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• Star Citizen upgrade backlash: Why game developers have pushed controversial feature

  20-05-2025 05:01 via article.wn.com
  Star Citizen is changing a recent decision after receiving criticism from fans. The game’s developer, Cloud Imperium Games, has announced that its new Flight Blade ship parts will be made available to all players in June 2025. These components were first released on 15 May 2025, but only through the game’s Pledge Store. This led to complaints from players who felt the move was unfair and gave paying users an advantage. The Flight Blades, introduced in the latest...
  
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• How Venezuela sends oil around the world despite sanctions – and why Trump wants to put a stop to it

  17-12-2025 18:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  The U.S. seized a Venezuelan oil tanker last week in a move described by Nicolas Maduro’s government as an ‘act of international piracy’
  
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• Megyn Kelly takes credit for arranging ‘detente’ between Candace Owens and Erika Kirk

  17-12-2025 18:13 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘She and I actually have only gotten closer over the past couple of months as people try to make me attack her,’ Megyn Kelly said of Candace Owens this week.
  
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• Trump-appointed judge argues noncitizens don’t have Constitutional rights

  17-12-2025 18:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  Appeals court judge Amul Thapar argues First, Fourth and 14th Amendments shouldn’t extend to noncitizens, ‘let alone illegal aliens’
  
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• Kazakhstan's oil exports surpasses annual target

  17-12-2025 18:05 via article.wn.com
  ALMATY, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- Kazakhstan exported 73.4 million tonnes of oil in the first 11 months of 2025, fulfilling the...
  
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• Essex surgeon was unlawfully killed in Cape Town shooting

  17-12-2025 18:05 via article.wn.com
  An NHS surgeon who was shot dead in South Africa in front of his family while on a once-in-a-lifetime trip was unlawfully killed, a coroner has concluded. Kar Hao Teoh, 40, was driving with his mother, wife and young son in August 2023, when he was shot dead while crowds were protesting on the road in Cape Town. The surgeon worked at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow and lived in nearby Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire. Speaking at an inquest at Essex Coroner's Court,...
  
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• World Cup winner to get record $50 million jackpot. Still less than half offered at ...

  17-12-2025 18:04 via article.wn.com
  The winner of the 2026 World Cup will receive a record jackpot of $50 million, FIFA has said. The figure is up from $42 million in 2022 and $38 million in 2018. But it is still less than half of ......
  
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• What is enterprise AI? And how to implement it

  17-12-2025 18:04 via article.wn.com
  Zapier reports that enterprise AI enhances efficiency in large companies, but implementing it requires strategic planning and alignment with organizational goals. ......
  
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• Venezuela defies US blockade amid China support, Mexico UN call

  17-12-2025 18:04 via article.wn.com
  Venezuela on Wednesday rejected what it called “crude and arrogant threats” from the United States after President Donald Trump ordered a blockade of sanctioned oil tankers enterin ......
  
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• The Miami Dolphins are benching Tua Tagovailoa for rookie Quinn Ewers, AP source says

  17-12-2025 18:04 via article.wn.com
  The Miami Dolphins are benching Tua Tagovailoa for rookie Quinn Ewers, AP source says. ......
  
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• Meet America's Black billionaires

  17-12-2025 18:04 via article.wn.com
  Stacker compiled a list of the 11 richest Black billionaires using December 2025 data from Forbes. ......
  
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• Fourth T20 between India and South Africa called off due to excessive fog

  17-12-2025 18:04 via article.wn.com
  The fourth Twenty20 match between India and South Africa has been was called off without a ball being bowled due to excessive fog. The umpires made the decision to abandon the match after several inspections of the ground. India leads ......
  
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• Dolphins benching Tua Tagovailoa for rookie Quinn Ewers, AP source says

  17-12-2025 18:04 via article.wn.com
  The Miami Dolphins are benching Tua...
  
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• When Heaven Touched the Night

  17-12-2025 18:01 via article.wn.com
  The joy of the first day of Chanukah this year was dimmed with shock and grief over the massacre in Australia, when dozens of Jews were murdered and wounded. The latest in a string of attacks on Jews and Jewish sites in cities across the world, this atrocity was said to be a direct result of Australian government policies that have emboldened Iran-backed terrorists. In a country where Muslims outnumber Jews eight to one, the government panders to pro-Hamas Jew-haters, allowing rioters to take ov
  
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• MTG says MAGA is crumbling and ‘dam is breaking’ against Trump

  17-12-2025 18:01 via independent.co.uk
  
  “He’s got real problems with Republicans within the House and the Senate,” Greene said of Trump
  
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• In a Perfect World: Connection Potential

  17-12-2025 18:01 via article.wn.com
  I think the greatest gift you can give someone is to listen to them. I mean, really listen. I love good listeners, don’t you? People who look you in the eye as if they find you endlessly inter­esting. Who maybe incline their heads slightly, the better to hear what you have to say. People whose whole demeanor gives you the message that what you’re about to tell them matters. Once you start speaking, they give you their full attention. Even better is what they don’t do. They
  
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• UN chief Guterres urges maximum restraint in Yemen after separatist advance

  17-12-2025 17:56 via article.wn.com
  United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday urged...
  
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• Dip for Dinner, Holiday Edition

  17-12-2025 17:55 via article.wn.com
  Make this hot honey whipped ricotta for that party you’re going to, or make it for dinner with your favorite crackers and cut up vegetables. ......
  
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• Partners in empathy: Indian nonprofit educates travel firms to combat elephant abuse

  17-12-2025 17:53 via article.wn.com
  Wildlife SOS teaches...
  
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• Trump Taps DHS Deputy Secretary as Ambassador to El Salvador

  17-12-2025 17:52 via article.wn.com
  Troy Edgar, the deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, has been nominated to serve as...
  
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• Trump administration unites in defense of Wiles after Vanity Fair article

  17-12-2025 17:52 via article.wn.com
  White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has slammed the two-part Vanity Fair profile of her, and accused reporter Chris Whipple of writing a “disingenuously framed hit piece” on her, President Donald Trump and members of his administration. Nearly a dozen members of the Trump administration have publicly rallied behind Wiles. In the profile, Wiles described Trump as having “an alcoholic’s personality,” that Russell Vought, head of the Office of Management and Budget
  
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• Mandatory Oath to King for New Lawyers Unconstitutional, Alberta Appeals Court Rules

  17-12-2025 17:52 via article.wn.com
  Alberta’s highest court has determined a provincial mandate requiring aspiring lawyers to swear an oath to the King to be able to practise...
  
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• Driver Who Rammed Crowd at Liverpool Soccer Parade Sentenced to Over 21 Years

  17-12-2025 17:52 via article.wn.com
  A man who rammed his car into a crowd of Liverpool fans during the soccer club’s Premier...
  
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• As terrorists look to send message, holiday celebrations have become targets

  17-12-2025 17:52 via article.wn.com
  In a year that began with a man driving his truck into a crowd of people in New Orleans on New Year’s Day, killing 14, there was a stunning announcement this week by the FBI. Four suspects were arrested while reportedly conducting practice drills ahead of planned attacks in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. It was a plot that has become all too familiar to authorities who’ve seen holiday terrorism ramp up around the world. The defendants were arrested last week in the Mojave Deser
  
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• World Tennis League starts off on a cheerful note

  17-12-2025 17:51 via article.wn.com
  The quality was a couple of notches below elite level, but there was fun and frolic, keeping the sizeable crowd bubbling ......
  
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• Watch: Trump expands U.S. travel ban, adding five more countries and tighter entry rules

  17-12-2025 17:51 via article.wn.com
  The decision follows the arrest of an Afghan national suspect in the shooting of two National Guard troops over Thanksgiving weekend; the administration also fully restricted travel on people with Palestinian-Authority-issued travel documents ......
  
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• Trump administration plans to break up largest federal climate research center

  17-12-2025 17:51 via article.wn.com
  The Trump administration plans to break up Colorado’s National Center for Atmospheric Research, the largest federal climate research lab. Russ Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, announced the plan Tuesday in a statement on X. Watch NBC Bay Area News free wherever you are WATCH HERE “The National Science Foundation will be breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado,” Vought wrote, linking to a story from
  
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• Putin says Russia will take more land in Ukraine if Europe sinks peace moves

  17-12-2025 17:50 via article.wn.com
  MOSCOW, Dec 17 (Reuters) - President...
  
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• Brazil threatens to abandon Mercosur-EU deal as Italy, France seek delay

  17-12-2025 17:50 via article.wn.com
  SAO PAULO, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Brazilian...
  
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• The major takeaways from Vanity Fair’s interviews with Trump ‘ice maiden’ Susie Wiles

  17-12-2025 17:44 via independent.co.uk
  
  White House chief of staff labels JD Vance a ‘conspiracy theorist’ and Elon Musk an ‘avowed ketamine’ user in revealing interviews throughout the president’s chaotic year in office
  
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