Episode 1 "Chapter 20" Breakdown

  25-06-2019 23:16 via gamespot.com
  
  Can David Haller be redeemed? Ryan and Greg are back to break down the mind-bending Season 3 premiere of FX's Legion.
  
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• Relative: Gunman killed 4, self over jealousy of in-laws

  25-06-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  A man who family members in California say shot four relatives to death before taking his own life was upset his wife was able to get visas for her relatives to travel from Vietnam to the United States, a relative said Tuesday.To Van Khuat said 66-year-old Chi Dinh Ta had recently called him and told him he planned to kill his in-laws, who had recently arrived in San Jose from Asia.Ta had been seething with jealousy because he was not able to bring his own family from Vietnam, Khuat said.
  
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• US border chief quits amid outcry over child detainees

  25-06-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The acting head of the US Customs and Border Protection agency announced his resignation on Tuesday amid a public outcry over alarming detention conditions of migrant children in Texas.John Sanders, appointed to the post just two months ago, said in a letter obtained by several US media outlets that he planned to step down as acting CBP commissioner on July 5.Sanders' departure coincides with the revelation of unsanitary detention conditions for children at an overcrowded Border Patrol facility
  
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• World Of Warcraft's Huge Rise Of Azshara Update Now Live

  25-06-2019 23:00 via gamespot.com
  
  The second major update for World of Warcraft's Battle for Azeroth expansion has arrived. Rise of Azshara is now live, and it introduces a wealth of new content and features to the long-running MMO, including new locations, Heritage armor, a mount equipment system, and much more.Among the biggest additions to the game are two new zones to explore. The first is Nazjatar, the capital city of the naga and the home of the eponymous Azshara, who serves as the final foe in a new eight-boss raid called
  
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• Best Kamado Grills From Consumer Reports' Tests

  25-06-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  For more than 30 years, the Big Green Egg was the only widely available kamado-style charcoal grill. In that time, this grill developed a cultlike following, and it’s easy to see why.  Its thick ...
  
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• Baby rescued from plastic bag in Georgia

  25-06-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Georgia sheriff's office realeased dramatic body-cam video showing the rescue of a newborn girl who was found alive inside a plastic bag in the woods. (June 25)
  
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• Bloodstained Launches On Switch With Performance Problems, Devs Vow To Fix It

  25-06-2019 22:42 via gamespot.com
  
  Koji Igarashi's recently-released Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night has caught the ire of the internet yet again. Following a bug that caused progression issues on other platforms, some Nintendo Switch players are running into performance problems, reporting large dips in frame rate and unstable gameplay. Publisher 505 Games has announced plans to address these issues.Bloodstained Kickstarter backers received an email from 505 Games' senior community manager Jason Ryan. Ryan said the team has he
  
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• Trump awards the Medal of Honor to David Bellavia, the first living Iraq War recipient

  25-06-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Bellavia received the Medal of Honor for "conspicuous gallantry" during the Second Battle of Fallujah, the bloodiest battle of the Iraq War.
  
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• Sheriff: Mom abused her children, boiled puppies to death

  25-06-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman beat and tortured at least some of her 15 children and forced them to watch as she brutally killed their pets, authorities said in New Mexico, the latest place where the woman and her husband have been the subject of complaints.Martha Crouch and her husband Timothy of Aztec, New Mexico, were arrested Monday following interviews with a number of their adult and young children living in different states, according to court records.It was not immediately clear if all the allegations made by
  
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• Donald Trump threatens 'overwhelming force' against Iran if it attacks 'anything American'

  25-06-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump said he would use "overwhelming force" against Iran if it attacks the U.S. again, a threat that comes days after he called off strikes.
  
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• Apple reportedly canceled quantum dot camera technology for the iPhone 11

  25-06-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The iPhones arriving this September will feature more cameras than ever, according to various leaks from the past few months. Apple is said to be bringing triple-lens cameras to the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Max, while the iPhone XR successor will get a dual-lens shooter. Apple will likely bake a bunch of extra camera features into iOS 13 to take advantage of the additional lens, but these have yet to leak.A new story from the UK, meanwhile, does mention a camera feature that Apple has abandoned b
  
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• Man slashes own throat in court during trial for murder of Tinder date

  25-06-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  A man accused of killing his roommate’s Tinder date slashed his own neck during the murder trial on Monday while screaming in the courtroom. Aubrey Trail, a 52-year-old from Nebraska, yelled “Bailey is innocent, and I curse you all” before swiping something across his neck.Deputies rushed to help Mr Trail as he lay bleeding on the floor. Mr Trail was referring to his 25-year-old former roommate Bailey Boswell when he cut himself. The two have been charged with first-degree murd
  
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• Taj Ma Garaj Collection Being Sold Without Reserve

  25-06-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The single day sale through RM Sotheby’s is set for September 28th in Ohio. Well-know late car collector, John Dixon’s, collection of more than 30 highly sought after Porsches and Volkswagens is soon going under the hammer with no reserve set in the Taj Ma Garaj Collection. The auction is happening in Dayton, OH, and will feature over 350 lots of automobila and collectibles. John Dixon’s obsession with the Porsche models started when he was passed by a 911 in his muscle ca
  
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• Driver in horrific motorcycle crash pleads not guilty as details emerge

  25-06-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  A pickup driver accused of slamming into a group of motorcycles entered a not guilty plea Tuesday in New Hampshire on 7 counts of negligent homicide.
  
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• New PUBG PS4/Xbox One Patch Includes Revamped Progression System And More

  25-06-2019 22:04 via gamespot.com
  
  PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is still a wildly-popular game despite having "fallen short" in some areas. Developer PUBG Corporation looks to address some of these areas, announcing a new console patch that introduces a new progression system called weapon mastery, an auto-equip attachments feature, an additional controller preset, and more.The news comes via a tweet posted by the official PUBG Support team. The update, headed to both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, will arrive on Thursday, June 27.
  
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• White House says Kellyanne Conway won't testify at House hearing on Hatch Act violations

  25-06-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings plans to issue a subpoena for Conway and said she would be held in contempt if she ignores it.
  
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• Mackenzie Lueck's sorority sister on 'alarming' details of missing Utah student's disappearance

  25-06-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Ashley Fine doesn't know why 23-year-old Mackenzie Lueck would take a Lyft to a local park at 3 a.m.: 'We need to find out who she met at the park.'
  
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• Is Trump Really Headed to War With Iran? Here is What Two Experts Think

  25-06-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  America’s policy of maximum pressure on Iran continues, with the U.S. Department of the Treasury announcing new sanctions on eight Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Commanders. That directive was tweeted during a luncheon event on Iran at the Center for the National Interest, which was moderated by Geoffrey Kemp, the Senior Director of Regional Security Programs at CFTNI who also served in the White House during the first Reagan administration as Special Assistant to the President
  
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• Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order — Official Extended Cut Gameplay Demo

  25-06-2019 21:44 via gamespot.com
  
  Order 66 has been executed. Once, staying alive meant hiding your abilities. Now, you must embrace them. Use the Force to manipulate your environment, master lightsaber combat, explore dangerous terrain, and remain one step ahead of the Empire.
  
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• The Mini John Cooper Works GP Will Be Seriously Quick around the Nürburgring

  25-06-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Mini says its latest super-hot hatchback will set a sub-eight-minute time at the 'Ring.
  
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• Spider-Man: Far From Home VR Experience Is Available Now--And Free!

  25-06-2019 21:40 via gamespot.com
  
  Spider-Man: Far From Home continues the journey of Tom Holland's Peter Parker in theaters on July 2, but in the meantime it's getting a free VR tie-in experience, which is available right now on Steam and on PSVR. The experience is published by Sony, and developed by CreateVR, who also worked on VR tie-in experiences for Spider-Man: Homecoming and the Ghostbusters reboot. Check out a trailer for the Spider-Man: Far From Home VR Experience below.Where the previous Spider-Man VR tie-in for Homecom
  
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• Baby India: Newborn baby found in plastic bag in woods

  25-06-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  A sheriff’s office has released part of a body-cam video from the night an officer rescued a newborn baby girl who was found abandoned and wrapped in a plastic bag earlier this month. According to the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia, the hope is that the video will lead to credible information regarding the identity of the infant, who was found on 6 June.“The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office is continuing to aggressively investigate and to follow leads regarding
  
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• Iran vows to ditch more nuclear curbs in war of words with US

  25-06-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran said Tuesday it will further free itself from the 2015 nuclear deal in defiance of new American sanctions as US President Donald Trump warned the Islamic republic of "overwhelming" retaliation for any attacks.Tensions between Iran and the US have spiralled since last year when Trump withdrew the United States from the deal under which Tehran was to curb its nuclear programme in exchange for relief from economic sanctions.The two arch-rivals have been locked in an escalating war of words sin
  
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• A Florida woman turned in her husband's guns after his domestic violence arrest. Police arrested her for theft

  25-06-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Courtney Irby was charged with grand theft and armed burglary for turning in her husband's guns while he was in jail for domestic violence.
  
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• PlayStation Plus Sale On PS4 Heads Up Weekly PSN Deals (US)

  25-06-2019 21:15 via gamespot.com
  
  Another week means a fresh set of deals for PS4 games on the PlayStation Store. This week the headline event is a PlayStation Plus Specials Sale, offering deep discounts on more than 300 games and DLC packs--as long as you're a member of Plus, the PlayStation service that grants you access to online play.The lineup of game offerings for sale include a wide array of games, especially ones from Ubisoft. If you've been waiting to get your hands on some of the back catalog of Assassin's Creed, South
  
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• Fortnite 14 Days Of Summer Challenges: Dance At Beach Parties And More

  25-06-2019 21:07 via gamespot.com
  
  Fortnite's first 9.30 content update is now live, kicking off the game's 14 Days of Summer event. For the next two weeks, Epic will be rolling out a new limited-time mode and unvaulting an old weapon for 24 hours each day. That's not all; the game will also offer a new daily challenge to complete, which will net you an exclusive new reward.The first 14 Days of Summer challenge is live, and it involves dancing at six beach parties. You'll need to boogie down at six of these beachside shindigs in
  
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• Rothmans Replica: 1983 Porsche 911 SC Safari

  25-06-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  While it may be a replica of the real deal, this 911 SC is ready for rallying.One of the coolest things about the 1980s was production-based racecars, which were born in order to satisfy motorsport homologation requirements. Nowadays, these vehicles are extremely valuable, due to the fact that many of them were purposefully used and driven hard.Porsche’s iconic 911 is one of these vehicles where ownership is expensive, with many examples being restoration items that are usually reserved fo
  
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• Knock Knock, Who’s There? A 1969 Chevrolet Camaro SS

  25-06-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Orange you glad it’s for sale?This 1969 Chevrolet Camaro SS in Hugger Orange is no joke, though. It’s for sale right now through Sports Car Digest (SCD) Garage in Charlotte, North Carolina with just 40,000 original miles on the odometer. The Hugger Orange paint code is GMs version of the classic racing orange found on the Z28s, Corvettes and several other ‘60s and ‘70s classic muscle cars. The “Hugger” nickname was used when marketing the vehicle in magazine a
  
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• Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro's ex-spy chief reveals new details of plot topple him

  25-06-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The former spy chief to embattled Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro has revealed new details of the plot to oust him including code names, secret meetings and a back channel to the Americans.  Gen. Manuel Ricardo Cristopher Figuera, who fled the country after the plot collapsed in May, laid bare the full scale of the plan during an interview with The Washington Post.  Mr Figuera was head of the Venezuelan intelligence police force SEBIN but became disillusioned with Mr Maduro’s
  
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• Here’s what Samsung’s Galaxy Fold 2 could look like

  25-06-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  If you rewind the clock back a bit to before Samsung's disastrous aborted launch of its Galaxy Fold smartphone that was supposed to have been in April, you may recall the company's lofty ambitious that looked beyond the first iteration of this new device. We were hearing estimates last year that Samsung wanted to start the Galaxy Fold's initial production run at a minimum of 1 million units and that the Fold also wouldn't be a one-off. That the company, in other words, was hoping to release a ne
  
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• Prosecutors outline details of congressman's alleged affairs in campaign finance case

  25-06-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Prosecutors alleged in a Monday court filing that Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., used campaign funds to carry out multiple affairs over at least seven years with congressional staffers and lobbyists.
  
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• Donald Trump says woman who claimed he raped her is 'not my type'

  25-06-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has said that a woman who claimed to have been raped by him more than 20 years ago is “not my type”.  The US president made the comment as he again denied an alleged sexual assault on the journalist E Jean Carroll.   Carroll said the incident happened in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman a luxury New York department store in the mid-1990s.  She claimed Mr Trump pulled down her tights against her will and raped her. Mr Trump has categorically denied
  
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• Jeremy Hunt rules Britain out of US-Iran war as Donald Trump and Hassan Rouhani exchange insults

  25-06-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump threatened Iran with “obliteration” after the country’s president questioned his mental health for imposing sanctions against the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader.  The exchange of insults came as Britain ruled itself out of a potential war between the two sides.  Jeremy Hunt, the foreign secretary, told the Commons on Tuesday: "The US is our closest ally, we talk to them the whole time, we consider any requests that they say carefully, but I canno
  
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• Ex-priest dies months into imprisonment for raping boys

  25-06-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A former Catholic priest who pleaded guilty last year to raping two boys decades earlier has died just several months into a 20-year prison sentence in South Carolina. Wayland Yoder Brown, 75, died at a hospital June 8 from what appear to be natural causes, South Carolina Corrections Department spokeswoman Chrysti Shain said Tuesday. The ex-priest had been imprisoned since his guilty plea last October.
  
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• PS4 / Sony Cheat Sheet: All The News Fans Need To Know

  25-06-2019 20:41 via gamespot.com
  
  PlayStation fans have had quite a bit to digest in the first half of 2019. Sony has been making news at a furious clip, specifically because it's already talking about the concrete details of its next-generation console, including its release date. But also making headlines was another big move from Sony--the company completely skipped E3.Just because Sony didn't share any news at the year's biggest gaming convention doesn't mean there weren't games getting a lot of attention, though. The show w
  
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• Fatal Hawaii skydiving plane crash renews NTSB's call for stricter rules: 'Accidents continue to happen'

  25-06-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  An NTSB official put the FAA on notice Monday, calling for regulations on parachute operations after a skydiving plane crash in Hawaii killed 11.
  
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• 9 Oil Stocks to Buy When Oil Prices Are Low

  25-06-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Bank of America analyst Doug Leggate recently lowered his oil price forecast for the second half of 2019 from $68 per barrel to $63, but Leggate says there are still plenty of value opportunities among oil stocks today.Here are nine oil stocks Leggate recommends.Leggate says Exxon has the strongest project pipeline of any oil major, including developments in Guyana and the U.S. Permian Basin.
  
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• Taking a Closer Look at Japan's Futuristic Attack Submarine

  25-06-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The sleek underwater warship will ensure the country is defended by the best non-nuclear submarines around.
  
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• Pickup driver pleads not guilty in fatal motorcycle crash

  25-06-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  A driver for a transport company who has a history of traffic arrests pleaded not guilty Tuesday to seven counts of negligent homicide in a collision with a group of motorcyclists on a rural highway.Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 23, was ordered to remain in preventive detention, with a judge saying his driving record poses a potential danger to the public and himself.The plea was entered by Zhukovskyy's attorney Melissa Davis in Coos County Court in Lancaster, New Hampshire.
  
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• Fortnite - Where To Find All 6 Beach Party Locations | 14 Days Of Summer Challenge Guide

  25-06-2019 20:39 via gamespot.com
  
  Fortnite is bringing 14 days of challenges with sweet rewards for each completion. The first day involves finding six different beach party spots on the map and dancing at their location. Here's where to go to complete the challenge. No Battle Pass needed! Captured on PC.
  
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• Jeep Cherokee remains the most American car of the year, according to Cars.com

  25-06-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  As tariff threats on imported goods loom, Cars.com took a look at which automobiles are predominantly manufactured in the US. The Jeep Cherokee wins.
  
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• Houston infant dies with 90-plus fractures; parents charged

  25-06-2019 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The parents of a Houston newborn who suffered a cracked skull and more than 90 fractures just days after being brought home from the hospital were arrested in their daughter's death, according to police and Harris County prosecutors.Jazmine Robin, who was born prematurely, was 10 weeks old when she died July 15, 12 days after leaving the hospital, prosecutors said Monday."The evidence shows that Baby Jazmine fell victim to the very people who were supposed to protect her the most in this world,"
  
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• Final Fantasy 7’s Tifa Lockhart Joins Dissidia Roster

  25-06-2019 20:29 via gamespot.com
  
  Dissidia: Final Fantasy NT might not have been well-received at launch, but the lukewarm reception hasn't deterred developer Team Ninja from supporting the online brawler with more content. After adding Final Fantasy XIV villain Zenos in March 2019, Square Enix and Team Ninja announced that Final Fantasy VII's Tifa Lockhart is joining the roster.The news comes via a special Square Enix livestream, where the publisher showed her in action against combatants like Sephiroth. Tifa will be a speed-ty
  
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• Final Fantasy 7’s Tifa Joins Dissidia Roster

  25-06-2019 20:29 via gamespot.com
  
  Dissidia: Final Fantasy NT might not have been well-received at launch, but the lukewarm reception hasn't deterred developer Team Ninja from supporting the online brawler with more content. After adding Final Fantasy XIV villain Zenos in March 2019, Square Enix and Team Ninja announced that Final Fantasy VII's Tifa Lockhart is joining the roster.The news comes via a special Square Enix livestream, where the publisher showed her in action against combatants like Sephiroth. Tifa will be a speed-ty
  
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