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• AG Sessions says he 'didn't recall' several times during press conference

  02-03-2017 23:53 via yahoo.com
  
  Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from any future investigation involving Russia and the 2016 Presidential Election. But throughout his press conference, he seemed to have a little trouble with his memory saying he "didn't recall" on several occasions.
  
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• Partisanship rift continues in House panel probing Russia

  02-03-2017 23:48 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Republican and Democrat on the House intelligence committee had conflicting messages Thursday when they emerged from a 31/2-hour closed-door briefing with FBI Director James Comey on Russian activities during the presidential election.
  
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• 95-year-old comes out as gay and melts all our hearts

  02-03-2017 23:43 via yahoo.com
  
  It's never too late to accept yourself. In his latest video, popular Youtuber Davey Wavey sat down with 96-year-old Roman, who shares his beautiful coming out story — that took place only one year before.SEE ALSO: 'Beauty and the Beast' director reveals Disney's first openly gay characterRoman explains that at 95 years old — after being married to his wife for 67 years and having two children and five grandchildren — he finally felt ready to show the world a part of himself he
  
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• Ghost Recon Wildlands Season Pass Detailed

  02-03-2017 23:28
  Ghost Recon Wildlands will get two major paid expansions after launch as part of the game's $40 season pass, Ubisoft announced today.
  The first expansion, titled Narco Road, will task players with infiltrating a gang of smugglers to "take part in crazy races and challenges to earn their infamous leader's trust and destroy them from the inside." The expansion will introduce new bosses and vehicles.
  In Fallen Ghosts, players must evade an elite group of mercenaries that are tracking them afte
  
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• Exclusive: Spirit Aero tells suppliers jobs may go offshore - sources

  02-03-2017 23:28 via yahoo.com
  
  Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc , a major supplier to Boeing Coand Airbus , is demanding steep price cuts from its hundreds of parts suppliers, forcing them to re-bid for their current work against global competitors, according to a document seen by Reuters and three sources familiar with the matter.Spirit is asking for price cuts of 15 to 35 percent in meetings this week in Wichita, Kansas, where it is based, according to the sources and to a Feb. 13 letter Spirit sent tosuppliers.Spirit declin
  
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• How To Uninstall Native Apps on iOS, Android

  02-03-2017 23:26 via yahoo.com
  
  Native iOS and Android apps that come pre-installed on devices can take up valuable space. Here's how to get rid of them.
  
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• Pokemon Go Trading Will Be Limited to Nearby Players

  02-03-2017 23:18
  Niantic Labs is currently at work on adding trading to Pokemon Go, but when the feature does eventually arrive, you'll only be able to exchange creatures with other players in your general proximity.
  This week at GDC, senior product manager Tatsuo Nomura confirmed to Polygon that trading "won’t be through the internet." Instead, "the person needs to be in your proximity." Nomura explained why this will be the case, saying, "you shouldn’t be able to exchange your Pokemon wit
  
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• Aboard aircraft carrier, Trump pushes for more military spending

  02-03-2017 23:09 via yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump announced from the deck of America's newest aircraft carrier Thursday that he had spoken with maritime leaders to discuss plans for a "major expansion" of the Navy.Trump spoke against the military backdrop as he pushes for a hike in defense spending that is likely to meet with stiff opposition in Congress."In these troubled times, our Navy is the smallest it's been since World War I," Trump told sailors aboard the Gerald R. Ford.
  
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• Get a job: Telltale Games is hiring a Associate Cinematic Artist

  02-03-2017 23:01
  Telltale Games is looking for an Associate Cinematic Artist to create compelling cutscenes and interactive dialogs, stage cameras and actors throughout scenes, and more in San Rafael, California....
  
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• Avengers: Infinity War might be the most expensive movie ever made

  02-03-2017 23:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  They say bigger isn't necessarily better, but what do "they" know anyway? According to a report from the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Avengers: Infinity War and its sequel (which, reminder, is no longer called "Avengers: Infinity War Part 2" and currently lacks an official title) have a staggering $1 billion budget spread between them
  
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• Thailand Bear Dies After Falling From Helicopter

  02-03-2017 22:58 via yahoo.com
  
  The bear, which allegedly had been sedated, woke up in the middle of the trip and panicked once it saw itself swaying in a net attached to the helicopter.
  
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• Amazon blames human error for cloud-service disruption

  02-03-2017 22:56 via yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Amazon.com Incblamed human error for the disruption in its cloud services that resulted in widespread glitches for its clients from news sites to government services on Tuesday. An incorrect command led to the removal of a larger set of servers than intended, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. (http://amzn.to/2melOup) The disruption in the company's Simple Storage Service, or Amazon S3, lasted for more than 3-1/2 hours and impacted sending and receiving clients' data. The c
  
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• The Latest: Le Pen lays out platform for French economy

  02-03-2017 22:51 via yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — The Latest on the French presidential election campaign (all times local):
  
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• Factbox - Snap IPO: The asymmetry of venture returns

  02-03-2017 22:48 via yahoo.com
  
  By Angela Moon NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Snap Inc , the owner of the messaging app Snapchat, opened at $24 per share on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday versus the initial public offering price of $17. Following is a list of venture capital firms selling their shares in Snap. Estimated values of shares sold in the deal are based on the IPO price. Estimated values of shares retained are based on the stock's opening price. Data based on SEC filings, EquityZen and CrunchBase. ...
  
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• Photos of the day - March 2, 2017

  02-03-2017 22:45 via yahoo.com
  
  Tour guides wearing traditional Chinese dress practice smiling by biting chopsticks at Qingming Grand-River Park in Kaifeng, central China’s Henan Province; Cheryl Kreiser of Silver Spring, Md. holds up a sign outside Justice Department,as she joined a group to protest Attorney General Jeff Sessions; and, An Iraqi special forces soldier fires a sniper rifle during a battle with Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq. These are just a few of the photos of the day for March 2, 2017. See more
  
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• Xbox Gets a Pass

  02-03-2017 22:42
  Welcome back to Game Scoop!, IGN's weekly video game talk show. This week we're discussing the Xbox Game Pass, Nintendo Switch, Zelda, and more. Watch the video above or download the podcast below.
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• Trump’s Military Buildup Threatens to Gut U.S. Coast Guard

  02-03-2017 22:38 via yahoo.com
  
  The armed services’ poor cousin is fixing to get a whole lot poorer.
  
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• Heaven's Vault: Inkle's game about a nebula-riding archaeologist

  02-03-2017 22:37
  
  "We started from the idea of an interactive graphic novel and how that would work, bringing together an adventure game sensibility with Inkle's text flow style."...
  
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• Ancient human tree cultivation shaped Amazon landscape

  02-03-2017 22:30 via yahoo.com
  
  By Will DunhamWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ancient indigenous peoples had a far more profound impact on the composition of the vast Amazon rainforest than previously known, according to a study showing how tree species domesticated by humans long ago still dominate big swathes of the wilderness.Researchers said on Thursday many tree species populating the Amazon region appear to be abundant because they were cultivated by people who populated the area before Europeans arrived more than five centuries
  
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• Relationship Expert Weighs In on Romance Between Joe Biden's Son and Other Son's Widow

  02-03-2017 22:26 via yahoo.com
  
  The former vice president and his wife have given their approval of the relationship.
  
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• Not so urgent anymore? Trump's new travel ban delayed

  02-03-2017 22:24 via yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump was barely in office when he signed an executive order restricting immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations. There was not a moment to waste, he said, because any delay would allow the "bad dudes" to rush into the U.S.
  
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• Ghost Recon: Wildlands' DLC situation is a bit complicated, here's what's free and what isn't

  02-03-2017 22:19 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ghost Recon: Wildlands is out next week, but that's just the start: meta-objectives, expansions, all-new PvP modes, and more are all coming to the game in the weeks and months after its debut
  
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• Trump says wants defense buildup to project U.S. power abroad

  02-03-2017 22:16 via yahoo.com
  
  By Ayesha RascoeNEWPORT NEWS, Va. (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Thursday he wants a U.S. military buildup of more ships and planes to "project American power in distant lands," making his case for a proposed $54 billion increase in defense spending that has U.S. lawmakers squabbling.Wearing an olive military jacket and hat aboard a new aircraft carrier, the Gerald R. Ford, in Newport News, Virginia, Trump said he wanted the U.S. military to have the finest equipment in the world.Tru
  
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• Teen and 4-Year-Old Niece Unharmed After Hiding in Bathroom During Home Invasion

  02-03-2017 22:12 via yahoo.com
  
  Savannah Jones, 14, was babysitting her sister's 4-year-old daughter after school when she heard a loud knock on her on the door of her Montclair home.
  
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• Rachel Dolezal, activist who identified as black, changes name

  02-03-2017 21:49 via yahoo.com
  
  Diallo, 39, was profiled in a story last week by British newspaper The Guardian that mentioned she had changed her name on legal documents.Court records posted online by Spokane County, in Washington state, indicated that Dolezal petitioned to change her name to Diallo, which has African roots, and that a judge granted the request last Oct. 7.Dolezal resigned in 2015 as president of the Spokane chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, following an uproar when me
  
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• US strikes pound AQAP targets in Yemen

  02-03-2017 21:44 via yahoo.com
  
  US forces on Thursday struck a series of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula targets in Yemen, the Pentagon announced, part of a broader increase in attacks against the civil-war-torn nation's jihadists.Local officials said at least 12 AQAP members were killed in the strikes, which came barely one month after a botched US commando raid against the group left multiple civilians and a Navy SEAL dead."More than 20 strikes targeted AQAP militants, equipment and infrastructure in the Yemeni governorate
  
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• Senate confirms Trump pick Perry as energy secretary

  02-03-2017 21:44 via yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted to confirm President Donald Trump's pick to head the Department of Energy, former Texas Governor Rick Perry, who has promised to renew America’s nuclear weapons arsenal.Perry's rise to America’s top energy official came against opposition from Democrats worried about his ties to oil companies, his doubts about the science of climate change, and the fact that he once called for the department’s total elimination – a comment he has since sa
  
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• Zelda: Breath of the Wild is Metacritic's second-best Zelda of all time, you can probably guess No. 1

  02-03-2017 21:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is widely being hailed as one of the best entries in the series to date
  
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• Agency reports rare jaguar sighting in mountains of Arizona

  02-03-2017 21:39 via yahoo.com
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Wildlife officials say they have evidence of a rare jaguar sighting in the United States, giving conservationists hope that the endangered cat is re-establishing itself here.
  
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• Trump, aboard Navy carrier, vows to boost defense spending

  02-03-2017 21:30 via yahoo.com
  
  NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — President Donald Trump pledged to boost defense spending as he basked in the nation's military might aboard a next-generation Naval aircraft carrier on Thursday.
  
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• 10 Myths About Marijuana

  02-03-2017 21:28 via yahoo.com
  
  Many myths have arisen about smoking week; here are 10 that you should stop believing.
  
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• Google’s Pixel didn’t just copy the iPhone 6 design, it copied a crazy iPhone 4 ‘feature’ as well

  02-03-2017 21:27 via yahoo.com
  
  It's pretty strange how defensive Android fans get when you make an observation that is beyond obvious to anyone with two eyes. Actually, it's pretty obvious to anyone with one eye, too. The Google Pixel copied Apple's iPhone 6 design. You should've seen the emails and tweets we got after running this post. Seriously, is it even really such a big deal? HTC cloned Apple's iPhone 6, and that phone ended up selling quite well for the struggling smartphone maker. What's funny is that Apple
  
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• Poll Indicates Americans Leery Of Giving President More Power

  02-03-2017 21:26 via yahoo.com
  
  All three branches of the U.S. government are co-equal under the Constitution although presidents have tried to usurp more power through executive actions.
  
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• This Is the Range Rover Velar

  02-03-2017 21:16 via yahoo.com
  
  Fitting right between the Evoque and Range Rover Sport, the Velar is damn good to look at and packs some impressive new tech that will be the future for all Range Rovers.
  
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• Here's the Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo In All Its Wagon Glory

  02-03-2017 21:16 via yahoo.com
  
  Meet Porsche's first-ever station wagon, and yes, it's coming to the US.
  
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• The Predator Drone Is Going Into Retirement

  02-03-2017 21:13 via yahoo.com
  
  The unmanned aerial vehicle that changed warfare retires this summer.
  
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• Brussels police hold man as gas canisters found in car

  02-03-2017 20:59 via yahoo.com
  
  Belgian police and soldiers on Thursday sealed off part of central Brussels after finding gas canisters in a car driven by a man known to have been radicalised, officials said.Belgium remains on high alert as it prepares to mark the first anniversary of last year's Islamic State-inspired attacks on the Brussels metro and airport which killed 32 people.Reports said he had previously gone to Syria but officials did not confirm that.
  
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• Amazon finally explained what happened when it accidentally took down the internet

  02-03-2017 20:58 via yahoo.com
  
  The Amazon Simple Storage Service and Amazon Web Services, also known as S3 and AWS, happen to power a lot of the internet as you know it. And they're usually quite dependable, meaning that the companies using the solutions can rest assured that their websites will be up no matter what. But no internet service can have a 100% uptime rating, and the same goes for AWS. It was Amazon’s AWS that failed on Tuesday, taking plenty of popular services and&nb
  
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• Iowa lawmaker says business degree was Sizzler certificate

  02-03-2017 20:50 via yahoo.com
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa state lawmaker said Thursday that he didn't mean to mislead anyone by claiming he had a business degree from a company that actually had awarded him a certificate for participating in a training program when he worked at Sizzler.
  
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• Syria, Russia blast opposition at faltering peace talks

  02-03-2017 20:46 via yahoo.com
  
  Syria on Thursday accused the main opposition of taking UN-backed peace talks "hostage" over its refusal to include terrorism on the agenda, warning it would be reponsible if the sputtering negotiations fail.Russia, a key ally of Damascus, also attacked the opposition led by the High Negotiations Committee, which said it was pinning its faltering hopes on the new US administration of President Donald Trump."Progress in the Geneva round must not be held hostage by the Riyadh platform," lead Syria
  
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• Woolly mammoths suffered genetic 'meltdown' before extinction

  02-03-2017 20:40 via yahoo.com
  
  Before woolly mammoths went extinct thousands of years ago, their dwindling population suffered a series of genetic mutations that hampered their ability to survive, researchers said Thursday.Woolly mammoths were once among the most common herbivores inNorth America and Siberia, but came under threat from increased hunting pressure and a warming climate.Experts analyzed the genome of one of the last known woolly mammoths ever found -- a 4,300-year-old specimen from Wrangel Island, off the northe
  
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• Donald Trump Is No Ronald Reagan

  02-03-2017 20:31 via yahoo.com
  
  Trump is like Reagan in the same way that a card table is like a racehorse: They have the same number of legs, but after that the similarities are sparse.
  
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• Judge: Casey Anthony may have accidentally killed daughter

  02-03-2017 20:29 via yahoo.com
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The judge who presided over the acquittal of Casey Anthony in a murder trial televised live around the world said Thursday that an accidental killing is the most logical explanation for her 2-year-old daughter's death.
  
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• The Latest: 1 of 3 slain teens had feuded with gang member

  02-03-2017 20:24 via yahoo.com
  
  CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — The Latest on gang members indicted in the killings of three teenagers on Long Island last year (all times local):
  
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• Some Republicans call for Sessions' recusal

  02-03-2017 20:21 via yahoo.com
  
  Attorney General Jeff Sessions is facing mounting calls from Republican lawmakers to recuse himself from the Department of Justice’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election following a report he met twice with Russia’s ambassador to the United States while he was a U.S. senator and an adviser to then-candidate Donald Trump.Chaffetz, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, was among the first to call for Sessions’ recusal.“Jeff
  
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• Nintendo Switch Cartridges Taste Terrible

  02-03-2017 20:16
  If you were thinking about eating Nintendo Switch cartridges, please don't.
  Due to taste tests by multiple intrepid reporters, including Giant Bomb's Jeff Gertsmann and IGN's Alanah Pearce, Switch cartridges were discovered to have a lingering, bitter taste to them. And there's actually an official reason for it.
  In a statement provided to IGN, a representative for Nintendo explained that the cartridges have been coated with a "bittering agent" to discourage owners from eating them.
  "To avoid th
  
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• Ghost Recon Wildlands Betas Had Over 6 Million Players

  02-03-2017 20:08
  
  Ghost Recon Wildlands' closed and open betas had 6.8 million total players, breaking Ubisoft’s previous beta records, the studio has announced.
  More than two billion minutes were played during the game's beta phases and more than 60 percent of all players played in co-op mode, according to Ubisoft.
  Along with the announcement, Ubisoft also released an infographic showcasing some interesting stats from the closed and open betas. For example, 1.2 billion cartel members were elimina
  
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• Overwatch's new hero is a four-legged robot tank named Orisa

  02-03-2017 20:06 via gamesradar.com
  
  Meet Orisa, the next hero headed to Overwatch and probably the first naive but good-intentioned robot centaur you've seen this week
  
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• This may be the battery tech that prevents the next Galaxy Note 7 disaster

  02-03-2017 20:04 via yahoo.com
  
  Samsung has retrieved about 98% of the 3 million defective Galaxy Note 7 units it shipped in the short time span between the phone’s official launch last August and its swift demise in October. But on my way to Mobile World Congress, flight attendants still insisted over the plane's speaker system that Galaxy Note 7 use on board the flight is strictly forbidden, and anyone carrying such a device should inform the crew. That’s what fear of a potentially exploding device
  
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• Mom Gets 50 Years for Giving Son, 5, Fatal Dose of Pills and Setting His Body on Fire

  02-03-2017 20:04 via yahoo.com
  
  Narges Shafeirad pleaded guilty last year to feeding her 5-year-old son, Daniel Dana, a fatal dose of antihistamines.
  
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