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• Obama invokes Nazi Germany in plea to avoid complacency

  08-12-2017 23:59 via yahoo.com
  Former US president Barack Obama has urged American voters to remain engaged, using the example of Nazi Germany as a cautionary tale about the dangers of complacency."We get complacent and assume that things continue as they have been, just automatically, and they don't," Obama said in comments at a conference in Chicago, footage of which was available Friday on social media."Now, presume there was a ballroom here in Vienna in the late 1920s or 30s that looked pretty sophisticated and seemed as
  
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• Protesters gather in Kiev after police recapture ex-Georgia leader Saakashvili

  08-12-2017 23:54 via yahoo.com
  By AlessandraPrentice and Natalia ZinetsKIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian police recaptured the former president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili on Friday, prompting further protests in central Kiev by his supporters who freed him from police custody earlier this week.The development is the latest twist in a long feud between Ukrainian authorities and Saakashvili, who has turned on his one-time patron President Petro Poroshenko, accusing him of corruption and calling for his removal from office.General
  
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• Wildlife Gathers To Eat Thousands Of Pounds Of Feed During Louisiana Snowfall

  08-12-2017 23:51 via yahoo.com
  Wildlife Gathers To Eat Thousands Of Pounds Of Feed During Louisiana Snowfall
  
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• Nine Parchments Review

  08-12-2017 23:49
  With a beautiful art style and dynamic twin-stick combat, Nine Parchments is a dungeon crawler that shines best in a co-op group of up to four players. However, with such a shallow pool of loot to change things up for repeated playthroughs, this action RPG leans a little bit on the repetitive side.
  Nine Parchments tells a light story of a group of drop-out wizard apprentices who’ve decided to skip their normal training regimen for a quick path to power by gathering artifacts. Its whimsical
  
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• Ex-aide: Franks offered $5m to carry his child

  08-12-2017 23:44 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A former aide to Republican Rep. Trent Franks has told The Associated Press the congressman repeatedly pressed her to carry his child, at one point offering her $5 million to act as a surrogate mother.
  
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• Video: Why real time-destruction is the core of Rainbow Six: Siege

  08-12-2017 23:43
  In this 2016 GDC session Ubisoft's Julien L'Heureux discusses the process of developing and implementing the destruction engine Realblast into Rainbow Six: Siege. ...
  
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• Court: 'Making a Murderer' defendant Brendan Dassey's confession stands

  08-12-2017 23:43 via yahoo.com
  A federal appeals court has overturned a ruling that could have freed a Wisconsin inmate featured in the "Making a Murderer" series from prison.
  
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• U.N. Panel Finds Evidence of Iranian Hardware in Yemeni Rebels’ Missile. And American.

  08-12-2017 23:36 via yahoo.com
  Investigation into weapon’s origins yields clues, but no smoking gun.
  
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• Victims And Shooter At New Mexico's Aztec High School Identified

  08-12-2017 23:33 via yahoo.com
  Authorities have identified the two students killed Thursday in a shooting at Aztec High School in the small town of Aztec, New Mexico, along with the gunman, who apparently took his own life.
  
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• Apple's Ive returns to helm of design teams

  08-12-2017 23:30 via yahoo.com
  (Reuters) - Apple Inc Chief Design Officer Jony Ive is returning to day-to-day management of the company's design teams after handing off managerial duties two years ago to focus on other projects, Apple told Reuters on Friday.
  
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• Dossier debated, Trump-Russia becomes scandal

  08-12-2017 23:27 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow looks at fallout and firings in the Donald Trump administration as Trump team ties to Russia turned into scandal and the Trump dossier continued to be a point of fierce controversy.
  
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• U.S. top court takes up Republican challenge to Maryland electoral district

  08-12-2017 23:26 via yahoo.com
  By Lawrence HurleyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday added a second case to its docket on a contentious issue that could have major consequences for American elections, agreeing to decide whether Democratic lawmakers in Maryland unlawfully drew a congressional district in a way that would prevent a Republican candidate from winning.The court's agreement to take up an appeal by Republican voters in Maryland regarding the U.S. House of Representatives district came two months
  
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• Former Priest Convicted In Decades-Old Beauty Queen Slaying

  08-12-2017 23:25 via yahoo.com
  A former Catholic priest has been found guilty in the death of a South Texas beauty queen nearly 60 years ago.
  
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• Winds whip California fires as they spread south

  08-12-2017 23:20 via yahoo.com
  Unrelenting winds fanned towering flames Friday in southern California, where hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to flee multiple devastating fires in the Los Angeles area and new outbreaks near San Diego.Hundreds of structures including multi-million dollar mansions have been destroyed as thousands of firefighters battle wind-fueled wildfires on six different fronts."I've never seen anything like this and I've lived here 20 years," Judy Herman, 76, told AFP.
  
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• A Terminally Ill Progressive Activist Confronted Jeff Flake About The Tax Bill On A Flight

  08-12-2017 23:20 via yahoo.com
  A leading progressive activist with Lou Gehrig’s disease appealed to Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) to reconsider his support for the Republican tax bill during a flight to Phoenix on Thursday.
  
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• California shaken baby conviction set aside after 15 years

  08-12-2017 23:18 via yahoo.com
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California man is set to walk out of prison after 15 years, after a judge on Friday set aside his life sentence for shaking his 4-month-old daughter to death in 2001.
  
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• Honey Boo Boo's 17-Year-Old Sister Pumpkin Welcomes First Child

  08-12-2017 22:58 via yahoo.com
  Reality TV treasure Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thomson is now an aunt.
  
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• Two Palestinians killed in clashes with Israeli army as US isolated at UN over Donald Trump's Jerusalem decision 

  08-12-2017 22:57 via yahoo.com
  The US was on Friday scrambling to contain the diplomatic fallout of Donald Trump’s decision on Jerusalem as Arab leaders threatened to cancel meetings with the vice president and allies rounded on it at the UN.  Israel carried out airstrikes in Gaza in response to rockets fired from the territory and two Palestinian men were killed during clashes with Israeli forces.   As protests broke out across the Middle East, US diplomats were working to salvage the visit by Mike Pence, the
  
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• Oklahoma Police Officer Who Fatally Shot Deaf Man Will Not Face Criminal Charges

  08-12-2017 22:52 via yahoo.com
  The Oklahoma City District Attorney said the shooting was "lawful"
  
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• Trump regard for Russia raised red flags

  08-12-2017 22:51 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow describes how American journalists began to pick up on clues that Russia had a peculiar relationship with the Trump campaign as Dossier author Christopher Steele began sharing his findings with the FBI.
  
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• Elderly man fights off intruders, fatally shoots one of them

  08-12-2017 22:47 via yahoo.com
  ELLWOOD CITY, Pa. (AP) — An 84-year-old Pennsylvania man fatally shot a home intruder and successfully fought off another early Friday, police said.
  
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• Video key in ex-officer's stiff sentence for killing

  08-12-2017 22:24 via yahoo.com
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The video was viewed millions of times around the world. It was somewhat blurry, recorded from a distance, but it clearly showed an unarmed black man running from a white officer, who shot him five times in the back.
  
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• Best of 2017: Breaking down Rainbow Six: Siege's dynamic audio in destructible levels

  08-12-2017 22:12
  "By using a series of strategically placed points in the map, called Propagation Nodes, we are able to calculate the lower cost paths of a sound between the listener and the source."...
  
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• Sailor killed at Pearl Harbor to be buried 76 years later

  08-12-2017 22:10 via yahoo.com
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The funeral for a recently identified Kentucky sailor who was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 76 years ago is bringing his family together for the first time in decades.
  
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• Plunder some booty on Xbox One when Sea of Thieves comes to shore March 20

  08-12-2017 22:10 via gamesradar.com
  Sea of Thieves, the next game from Rare - studio behind such classics as Banjo-Kazooie, Conker's Bad Fur Day, and GoldenEye 007 - will set sail for Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs on March 20
  
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• Taiwan lets go a symbol of ancient days

  08-12-2017 22:09 via yahoo.com
  On Dec. 6, lawmakers in Taiwan voted to rid the island of a prominent symbol of the country’s past.The law, coming 30 years after Taiwan moved toward democracy, shows how far a people will go to free themselves from a cultural legacy that may hinder progress in individual rights and equality before the law.Chiang’s harsh rule of Taiwan was based on Confucian-style autocracy, or a belief that only a natural social hierarchy with a strong ruler can bring stability.
  
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• Get a job: Supergiant Games is hiring a Technical Designer

  08-12-2017 22:05
  Supergiant Games, the independent studio behind Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre, is seeking a technical designer to join its creative team to help implement, iterate on, and debug game systems and content. ...
  
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• Rule the Dark Side with these Star Wars lamps that are on super sale

  08-12-2017 22:03 via yahoo.com
  Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.Star Wars may take place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but the latest film comes out a short time from now inour galaxy – specifically December 15th. And unlike last year’sRogue One spinoff,The Last Jedi is part of the primaryStar Wars series. That’s right, BB-8, Kylo Ren, and all of your favorite sequel trilogy characters are back for another rollicking adventure,
  
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• US gently urges Saudi Arabia to be more 'measured' overseas

  08-12-2017 21:58 via yahoo.com
  PARIS (AP) — The top U.S. diplomat urged Saudi Arabia on Friday to temper its actions toward Yemen, Qatar and other neighbors, gently turning up the pressure as Saudi's powerful crown prince asserts power both at home and overseas, as the White House raised new alarms about the situation in Yemen.
  
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• Police: Gunman disguised himself, randomly killed at school

  08-12-2017 21:56 via yahoo.com
  A 21-year-old gunman who disguised himself as a student to get into a New Mexico high school where he killed two students had caught the attention of U.S. investigators more than a year ago, authorities said Friday.
  
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• How Nintendo Hinted at a Motorcycle for BotW Months Ago

  08-12-2017 21:55
  The image of Link riding the Master Cycle Zero in the release trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's second DLC expansion pack may have been surprising, but Nintendo teased a bike-riding Link for the newest entry in the franchise earlier this year.
  During the Breath of the Wild GDC 2017 panel in March, members of the Zelda development team showed off a host of concept art for potential Link's they dreamed up ahead of BotW's development. One of those Link's was a more realistic, bi
  
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• Hackers Steal $70 Million in Bitcoin

  08-12-2017 21:44 via yahoo.com
  In a theft on the cryptocurrency-mining service NiceHash, hackers made off with nearly $70 million worth of Bitcoin.
  
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• As Russia Subverts Missile Treaty, U.S. Looking at New Weapons

  08-12-2017 21:43 via yahoo.com
  Since 1987, Europe has been off limits for medium-range missiles. Russia — and now the United States — seems ready to tear up that detente.
  
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• Bayonetta 1 and 2 Coming to Nintendo Switch

  08-12-2017 21:35
  Update: The Switch version of Bayonetta 2 will reportedly include a few new features, including local co-op and amiibo support.
  As reported by Polygon, a post on PlatinumGames' website, which has since been pulled, reveals the following features will be included in the Switch version of Bayonetta 2:Local wireless cooperative play - The previously online-only coop Tag Climax is going local! Team up with a friend to take it on – online or off.
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• DontNod Talks Morality, Inspiration, And More

  08-12-2017 21:30
  The wait for Vampyr may have been pushed into next year, but it’s allowed Dontnod to ensure they capitalize on their past experiences and explore a new kind of video game vampire.
  Originally planned for release in October of 2017, Dontnod delayed their newest project into spring of 2018 to ensure the game could be polished and made into the best experience possible. And for good reason: In addition to being a new I.P., Vampyr represents a realization of their experience gained from both t
  
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• Man whose relatives died mysteriously must give gun info

  08-12-2017 21:27 via yahoo.com
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Vermont man whose mother and grandfather died in mysterious circumstances must turn over information related to a missing gun, as well as phone and other records, in a Rhode Island lawsuit over insurance on his sunken boat.
  
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• Abu Dhabi authorities 'acquired' $450 mn Da Vinci: museum

  08-12-2017 21:25 via yahoo.com
  The Louvre Abu Dhabi said Friday that local Emirati authorities had "acquired" a $450-million painting by Renaissance master Leonardo Da Vinci, as reports swirled about the original source of funding."Louvre Abu Dhabi is looking forward to displaying the Salvator Mundi by Leonardo Da Vinci.The work was acquired by the Department of Culture and Tourism - Abu Dhabi," the museum said in tweets in both English and Arabic.
  
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• Stardew Valley Coming to Vita in 2018

  08-12-2017 21:24
  
  A PlayStation Vita version of Stardew Valley will be released sometime in 2018.
  The popular farming simulator/RPG will come to Vita with cross-buy support, meaning those who already own the PlayStation 4 version will be able to download the Vita version at no cost. However, as noted in a post on the Stardew Valley website, the Vita version won't feature the upcoming multiplayer update.
  A beta test for the update was planned for the end of this year, but according to publisher Chucklefi
  
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• Russia says ready to exert influence on North Korea: Ifax

  08-12-2017 21:17 via yahoo.com
  Russia has communication channels with North Korea open and Moscow is ready to exert its influence on Pyongyang, Interfax news agency quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov as saying on Tuesday.
  
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• Ben Affleck reportedly not playing Batman in solo movie after all - my heart can't take much more of this

  08-12-2017 21:13 via gamesradar.com
  Hold onto your capes, because a new report claims that Ben Affleck is on his way out of the DC cinematic universe
  
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• Ex-Penn State coach Sandusky's son sentenced for child sex crimes

  08-12-2017 21:08 via yahoo.com
  Jeffrey Sandusky, 42, pleaded guilty in September to soliciting two teenage sisters for sex, according to Pennsylvania prosecutors.Centre County Court of Common Pleas Judge Pamela Ruest sentenced Sandusky to three-and-a-half to seven years in prison followed by one year of probation, district court administrator Kendra Miknis said in an email.Sandusky's lawyer, Lance Marshall, declined to comment on the sentence, but he said that his client is currently being held at the Centre County Correction
  
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• 5 PC Games You Don't Want to Miss - Dec 8

  08-12-2017 21:00
  
  Welcome back to our PC-focused show, Hot Keys! You can watch previous episodes here if you missed them.
  Every Friday at noon, Hot Keys will take a look at the five PC games you should check out this week. We’ll be finding you the diamond in the rough games you may have missed, as well as letting you know when a game you might already love has something exciting going on.
  We’ll also dive deeper into our top pick of the week for a hands-on Let’s Play to show off exactly why we li
  
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• 'Please don't kill me': Police officer cleared of murder after shooting a sobbing man as he crawled along a hotel corridor 

  08-12-2017 20:58 via yahoo.com
  A former Arizona police officer has been acquitted of murder after he shot and killed an unarmed man outside his hotel room.   Philip Mitchell Brailsford, 27, shot Daniel Shaver in 2016 when he was responding to call that someone there was pointing a gun out of a window.   The shooting occurred in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa after officers ordered Mr Shaver to exit his hotel room, lay face-down in a hallway and refrain from making sudden movements.   Mr Shaver, a 26-year-old father
  
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• Finding the right beats in Cosmo D's surreal The Norwood Suite

  08-12-2017 20:50
  Game designer and musician Greg Heffernan walks Gamasutra through the process of blending inspirations as diverse as jazz and immersive sims to build his first-person thriller The Norwood Suite. ...
  
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• Police officer who shot man crawling and crying on the floor cleared of murder

  08-12-2017 20:45 via yahoo.com
  A former Arizona police officer has been cleared of murder charges after shooting and killing an unarmed man while on duty in 2016.Officer Phillip Mitchell Brailsford met 26-year-old Daniel Shaver in the hallway outside of his Arizona hotel room in January of 2016.The officer was responding to reports of a man brandishing a gun near the hotel room window.
  
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• The Latest: Dayton pressured on Franken appointment

  08-12-2017 20:43 via yahoo.com
  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Latest on the fallout from Minnesota Sen. Al Franken's plans to resign following allegations of sexual harassment (all times local):
  
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• 500 Horses Seen Galloping for Their Lives as Training Facility Falls Victim to California Wildfires

  08-12-2017 20:39 via yahoo.com
  The horses were released after the stables went up in flames.
  
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• Bayonetta Special Edition Coming to Switch in EU, Japan

  08-12-2017 20:36
  
  Bayonetta 1 and 2 are getting special editions for Europe and Japan when they launch early next year.
  Nintendo of Europe announced when the games come to Switch in February, players in Europe will be able to purchase the Bayonetta Special Edition, which includes a game card with Bayonetta 2, a download code for Bayonetta 1, a SteelBook, Verse cards, and stickers.Europe's Bayonetta Special Edition, via TwitterContinue reading…
  
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• Father Begs Not to Be Shot Moments Before He Was Gunned Down by Cop in Hotel Hallway

  08-12-2017 20:23 via yahoo.com
  The video was released after the officer was found not guilty.
  
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• 11 Net Neutrality Protest Signs That Sum Up Why People are So Angry

  08-12-2017 20:21 via yahoo.com
  People are pissed.
  
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