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• US offered millions in cash to captain of Iranian tanker

  04-09-2019 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  A senior US official personally offered several million dollars to the Indian captain of an Iranian oil tanker suspected of heading to Syria, the State Department confirmed Wednesday.The Financial Times reported that Brian Hook, the State Department pointman on Iran, sent emails to captain Akhilesh Kumar in which he offered "good news" of millions in US cash to live comfortably if he steered the Adrian Darya 1 to a country where it could be seized."We have seen the Financial Times article and ca
  
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• Trump's approval rating remains below 50% in Wisconsin

  04-09-2019 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A poll released Wednesday shows that President Donald Trump's job approval in the key swing state of Wisconsin remains below 50%, a troubling sign for Republicans 14 months before the 2020 election.The poll offers the latest glimpse into voter attitudes more than a year before the election.Wisconsin is one of four swing states — Pennsylvania, Michigan and Florida are the others — that could determine the outcome of the 2020 election because their electorates are so evenly divided.
  
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• San Francisco Deemed the NRA a ‘Domestic Terrorist Organization’. Here’s Why That’s Wrong.

  04-09-2019 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  On Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a resolution labeling the National Rifle Association a “domestic terrorist organization.”The resolution also states that “the City and County of San Francisco should take every reasonable step to limit those entities who do business with the City and County of San Francisco from doing business with this domestic terrorist organization.”“The National Rifle Association musters its considerable wealth and organi
  
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• NTSB: Metal fatigue caused wing to snap in fatal plane crash

  04-09-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Metal fatigue created by frequent takeoffs and landings caused a wing to snap off a university's training plane last year, resulting in a crash that killed the student pilot and a flight examiner, federal inspectors said Wednesday.The National Transportation Safety Board said in a report that the single-engine Piper Arrow owned by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University crashed April 4, 2018, after its left wing snapped off at 900 feet (274 meters).Pilot Zack Capra, a 25-year-old Navy veteran, was
  
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• British PM in limbo after MPs reject his Brexit plan, elections

  04-09-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government was left in limbo on Wednesday after MPs voted to derail his Brexit plan and rejected his call for an early election to break the political deadlock.Just six weeks after taking office, Johnson lost his majority in the House of Commons as his own MPs joined opposition parties to stop him taking Britain out of the EU next month without a deal.On Wednesday evening, they approved a bill that could force Johnson to delay Brexit to January or even late
  
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• Tropical Storm Fernand makes landfall in Mexico as Gabrielle spins in the Atlantic

  04-09-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Tropical Storm Fernand made landfall along the Mexico coast just south of the U.S. border, and Tropical Storm Gabrielle is spinning in the Atlantic.
  
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• House panel subpoenas DHS over alleged Trump pardon offers

  04-09-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on Wednesday subpoenaed the Department of Homeland Security for documents that could shed light on President Donald Trump's alleged offer of pardons to officials implementing U.S. immigration policy.The committee, which is considering whether to recommend impeachment against Trump, cited press reports that the president offered pardons to officials should they face legal action for following his instructions to close a section
  
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• Ikumi Nakamura, Ghostwire: Tokyo Creative Director And E3 Star, Leaves Studio

  04-09-2019 22:59 via gamespot.com
  
  In a surprise announcement via Twitter, creative director of the upcoming game Ghostwire: Tokyo, Ikumi Nakamura, stated that she is leaving Tango Gameworks and Bethesda/Zenimax. She made a huge splash at E3 2019 when she gave a presentation for the reveal of Ghostwire: Tokyo and charmed everyone with her own charisma. She spent nine years with the studio and was a lead art designer for both The Evil Within and The Evil Within 2. She also worked on Bayonetta with Platinum Games and Okami with Cap
  
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• Trump may have edited Hurricane Dorian map with a marker to cover up his bad tweet

  04-09-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Misinformation and on-camera gaffes continue to plague Trump's administration, and they seem to have just one-upped themselves -- with a Sharpie.On Sunday, Trump falsely claimed that Hurricane Dorian was threatening Alabama in a tweet. Meteorologists confirmed that it wasn't, and -- before statewide panic broke out over what the president called "one of the largest hurricanes ever" -- the National Weather Service followed up with a subtweet to clear it all up."Alabama will NOT see any impacts fr
  
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• California boat fire: stairs from sleeping quarters led to space filled with flames

  04-09-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Investigators believe passengers and crew may not have had any means of escape because stairs ended in the same enclosed spaceFBI investigators climb aboard the Vision, a sister vessel to the scuba boat Conception to document its layout and learn more about the deadly pre-dawn fire in Santa Barbara, California. Photograph: Christian Monterrosa/APPassengers and crew on a scuba diving boat that caught fire off Santa Barbara over the Labor Day weekend may not have had any means of escape because th
  
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• Trump clings to idea Alabama faced big threat from Dorian

  04-09-2019 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump isn't giving up on the dubious idea that Alabama faced a serious threat from Hurricane Dorian.During an Oval Office briefing Wednesday, Trump displayed a map of the National Hurricane Center forecast for last Thursday that showed Dorian could track over Florida.The map he displayed included what appeared to be a hand-drawn half-circle that extended the cone of uncertainty over a swath of Alabama.
  
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• Trump denies he suggested Pence stay at his Irish country club

  04-09-2019 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump said Wednesday that the idea for Vice President Mike Pence to stay at his Irish golf resort didn’t come from him — contradicting a previous statement by Pence’s top aide.
  
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• Trump says 'I don't know' how map was altered to show Alabama in Hurricane Dorian's path

  04-09-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  During an Oval Office briefing, the president showed reporters an enlarged map that he said was the initial forecasted path of the storm. It appeared to have been altered with a marker to include Alabama.
  
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• The Nintendo Switch Finally Gets A Wireless Headset That Works Out Of The Box

  04-09-2019 22:04 via gamespot.com
  
  When it comes to headsets, a comfortable fit is just as important as sound quality, and in my experience, Steelseries' Arctis line of headsets are some of the most enjoyable to wear. For the Nintendo Switch, however, your choices have been limited. The Switch doesn't allow Bluetooth headphones to be used with the system, so if you wanted to use them or any other wireless headset, your only option was to buy a third-party dongle. Now Steelseries has released the Arctis 1 Wireless, which is the fi
  
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• The Actor For Control's Dr. Darling Has A Surprising Past Movie Role

  04-09-2019 22:02 via gamespot.com
  
  As is typical of any game developed by Remedy, live-action is used in wonderful fashion in Control. These primarily come in the form of short informational clips featuring Dr. Casper Darling, the head researcher of the Federal Bureau of Control. He's played by Matthew Porretta, who absolutely shines in these videos. If he seems familiar to you but you simply chalked that up to his role in past Remedy games, you might be as shocked as I was to dig a little further into his IMDB history.Remedy fan
  
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• Jury finds former Obama White House Counsel Gregory Craig not guilty in foreign-influence case

  04-09-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  A jury found former Obama White House Counsel Greg Craig not guilty Wednesday of providing false information to federal investigators.
  
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• CORRECTED-UPDATE 1-Britain abandons plan to immediately end freedom of movement after Brexit

  04-09-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Britain's government has abandoned plans to end freedom of movement for European Union citizens immediately after a possible no-deal Brexit and will instead return to an earlier policy of giving them three years' temporary leave to remain.The fate of EU migrants had been thrown further into confusion by the government’s announcement last month that their automatic right to live and work in Britain would end abruptly - and sooner than expected - in the event of a no-deal Brexit.The plan was
  
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• How Disney World kept the magic alive as Hurricane Dorian threatened Florida

  04-09-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Early closures of Disney World parks Tuesday ahead of Hurricane Dorian meant many vacationers headed to the hotels to wait out the storm.
  
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• Woman sets herself on fire after being charged for illegally entering football match in Iran

  04-09-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  An Iranian woman has set herself on fire outside a court in Tehran after being tried for resisting arrest by morality police for trying to enter a football stadium disguised as a male spectator. According to Rokna news agency, the woman, named only as Sahar, has been taken to a local hospital with life-threatening burns. A spokesperson for Iran’s judiciary has said the woman “had been engaged in a physical confrontation with security forces in February" after resisting arrest on char
  
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• Albanian crime boss who ran multi-million pound drugs racked ordered to pay only £14,380

  04-09-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  An Albanian drugs kingpin who ran a multi-million pound cocaine racket only has to pay back £14,380 after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) requested a “risible” sum, a judge has complained. Gang leader Erald Mema who was jailed for 25 years for flooding the UK with class A drugs was this week given three months to repay and to allow time for the auctioning of his Rolex watch. Judge Peter Ross said he had no option but to approve the pay back order but criticised the CPS for
  
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• Erdogan says it's unacceptable that Turkey can't have nuclear weapons

  04-09-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday it was unacceptable for nuclear-armed states to forbid Ankara from obtaining its own nuclear weapons, but did not say whether Turkey had plans to obtain them."Some countries have missiles with nuclear warheads, not one or two."There is no developed nation in the world that doesn't have them," Erdogan said.
  
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• Game Pass: September's Xbox One And PC Titles Include A New Release

  04-09-2019 21:10 via gamespot.com
  
  Six more games are coming to Xbox Game Pass over the next two weeks. Two are arriving tomorrow, another two later this week, and the last two will launch on the games-based subscription service next week.On September 5, Dead Cells and Metal Gear Solid HD Edition: 2 & 3 come to Game Pass. Two heavy hitters--Creature in the Well and Gears 5 Ultimate Edition--arrive on September 6. Finally, on September 12, Game Pass subscribers gain access to Enter the Gungeon and Gonner Blüeberry Edition
  
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• Five Things They Don’t Tell You about Slavery

  04-09-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  The same people most obsessed with slavery seem to have little interest in the full scope of its history.There has been an effort for decades now — although with new momentum lately, as exemplified by the New York Times’ 1619 project — to identify the United States and its founding with slavery.To the extent that this campaign excavates uncomfortable truths about our history and underlines the central role of African Americans in our nation, it is welcome. But it is often
  
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• British MPs inflict new defeat on Johnson's Brexit strategy

  04-09-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  British MPs inflicted a fresh defeat on Prime Minister Boris Johnson's hardline Brexit strategy on Wednesday, approving a law that could stop him taking Britain out of the European Union without a deal next month.In a second parliamentary revolt in as many days, the House of Commons voted 327 to 299 in favour of a bill that could delay Brexit for three months.The prime minister called for parliament to vote in favour of holding an early election on October 15, insisting Britain must leave the EU
  
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• Jacob Wohl Wanted on Felony Arrest Warrant

  04-09-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Joshua Roberts/ReutersConservative operative Jacob Wohl is wanted on a felony arrest warrant in California, a development that could hamper his spree of bizarre, blundering political schemes.Wohl and former business partner Matthew Johnson were both charged with the unlawful sale of securities in a Riverside Superior Court criminal complaint filed on Aug. 19. Wohl has not been arrested yet on the charge, according to the court docket. Prosecutors recommended $5,000 bonds for both Wohl and J
  
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• Jacob Wohl Charged With Felony in California

  04-09-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Joshua Roberts/ReutersCalifornia authorities issued an arrest warrant for blundering conservative operative Jacob Wohl, who is now due to be arraigned on a felony charge next month, court records show.As The Daily Beast first reported earlier on Wednesday, Wohl and a former business partner were both wanted on a warrant signed in Riverside County on Aug. 19.The warrant was recalled after Wohl—best known for a spree of bizarre, half-baked political schemes—appeared in court on Wednesd
  
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• Hurricane Dorian is heading north with 105-mph winds, and its effects could reach Georgia on Wednesday night

  04-09-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Hurricane Dorian's effects began to hit Florida on Tuesday. It's winds are expected to hit Georgia by Wednesday evening.
  
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• Pokemon Masters Has Already Hit A Huge Milestone

  04-09-2019 20:55 via gamespot.com
  
  Pokemon Masters, the new Pokemon mobile game from DeNA, officially arrived on iOS and Android last week, but the title is already off to a strong start. Following its launch, mobile analytics company Sensor Tower reported Masters was the No. 1 free App Store game in 27 countries, and now The Pokemon Company has confirmed the title has hit an impressive milestone.The official Pokemon Masters Twitter account revealed that the game has reached 10 million downloads worldwide in only four days. For c
  
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• Couple wounded in El Paso mass shooting sues Walmart

  04-09-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Guillermo and Jessica Garcia believe Walmart's failure to employ armed security guards at the store, despite using them in other stores, was a factor in the massacre, where 22 people were killed, their lawyers said on Wednesday. The Garcias said they were shopping with their two children when the gunman, identified by authorities as Patrick Crusius, opened fire. Guillermo Garcia remains hospitalized in critical condition after being shot in the spine, while Jessica Garcia was hospitalized and la
  
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• S.African businesses reeling after xenophobic onslaught

  04-09-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Paul Dihi treads cautiously through the charred carcass of his two-story shop building, taking a heartbreaking tally of the destruction wrought by xenophobic violence that raged through parts of South Africa in recent days.Dihi, who rented space to shopkeepers from Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe among others, said he received a late night call from a tenant telling him his property was ablaze, as mobs descended on foreign-owned shops and businesses in Johannesburg's eastern suburb of Malvern
  
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• Students Repeatedly Posed in Blackface and Threatened Black Classmates. Their School Ignored, Lawsuit Alleges.

  04-09-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Star Tribune via Getty ImagesSome white students at Chaska High School in Minnesota ended last school year the same way they began it: In photos, wearing blackface.The academic year in the 28,000-person suburb began in September 2018 with white students attending a football game in blackface, and, in one student’s case, an afro. In December, a middle school student in the same district—located roughly 30 miles southwest of Minneapolis—found that his gym shirt had been stolen, v
  
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• A Mississippi Wedding Venue Refused to Serve Gay or Interracial Couples. Amid Backlash, the Owner Is Now Apologizing

  04-09-2019 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  The alleged owner of the event hall cited her "Christian belief"
  
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• The Fastest Spacecraft Ever Zips Past the Sun for a Third Time

  04-09-2019 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  It's on a mission to reveal the sun's long-held secrets.
  
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• Best PS4 Deals For September 2019: PS4 Games, Consoles, And More

  04-09-2019 20:23 via gamespot.com
  
  You don't need us to tell you that gaming is an expensive hobby. From console and the games to the monthly memberships, you can easily rack up the costs just by trying to stay on top of all the latest releases. Luckily, we're here to help. We're constantly covering various deals on a daily basis, but over the course of the month, we'll round up all the best discounts available right now. And for the purposes of this article, we're focusing on all things PlayStation: PS4 Pro and PS4 Slim deals, P
  
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• British PM ruffles feathers with 'chlorinated chicken' taunt

  04-09-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  As British lawmakers battle over Brexit, they are making decisions of historic importance.During a testy House of Commons debate Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson accused Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn of ducking an election and being "a chlorinated chicken" — a reference to claims the U.K. will have to lower its food safety standards to get a post-Brexit trade deal with the United States.Such banter is nothing new in the chamber, despite its strict rules against "unparliamentary
  
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• Conversion therapy organization founder comes out as gay: 'Please forgive me'

  04-09-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  McKrae Game, the founder of the South Carolina-based conversion therapy ministry Hope for Wholeness, came out as gay this summer.
  
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• Walmart’s Retreat on Guns Means Woke Capitalism Is Here to Stay

  04-09-2019 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  My first job was selling guns at Walmart. I was a clerk in the sporting-goods department at our local store in Georgetown, Ky. Georgetown was a much smaller place then. This was years before Toyota came to town, put an immense car plant in a field not far from my house, and started producing Camrys by the tens of thousands. The population was less than 10,000, tobacco farms dotted the countryside, and Future Farmers of America was one of the largest clubs in my high school.This was also the era
  
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• Everything we know about the California boat fire victims

  04-09-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Three sisters who were helping celebrate their father's birthday are thought to be among the 34 people killed when a diving boat caught fire off the coast of Southern California.Susana Rosas of Stockton, California, posted on social media that her three daughters, their father and stepmother were on board.
  
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• San Francisco supervisors call National Rifle Association a 'domestic terrorist organization'

  04-09-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  San Francisco officials have officially deemed the National Rifle Association a "domestic terrorist organization."
  
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• Michigan will be first state to ban flavored electronic cigarettes, cites dangers of vaping

  04-09-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said the state will ban online and retail sales of sweet, fruity, minty flavored products, but the restriction does not apply to tobacco flavors.
  
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• Plants vs. Zombies: Battle For Neighborville - New Turf Takeover Gameplay

  04-09-2019 20:00 via gamespot.com
  
  In this video we'll be showing a few rounds of the Turf Takeover mode in Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville. The game is a follow-up to PvZ: Garden Warfare 2 and releases on PS4, Xbox One, and PC on October 18.
  
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• Smollett's attorneys argue city lawsuit should be tossed

  04-09-2019 19:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Jussie Smollett's attorneys have filed a motion arguing that the actor should not have to pay Chicago $130,000 for a police investigation into what he claimed was a racist and homophobic attack, because he couldn't have known how much time and money the department would spend looking into his allegations.The motion, filed this week by the former actor in the television series "Empire," maintains that Smollett did not stage the attack as the Chicago Police Department alleges.
  
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• Exclusive: Secretary of State Pompeo Declines to Sign Risky Afghan Peace Deal

  04-09-2019 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  The deal doesn't ensure several crucial things, those familiar with the discussions tell TIME
  
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• Exclusive: Pompeo Declines to Sign Risky Afghan Peace Deal

  04-09-2019 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Tentative First Steps Towards Peace Leave Major Questions Unanswered, Raise Fears of a Return to Taliban Rule
  
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• New Plants Vs. Zombies Game Available Now, Sort Of

  04-09-2019 19:35 via gamespot.com
  
  The newest Plants vs. Zombies title, Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville, is slated to arrive on October 18 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. If you can't wait to duke it out in Neighborville, then you're in luck: the latest PvZ shooter is playable right now. But there's a catch.In order to play Battle for Neighborville before its October launch, you'll have to shell out $30 USD for the Founder's Edition--which is exclusively digital and only available for purchase from now until Sep
  
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• Pope says attacks by US Catholic critics an 'honour'

  04-09-2019 19:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Pope Francis described attacks on him by ultra-conservative US Catholics Wednesday as an "honour", minimising efforts by rebels to besmirch his papacy.The ultra-conservative wing of the church in the United States frequently takes aim at Francis, saying he is not outspoken enough on abortion, too compassionate towards homosexuals and divorcees, and too accommodating towards Muslims."The American attacks on me are an honour," the Argentine -- elected in 2010 as the world's first Latin American po
  
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• James Mattis’s Blistering Criticism of Obama

  04-09-2019 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Most of the coverage of James Mattis's new book, Call Sign Chaos, co-authored with Bing West, deals with the former defense secretary's relationship with President Trump. The Atlantic's pre-publication interview with Mattis was headlined, "The Man Who Couldn't Take It Anymore." The New York Times editorial page ran a column about Mattis called "The Man Trump Wishes He Were."Both articles establish that Mattis doesn't have much to say right now, in either the book or in interviews, about Pre
  
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• Best Xbox One Deals For September 2019: Games, Consoles, And More

  04-09-2019 19:23 via gamespot.com
  
  September kicks off the fall season, but it also spells the beginning of the holiday deluge of games. The Xbox One has some exciting prospects in its future, so we've decided to pull together our favourite deals, sales, and discounts for Microsoft's console. These include notable deals on the console itself, its controllers and accessories, and the games.The Xbox One has some great bundles if you want to grab a game with your console, whether it be Xbox One S or X. The most notable bundle this m
  
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• Blasey Ford’s Lawyer Admits Client Wants ‘Asterisk’ Next to Kavanaugh’s Name When He Rules on Roe

  04-09-2019 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Debra Katz, the attorney for Christine Blasey Ford, who leveled sexual-assault allegations against then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, admitted during an April speech that her client's decision to come forward was partly motivated by a desire to put “an asterisk next to” Kavanaugh's name before “he takes a scalpel” to Roe v. Wade.The video, which was obtained by The Daily Caller, shows Katz discussing the positive implications of Blasey Ford's testimony befor
  
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• EU pours cold water on Johnson's Brexit strategy

  04-09-2019 19:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Brussels on Wednesday warned Prime Minister Boris Johnson against the idea he could strike a new Brexit deal with EU leaders before Britain crashes out of the bloc next month.EU officials met a British delegation for "technical talks", but stressed once again that London has come up with nothing that might convince them to reopen the withdrawal agreement."Leaders have never negotiated directly with the UK PM on Brexit.
  
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