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• Inslee: 'We elevated the climate change crisis'

  22-08-2019 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Washington Gov. Jay Inslee dropped out of the 2020 Democratic presidential race, but he says he’s proud of elevating the climate crisis topic (Aug. 22)
  
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• UPDATE 1-U.S. will aggressively enforce sanctions over Iran tanker -State Dept official

  22-08-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States will aggressively enforce its sanctions to prevent the private sector from assisting an Iranian oil tanker that is traveling through the Mediterranean and that Washington wants seized, a State Department official said on Thursday."The shipping sector is on notice that we will aggressively enforce U.S. sanctions," the official told Reuters days after warning countries not to allow the tanker to dock.Ship tracking data has shown the ship, Adrian Darya, formerly called Grace 1, la
  
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• U.S. will aggressively enforce sanctions over Iran tanker: State Department official

  22-08-2019 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States will aggressively enforce its sanctions to prevent the private sector from assisting an Iranian oil tanker that is traveling through the Mediterranean and that Washington wants seized, a State Department official said on Thursday."The shipping sector is on notice that we will aggressively enforce U.S. sanctions," the official told Reuters days after warning countries not to allow the tanker to dock.Ship tracking data has shown the ship, Adrian Darya, formerly called Grace 1, la
  
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• Brexit Held at the Border

  22-08-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  In the last two days Prime Minister Boris Johnson has proposed that Ireland temporarily leave the European Union to align with the economic rules of a post-Brexit U.K. German chancellor Angela Merkel has suggested, somewhat flippantly, that the U.K. could figure out a special trading arrangement for itself and Ireland in the next 30 days. And French president Emmanuel Macron has said that there’s still room for negotiation between the U.K. and the EU, but he’s willing to be “th
  
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• We Played Marvel's Avengers And Finally Understand What It Is

  22-08-2019 23:12 via gamespot.com
  
  Marvel's Avengers isn't out until May 15, 2020, but Square Enix has already encountered one big issue: struggling to bring clarity to what the game actually is. At E3 2019, a trailer and description of the game left a lot of people confused. Explaining that it featured a "bespoke campaign," cooperative play, and additional heroes who are not the core members of the Avengers didn't help matters. At Gamescom 2019, Square Enix provided a much closer, less muddy look at Marvel's Avengers, and now we
  
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• Game Release Dates Of 2020: PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC

  22-08-2019 23:05 via gamespot.com
  
  Despite the looming shadow of next-generation consoles, this year has impressed us with a wonderful suite of top-tier games, including Sekiro, Resident Evil 2 Remake, Fire Emblem: Awakening, and more. And more likely than not, the coming fall games season is sure to please with highly-anticipated games like Death Stranding, Control, and Gears 5. While we're in the thick of a fantastic year in games, there are a lot more coming just in the first few months of 2020.Now you might be thinking: "2020
  
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• Modi Ally Calls for Boycott of China Companies on Kashmir, Trade

  22-08-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Indians should stop buying from Chinese companies and the government should reconsider trade concessions to its biggest neighbor after China allied with Pakistan on Kashmir, according to an economic policy group linked with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.Companies like technology giant Huawei Technologies Co. should be barred from accessing the Indian market in the future and Chinese companies should be banned from state tenders, Ashwani Mahajan, co-convenor of the Swadeshi Jag
  
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• Lone Analyst Who Cut Cathay to Sell Says He Faces Huge Pressure

  22-08-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The analyst who issued a report warning investors to dump shares of embattled Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. before they tumble to their lowest levels since 1998, is getting a lot of blowback after his controversial call.“Never before in my 12 years of investment analyst career have I received this much pressure on a particular stock rating,” Zhao Dongchen, who last week issued his inaugural report on Cathay with a “strong sell,” said in an emailed response to
  
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• Hawkeye: Everything We Know About The Disney+ MCU Show

  22-08-2019 22:55 via gamespot.com
  
  Clint Barton is getting his own Disney+ streaming TV show as part of the MCU's grand Phase 4 plan.Things in the MCU may be in a strange place right now, after the controversy with Spider-Man rights broke earlier this week, but as far as we know, nothing over on the Disney+ side of things has been affected by the dispute. This could all change, of course, but as of right now it seems like every hero featured in Disney+'s announced line up is firmly held within Disney's very, very wealthy grasp.Th
  
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• Overstock.com CEO Resigns after Disclosing Relationship with Russian Agent Maria Butina

  22-08-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne stepped down Thursday amid the backlash to his disclosure of a romantic relationship with Russian agent Maria Butina.Byrne caused Overstock's shares to plummet last week after he admitted to carrying on a romantic relationship with Butina from 2015 to 2016. The fallout from his disclosure complicated “all manner of business relationships,” he said in a statement announcing his resignation.“Thus, while I believe that I did what was necessary
  
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• Man arrested for holding woman as sex slave and keeping her eight-month-old baby captive

  22-08-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  A North Carolina man has been arrested after holding a woman and her 8-month-old baby captive for over a month, authorities said.The Pender County Sheriff’s department said in a press release they received an emergency call on 9 August from a woman who said she was being held against her will at a home in Willard, North Carolina.
  
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• Netanyahu hints at Israeli involvement in Iraq blasts

  22-08-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted on Thursday of possible Israeli involvement in attacks against Iranian-linked targets in Iraq.A series of blasts in the past few weeks have hit weapon depots and bases belonging to paramilitary groups in Iraq, many of them backed by Israel's regional foe Iran.The groups blamed the United States and Israel for the blasts on Wednesday.
  
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• Gears 5 Monetization Is "Player-Friendly," Dev Says

  22-08-2019 22:02 via gamespot.com
  
  As previously detailed, Gears 5 won't feature random loot boxes or a season pass, and now developer The Coalition has revealed that the upcoming third-person shooter will use "a very player-centric, player-friendly way of doing customisation and monetisation."Multiplayer design director Ryan Cleven spoke to GamesIndustry.Biz during Gamescom 2019, where the outlet asked if Gears 5 will include microtransactions. Though confirming the latest Gears entry will have various forms of in-game currencie
  
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• Fortnite Season 10 - Where To Consume Glitched Foraged Consumables Guide | Junk Storm Challenges

  22-08-2019 21:41 via gamespot.com
  
  Battle Pass owners are left confused over the new bizarre Fortnite season, but we've got you covered for this week starting off with a location guide on where to consume the glitched consumables! Stay tuned every day this week for Junk Storm challenge guides!
  
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• Should I stay or should I run? Pompeo under pressure over U.S. Senate seat

  22-08-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Republican pressure on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to run for the U.S. Senate next year to help keep the party's majority intact is coming up against President Donald Trump's hope of keeping one of his most trusted aides in his administration.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Senate Republicans believe the former U.S. congressman from Kansas would be a strong candidate should he decide to run for one of the state's Senate seats in 2020."Secretary Pompeo would clear the field an
  
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• Fortnite Foraged Items Locations: Where To Find Glitched Items For Junk Rush Challenge (Season 10)

  22-08-2019 21:33 via gamespot.com
  
  Season X of Fortnite: Battle Royale rolls on with another set of challenges for Battle Pass holders to complete. In addition to Week 4's Smash and Grab challenges, there's a new batch of limited-time missions called Junk Rush. Unlike the standard weekly challenges, these tasks are only around for a brief period of time, so you'll need to act fast if you're hoping to snag their rewards.The first Junk Rush challenge asks you to consume glitched foraged items--a new type of consumable recently intr
  
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• Fortnite Foraged Items Locations: Where To Consume Glitched Items For Junk Rush Challenge (Season 10)

  22-08-2019 21:33 via gamespot.com
  
  Season X of Fortnite: Battle Royale rolls on with another set of challenges for Battle Pass holders to complete. In addition to Week 4's Smash and Grab challenges, there's a new batch of limited-time missions called Junk Rush. Unlike the standard weekly challenges, these tasks are only around for a brief period of time, so you'll need to act fast if you're hoping to snag their rewards.The first Junk Rush challenge asks you to consume glitched foraged items--a new type of consumable recently intr
  
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• Fortnite Foraged Item Locations: Where To Consume Glitched Items For Junk Rush Challenge (Season 10)

  22-08-2019 21:33 via gamespot.com
  
  Season X of Fortnite: Battle Royale rolls on with another set of challenges for Battle Pass holders to complete. In addition to Week 4's Smash and Grab challenges, there's a new batch of limited-time missions called Junk Rush. Unlike the standard weekly challenges, these tasks are only around for a brief period of time, so you'll need to act fast if you're hoping to snag their rewards.The first Junk Rush challenge asks you to consume glitched foraged items--a new type of consumable recently intr
  
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• Report: Sen. Tom Cotton says he suggested Trump buy Greenland and met with Danish ambassador

  22-08-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said he was actually one of the first people to raise the possibility of purchasing Greenland.
  
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• We should welcome deep digs into 1619. Slavery and white supremacy shaped today's America.

  22-08-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  You don't have to be black to see the importance of slavery to the American story. It has fundamentally shaped who we are. Erasing that erases history.
  
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• 'Help America Grow': Republican group selling T-shirts with map of US that includes Greenland

  22-08-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A fundraising group dedicated to electing Republicans to Congress is selling a T-shirt that includes Greenland on a map of the US, just after the president cancelled a trip to Denmark in protest at the prime minister saying he could not buy the country.Casey Tolan, a reporter based in California, spotted the T-shirt on a fundraising message from the National Republican Congressional Committee, which asked donors to "Support President Trump and his efforts to help America grow!" It appears to hav
  
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• Epic Game Store's First Exclusive Hades Launches On Steam This Winter

  22-08-2019 21:01 via gamespot.com
  
  Hades will finally make its way to Steam a year after launching exclusively on the Epic Games Store. In fact, Supergiant Games' roguelike dungeon-crawler arrives on Steam on December 10.Supergiant announced on Twitter that Hades will see an Early Access Steam launch this winter. The news was bottled in a Twitter thread by the company, which also announced this year marks the studio's 10 year anniversary.(2/6🚨) We're really excited to announce that we're bringing #HADES, our rogue-like du
  
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• Federal judge rules that immigration law is unconstitutional

  22-08-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal judge in Kansas has ruled that a law making it a crime to "encourage" or "induce" immigrants to enter or live in the country illegally is unconstitutional.KCUR-FM reports that U.S. District Judge Carlos Murguia issued his ruling from the bench Wednesday before throwing out the convictions of Jose Felipe Hernandez-Calvillo and Mauro Papalotzi.Kansas isn't governed by the Ninth Circuit, but Murguia found the argument persuasive.
  
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• AP NewsBreak: Police say suspect arrested in campus killing

  22-08-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A suspect has been arrested in the stabbing death of a man at the California State University, Fullerton campus, police said on Thursday.Fullerton police Lt. Jon Radus told The Associated Press that a suspect was arrested in the death of 57-year-old Steven Shek Keung Chan.
  
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• Hispanic Journalism Group Boots Fox News Over Immigrant ‘Invasion’ Rhetoric

  22-08-2019 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Kevin HagenA major organization for Hispanic journalists on Thursday gave Fox News the boot from its upcoming conference in response to the network’s use “invasion” rhetoric when discussing immigration.Fox News was set to appear as a sponsor at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists’ confab next month in San Antonio, but in a letter to the group’s members, NAHJ President Hugo Balta said that invitation has been revoked.“The line between commentary an
  
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• Beijing fires back after Trudeau vows to stand up to China

  22-08-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Beijing on Thursday accused Ottawa of worsening relations after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to stand up to China amid deepening diplomatic and trade disputes.
  
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• Israel warns Hamas further attacks risk more Gaza suffering

  22-08-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  The Israeli army on Thursday warned the Gaza Strip's residents and its Hamas rulers that further attacks on Israel could incur tougher conditions for the coastal territory.The warning came in a tweet from the army's chief Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee, hours after Israeli aircraft hit Hamas targets in retaliation for overnight Palestinian rocket attacks.Hamas launched two rockets at Israel late Wednesday -- bringing to six the number of strikes from Gaza in less than a week -- the arm
  
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• New images from asteroid probe offer clues on planet formation

  22-08-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Photographs snapped by a shoebox-sized probe that explored the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have offered new clues about its composition, insights that will help scientists understand the formation of our solar system.The German-French Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT) hitched a ride on Japan's Hayabusa2 spaceship, touching down on the 900-meter (3,000 feet) wide asteroid, whose orbit lies mostly between Earth and Mars, on October 3, 2018.Ryugu's gravity is 66,500 times weaker than Earth's, an
  
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• A woman caught a fish with two mouths and the photo is just as shocking as you would expect

  22-08-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman in upstate New York surely found the "catch-of-the-day" when she reeled in a fish with two mouths. A photo of the fish has since gone viral.
  
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• Black Desert PS4 Launch Livestream

  22-08-2019 20:00 via gamespot.com
  
  (Sponsored by Black Desert) Black Desert, the hit MMORPG is launching on PS4! Join Ben and Persia as they check it out!
  
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• Police are trying to arrest their way out of a mass shooting epidemic, and experts warn it could have dire consequences

  22-08-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The arrests won't fully or permanently stop a person determined to inflict mass death — and the US is nowhere near close to tackling the root causes.
  
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• 'Sorry!' Johnson puts foot in it at Macron's palace

  22-08-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  An invitation to the gilded Elysee palace of France's president in Paris usually prompts a sense of decorum and formality in a visitor of any rank.During crunch talks over Brexit with French President Emmanuel Macron -- who Johnson insisted on repeatedly addressing as "Monsieur le President" -- the British premier joked and waved his hands flamboyantly.The episode appeared part of a shared joke with Macron, who could be seen laughing heartily.
  
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• Gears Pop Is Available For Free Right Now

  22-08-2019 19:36 via gamespot.com
  
  Gears Pop! is available to download right now on Android, iOS, and Window 10 PC for free. You can now take Locust hunting on the go with this cutesy Gears of War spin-off.The official Gears Twitter account shared the news, along with a brief announcement video of gameplay and squad assembly. In Gears Pop, you will build your team from an assortment of Pop Vinyl-styled Gears characters like Kait and Marcus, challenge players around the world, defend against the Horde in co-op, and more.Play Gears
  
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• Nintendo Switch Deal: Two Incredible Games Are Dirt Cheap Right Now

  22-08-2019 19:27 via gamespot.com
  
  A pair of critically acclaimed games from indie studio Supergiant are on sale for Nintendo Switch now. Both its freshman effort Bastion and its followup Transistor are less than five bucks apiece, letting you own both on the go for just $7 combined.Bastion is $3 on the Eshop, while Transistor is $4. The studio's third game, Pyre, is not on the Eshop, and its latest, Hades, is currently in early access on the Epic Games Store.Bastion was Supergiant's debut in 2011 and featured a stylish world and
  
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• Trump fumes over emissions deal between automakers and California

  22-08-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The president decried a deal between the most populous U.S. state and four major automakers.
  
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• Ghana draws African-American tourists with 'Year of Return'

  22-08-2019 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  US preacher Roxanne Caleb blinked away the tears as she emerged from a pitch-dark dungeon where African slaves were once held before being shipped across the Atlantic to America.Caleb is among the African-American visitors flocking to Ghana as it marks the "Year of Return" to remember the 400th anniversary of the first slave ship landing in Virginia.A string of prominent African-Americans have headed to the site this year to mark the anniversary since the first slave landing in 1619.
  
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• China Buys American Soybeans after Vowing to Boycott U.S. Farm Products

  22-08-2019 19:05 via news.yahoo.com
  China purchased a comparatively small amount of U.S. soybeans several days ago after promising to boycott U.S. farm products amid deteriorating trade negotiations with the Trump administration.Beijing reached agreements last week to buy 9,589 metric tons of American soybeans for the current marketing year and 66,000 metric tons for the following year, which starts September 1, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture released Thursday.An August 5 statement from Ch
  
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• Hearthstone Nerfing Powerful Cards Like Dr. Boom And Luna's Pocket Galaxy

  22-08-2019 19:02 via gamespot.com
  
  Hearthstone recently introduced its Saviors of Uldum expansion, and now that it's been out in the wild and the meta has started to form, Blizzard is getting ready to rebalance some cards. This time the nerf stick is hitting some cards that have been recognized as problematic in the community for quite some time, including rolling back two of the cards it buffed in a June update. The balance update will go live next week.The two biggest changes are coming to prominent Warrior and Mage cards. The
  
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• Lawyers seek exam for man charged in Ole Miss student death

  22-08-2019 18:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Lawyers for a man charged with killing a University of Mississippi student withdrew their request Thursday for a judge to set bail, instead seeking a psychiatric evaluation.Defense lawyer Tony Farese said after the brief hearing that lawyers had obtained new information Wednesday about Brandon Theesfeld."We received some new information," Farese told The Oxford Eagle after the hearing.
  
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• Brown bear that is killing livestock and startling hikers in Italy's Dolomites is wanted, dead or alive

  22-08-2019 18:13 via news.yahoo.com
  A bear that is raiding beehives, attacking livestock and startling hikers in the Dolomite mountains of Italy is now wanted dead or alive. The brown bear is known to scientists as M49 but was nicknamed Papillon, after the Henri Charrière novel about escaping from Devil’s Island in French Guiana, when it managed to climb over a 16ft-high fence and flee an enclosure last month. It had been captured just a few hours before after being identified as a problem bear which po
  
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• Giant panda Bei Bei, soon to go bye-bye, turns four in US

  22-08-2019 18:12 via news.yahoo.com
  The birthday celebration for Bei Bei -- his name is pronounced "Bay Bay" -- could be viewed live thanks to the zoo's "Panda Cam," which broadcasts scenes of the four-year-old and his siblings and parents from their enclosure round-the-clock.Bei Bei will soon be returned to China, under terms of the agreement that brought him to the US zoo on loan.Under the loan agreement, the zoo pays China $500,000 a year to support conservation efforts there, and any panda cubs born at the zoo may stay until a
  
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• Pompeo meets Trudeau, says China detention of two Canadians 'wrong'

  22-08-2019 18:08 via news.yahoo.com
  American officials are working to secure the release of two Canadians held by China, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday as he sat down with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.The two Canadians -- former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor -- were detained in December and accused of espionage.The detention came nine days after Canada had arrested Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on a US warrant.
  
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• Fortnite Week 4 Smash And Grab Challenges List (Season 10)

  22-08-2019 18:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Week 4 of Fortnite Season X has arrived, and it brings Battle Pass holders another set of challenges to complete in the popular battle royale game. This week's set of tasks is called Smash and Grab, and the loose theme running through each of the challenges is dishing out damage and grabbing loot quickly.As usual, only three of the challenges are available from the outset, with additional ones unlocking as you complete them. Fortunately, all of this week's missions seem rather straightforward; t
  
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• Newt Gingrich says slavery needs to be put 'in context,' calls 1619 project a 'lie'

  22-08-2019 17:53 via news.yahoo.com
  "There were several hundred thousand white Americans who died in the Civil War in order to free the slaves," Gingrich argued.
  
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• NYC inspectors only discovered an apartment was split into 9 illegal micro-units because a tenant happened to open the door when they arrived

  22-08-2019 17:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The apartment building on Manhattan's Lower East Side, which is made up of 27 individually-owned condos, has faced 32 complaints since 2001.
  
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• Marvel's Avengers Will See "Changes To Everything" Before Launch

  22-08-2019 17:45 via gamespot.com
  
  The first footage for Marvel's Avengers was revealed earlier this year at E3 2019. Square Enix then followed that up at Gamescom this week, sharing a lengthy new gameplay trailer that showed each of Captain America, Iron Man, Black Widow, Thor, and The Incredible Hulk in action. Yet the character designs for all five heroes is still a hot-button topic.Some fans have taken to the internet since its reveal to voice their concerns over how Marvel's finest appear in the game. Crystal Dynamics' lead
  
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• Trump joked about trading Puerto Rico for Greenland, report says

  22-08-2019 17:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump joked about trading Puerto Rico for Greenland during a year-long private discussion about purchasing the Danish territory, a report has claimed.It comes amid an international row over the president’s handling of Denmark‘s opposition to the deal, during which he has lashed out wildly at the Scandinavian nation despite previously saying it was “not number one on the burner”.
  
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• Last of its kind rocket puts GPS satellite in orbit

  22-08-2019 17:33 via news.yahoo.com
  A rocket that's the last of its kind delivered the newest, most powerful GPS satellite to orbit for the Air Force on Thursday.The Delta IV Medium ended its 17-year run with 29 launches.Denver-based United Launch Alliance said it will be replaced by the still-in-development Vulcan rocket.
  
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• Check Out The First Photos Of Nintendo's Switch Lite In The Wild

  22-08-2019 17:30 via gamespot.com
  
  Check Out The First Photos Of Nintendo's Switch Lite In The Wild
  Gamescom's roundup of game news has been just as exciting as you'd expect from Europe's--and the world's--biggest gaming convention. We've had news on plenty of the big games coming out before the end of the year, but perhaps the most exciting thing present at the show was Nintendo's new Switch Lite console.The device was announced recently as a more budget-oriented entry point to the Switch family. It's smaller and lighter than a
  
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• In the streets and on the run: Alligators are having a 'hot girl summer' of their own

  22-08-2019 17:27 via news.yahoo.com
  From climbing fences in Florida to swimming in a Chicago lagoon, here are 11 of the best gator stories so far this year.
  
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