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• Eleven killed in suspected suicide bombing on Russian metro train

  03-04-2017 23:56 via yahoo.com
  
  By Denis PinchukST. PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - A blast in a St Petersburg train carriage on Monday that killed 11 people and injured 45 was carried out by a suspected suicide bomber with ties to radical Islamists, Russia's Interfax news agency cited a law enforcement source as saying.Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was in the city when the blast struck, visited the scene of the explosion late on Monday night and laid a bunch of red flowers at a makeshift shrine to the victims.
  
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• Man Fatally Shoots Girlfriend, Her 8-Year-Old Son and Injures 4 Others: Cops

  03-04-2017 23:55 via yahoo.com
  
  Allen Cashe has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and four counts of attempted murder.
  
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• NY Fed President Says It May Be Time To Talk About Free College Tuition

  03-04-2017 23:54 via yahoo.com
  
  Student loan debt is suppressing home ownership and making it problematic for the Federal Reserve to decide on the optimal interest rate.
  
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• Zoo Visitors Shocked to See First Critically Endangered Orangutan Born in Nearly a Decade

  03-04-2017 23:53 via yahoo.com
  
  Officials said the newborn Bornean orangutan is a significant addition to a population classified as "critically endangered" last year.
  
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• Glenn Beck bashes Trump White House for ‘professional nepotism’

  03-04-2017 23:38 via yahoo.com
  
  In light of Jared Kushner’s unexpected arrival in Iraq on Monday, conservative commentator Glenn Beck expressed concerns about President Trump’s son-in-law-turned-senior-adviser’s large role in the White House.“This is professional nepotism,” Beck told Yahoo News and Finance Anchor Bianna Golodryga in a Monday interview.Kushner’s White House portfolio has repeatedly expanded and now includes China policy, tax reform, brokering peace in the Middle East and runn
  
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• Watch their steps: Track journey of Yosemite bears online

  03-04-2017 23:30 via yahoo.com
  
  FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Wildlife enthusiasts around the world can now follow the daily journey of Yosemite National Park's black bears from their laptops and smartphones, tracking the iconic animals as they lope up steep canyons and cross vast distances in search of food and mates.
  
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• Trump to hold town hall meeting with about 50 business leaders

  03-04-2017 23:29 via yahoo.com
  
  By David ShepardsonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump plans to hold a town hall meeting with about 50 business leaders on Tuesday at the White House to talk about ways of improving the business climate, his administration said on Monday.The meeting, which will include the chief executives of Citigroup Inc, Blackstone Group LP, JetBlue Airways Corp, Mastercard Inc and the New York Stock Exchange, will involve discussions on infrastructure, modernizing government, workforce development
  
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• Dog Rescued After Dropping Into 30-Foot Well

  03-04-2017 23:24 via yahoo.com
  
  She wasn't injured.
  
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• Is Trump Russia’s Useful Idiot, or Has He Been Irreparably Compromised?

  03-04-2017 23:17 via yahoo.com
  
  That’s the question that needs answering. Everything else is a distraction.
  
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• Trump donates 3 months’ salary to Interior Department, offsetting 0.005% of proposed budget cut

  03-04-2017 23:14 via yahoo.com
  
  The White House announced Monday that President Trump would be donating his first-quarter salary to the Department of the Interior, which stands to lose $1.6 billion under his budget proposal.
  
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• Mass Effect: Andromeda NPC Hints at Possible Story DLC

  03-04-2017 23:09
  Outside of the free multiplayer DLC and lack of a season pass, Bioware hasn't revealed much about its plans for Mass Effect: Andromeda's DLC. However, a conversation at the end of the game hits at what could be next for Pathfinder Ryder.
  Below are full spoilers for a conversation that occurs after completing the campaign.
  It looks like one piece of story DLC involves finding another lost ark based on a conversation found in the epilogue.
  At the beginning of the game Director Tann reveals that an
  
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• 2017 Mini Cooper Countryman Grows Bigger, Gains Power, and Adds Practicality

  03-04-2017 23:09 via yahoo.com
  
  A model from the Mini brand is unmistakable, no matter the guise, version, or body style. Some may consider the all-new 2017 Mini Cooper Countryman—the biggest Mini yet—an SUV, but the model embo...
  
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• US, European stocks fall after Russian metro blast

  03-04-2017 23:03 via yahoo.com
  
  European and US stocks fell Monday as a deadly subway explosion in Russia rattled the market, along with anxiety over a key a US-China summit later in the week.
  
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• Trump's son-in-law, Kushner, flies into Iraq with top U.S. general

  03-04-2017 22:59 via yahoo.com
  
  By Phil StewartBAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, flew into Iraq on Monday with the top U.S. general to get a first-hand assessment of the battle against Islamic State from U.S. commanders on the ground and Iraqi leaders.For Kushner, who has not been to Iraq before, the trip comes at a critical time as Trump examines ways to accelerate a U.S.-led coalition campaign that U.S. and Iraqi officials say has so far been largely successful in uprooting Islamic
  
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• Tesla now 2nd largest US automaker as competitors' sales falter

  03-04-2017 22:56 via yahoo.com
  
  Tesla on Monday became the second-largest US car maker in terms of market capitalization, displacing Ford, whose sales lagged amid concerns about the ability of the US market to keep growing.Many major auto makers reported US sales declines in March compared to a year ago, but Tesla over the weekend said it saw a huge jump in vehicles delivered to consumers in the first three months of the year.Tesla said it delivered 25,000 of its high-tech vehicles in the January-March period -- a 69 percent s
  
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• HTC aims to immerse Vive owners in a VR app subscription service

  03-04-2017 22:55
  
  Among the 50+ apps available to subscribers at launch are games like Fantastic Contraption, making this the first high-profile VR game subscription service. ...
  
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• The Latest: McConnell stops short of pledging rule change

  03-04-2017 22:46 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court (all times local):
  
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• Video: Epic's guide to keeping players engaged via emotional game design

  03-04-2017 22:39
  
  At GDC 2017's UX Summit, Epic's Jim Brown hops onstage to expound on the basic emotions that drive everyone -- and how you can design your game to effectively evoke those emotions in your players. ...
  
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• Meeting Egypt’s Sisi, Trump publicly silent on human rights

  03-04-2017 22:35 via yahoo.com
  
  During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump condemned the Obama administration for not doing more to publicly promote human rights in the Muslim world. But now that he has reached the White House, Trump has muted those concerns — notably declining to raise them publicly as he met Monday with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
  
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• Pentagon reviewing how it counts troop numbers

  03-04-2017 22:32 via yahoo.com
  
  The Pentagon is reviewing how it counts US troop numbers in Iraq and Syria, an official said Monday, as it moves from Obama-era troop limits that critics said were misleading.Currently, the Pentagon provides "force management levels" that set limits on how many US troops are supposedly in each country.Former president Barack Obama, who tried to end US involvement in Middle East conflicts, set relatively low numbers to avoid the impression America was getting dragged back into new wars.
  
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• Bill Cosby returns to court and more: April 3 in photos

  03-04-2017 22:22 via yahoo.com
  
  Actor Bill Cosby leaves for a lunch break during a hearing for his upcoming sexual assault trial at Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania; Displaced Iraqis who had fled their homes wait to enter at Hammam al-Alil camp south of Mosul, Iraq; and, A man on stilts points as Travis Gonick, left, and his son T.J., center, both of Nutley N.J., enter Fenway Park for a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the Pittsburgh Pirates on opening day in Boston.
  
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• Mike Epps Sorry For Kangaroo Stunt, Feds To Get Involved?

  03-04-2017 22:10 via yahoo.com
  
  A stunt by comedian Mike Epps involving a real kangaroo could get him in trouble.
  
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• Total War: Warhammer 2 Reveal Trailer THEORIES, Analysis and Hidden Details

  03-04-2017 22:02
  
  With the official reveal of Total War: Warhammer 2 out in the open and its awesome announcement trailer going live just a few days ago, it appears we're in for a whole new theater of Warhammer war. In that reveal trailer, we're treated to a ton of valuable information, so let's unpack it and go through what's confirmed, what suggested, a few theories, secrets, and everything else you might have missed.
  Though the Total War: Warhammer 2 reveal left us with a vague 2017 release window, we know it'
  
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• Regime strikes kill 28 civilians near Damascus: monitor

  03-04-2017 22:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Air strikes by Syrian warplanes on a rebel-held region near Damascus killed at least 28 civilians on Monday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.The highest toll was in Douma, the largest town in the Eastern Ghouta region, where raids killed 22 civilians including at least two children, it said.An AFP correspondent at the town hospital said he saw many wounded people, their faces bloodied.
  
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• Bill O'Reilly Loses Major Advertiser After Reports of Harassment

  03-04-2017 21:49 via yahoo.com
  
  Mercedes-Benz pulls "The O'Reilly Factor" ads after reports of a $13M harassment settlement against Bill O'Reilly. Plus, a new suit against fmr. chairman Roger Ailes. Gabriel Sherman, who literally wrote the book on Fox News.
  
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• No charges against Oklahoma man who killed 3 intruders

  03-04-2017 21:43 via yahoo.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma prosecutor said Monday no charges will be filed against a 23-year-old man who fatally shot three teenage intruders in his home, but that the woman who drove them there is being charged with first-degree murder.
  
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• Apple has started preparing for crazy iPhone 8 sales

  03-04-2017 21:35 via yahoo.com
  
  Apple has placed an order for 70 million OLED screens from Samsung, according to a new report from Nikkei. The gargantuan order further underscores Apple's belief that the iPhone 8 -- rumored to be the only device in Apple's 2017 iPhone lineup with an OLED display -- will be incredibly popular. What's more, the report adds that Samsung is planning to manufacture 95 million OLED screens for Apple just in case demand for the device is even higher than anticipated.Word of Apple's massive OLED order
  
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• White House on Jared Kushner’s growing portfolio

  03-04-2017 21:32 via yahoo.com
  
  On Monday, April 3, White House press secretary Sean Spicer answered questions surrounding President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. He is currently in Iraq to meet with leaders and to be briefed in the fight against the Islamic State. Spicer also answered questions about Kushner’s growing portfolio in recent weeks.
  
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• Persona 5 dev blocks PS4 sharing features in the name of storytelling

  03-04-2017 21:27
  
  While it's common for games to limit share features during certain scenes, it's rare to see a game completely prohibit use of the PlayStation 4's built-in video and image sharing capability. ...
  
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• What's Behind the Arctic's Mysterious Green Ice?

  03-04-2017 21:20 via yahoo.com
  
  It should be dark under the ice cover of the Arctic, and yet in 2011, scientists were perplexed when they discovered phytoplankton blooming beneath it, giving the ice a greenish hue.A large bloom of phytoplankton, which is algae, was first found growing under the Arctic sea ice in 2011.New research has shown, however, that the thinning sea ice allows enough light to pass through for the phytoplankton to bloom.
  
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• LuLaRoe Gets Slammed With Lawsuit for Faulty Leggings

  03-04-2017 21:16 via yahoo.com
  
  Fashion brand LuLa Roe is being slammed with a lawsuit over faulty merchandise.
  
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• Years after bizarre events led to buried bodies, trial set

  03-04-2017 21:14 via yahoo.com
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A landscaper made a discovery four years ago at a Phoenix home that provided a big break in a missing-persons case: A plywood box buried in the backyard that contained the mummified corpses of a couple.
  
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• Watch Aquaman's Queen Mera practice her fighting skills

  03-04-2017 21:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  It won't just be aqua-lads getting their kicks in with Justice League and the Aquaman solo film - a certain aqua-lady is getting into fighting shape as well
  
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• EPA head Scott Pruitt may have broken integrity rules by denying global warming

  03-04-2017 21:13 via yahoo.com
  
  Well, this is a new one.  Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is under investigation by his own agency for misstating the basic scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.   Turns out that providing misguiding scientific information to the public isn't a cool thing to do, after all — even in the Trump administration.SEE ALSO: Looking for hope on climate change under Trump? Cities are where the action is.EPA administrator Scott Pr
  
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• Russia Nixes Former White House Aide for Top U.N. Job in Libya

  03-04-2017 21:10 via yahoo.com
  
  The Trump administration’s torpedoing of a former Palestinian prime minister as U.N. envoy to Libya may have boomeranged on the White House.
  
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• France's Fillon says would launch probe into Hollande if elected

  03-04-2017 21:07 via yahoo.com
  
  By Adrian CroftPARIS (Reuters) - French presidential candidate Francois Fillon, an outsider to win after involvement in a financial scandal, said on Monday he would order a parliamentary inquiry into allegations President Francois Hollande interfered in the justice system, if elected.Once the frontrunner, the conservative former prime minister's poll ratings have slumped since allegations surfaced that he paid his wife, a son and a daughter hundreds of thousands of euros of public money for mini
  
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• 'Selfie monkeys' are now endangered because people can't stop eating them

  03-04-2017 20:39 via yahoo.com
  
  Apparently, everyone's favorite adorable "selfie monkey" is cute enough to eat—literally, in Indonesia.   The crested black macaque became legendary after one of them, Naruto, took a selfie of himself in 2011 and catapulted into internet stardom. Though approximately 2,000 of the macaques remain protected in one of the country's reserves, the primate is now critically endangered due to over-hunting, according to a new report from Seeker.SEE ALSO: You can now take selfies... with your
  
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• Blog: How to have a good meeting

  03-04-2017 20:37
  
  Meetings suck, but they don't have to. I designed seven simple rules to make every meeting a good meeting. Take a look....
  
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• Don't Miss: Lessons learned developing 2 games for 4 VR platforms

  03-04-2017 20:36
  
  So what's it like to make games for all these different virtual reality headsets? That's exactly what VR game developer E McNeill spoke to in this talk he gave at the inaugural VRDC during GDC 2016....
  
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• Democrats to filibuster Neil Gorsuch amid Supreme Court showdown

  03-04-2017 20:36 via yahoo.com
  
  Forty-one Senate Democrats have announced they will filibuster President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, setting up a partisan showdown over the hidebound institution’s internal rules this week.In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Monday afternoon, Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., became the latest Democrat to say he would vote no on cloture for Gorsuch.Senate precedent requires 60 votes to end a filibuster — an indefinite debate — and proceed to a vote for Suprem
  
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• College student dies after choking at pancake-eating contest

  03-04-2017 20:26 via yahoo.com
  
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A college student whose father was killed in the Sept. 11 attacks has died after choking during a pancake-eating contest.
  
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• Fmr Trump Adviser Had Been Russian Spy Target

  03-04-2017 20:25 via yahoo.com
  
  Ali Watkins, national security correspondent for Buzzfeed News, talks with Rachel Maddow about confirming with Carter Page his unwitting contact with Russian spies in 2013, years before he became a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump.
  
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• U.S. immigration changes threaten H-1B visa eligibility for some programmers

  03-04-2017 19:58
  
  A memo issued this past weekend could prevent game developers from applying to work in the United States under an H-1B visa if the position they'd be filling isn't deemed to be a specialized role. ...
  
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• A Complete Guide to Prey's Preorder Bonuses

  03-04-2017 19:58
  There’s a good chance you’re feeling overwhelmed by all the big, high-quality games that have come out over the past few months. If so, I have some bad news for you: 2017 isn’t easing up yet.
  More promising games are in the pipeline, including Prey, from Arkane Studios, the makers of the Dishonored franchise. The game comes out May 5 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. If you haven’t seen it yet, be sure to check out our Prey hands-on preview for a detailed look at the g
  
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• The Royal Gifts: 65 years of presents given to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II

  03-04-2017 19:54 via yahoo.com
  
  A “royal” version of a London Underground sign, a bronze owl and a beaded throne are some of the gifts given to Queen Elizabeth II that will make up an exhibit to be shown during the annual summer opening of the state rooms at Buckingham Palace.
  
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• Catwoman Gets Cracking In New Gameplay Trailer

  03-04-2017 19:50
  
  Another week, another Injustice 2 trailer. This time, NetherRealm studios has seen fit to grace fans with a new gameplay trailer showing off Catwoman's various moves and abilities. Fans also get a closer look at Injustice 2's Batcave, a new stage transition, and some quality Harley Quinn-Selina Kyle interaction. You can take a look at the full trailer down below.
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  Gameplay wise, Catwoman seems to have gotten a pretty big overhaul since the first Injusti
  
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• Destiny 2's reveal trailer wasn't just loot jokes and Gary, look at these hints and teasers

  03-04-2017 19:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  The cinematic debut trailer for Destiny 2 gave us a lot to mull over: the City has fallen, the Guardians have scattered, and all of our stuff has been exploded
  
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• Man Nearly Electrocuted While Lying in Bed With iPhone: It Was God Who Saved My Life

  03-04-2017 19:36 via yahoo.com
  
  He drove himself to the doctor after the accident.
  
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• Lithuania says Russia has ability to launch Baltic attack in 24 hours

  03-04-2017 19:33 via yahoo.com
  
  By Andrius SytasVILNIUS (Reuters) - Russia has developed the capability to launch an attack on the Baltic states with as little as 24 hours' notice, limiting NATO's options to respond other than to have military forces already deployed in the region, Lithuania's intelligence service said on Monday.Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, annexed by the Soviet Union in the 1940s but now part of both NATO and the European Union, have been increasingly nervous since the Russian takeover of Crimea in 2014.The
  
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• Second Lady Criticized For 'Thanking' Female Service Members

  03-04-2017 19:23 via yahoo.com
  
  Karen Pence made spoke and attended events honoring women in the military, but did not address the nude photo-sharing scandal.
  
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