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• Those Pricey Arcade Cabinets Get A Steep Discount For Prime Day

  15-07-2019 23:55 via gamespot.com
  
  Amazon Prime Day 2019 is well underway, offering Prime members deals on hundreds of products across the online store, from movies and TV shows to video game consoles and accessories. Amazon isn't the only retailer holding a big sale this week, however. Walmart is also offering discounts on a variety of products to compete with Prime Day, including some that will appeal to the retro gamers among us.For a limited time, you can pick up a variety of Arcade1Up's replica arcade cabinets at a nice disc
  
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• SpaceX: Leaky valve caused crew capsule to explode in test

  15-07-2019 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  A leaky valve caused a SpaceX crew capsule to explode during a ground test back in April, destroying the spacecraft and dealing a blow to the company's effort to launch astronauts.SpaceX's crew Dragon capsule had just returned, minus astronauts, from a successful test flight to the International Space Station and was undergoing a ground test April 20 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.Hans Koenigsmann, a SpaceX vice president, said a check valve allowed a slug of liquid oxidizer to leak into th
  
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• 8 Must-See Anime To Watch For Summer 2019

  15-07-2019 23:48 via gamespot.com
  
  A bunch of new anime make their debut this summer, including Dr. Stone, Astra Lost in Space, and Carole & Tuesday. Of everything that's airing this season, here are our top eight recommendations.
  
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• SpaceX astronaut mission looking 'increasingly difficult' in 2019: executive

  15-07-2019 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  One of the space company's Crew Dragon capsules exploded on a test stand at a Florida Air Force station moments before firing eight emergency abort thrusters designed to propel an on-board crew to safety in the event of a failure.Crew Dragon was slated earlier this year to carry U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station in a first manned test mission in July, although that date slipped until November following the explosion and some other hitches in the vehicle's design."I'm pretty opti
  
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• Prime Day: Nintendo Switch + Xbox One For $400 In Today's Craziest Deal Yet

  15-07-2019 23:41 via gamespot.com
  
  Amazon Prime Day is filled with ridiculous deals, and with numerous other retailers jumping on the commercial bandwagon to host their own sales, there's a whole lot of bargains out there. That includes multiple deals on individual game consoles, including PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. But what about a surprisingly excellent sale that gets you the latter two systems in one package? Arguably the best deal we've seen this Prime Day comes from Google Express. Seller AntOnline is offering an Xb
  
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• Nintendo Switch, Xbox One Digital Edition Bundled For $400 In Prime Day's Craziest Deal Yet

  15-07-2019 23:41 via gamespot.com
  
  Amazon Prime Day is filled with ridiculous deals, and with numerous other retailers jumping on the commercial bandwagon to host their own sales, there's a whole lot of bargains out there. Arguably the best we've seen so far, however, comes from Google Express. Seller AntOnline is offering an Xbox One with three games and a Nintendo Switch for $400.The Xbox One in question is the smaller, quieter Xbox One S All-Digital model in white, along Sea of Thieves, Forza Horizon 3, and Minecraft--which ar
  
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• Crazy Prime Day Deal: Nintendo Switch + Xbox One For $400

  15-07-2019 23:41 via gamespot.com
  
  Amazon Prime Day is filled with ridiculous deals, and with numerous other retailers jumping on the commercial bandwagon to host their own sales, there are a whole lot of bargains out there. That includes multiple deals on individual game consoles, including PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. But what about a surprisingly great sale that gets you the latter two systems in one package?Arguably the best deal we've seen this Prime Day comes from Google Express. Seller AntOnline is offering an Xbox
  
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• Big Prime Day Deal: Nintendo Switch + Xbox One For $400

  15-07-2019 23:41 via gamespot.com
  
  Amazon Prime Day is filled with great deals, and with numerous other retailers jumping on the commercial bandwagon to host their own sales, there are a whole lot of bargains out there to take advantage of. That includes multiple deals on individual game consoles, including PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. But what about a surprisingly good sale that gets you the latter two systems in one package?Arguably the best deal we've seen this Prime Day comes from Google Express. Seller AntOnline is of
  
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• Anti-Semitism event at Justice Department turns into pro-Israel rally

  15-07-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  As the public grappled with President Trump’s latest insulting tweetstorm, widely condemned as racist, the Department of Justice held a Monday event billed as a summit on combating anti-Semitism.
  
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• A 3-year-old girl was asked to choose between her mom or dad as a border patrol agent tried to separate the family

  15-07-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  A young girl named Sofi was asked by a Border Patrol agent if she wanted to go with her mom, or her dad, as they tried to separate the migrant family.
  
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• Imagine If Russia and China Built Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carriers Together

  15-07-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  China could partner with Russia in order to develop nuclear-powered icebreakers.While the vessels would be useful in their own right, the main benefit could be to help Beijing refine reactor technology for use in a future nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, according to the Hong Kong South China Morning Post.The Chinese navy already possesses two conventionally-powered flattops and is building a third.But naval expert Li Jie told the newspaper that to be truly competitive, the Chinese navy needs a
  
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• An anonymous Democratic group leaked a poll that shows swing voters deeply dislike Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the left wing, widening the party's rift

  15-07-2019 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The poll found that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a 22% approval rating among 1,003 white non-college-educated voters who knew of her.
  
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• Iran Loves This: The Royal Navy Doesn’t Have Enough Ships to Patrol Persian Gulf

  15-07-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The Royal Navy plans briefly to double its number of warships in the Persian Gulf following an attempted attack by Iranian forces on a British oil tanker on July 20, 2019.But the temporary increase in British warships in the region, from one to two, underscores just how few ships the Royal Navy can deploy even in an emergency.Iranian boats tried to “impede” the British oil tanker near the Strait of Hormuz, the BBC reported. HMS Montrose, a Type 23 frigate, “was forced to move b
  
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• Facing new asylum curb, nerves for those waiting at U.S.-Mexico border

  15-07-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Number 12,026 - better known as Marcial Artigas, 33, from Holguin, Cuba - waited nervously at a migration office at the U.S.-Mexico border as a Mexican official called out numbers from a long list of hopefuls waiting to cross to the United States.Artigas said he was praying his number would be called next, before a new U.S. policy announced on Monday enters into force that bars almost all immigrants from applying for asylum at the country's southern border.The Trump administration's interim rule
  
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• Avengers: Endgame's Directors Are Going On Tour For Some Reason, Kicking Off At SDCC

  15-07-2019 22:49 via gamespot.com
  
  In case you somehow forgot that Avengers: Endgame came out this year and has an imminently approaching home release date, Anthony and Joe Russo are happy to remind you--and they've partnered with Marvel to set up a whole "tour" to do just that. Welcome to the "We Love You 3000 Tour," a warm-and-fuzzy nod to Tony Stark's dying words to his family, now a series of promotional events to make sure that failed Avatar record-breaking attempt doesn't sting too badly for too long. For the first time, th
  
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• Lone Black Republican Senator Condemns Trump’s ‘Racially Offensive’ Tweets

  15-07-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Tim Scott (R., S.C.) on Monday condemned the weekend Twitter tirade that President Trump directed at Representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) and her fellow freshman progressive lawmakers.Scott, the only African-American senator in the Republican caucus, criticized Trump's attack on Omar on the grounds that it was “racially offensive,” and also seemed to suggest that it was politically costly, in that it unnecessarily disrupted what was an ongoing internecine dispute within the
  
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• This revolutionary Galaxy S11 design could succeed where the Galaxy Fold failed

  15-07-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  With the release of the Galaxy S10 earlier this year, Samsung made its biggest leap forward in terms of design since the launch of the Galaxy S6 edge in 2015. From the phone's Infinity-O display to its ultrasonic fingerprint sensor to its triple rear camera, it quickly became one of the most advanced smartphones on the market. But if newly-discovered patents are any indication, Samsung has even bigger plans in store for its 2020 flagship.Over the weekend, Dutch technology blog LetsGoDigital shar
  
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• PS4's PlayStation Hits Games On Sale For Prime Day (US)

  15-07-2019 22:42 via gamespot.com
  
  Amazon Prime Day is on, marking some deep discounts on games, hardware, Funko Pops, and tons of other goods. If you're looking for some games that are even cheaper than cheap, the PlayStation Hits line is on sale. The budget-priced PlayStation 4 games usually cost $20, but for Prime Day they're even less.Some of the deals include Until Dawn for $13, Uncharted Collection for $14, and Yakuza 0 for $16, among others. Other assorted games in the Hits line are discounted by a dollar or two, as well.B
  
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• UPDATE 3-U.S. judge slashes Roundup jury award to $25.3 mln; Bayer still plans to appeal

  15-07-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal judge on Monday slashed a damages award Bayer AG owed a California man who blamed Roundup weed killer for his cancer, to $25.27 million from $80.27 million, while rejecting the company's bid for a new trial.U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco said evidence against the former Monsanto Co, which Bayer bought last year, supported the $5.27 million in compensatory damages that a jury awarded Edwin Hardeman.Chhabria nonetheless reduced punitive damages to $20 million from $7
  
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• Pelosi Plans Vote to Condemn Trump for Tweets Attacking Congresswomen

  15-07-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday the House will vote on a resolution condemning President Donald Trump for his attacks on four female Democratic lawmakers, as a handful of GOP lawmakers joined in the denunciations of his statements.Trump’s call for New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and three of her allies to “go back” to where they came from was labeled racist by Democrats as well as a few Republicans.The president, asked by reporters at the White
  
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• Trump Aide Kellyanne Conway Skips House Hearing Despite Subpoena

  15-07-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- White House counselor Kellyanne Conway won’t appear at a House hearing Monday on whether she violated a law prohibiting administration officials from engaging in political work while on the public payroll.President Donald Trump directed her to skip the hearing “in order to protect the prerogatives of the Office of the President,” White House Counsel Pat Cipollone said in a letter to House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Elijah Cummings.The Department of
  
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• The US Air Force is warning people to stay away from Area 51 after a viral Facebook joke to storm the base and 'see them aliens'

  15-07-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  After Facebook users planned to "storm" Area 51 in search of alien life, the US Air Force warned that the base is active — and dangerous to civilians.
  
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• Trump’s ‘blatantly illegal’ immigration rules end asylum protections

  15-07-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The ACLU has vowed to sue the administration over the ‘unlawful’ new rules, which raise the asylum eligibility barImmigrants seeking asylum are taken into custody by border patrol agents in McAllen, Texas. Photograph: John Moore/Getty ImagesThe Trump administration has announced new immigration rules ending asylum protections for almost all migrants who arrive at the US-Mexico border, in violation of both US and international law.According to the new rules, any asylum seekers who pas
  
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• Kellyanne Conway defies subpoena, skips Oversight hearing

  15-07-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Elijah Cummings threatened to hold Conway in contempt if she doesn't testify before July 25.
  
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• Myth-busting study reveals that gamblers can't detect slot machine payout percentages

  15-07-2019 22:16
  It's a common sight on casino floors: patrons jumping from slot machine to slot machine before eventually hunkering down at a game that's due for the next big payout. But can players -- even the regulars who frequent a particular property -- really tell the difference between the house edge on one game from that of another? Nope. At least not according to a series of recent studies led by a college professor and former gaming industry operations analyst.
  
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• Man Murdered Teen Star and Posted Instagram Photos, Cops Say

  15-07-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Photos via InstagramAn Upstate New York man is accused of brutally slaying a teenage internet personality he met online and posting pictures of her body to the internet, according to police.Authorities say Brandon Clark slashed Bianca Devins’ throat early Sunday, nearly decapitating her. They first met online, and met in person two months ago, police told The Daily Beast. Shortly after her murder, Clark posted pictures of her corpse online. He then stabbed himself in front of officers who
  
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• The Latest: Charlottesville victims describe pain of attack

  15-07-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Jeanne "Star" Peterson was one of seven people who gave victim impact statements Monday before a judge sentenced James Alex Fields Jr. to life in prison, plus 419 years, on state charges.Fields was given a life sentence on federal hate crime charges last month.
  
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• Italy seizes 'combat-ready' missile and automatic weapon stash in raids on far-Right figures

  15-07-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Italian police have seized a large arsenal of weapons, including an air-to-air missile, in raids on neo-Nazi sympathisers, they said on Monday. Elite police forces searched properties across northern Italy following an investigation into Italians who had fought alongside Russian-backed separatist forces in eastern Ukraine, a police statement said. Three men were arrested, including a customs officer who has previously stood for parliament for an extreme right party. Duri
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein: diamonds, cash and fake passport found in raid, prosecutors say

  15-07-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Accusers ask judge not to release him before trial and prosecutors say ‘many individuals’ have come forward who say they are victimsIn response papers filed on Friday, prosecutors said Jeffrey Epstein is dangerous and poised to flee. Photograph: Handout/ReutersTwo Jeffrey Epstein accusers offered emotional entreaties in court on Monday, asking a judge not to release the financier before his trial on sex trafficking charges.One alleged victim, who identified herself as Courtney Wild,
  
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• Trump weighs ousting commerce secretary Ross: report

  15-07-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump is considering removing Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross after the administration failed to add a question on citizenship to next year's census, NBC news reported Monday.Ross was at Trump's side on Thursday as he announced he had abandoned the effort to add the citizenship question after the Supreme Court effectively blocked them from doing so last month.A Commerce Department spokesman said Monday that Ross remained in his position and was busy overseeing the response to Hur
  
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• The Latest: Man killed at immigration jail shot many times

  15-07-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities say an armed man who threw incendiary devices at an immigration detention center in Washington state died of multiple gunshot wounds after four police officers opened fire.The Pierce County medical examiner's office said Monday that 69-year-old Willem Van Spronsen of Vashon Island was killed Saturday morning outside the privately run Tacoma Northwest Detention Center.The shooting happened hours after a protest outside the facility, which is used by the U.S. Department of Homeland Sec
  
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• Keep Jeffrey Epstein in Jail, Alleged Victims Say, as Feds Find Cash, Diamonds

  15-07-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- As two alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein urged a judge to keep him locked up, prosecutors said they had found piles of cash, dozens of diamonds and an expired foreign passport, with Epstein’s picture and a different name, in a safe in his Manhattan mansion.“He’s a scary person to have walking the street,” Courtney Wild, who claims Epstein sexually abused her at 14, said at his bail hearing Monday in Manhattan. She asked U.S. District Judge Richard Berman t
  
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• Trump Says ‘Many People’ Are Racist Like Him… and He’s Right

  15-07-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Photo Getty“If you’re not happy, you can leave.”Those are the words of an American president, spoken from the steps of the White House this morning. Even for someone like Donald Trump, a man with a long history of bigotry and racism, the scene was breathtaking. This is who he is, and who his supporters are.  “If you’re not happy in the U.S., if you’re complaining all the time—very simply,” he said. &l
  
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• Trump says his friendship with Xi not as good

  15-07-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  The two leaders agreed to resume trade talks, which broke off in early May.
  
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• U.N. concerned by U.S. curbs on Iranian foreign minister while in New York

  15-07-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  The United Nations told the United States it is concerned by tight travel restrictions on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during his visit to New York this week, U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq said on Monday.Zarif arrived in New York on Sunday after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo signed off on the visit amid heightened tensions between the two countries.
  
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• Neo-Nazi James Fields get life plus 419 years in state court for murder in Charlottesville

  15-07-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  James Alex Fields Jr., a neo-Nazi who rammed his car into counterprotesters of an alt-right rally, was sentenced to life in prison in state court.
  
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• A New Jersey cop overdosed on heroin in a patrol car while on duty. He was fired

  15-07-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  A New Jersey police officer has pleaded guilty to possession of heroin and driving while intoxicated while on duty in April.
  
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• Trump signs order to make American-made goods more American

  15-07-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday requiring federal agencies to purchase products using more American components.The order strengthens the standards that federal agencies must follow under the Buy American Act, which creates a preference for American-made goods.Trump said his order will gradually boost the percentage of U.S. components for qualifying American-made products from 50 percent to 75 percent.
  
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• Australian model sentenced for airline flight disturbance

  15-07-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  An Australian model was sentenced Monday in Los Angeles to community service and probation for slapping a flight attendant and going on an obscene tirade during a flight, with a federal judge saying he believed she was deeply remorseful and did not deserve fines or prison time.U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney sentenced Adau Mornyang to three years of probation and 100 hours of community service.Prosecutors had sought a month in jail for Mornyang.
  
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• After Supreme Court ruling, NC gerrymandering case begins

  15-07-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  A partisan gerrymandering trial began Monday in North Carolina, where election advocacy groups and Democrats hope state courts will favor them in a political mapmaking dispute that the U.S. Supreme Court just declared is not the business of the federal courts.Lawyers for Common Cause, the state Democratic Party and more than 30 registered voters who sued contend Republican lawmakers so etched politics into the state House and Senate district lines that the constitutional rights of Democratic vot
  
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• Mom wants health industry to focus on protein-packed diet after daughter’s unexpected death

  15-07-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  A heartbroken Australian mother is speaking out about the potential dangers of protein shakes and supplements after she says her 25-year-old daughter’s diet triggered an undiagnosed condition which ultimately contributed to her death two years ago.
  
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• Babysitter charged with homicide over death of two-year-old at unlicensed day care

  15-07-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  A man has been charged with homicide after a toddler died at an unlicensed day care in Wisconsin.Hunter Jones was charged earlier this month with first-degree reckless homicide in the death of 2-year-old Matthew Bolinski.A criminal complaint said Mr Jones called 911 on 27 March to say the child had jumped out of his playpen and hit his head. The complaint also said Mr Jones was on the phone with a dispatcher for four minutes before he revealed the child wasn’t breathing.Katherine Bolinski,
  
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• Land crabs infest Florida man's house after heavy rainfall

  15-07-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  A man in Florida recently received hundreds of crabs as unexpected house guests.Heavy rain fall in south Florida forced hundreds of land crabs, which burrow underground, out of their holes and into the property of Dan Skowronski, a resident of of Port St Lucie. In a video shared to Facebook, the Florida man witnessed the home invasion with a surprising calm.“They must have got rained out of their holes,” he said while filming the crabs, which were scurrying all over his house and pro
  
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• Georgia man dies in Dominican Republic after drinking soda that didn't 'taste right'

  15-07-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Another American tourist has died suspiciously in the Dominican Republic, bringing the total number of mysterious deaths in the country to well over 10. 
  
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• Off-duty New Jersey police lieutenant in custody after fatal shooting at ex-wife's home

  15-07-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  An off-duty Newark police lieutenant surrendered to police after a shooting at his ex-wife's home. Newark has since suspended him without pay.
  
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• Serial killer linked to Arkansas woman's 1994 slaying

  15-07-2019 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities are investigating whether possibly the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history is behind the death of an Arkansas woman in 1994.Police in Pine Bluff are reviewing the case of Jolanda Jones's death after Samuel Little confessed to her killing, which had been determined to be drug-related.According to a police memo, when Little was in custody in Dallas, Texas, in October 2018, he indicated that he killed Jones, the Pine Bluff Commercial reported .
  
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• Stranger Things Season 4 Theories!

  15-07-2019 20:48 via gamespot.com
  
  If you've binged Stranger Things 3 and are wondering what happens next on the Netflix original series, here are Dave's theories on what we might see in Stranger Things 4!
  
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• The Latest: Elders brace for arrest for blocking summit road

  15-07-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Hawaii officials have closed a road leading to the summit of the state's tallest mountain, the site of an embattled giant telescope project.The road was officially closed Monday, but protesters who say they're protecting Mauna Kea from desecration had already blocked it.Hundreds gathered to protest the $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope, hoping to stop construction convoys from delivering equipment to the top.
  
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• Lyft broke the law when it failed to tell Chicago about a driver it kicked off its app. A month later he was accused of killing a taxi driver while working for Uber. (LYFT, UBER)

  15-07-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Lyft could be fined up to $10,000 for failing to report the driver, who has since been charged with murder.
  
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• Trump Goes on Unhinged Rant Defending Racist Tweets: ‘If You Don’t Like It Here, You Can Leave’

  15-07-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Leah Millis/ReutersPresident Trump publicly defended the racist tweets he posted against several congresswomen of color, launching into a lengthy tirade while speaking Monday at a “Made in America” event at the White House.At one point, the president said he doesn’t mind that white nationalists found common cause with his xenophobic remarks because “many people agree with me.”“They’re complaining all the time,” Trump opened up his tirade against Re
  
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