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• Mars Has a Mysterious "Tail," According to New Find From NASA Spacecraft

  19-10-2017 23:53 via yahoo.com
  So wonderfully weird.
  
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• Gold Star Father Khizr Khan On Trump: 'He Has Embarrassed The Nation'

  19-10-2017 23:47 via yahoo.com
  A Gold Star father whose son died while serving in Iraq and who became part of the contentious 2016 presidential campaign said President Donald Trump simply can’t comprehend what it means to make the “ultimate sacrifice” for his country.
  
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• CIA chief: if Kim Jong-Un should disappear... uh, let's not talk about it

  19-10-2017 23:41 via yahoo.com
  The US Central Intelligence Agency thinks that North Korea's Kim Jong-un is a rational actor who is focused on staying in power and "waking up in his own bed" each day."With respect to, if Kim Jong-Un should vanish, given the history of the CIA, I'm just not going to talk about it," the CIA director said Thursday, when asked what would happen if Kim suddenly died.'You know, there was an accident.' It's just not fruitful," he said to laughs from a Washington audience full of national security off
  
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• Harvey Weinstein being investigated by LAPD for alleged rape in 2013

  19-10-2017 23:40 via yahoo.com
  Harvey Weinstein is being investigated by the Los Angeles Police Department for an alleged rape that occurred in 2013, police Captain Billy Hayes confirmed on Thursday.
  
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• A SoCal Brunch Spot Was Caught Using Popeyes Chicken In Its Dishes

  19-10-2017 23:38 via yahoo.com
  One trendy restaurant is bringing a whole new meaning to the term “sourced locally.”
  
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• Newlywed Dies While Snorkeling with His Wife During Honeymoon in the Maldives

  19-10-2017 23:32 via yahoo.com
  A 30-year-old newlywed from Dublin, Ireland, died while snorkeling on his honeymoon in the Maldives — just two weeks after getting married
  
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• Amber Tamblyn Defends Husband David Cross Amid Allegation of Racism: 'He Said He Was Sorry'

  19-10-2017 23:32 via yahoo.com
  Amber Tamblyn is speaking out after her husband David Cross was accused of making racist comments to actress Charlyne Yi
  
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• Quentin Tarantino says he 'knew enough' to act on Weinstein: 'I wish I had taken responsibility for what I heard'

  19-10-2017 23:30 via yahoo.com
  Quentin Tarantino is speaking out after years of privately downplaying rumors of Harvey Weinstein's offensive and at times illicit behavior.
  
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• Experts: Hard for jurors to convict when cops are on trial

  19-10-2017 23:25 via yahoo.com
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The hard-won conviction of a white former Oklahoma police officer who fatally shot his daughter's unarmed black boyfriend shows the difficulty prosecutors have in convincing jurors to put someone who carries a badge and a gun behind bars, legal experts said Thursday.
  
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• Video: Avoiding 3 common pitfalls of AI development

  19-10-2017 23:21
  At GDC 2016, Insomniac's Jan Mueller gives a great talk on the topic that used examples from Sunset Overdrive and other games to challenge 3 common misconceptions about AI in games....
  
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• New Netflix Punisher trailer feels like a modern-age Rambo, show premieres November 17

  19-10-2017 23:11 via gamesradar.com
  A new trailer for the Punisher TV series has revealed that the show will premiere on Netflix on November 17
  
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• Mom Battling Breast Cancer Welcomes Baby Boy In Stunning Birth Photos

  19-10-2017 23:05 via yahoo.com
  Each year, photographer Bonnie Hussey hosts giveaways for a free birth photography session for two or three women.
  
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• Nazi website Daily Stormer urged followers to target black and Jewish centres during Richard Spencer's speech

  19-10-2017 23:03 via yahoo.com
  A neo-Nazi website has encouraged its followers to protest at Black and Jewish community centres during white supremacist Richard Spencer’s speech.The Daily Stormer posted a “Stormer Plan for Richard Spencer’s Florida Gig” on the morning of Mr Spencer’s speech at the University of Florida.Mr Spencer is a self-proclaimed white nationalist who was recently scheduled to speak at the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
  
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• Researchers expect close holiday competition between Xbox One X and PS4 Pro

  19-10-2017 22:55
  According to research from IDC the two systems, both mid-generational hardware updates, are expected to see similar sales during the holiday season this winter....
  
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• 24 Senators Back Latest Health Care Proposal, Offering Hope It Could Pass

  19-10-2017 22:48 via yahoo.com
  Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) on Thursday formally introduced their proposal to shore up the Affordable Care Act’s private insurance markets.
  
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• Beauty standards may be broadening

  19-10-2017 22:47 via yahoo.com
  By Carolyn Crist(Reuters Health) - Americans have grown to appreciate beauty across more skin types and ages during the past three decades, if People magazine is any indication, a new study suggests.The magazine is including more nonwhite celebrities and older individuals on its Most Beautiful People list these days, researchers wrote in the journal JAMA Dermatology.“Preferences for beauty are both a combination of a basic cognitive process and a learned process,” study author Dr. Ne
  
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• Kelly defends Trump on casualties, attacks 'selfish' congresswoman

  19-10-2017 22:37 via yahoo.com
  White House chief of staff John Kelly on Thursday delivered an impassioned defense of President Trump’s outreach to families of four Americans recently killed in Niger.
  
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• The Star Wars Battlefront 2 single-player trailer teases cameos from Luke, Leia, and Kylo

  19-10-2017 22:32 via gamesradar.com
  The latest Star Wars Battlefront 2 trailer makes a great companion piece to our new Star Wars Battlefront 2 single-player campaign preview; not least because there's a lot to take in from its minute-and-a-half runtime
  
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• In Turkish move into Syria, a sign of how Russia is shaping the country

  19-10-2017 22:30 via yahoo.com
  For most of the Syrian civil war, there have been two constants of Turkish policy: support for opposition forces seeking the removal of President Bashar al-Assad, and concern about the growing strength of the Kurds in northern Syria, whom Ankara regards as a direct threat.The move put Turkish forces in close proximity of the Kurdish enclave of Afrin, home to a Syrian Kurdish faction, the Democratic Union Party, whose military wing the US has armed.
  
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• White supremacist shouted down at Florida college speech

  19-10-2017 22:27 via yahoo.com
  Hundreds of protesters shouted down white supremacist leader Richard Spencer Thursday at a university in Florida, forcing him to leave the stage without delivering his speech.Spencer, a leader of the so-called alt-right movement that includes white supremacists, neo-Nazis and supporters of the Ku Klux Klan, was one of the organizers of the August march in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which a far-right supporter drove his car into a crowd of demonstrators, killing a 32-year-old woman.
  
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• Three million Americans carry a handgun daily: study

  19-10-2017 22:08 via yahoo.com
  As many as three million people in the United States carry a loaded handgun daily, while nine million do so at least once a month, according to a US study Thursday.Most of these gun-toting Americans are young men, live in the south and say personal protection is a top reason for walking around with a deadly weapon, said the report in the American Journal of Public Health."It was important to study handgun carrying because about 90 percent of all firearm homicides and nonfatal firearm crimes for
  
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• Woman charged with beating teacher she says choked her child

  19-10-2017 21:42 via yahoo.com
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — A woman who claims a public school teacher choked her daughter while disciplining her has been charged with following the teacher after school, hitting her with a brick and then pulling her from her car and beating her.
  
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• A Big Change In 'Stranger Things' Season 2 Will Make You Say 'Hell Yeah!'

  19-10-2017 21:20 via yahoo.com
  Thanks to its young cast, Season 2 of “Stranger Things” won’t just be good.
  
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• Get a job: Yacht Club Games is hiring a Sr. 3D Art Generalist

  19-10-2017 21:06
  Shovel Knight dev Yacht Club Games is on the lookout for an experienced artist to join its California-based team and develop in-game art assets....
  
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• Microsoft launches TruePlay, an anti-cheat for UWP games

  19-10-2017 20:55
  Microsoft has launched its own anti-cheat utility to developers looking to add an extra level of cheat-stopping protection to their PC games....
  
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• CIA Forced to Walk Back Director's Statement

  19-10-2017 20:54 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow shares video of CIA director Mike Pompeo stating falsely that the U.S. intelligence community's assessment is that Russia's meddling did not affect the outcome of the election. The CIA would later walk that statement back.
  
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• 15 Games Released on Nintendo Switch This Week

  19-10-2017 20:43
  Ahead of Super Mario Odyssey's launch on October 27, the Nintendo Switch is still not lacking for releases, with 15 games set to release between today and next Thursday.
  Nine games hit the Switch eShop today while Fire Emblem Warriors, for which Nintendo confirmed a free Japanese voice pack, will be released on October 20. Check out all 15 games coming in the next week in the gallery below.
  And check out the full list below:Fire Emblem Warriors — available on Oct. 20JYDGEThe Jackbox Party
  
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• Orionid Meteor Shower 2017: What it is, when it's happening and where to watch it

  19-10-2017 20:36 via yahoo.com
  In several days, stargazers will witness the peak of one of the year's best shooting star displays in the United States.
  
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• Russia's Putin: Trump's foes have blocked his agenda

  19-10-2017 20:33 via yahoo.com
  MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia remains open to cooperation with Washington even though President Donald Trump's political foes in the U.S. have tried to prevent him from fulfilling his campaign promises.
  
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• Taliban attacks kill 58, nearly wipe out Afghan army camp

  19-10-2017 20:25 via yahoo.com
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban have killed at least 58 Afghan security forces in a wave of attacks across the country overnight, including an assault that nearly wiped out an army camp in southern Kandahar province, officials said Thursday.
  
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• Get your first chance at Gen 3 Pokemon with the Pokemon Go Halloween event

  19-10-2017 20:14 via gamesradar.com
  Pokemon Go will jump forward another generation this holiday season, adding dozens of new pocket monsters to catch and collect
  
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• Food & Wine Kitchen Hacks: Poached Eggs

  19-10-2017 20:12 via yahoo.com
  Justin Chapple of Food & Wine demonstrates an easy way poach eggs.
  
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• Man Admits to Drowning 6-Year-Old Nephew Who Had Autism: Police

  19-10-2017 20:09 via yahoo.com
  Little Dayvid Pakko was drowned in a bathtub, then hidden in a dumpster, police said.
  
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• CIA chief says U.S.-Canadian couple held for five years in Pakistan

  19-10-2017 20:00 via yahoo.com
  By David Brunnstrom and Jonathan LandayWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the CIA said on Thursday a U.S.-Canadian couple kidnapped by Islamist militants in Afghanistan were held inside neighboring Pakistan for five years before being freed."We had a great outcome last week when we were able to get back four U.S. citizens who had been held for five years inside of Pakistan," CIA Director Mike Pompeo told the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank in Washington.Pompeo's remarks appeared
  
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• Sumo Digital bolsters its staff and looks to expand UK-based studios

  19-10-2017 19:53
  Snake Pass dev Sumo Digital has made a handful of notable hires as the company lays plans to expand its studios in both Nottingham and Sheffield....
  
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• Woman Says 'American Horror Story' Motivated Her to Murder 81-Year-Old Grandfather

  19-10-2017 19:49 via yahoo.com
  Brittney Jade Dwyer, 20, allegedly stabbed her grandfather after he showed her family photos.
  
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• George W. Bush Condemns Trumpism, But Skips His Role In Its Rise

  19-10-2017 19:47 via yahoo.com
  Former President George W. Bush critiqued President Donald Trump’s worldview in a speech Thursday, but failed to acknowledge his own part in creating conditions that powered Trump’s rise.
  
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• 18 Tweets From Parents That Prove Halloween Can Be The Worst

  19-10-2017 19:47 via yahoo.com
  Halloween is typically a time for creative costumes, spooky decorations and, of course, sugar-fueled kids.
  
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• Facebook updates Instant Games platform with video ads and 'robust' dev tools

  19-10-2017 19:40
  Facebook is updating its fledgling Instant Games platform by adding new monetization features and scaling tools. ...
  
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• Thousands Of Protestors Show Up In Florida To Drown Out Richard Spencer's Hate

  19-10-2017 19:39 via yahoo.com
  GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Thousands of people turned up Thursday at the University of Florida to protest an afternoon speech by a prominent white supremacist, making their message clear: Richard Spencer, and those like him, are not welcome.
  
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• 2019 Audi A7: Similarly Slinky Looks, Lots of New Technology

  19-10-2017 19:30 via yahoo.com
  Style meets practicality. Again.
  
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• Visceral Star Wars Game Was 'Fun and Funny'

  19-10-2017 19:29
  Though Visceral Games' Star Wars project will live on in a different form, the linear, story-focused version of the game was beautiful, "fun and funny," the game's co-writer said.
  Todd Stashwick, who was co-writing the linear, story-focused game with Amy Hennig at Visceral, publicly commented on what could have been following EA's announcement that Visceral would close and its Star Wars game would be refocused.
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• George W. Bush: 'Bigotry seems emboldened' in Trump era

  19-10-2017 19:24 via yahoo.com
  “We’ve seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty,” former President George W. Bush said in a rare public speech. “We’ve seen nationalism distorted into nativism.”
  
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• Destiny 2 Servers Down for Maintenance

  19-10-2017 19:07
  If you're hoping to get in some Destiny 2 time today, you'll need to wait until later today, as the servers are currently undergoing maintenance.
  The server maintenance is expected to last around 4 hours, according to Bungie. The maintenance period is scheduled to end at 12 Pacific Time, or 3 pm ET/8 pm GMT/6 am ACT.
  Bungie didn't give a reason for the maintenance, but offers a generic explanation on the help page, saying Destiny servers will sometimes undergo "scheduled or emergency maintenance
  
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• Gainesville Mayor On Richard Spencer: 'There's No Question That He Is A Terrorist Leader'

  19-10-2017 19:04 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump says some white supremacist protesters are “very fine people.”
  
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• Putin threatens retaliation if RT channel is targeted by US

  19-10-2017 19:02 via yahoo.com
  Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Moscow will retaliate if the United States takes measures against Kremlin-controlled media group RT.Washington is pressuring the channel to register as a "foreign agent", which would force it to disclose personal information of employees and those interviewed.Speaking at the annual Valdai Club meeting of international experts in Sochi, Putin said Moscow would take similar actions against US media in Russia if legal steps are taken to limit RT's
  
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• Harmonix lays off 14 in bid to 'reduce overhead'

  19-10-2017 18:56
  The developer of Rock Band is letting go of 14 employees today less than a month after the release of DropMix. ...
  
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• Consumer Reports' Car Reliability FAQ

  19-10-2017 18:43 via yahoo.com
  With the posting of the results from our latest car reliability survey, Consumer Reports receives a wide range of questions from enthusiasts and industry looking for a deeper understanding of the...
  
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• Car Reliability: U.S. Automakers vs. the World

  19-10-2017 18:43 via yahoo.com
  The latest CR car reliability data show that performance from the domestic brands is all over the map, spanning from the highest-ranked Buick to the lowest-ranked Cadillac.  We scrutinized data f...
  
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• Car Brands Reliability: How They Stack Up

  19-10-2017 18:43 via yahoo.com
  There was much movement among car brands as we scrutinized this year’s car reliability data to see how the numbers compared with our 2016 survey findings. Our brand-level rankings are based on th...
  
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