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• US to test anti-missile system amid N Korea tensions

  07-07-2017 23:43 via yahoo.com
  
  The US Missile Defense Agency said Friday it would soon test an anti-ballistic missile system, days after North Korea demonstrated its arsenal was capable of striking parts of Alaska.The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system to be tested is designed to intercept and destroy short-, medium- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles during their final phase of flight.The MDA said the test against a ballistic missile target would be conducted at the Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska in
  
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• Supreme Court lifts block on Wisconsin 'cocaine mom' law during appeal

  07-07-2017 23:40 via yahoo.com
  
  In its brief order, the Supreme Court did not give any reasons for lifting an injunction against the so-called "cocaine mom" law imposed last April by a federal judge in Madison, Wisconsin, who said it was unconstitutionally vague.Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor said they would have kept the injunction in place.
  
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• 37 Years After Family Moved Into Home, a Light Bulb Inside Still Shines

  07-07-2017 23:39 via yahoo.com
  
  The company moved into their home in 1980.
  
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• What Does the Body Language of President Trump and Vladimir Putin Say About Their First Meeting?

  07-07-2017 23:30 via yahoo.com
  
  The two appeared to share some sort of private joke as they met Friday.
  
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• Hawaii claims new “Muslim ban” is now operating

  07-07-2017 23:17 via yahoo.com
  
  Lawyers for the state of Hawaii, arguing that the Trump Administration is “imposing a new Muslim ban wholly divorced from any national security rationale,” urged a federal appeals courton Friday to take steps to ensure that more foreign nationals and refugees get to enter the United States in coming weeks and months.
  
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• U.S. senator urges DOJ to reject any White House push in merger probes

  07-07-2017 23:16 via yahoo.com
  
  By Diane BartzWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Amy Klobuchar, the top Democrat on the Senate antitrust panel, sent a letter to the U.S. Justice Department on Friday urging that it reject any effort by the White House to inject politics into merger investigations.The letter follows a New York Times report saying that White House advisors battling television news station CNN mulled using a government review of AT&T Inc's plans to merge with CNN parent Time Warner Inc as leverage."Any political i
  
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• HBO releases Game of Thrones season 7 episode titles and synopses, and hoo boy are they spoiler-y

  07-07-2017 23:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  In preparation for the debut of Game of Thrones season 7 on July 16, HBO has released the official titles and synopses for the first three episodes
  
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• First Lady Trapped In Hamburg Guest House Amid Escalating Protests

  07-07-2017 23:11 via yahoo.com
  
  Melania Trump had a rough day.
  
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• Merkel rolls her eyes at Putin

  07-07-2017 23:06 via yahoo.com
  
  While the focus at the G-20 Summit has been on the first meeting between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, an encounter between Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel also raised eyebrows, literally. At one point, Merkel appeared to roll her eyes at Putin. It's unclear what the two world leaders were discussing that prompted the reaction.
  
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• Groups condemn El Salvador's jailing woman after miscarriage

  07-07-2017 23:02 via yahoo.com
  
  SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — International human rights organizations are condemning the sentencing of a woman in El Salvador to 30 years in prison after what she said was a miscarriage.
  
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• Man Arrested for Allegedly Housing Dangerous Reptiles, Including Alligators and Venomous Snakes

  07-07-2017 22:54 via yahoo.com
  
  Officials reportedly recovered 80 venomous snakes, as well as five to eight alligators, gila monsters, snapping turtles and birds from the house.
  
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• Having trouble keeping up with all the betrayal on Game of Thrones? This infographic breaks it down

  07-07-2017 22:54 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Game of Thrones universe is a notoriously unfriendly place, where everyone needs to watch their backs, lest they end up perforated with knives (usually wielded by those once thought to be friends)
  
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• Not many good North Korea options if pressure fails: Tillerson

  07-07-2017 22:52 via yahoo.com
  
  By Jeff MasonHAMBURG (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Friday there would not be many good options left on North Korea if the peaceful pressure campaign the United States has been pushing to curb Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs failed."We have not given up hope," Tillerson told reporters after U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met on the sidelines of a G20 summit, just days after North Korea conducted what it said was its first test
  
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• The Professor Layton Spinoff Gets Its First English Trailer

  07-07-2017 22:48
  
  Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy is a new game that marks the tenth anniversary of the Professor Layton series, and today it got its first English trailer.
  The trailer introduces us to the new protagonist, Professor Layton's daughter Katrielle, and her talking-dog sidekick. It looks like the series mind-bending puzzles, beautiful art, and quirky sense of humor will all be present as Katrielle tries to get to the bottom of a whopping conspiracy and find her mi
  
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• Video: Art directing the procedurally-generated dystopia of We Happy Few

  07-07-2017 22:35
  
  Compulsion Games' Whitney Clayton speaks at GDC 2017 about research, world building, and production challenges on We Happy Few, a game set in a procedurally-generated '60 dystopian drug paradise. ...
  
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• Yet another wireless carrier has launched a good unlimited plan

  07-07-2017 22:20 via yahoo.com
  
  "Unlimited" data plans are all the rage this year. After T-Mobile debuted its mostly-unlimited One plan to a ton of splash last year, Verizon, Sprint, and AT&T all followed suit, and we're now at the point where every major network has some kind of unlimited plan available.
  But if you're a shrewd little shopper, you will  hopefully have realized by now that there's far more than four places to buy your wireless service. Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) are third-party companies
  
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• U.S. judge rejects Texas professors' bid to halt student gun carry

  07-07-2017 22:18 via yahoo.com
  
  A U.S. judge rejected efforts by three University of Texas professors to ban students from bringing guns to their classrooms after the state granted them that right last year, court documents showed on Friday.Professors Jennifer Glass, Lisa Moore and Mia Carter had argued in a federal district court in Austin that academic freedom and classroom debate could be chilled under the so-called "campus carry" law backed by the state's Republican political leaders.
  
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• G-20 Communique May Further Isolate U.S. on Climate Change

  07-07-2017 22:13 via yahoo.com
  
  It’s likely that 19 countries will affirm their commitment to the Paris Climate agreement, leaving Trump alone in rejecting it.
  
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• We Tested 12 Protein Bars, And This Is The Best!

  07-07-2017 22:11 via yahoo.com
  
  Discover which of your favorite protein bars should be barred from your diet.“I love protein bars,” my friend Sarah said the other day.Some bars have as much sugar and fat as a candy bar, and others contain more calories than you should eat between meals.
  
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• 122 countries adopt global treaty banning nuclear weapons

  07-07-2017 22:11 via yahoo.com
  
  A global treaty banning nuclear weapons was adopted at the United Nations on Friday despite opposition from nuclear powers Britain, France and the United States which said it disregards the reality of dealing with international security threats such as North Korea.The treaty was adopted by a vote of 122 in favor with one country -- NATO member The Netherlands -- voting against, while Singapore abstained.
  
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• Xbox VP says giving games as digital gifts is "not far" off on Xbox One

  07-07-2017 22:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Currently, none of the major consoles have the ability for one owner to gift a digital game to another owner - not in a way that doesn't involve copy-pasting strings of code or forking over a wad of cash, anyway
  
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• How Nintendo is using first-party Switch games to inspire third-party devs

  07-07-2017 21:59
  
  "It was important to have these three very different [launch games] to be able to transmit to the people the originality of the console," notes Nintendo's Shinya Takahashi....
  
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• Black Lives Matter leaders sued over Baton Rouge police shooting

  07-07-2017 21:44 via yahoo.com
  
  The lawsuit filed in a U.S. district court in Louisiana named DeRay McKesson and four other Black Lives Matter leaders as defendants and sought at least $75,000 in damages.On July 7, 2016, a black man angered by what he saw as deadly racial bias in U.S. policing launched a downtown Dallas sniper attack, killing five officers deployed at a protest decrying police shootings of black men.McKesson was not immediately available for comment and Black Lives Matter leaders have denied accusations that t
  
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• U.S. side says Trump pressed Putin on election meddling, now wants to ‘move forward’

  07-07-2017 21:41 via yahoo.com
  
  President Trump on Friday repeatedly “pressed” Russian President Vladimir Putin on Moscow’s alleged interference in the 2016 election, only to be rebuffed, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said.
  
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• Funeral held for slain San Antonio police officer

  07-07-2017 21:32 via yahoo.com
  
  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Speakers at the funeral Friday for a slain San Antonio police officer included Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the officer's brother, who had been inspired by his sibling to join the force.
  
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• Grab these beautiful Destiny 2 wallpapers and finally give Sweeper Bot the recognition it deserves

  07-07-2017 21:25 via gamesradar.com
  
  These Destiny 2 wallpapers show off one element of Destiny that needed no improvement for its sequel: that fantastic art direction
  
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• Doomfist Is Overwatch's First Real Villain and That's Good

  07-07-2017 21:24
  Blizzard made waves ahead of the weekend by revealing the next hero to join the ever-expanding roster of Overwatch. To say that fans have been waiting for Doomfist would be an understatement; since his gauntlet was a plot point in the announcement trailer, anticipation for him has nearly rivaled that of Sombra.
  After a tease earlier in the week about his escape from prison, the long-awaited Doomfist will soon be available for the masses to get their hands on. He’s sadly not voiced by Terry
  
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• Someone supposedly won a dinner with President Trump last month, but we don’t know who

  07-07-2017 21:19 via yahoo.com
  
  Did you win a trip to Washington last month to meet President Trump at the Trump Victory Dinner at Trump International Hotel?Someone did, or was supposed to, according to a post on the official website of Donald J. Trump for President.
  
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• Fable Fortune Release Date Delayed

  07-07-2017 21:16
  Fable Fortune, the collectible card game set in the Fable universe, has been delayed to July 25.
  The Fable spinoff was previously scheduled to come to PC in Early Access and Xbox One in Xbox Game Preview on July 11. But, due to "an administration hiccup," developers Mediatonic and Flaming Fowl Studios aren't able to launch the Xbox One version of the game next week.
  As such, in order to release the PC and Xbox One versions simultaneously and make the most of cross-play between the two platf
  
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• Diablo 3: Rise of the Necromancer Review

  07-07-2017 21:15
  While Diablo 3 has generally done an admirable job giving all of its classes a distinct identity and interesting mechanics, Rise of the Necromancer sets the bar a few notches higher. Even as someone who’s played half a dozen builds of each of the other six Nephalem heroes, the Necromancer managed to surprise me and change the way I think about slaying demons en masse.
  While the Necromancer has a resource pool like the other classes – Essence, effectively a magic meter which recharges
  
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• Get a job: Yager is looking for a Gameplay Programmer

  07-07-2017 21:05
  
  Yager is on the hunt for a Gameplay Programmer to implement gameplay systems, write clear code, and contribute to the development of its free to play project Dreadnought....
  
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• North Korea Needs Nukes Because of Its Religion

  07-07-2017 20:56 via yahoo.com
  
  Kim Jong Un can’t stop his nuclear program without threatening the national ideology that keeps him in power.
  
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• Woman charged with killing family smiles in court

  07-07-2017 20:52 via yahoo.com
  
  Woman charged with killing family smiles in court.
  
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• Finding the Best Deals on Amazon Prime Day

  07-07-2017 20:49 via yahoo.com
  
  Amazon will kick off its third annual Black-Friday-in-July shopping event, Amazon Prime Day, on Monday night. The sale will run through the end of Tuesday, July 11. After an inauspicious start in...
  
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• Maduro Tells State Employees to Vote in His Constitutional Reform

  07-07-2017 20:47 via yahoo.com
  
  As Venezuela’s crisis deepens, the regime tries to leverage vulnerable state workers to support its agenda.
  
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• Don't Miss: A classic postmortem of Treyarch's 2002 Spider-Man

  07-07-2017 20:43
  
  As we line up for another Spider-Man movie and look towards the next Spider-Man game, take a minute to check out this breakdown of the PS2 game created for the original, 2002 film. ...
  
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• Ohio sheriff won't let deputies carry Narcan, citing safety

  07-07-2017 20:40 via yahoo.com
  
  HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — A sheriff in an Ohio county with record numbers of overdose deaths in recent years is sticking to his long-standing refusal to allow deputies to carry an overdose-reversal drug.
  
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• The Navy Needs a Way to Reload Missile Silos at Sea

  07-07-2017 20:19 via yahoo.com
  
  The way things are going these days, the service is anticipating a time when it might use a lot of missiles at once.
  
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• Mars Is Even Less Hospitable Than We Thought

  07-07-2017 20:19 via yahoo.com
  
  New research shows the unique cocktail of Martian surface chemicals is extremely deadly to bacteria.
  
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• Two years in, Steam is Rocket League's least popular platform

  07-07-2017 20:17
  
  According to developer Psyonix, the bulk of Rocket League's active players call the PlayStation 4 home, followed by the Xbox One and Steam. ...
  
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• The Cheesecake Factory Unveils An Over-The-Top Funfetti Cheesecake

  07-07-2017 20:13 via yahoo.com
  
  Birthdays never tasted so good.
  
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• Starbucks Almost Had The Ugliest Name Ever

  07-07-2017 20:13 via yahoo.com
  
  This is why we have focus groups.
  
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• People Are Pissed About This Man's Chipotle "Hack"

  07-07-2017 20:13 via yahoo.com
  
  It's pretty damn ridiculous.
  
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• Foods Ina Garten Refuses To Eat

  07-07-2017 20:13 via yahoo.com
  
  And the one grocery store item she absolutely disdains.
  
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• Flower Girl, 92, Steals the Show at Her Granddaughter's Wedding: 'An Experience I'll Never Forget'

  07-07-2017 20:12 via yahoo.com
  
  Georgiana Arlt, 92, was the flower girl at her granddaughter's wedding and the woman found the experience to be absolutely thrilling.
  
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• Creationist allowed to chisel away at Grand Canyon under Trump's new religious freedom order

  07-07-2017 20:08 via yahoo.com
  
  An Australian creationist has received permission to collect rocks from the Grand Canyon in an attempt to prove the occurance of a great biblical flood - thanks in part a recent executive order from Donald Trump.The National Parks service recently approved an application from Andrew Snelling, a certified geologist and evangelical Christian, which will allow him to collect “50 or 60” fist-sized rocks from the Grand Canyon.Mr Snelling said the samples will serve his work of "investigat
  
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• Android’s biggest issue is as prominent in 2017 as it’s ever been

  07-07-2017 20:03 via yahoo.com
  
  If you thought that this might be the year that Google finally solved its Android fragmentation problem, I have some bad news for you. As of July 6th, Android 7.0 (the most recent version of the OS) is running on 11.5% of Android devices. That's 4.4% higher than May 2nd, but don't forget that Android 7.0 first began rolling out to Nexus devices in August 2016. Quite a wait for double-digit adoption.Breaking down the numbers a bit further, Google's Android Dashboard shows that 10.6% of Android us
  
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• Trump, Tillerson Tap Russia Hawk Volker for Ukraine Envoy

  07-07-2017 19:58 via yahoo.com
  
  The former NATO ambassador inherits a simmering conflict in Ukraine and a showdown with Russia.
  
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• The Latest: Tillerson says no long-term role for Assad

  07-07-2017 19:42 via yahoo.com
  
  HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump's second official visit to Europe (all times local):
  
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• Anti-Qatar bloc threatens further steps against Gulf state

  07-07-2017 19:35 via yahoo.com
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Four Arab countries isolating Qatar vowed Friday to take additional steps against the energy rich Gulf state after it refused to accept their demands over allegations that it supports extremist ideology.
  
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