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• You can now use Google Maps to show people exactly where you are

  22-03-2017 23:57 via yahoo.com
  
  Google Maps is the undisputed champion of mobile navigation and it's an extremely powerful tool for helping you find locations, but what about people? The search giant wants that to be just as easy and, as long as you're cool with it, you can now use Google Maps to share your real-time location with whoever you choose, and for however long you want. The feature isn't live for everyone just yet, but it's coming very soon to all iOS and Android users. Google describes its functionality &
  
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• Immigrant whose daughter appealed to pope requests asylum in U.S.

  22-03-2017 23:51 via yahoo.com
  
  A Mexican immigrant whose daughter appealed to Pope Francis three years ago to stop his deportation from the United States requested asylum at a federal court hearing in Los Angeles on Wednesday.Mario Vargas-Lopez's attorney argued the 45-year-old could be the victim of violence if he is deported to Mexico because of the international attention his case has received."People in Mexico know who he is, and he might be targeted for ransom and extortion," attorney Alex Galvez said in a phone intervie
  
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• Bill would bar discrimination toward climate change doubters

  22-03-2017 23:51 via yahoo.com
  
  AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine laws protect people from discrimination based on factors such as race, disabilities and sexual orientation, and a Republican lawmaker wants to add a person's beliefs about climate change to that list.
  
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• Iron Fist and John Wick have a scene in common but what does it mean?

  22-03-2017 23:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Warning: spoilers ahead for both Iron Fist and John Wick: Chapter 2
  
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• Here's what Iron Fist and John Wick have in common

  22-03-2017 23:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Warning: spoilers ahead for both Iron Fist and John Wick: Chapter 2
  
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• Ex-head of Colorado Republicans charged with voter fraud

  22-03-2017 23:46 via yahoo.com
  
  By Keith CoffmanDENVER (Reuters) - A Colorado talk radio host who once chaired the state Republican Party and has accused Democrats of widespread voter fraud has been charged with forging his ex-wife’s signature on a mail-in ballot in the 2016 election, court records showed on Wednesday.Steven Curtis, 57, who served as state GOP boss from 1997 until 1999, is charged with one felony count of forgery and one misdemeanor count of tampering with a mail-in ballot, according to a criminal compla
  
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• Gorsuch testimony concluding amid ironic Supreme Court decision

  22-03-2017 23:43 via yahoo.com
  On the same day Neil Gorsuch started to end his Senate testimony, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision that overruled a case based in part on a 2008 ruling made by Gorsuch.
  
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• 7 Richard Simmons Quotes We Love

  22-03-2017 23:41 via yahoo.com
  
  Richards Simmons took the fitness world by storm over three decades ago, with his inspiring story of weight loss and believing in himself. Watch the video to revisit all the times he reminded us to love yourself.
  
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• The Latest: Gorsuch flatters senators as questioning wraps

  22-03-2017 23:40 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch: (all times EDT):
  
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• GOP Health Care Bill On Life Support As Many GOP Lawmakers Hold Out

  22-03-2017 23:40 via yahoo.com
  
  An NBC News analysis shows that 28 House Republicans will probably vote against the bill. If those “no” votes hold, and no Democrats vote for the bill, the bill would fail during Thursday’s vote.
  
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• House Intel Cmte. Creates Confusion As Chairman Releases New Trump Details

  22-03-2017 23:38 via yahoo.com
  
  House Intel Committee Chairman Devin Nunes made revelations concerning "incidentally collected" intelligence related to the Trump campaign, triggering confusion about why he revealed the information.
  
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• The Latest: Mayor: Sword killing 'unspeakable human tragedy'

  22-03-2017 23:35 via yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the sword attack death of a black man in what police say was a racially motivated killing (all times local):
  
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• Resident Evil 7 Was Originally Much More Like RE6

  22-03-2017 23:35
  Resident Evil 7: Biohazard was originally more like Resident Evil 6 when Capcom first started developing the game.
  In a YouTube video about the making of Resident Evil 7, producer Masachika Kawata revealed the studio was struggling to come up with a way to reinvent the long-running horror series.
  "We were still developing the concept with the same kind of mindset" the team had for Resident Evil 6, "but it wasn't really coming together," Kawata said.
  It was only when executive producer Jun Takeuc
  
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• London Terror Attack: At Least 5 Killed, 40 Injured Outside Parliament

  22-03-2017 23:31 via yahoo.com
  
  An attacker plowed through pedestrians on Westminster Bridge before stabbing and killing a police officer outside Parliament in London on Wednesday.
  
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• Is FreedomPop's Crazy Cheap $20 Family Plan Worth It?

  22-03-2017 23:30 via yahoo.com
  
  Families looking to shave a lot of money off their monthly cell phone bill have a new option at discount carrier FreedomPop — provided they're also willing to skimp on data.Credit: Syda Productions/ShutterstockFreedomPop, which offers contract-free cell phone coverage over the networks of AT&T and Sprint, has added family plans to its list of service options.FreedomPop bills that as a free plan, though there is a $5 charge per line.
  
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• White House says it’s ‘insane’ to suggest Trump knew campaign chairman worked on pro-Putin project

  22-03-2017 23:20 via yahoo.com
  
  On Wednesday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer sought to put additional distance between President Trump and his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort.Yahoo News asked Spicer about an Associated Press report that Manafort crafted a plan to advance Putin’s interests in 2005 for a billionaire client with ties to the Russian president.
  
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• Beyond: Space-Kissing in Mass Effect Andromeda

  22-03-2017 23:19
  This week, join Max "Tallgeese" Scoville, Brian "Heavyarms" Altano, Marty "Shenlong" Sliva, and Miranda "Deathscythe Hell" Sanchez as they discuss Mass Effect Andromeda's mixed reception and sex scenes, Dark Souls III's final DLC, The Ringed City, and the odds of Sony talking about the Vita at E3.
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• North Korea missile test fails, U.S. and South say, as tensions simmer

  22-03-2017 22:57 via yahoo.com
  
  By Ju-min ParkSEOUL (Reuters) - A North Korean missile appeared to have exploded just after it was launched on Wednesday, the U.S. and South Korean militaries said after detecting the latest in a series of weapons tests by the nuclear-armed state that have alarmed the region.The launch attempt was made near the city of Wonsan, on North Korea's east coast, the same place it launched several intermediate-range missiles last year, all but one of which failed."U.S. Pacific Command detected what we a
  
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• US stocks end mostly higher ahead of legislative vote

  22-03-2017 22:33 via yahoo.com
  
  US stocks mostly rebounded Wednesday ahead of a key congressional vote on health care, but doubts about the prospects for President Donald Trump's broader agenda weighed on European and Asian equities.
  
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• 911 call: Mom tried to resuscitate unresponsive twin babies

  22-03-2017 22:33 via yahoo.com
  
  LINDENWOLD, N.J. (AP) — The mother of twin baby girls who were found dead in an apartment can be heard screaming on a 911 call that they "are not breathing and both are purple."
  
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• Can you tally up world progress?

  22-03-2017 22:28 via yahoo.com
  
  When the cold war ended a quarter century ago, and with it the division of the world into two “camps,” the United Nations decided to start measuring the progress of humanity as a whole.The hope behind such alternative indicators is that an attempt to measure something might help reveal what causes it or could push it along.
  
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• Nest Cam Just Dropped to Lowest Price Yet

  22-03-2017 22:18 via yahoo.com
  
  The Nest Cam Outdoor is a reliable outdoor security camera that provides good to high quality video and audio.Sadly, all of those features don't come cheap and the Nest Cam Outdoor's $199 price tag requires a bit of an investment.Fortunately, Amazon has lowered the price of this top-rated cam to $173.44, for an instant savings of $26.
  
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• Teacher Accused of Sexual Relations With Student Smiled in Mugshot Because She's Innocent: Lawyer

  22-03-2017 22:11 via yahoo.com
  
  Sarah Fowlkes was pictured grinning in her mugshot.
  
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• US military helping op to seize strategic dam near Syria's Raqa

  22-03-2017 22:08 via yahoo.com
  
  The US military provided air and artillery support -- and transported local forces -- in an offensive for a vitally important dam near the Islamic State group's stronghold of Raqa in Syria, officials said Wednesday.Colonel Joseph Scrocca, a spokesman for the US-led coalition helping local fighters, said US support came overnight Tuesday-Wednesday via Apache helicopter gunships, airlifts, air strikes and advice to the Syrian Democratic Forces, an Arab-Kurdish alliance.In a first, US forces helico
  
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• 8 Things You Didn’t Know About Breath of the Wild

  22-03-2017 22:08
  The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild doesn’t put you on a set path, it doesn’t hold your hand, and we love it for that. Nintendo had to conduct a lot of experiments in order to make a dynamic, open world game like it.  We recently sat down with game director Hidemaro Fujibayashi, technical director Takuhiro Dohta, and art director Satoru Takizawa to learn more about the process of creating one of the boldest entries in Nintendo’s lauded Zelda series.
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• Justice Department Sees Drop In Cases Against Corrupt Officials

  22-03-2017 22:07 via yahoo.com
  
  Government corruption has been in general decline over the past two decades, but the trend might've been difficult for the average American to notice.
  
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• Democrats grill U.S. high court nominee over Trump concerns

  22-03-2017 22:03 via yahoo.com
  
  By Lawrence Hurley and Andrew ChungWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch said on Wednesday presidents must obey court orders and expressed uncertainty about language in the Constitution barring U.S. government officials from taking payments from a foreign country as Democrats grilled him on issues involving President Donald Trump.Gorsuch, the conservative appeals court judge from Colorado nominated by Trump on Jan. 31 to a lifetime job on the nation's highest court, sparred w
  
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• Tillerson pledges safe areas for refugees, more pressure on Islamic State

  22-03-2017 21:59 via yahoo.com
  
  By Lesley Wroughton and Yara BayoumyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Wednesday the United States would set up "interim zones of stability" to help refugees return home in the next phase of the fight against Islamic State and al Qaeda in Syria and Iraq.The top U.S. diplomat did not make clear where these zones were to be set up.
  
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• Pokemon Go Water Festival update makes a Splash with extra Water-type Pokemon (and a Magikarp hat)

  22-03-2017 21:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Still haven't evolved that Magikarp into a Gyarados? Need a few more Dratini candy before you can get that uber-powerful Dragonite? Fret not, frustrated Pokemon Go players, for a new special event should help you along the way
  
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• Billionaire raises questions about Putin critic’s mysterious fall

  22-03-2017 21:57 via yahoo.com
  
  A U.K.-based billionaire is raising pointed questions about the most recent in a series of mysterious accidents, illnesses and muggings to befall critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin: lawyer Nikolai Gorokhov’s fall from a window of his fourth-floor apartment near Moscow earlier this week.“People don’t just go falling out of their apartments,” Bill Browder, the American-born CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, told Yahoo News and Finance Anchor Bianna Golodryg
  
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• South Korea raises sunken ferry: Yonhap

  22-03-2017 21:47 via yahoo.com
  
  Salvage operators raised part of South Korea's sunken Sewol ferry early Thursday, Yonhap news agency reported, nearly three years after the disaster killed more than 300 people and dealt a crippling blow to now-ousted president Park Geun-Hye."As of 3:45 am (1845 GMT Wednesday), part of the Sewol's structure, which is believed to be its stabilizer, can be seen above the water with the naked eye," an official from the Oceans and Fisheries Ministry was quoted as saying by Yonhap news agency.The ves
  
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• 2018 Toyota Sienna: Updated Looks and Tech to Match the Updated Powertrain

  22-03-2017 21:46 via yahoo.com
  
  New face and new tech for Toyota's preeminent people mover.
  
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• What we know about Trump team Russia links – and why that matters

  22-03-2017 21:29 via yahoo.com
  
  Paul Manafort was Donald Trump’s campaign manager for months in 2016.Mr. Manafort “played a very limited role for a very limited amount of time,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Monday at his daily briefing.Ditto longtime Trump associate Roger Stone and former foreign policy adviser Carter Page.
  
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• The Death Note Netflix trailer has arrived and fans aren't happy about it (except for Willem Dafoe, he's cool)

  22-03-2017 21:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  Netflix has shared the first trailer for its live-action film adaptation of Death Note, starring a dude with frosted tips as the main character and Willem Dafoe as his demon friend
  
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• White House all in before crucial health care vote: 'There is no Plan B'

  22-03-2017 21:05 via yahoo.com
  
  On what could be the eve of a crucial health care vote and with the reported numbers still seemingly unfavorable, the White House remained confident that the American Health Care Act would pass the House on Thursday.“Piece by piece, member by member, we’re getting there, and we’re getting much closer,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Wednesday of gathering the votes necessary to repeal Obamacare.The White House team did have some success on Wednesday, flippin
  
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• Puerto Rico governor, bondholders divided on PREPA deal

  22-03-2017 21:04 via yahoo.com
  
  Puerto Rico's governor told U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday the island's struggling power utility, PREPA, could undergo an in-court restructuring process akin to U.S. bankruptcy if a consensual deal with creditors cannot be achieved.Governor Ricardo Rossello said at a U.S. House Natural Resources subcommittee hearing his administration would prefer a consensual deal to bankruptcy, as lawmakers questioned him about delays in completing a $9 billion restructuring at PREPA.The hearing showcased growing
  
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• Photos of the day - March 22, 2017

  22-03-2017 21:03 via yahoo.com
  
  A peek at Boris in Washington; members of a Chinese honor guard salute caskets of Korean War dead; heavy snowfall in Northumberland, England; and people embrace during anniversary service for Brussels suicide attacks victims.
  
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• Trove Review

  22-03-2017 20:45
  Due to concerns over whether the Trove review meets with IGN's review standards, we've temporarily removed it pending reevaluation. We apologize to the IGN audience and the game’s developers and will be issuing a correction or re-review as soon as possible.
  
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• Ex-pharmacy exec convicted in deadly meningitis outbreak

  22-03-2017 20:45 via yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — The former head of a Massachusetts pharmacy was acquitted Wednesday of murder allegations but convicted of racketeering and other crimes in a meningitis outbreak that was traced to fungus-contaminated drugs and killed 64 people across the country.
  
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• Spicer says GOP health care bill will pass: ‘If you want to see Obamacare repealed and replaced, this is the vote’

  22-03-2017 20:34 via yahoo.com
  
  During his daily press briefing on March 22, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said multiple times that he believes the GOP's health care bill will pass on Thursday when it comes up for a vote in the House. Spicer added, “If you want to see Obamacare repealed and replaced, this is the vote,” and “If you’re waiting for your chance, this is it.”
  
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• Wisconsin man who threatened to kill Obama loses appeal

  22-03-2017 20:25 via yahoo.com
  
  The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago on Wednesday rejected Brian Dutcher's request that his January 2016 jury conviction be set aside because of a lack of evidence.Dutcher, 56, of Tomah, said he had been unable to carry out his threat, having been armed only with a slingshot, and no one took him seriously.Dutcher had written on Facebook that he planned to attend a July 2, 2015 event in La Crosse, Wisconsin, where Obama was giving a speech, and hoped to "get a clear shot at the preten
  
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• Trumpcare Gives Wealthiest 1% A $31B Taxcut

  22-03-2017 20:25 via yahoo.com
  
  A state-by-state analysis shows the most 1 percenters gaining tax relief from the bill live in California but the region with the greatest percentage of beneficiaries is the District of Columbia.
  
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• Florida nightclub shooting victims sue gunman's employer, widow

  22-03-2017 20:23 via yahoo.com
  
  More than 50 victims and survivors of the June 2016 massacre at a Florida nightclub sued the gunman's employer and widow on Wednesday, blaming them for failing to prevent the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.The lawsuit filed in the U.S. Southern District of Florida accused the security firm that hired shooter Omar Mateen of ignoring his comments supporting violence prior to the rampage that killed 49 and injured dozens at a gay nightclub in Orlando.The lawsuit accuses Mateen's wid
  
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• U.S. justices reject Gorsuch in win for disabled student

  22-03-2017 20:19 via yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected legal reasoning used by President Donald Trump's high court nominee Neil Gorsuch in his role as an appellate judge, ruling in favor of an autistic student who said he was denied an adequate education.The 8-0 ruling, authored by conservative Chief Justice John Roberts, was issued at the same time Gorsuch was facing questions during his Senate confirmation hearing about a 2008 case in which he ruled against an autistic child who sought a public educatio
  
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• Destiny's Age of Triumph Stream Shows Off New Weapons and Gear

  22-03-2017 20:15
  Bungie showcased new gear and revised weapons during its final live stream leading up to Destiny Age of Triumph, the final update coming to the company's online multiplayer shooter.
  Earlier in March Bungie teased new Destiny armor sets for Vault of Glass and Crota's End, ad today they finally showed them off. New armor sets will be available for all of the previously released raids. Each set is designed around the specific enemy race found at the raid and include flashy new visual effects,
  
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• How China’s History Shapes, and Warps, its Policies Today

  22-03-2017 20:04 via yahoo.com
  
  For Beijing, the past is exceptionally useful, and usefully exceptional.
  
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• US, Italy And Scotland Boost Security After London Attack

  22-03-2017 20:01 via yahoo.com
  
  The terrorist attack outside of Britain's Parliament building led officials in other regions to increase safeguards on potential targets, despite a lack of apparent security threat.
  
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• Pharmacist guilty of fraud, not murder, in U.S. meningitis outbreak

  22-03-2017 20:00 via yahoo.com
  
  By Nate RaymondBOSTON (Reuters) - The co-founder of a now-defunct Massachusetts compounding pharmacy was found guilty of racketeering and fraud but cleared of murder on Wednesday for his role in a 2012 meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people across the United States.Barry Cadden, who was a co-owner and president of New England Compounding Center, was convicted by a federal jury in Boston after a two-month trial centered on an outbreak linked to the company's drug that sickened 753 people in 20
  
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• Oregon teen's mom: Feds should probe fatal police shooting

  22-03-2017 19:51 via yahoo.com
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mother of an Oregon teenager who was fatally shot by a Portland police officer is demanding a federal Justice Department investigation into her son's death.
  
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• Woody Harrelson on the Han Solo movie: 'I really feel like we’re gonna make the best one'

  22-03-2017 19:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  Woody Harrelson is a talented actor, able to portray a wide range of characters
  
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