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• Ex-Missouri death row inmate re-sentenced to life in prison

  18-12-2017 23:50 via yahoo.com
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — After maintaining his innocence for more than a quarter of a century, Reginald Clemons admitted Monday that he took part in the rape and killing of two sisters who were pushed from an abandoned St. Louis bridge into the Mississippi River.
  
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• Lebanon driver confesses to killing British woman: source

  18-12-2017 23:34 via yahoo.com
  A driver arrested over the murder of British embassy worker Rebecca Dykes in the Lebanese capital Beirut has confessed to killing her, a judicial source told AFP on Monday.The driver with ride-hailing giant Uber admitted strangling the 30-year-old after trying to rape her late on Friday night.Dykes was last seen alive at a party in Gemmayzeh, a Beirut neighbourhood popular with foreign residents, on Friday night and left in the suspect's car.
  
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• Mother of Sandy Hook victim attacks Trump for hosting NRA boss at White House on anniversary of massacre

  18-12-2017 23:24 via yahoo.com
  The mother of a child born in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting has ripped President Donald Trump for an “appalling lack of humanity and decency” after he invited the head of the National Rifle Association to the White House on the anniversary of the slaughter.Nicole Hockley, whose 6-year-old son was one of 20 children killed in that attack, slammed Mr Trump for failing to recognise the shooting on its five-year anniversary, even though he invited the NRA boss to th
  
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• Man who gets life in jogger's death blows kisses in court

  18-12-2017 23:22 via yahoo.com
  A man convicted of killing a 36-year-old woman in western Michigan blew a kiss to the courtroom Monday before he was sentenced to life in prison in one of two murder cases against him.
  
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• Sarah Palin's son Track accused of assaulting his father

  18-12-2017 23:16 via yahoo.com
  WASILLA, Alaska (AP) — Sarah Palin's oldest son, Track, has been arraigned on charges that he assaulted his father at the family's home in Alaska.
  
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• Republicans Already Say They'll Need Another Bill To Fix Their Tax Mistakes

  18-12-2017 23:01 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Republicans wrote their massive tax legislation in such a rush that even before they’ve sent it to the president’s desk, they’re already talking about writing another bill to fix all the mistakes in the first one.
  
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• GOP less tolerant of extreme Trump nominees

  18-12-2017 22:55 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow makes the case that as Donald Trump's candidates suffer election losses, Republican legislators who don't see any benefit to currying favor with Trump are losing their feeling less indulgent of some of his more ridiculous nominees.
  
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• Charlottesville police chief retires after report faults department

  18-12-2017 22:48 via yahoo.com
  (Reuters) - The police chief of Charlottesville, Virginia, announced his retirement on Monday, about two weeks after a report faulted his department and others for failing to protect public safety during a white nationalist rally in August that turned deadly.On Dec. 1, a three-month review by former U.S. Attorney Timothy Heaphy blamed law enforcement agencies for breakdowns in planning and coordination, as well as a timid response, that led to "disastrous results."Police Chief Al Thomas' retirem
  
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• Fire and Power Outage at Atlanta Airport Sparks Fresh Terror Fears Ahead of Holiday Travel

  18-12-2017 22:45 via yahoo.com
  One report said the blackout tells terrorists that "America is unprepared."
  
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• 2018 Buick Regal Sportback

  18-12-2017 22:45 via yahoo.com
  The new Regal feels like a Buick again.
  
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• GOP tax bill opponents protest to the end

  18-12-2017 22:37 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow reports on protests around the United States against the Republican tax bill, with particular pressure on Maine Senator Susan Collins.
  
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• German journalist freed from jail in Turkey pending trial

  18-12-2017 22:24 via yahoo.com
  ISTANBUL (AP) — A Turkish court ordered German journalist Mesale Tolu and five co-defendants released from prison Monday pending the outcome of their trial on terror-related charges.
  
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• Republicans Are Hustling To Pass A Tax Bill That No One Really Likes

  18-12-2017 22:23 via yahoo.com
  The tax bill Republicans are on the verge of passing remains generally unloved by America, new polling shows.
  
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• Rising Thunder dev set to release shuttered fighting game and server source code

  18-12-2017 22:22
  The game itself was canceled after Radiant Entertainment was acquired by Riot Games in 2016. ...
  
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• Gamasutra's Best of 2017: Kris Graft's top 10 games

  18-12-2017 22:15
  A common thread running through a lot of my picks, now that I've had time to reflect, is that the best games teach me how to speak with them. ...
  
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• Andy Cohen And Anderson Cooper Reveal Whose 'Freak Number' Is Higher

  18-12-2017 22:13 via yahoo.com
  Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper have enjoyed a close-knit, intimate friendship for years, but as it turns out, they still have a lot to learn about each other. 
  
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• Hugely Popular Arena of Valor Launching in US Tomorrow

  18-12-2017 21:59
  I’m willing to bet you’ve never heard of the most popular game in the world. Odds are you probably don’t know much about its developer either, which owns League of Legends developer Riot Games, more than 80% of Clash of Clans developer Supercell, nearly half of PC legend Epic Games, and roughly a quarter of Activision Blizzard.Arena of Valor, developed by Chinese tech giant Tencent, has a ludicrous amount of people playing it. Its player base mirrors the similarly ludicrous rea
  
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• The Latest GOP Tax Plan Kills the Individual Mandate. Here’s What That Means

  18-12-2017 21:57 via yahoo.com
  The Latest GOP Tax Plan Kills the Individual Mandate. Here’s What That Means
  
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• Mueller team expects to work well into 2018

  18-12-2017 21:57 via yahoo.com
  Maddow relays a new report from The Washington Post that members of Mueller's Trump investigation team have said they expect to work well into 2018, bad news for Trumps legal team already freaking out over Mueller obtaining transition e-mails from the GSA
  
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• After outage chaos, officials reconsider airport power setup

  18-12-2017 21:55 via yahoo.com
  ATLANTA (AP) — How could one fire knock out the main power to the world's busiest airport and at the same time disable the backup power?
  
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• The Latest: Delta hopes to be mostly on schedule Tuesday

  18-12-2017 21:54 via yahoo.com
  ATLANTA (AP) — The Latest on a power outage at the Atlanta airport (all times local):
  
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• Dragon Quest Builders Switch Release Date Announced

  18-12-2017 21:48
  A release date for the Nintendo Switch version of Dragon Quest Builders has been revealed. Square Enix has announced that the sandbox Dragon Quest spin-off will launch on February 9 and includes a handful of new items and features exclusive to Nintendo’s hybrid console.
  Dragon Quest Builders for Nintendo Switch will mostly feature the same content as its original release, including the ability to upload your creations, as well as download other player built creations us
  
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• Get a job: Ubiquity6 is hiring an AR Unity Architect

  18-12-2017 21:41
  Ubiquity6 is looking to hire a Unity veteran with the ability to design clean, simple abstractions for complex game infrastructure....
  
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• Trump legal team set to meet with Mueller

  18-12-2017 21:37 via yahoo.com
  Sari Horwitz, Justice Department reporter for The Washington Post, talks with Maddow about an expected meeting between Donald Trump's legal team and special counsel Robert Mueller and the likely clash over contrasting perspectives on the investigation.
  
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• When corporations come clean on climate effects

  18-12-2017 21:31 via yahoo.com
  Giant corporations often claim to be “green,” pointing to programs they’ve undertaken aimed at being environmentally conscious.Investors are asking corporations to make more transparent the effects climate change will have on their businesses, as well as explain what they are doing to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.While shareholder motives are certainly aimed at helping in the worldwide fight against global warming, they also represent a practical need to better underst
  
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• Romania: Judges hold protests over legal system changes

  18-12-2017 21:29 via yahoo.com
  BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Hundreds of Romanian judges and prosecutors took part in protests around the country Monday to show their opposition to legal changes they say would hamper prosecutions.
  
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• Best of 2017: Environment art isn't about 'making pretty things'...so, what's it about?

  18-12-2017 21:17
  Jason Hickey, lead environment artist on Insomniac Games' upcoming Spider-Man offers practical tips about what it takes to be a great environment artist -- and no, it's not all about making pretty things. ...
  
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• These Last-Minute Gifts On Amazon Will Satisfy Anyone On Your Shopping List

  18-12-2017 21:14 via yahoo.com
  If you’re panicking about the approaching holiday and have yet to finish up your shopping list, worry no more.
  
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• S.Africa's struggling ANC elects Ramaphosa as new head

  18-12-2017 21:05 via yahoo.com
  South African deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa was narrowly elected head of the ruling ANC party Monday, winning a bruising race that exposed deep rifts within the organisation that led the fight against apartheid.Thousands of raucous Ramaphosa supporters sang and chanted in the conference hall as rival backers of defeated candidate Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma appeared dejected.Ramaphosa won 2,440 votes to Dlamini-Zuma's 2,261.
  
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• Mobile game dev Like a Boss Games secures $1.6M investment

  18-12-2017 21:05
  With the new funds in tow, the Swedish studio has now raised a grand total of $2.1 million since opening its doors in 2015....
  
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• Chicago teen earning gift money killed delivering newspapers

  18-12-2017 21:05 via yahoo.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — The fatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy slain while delivering newspapers with his stepfather to earn money to buy presents may have been the result of mistaken identity and rooted in an ongoing gang war that didn't involve him, Chicago police said Monday during a news conference in a city where gun violence this year has left nearly 600 people dead.
  
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• What to Know About the Deadly Amtrak Derailment

  18-12-2017 20:57 via yahoo.com
  More than 100 were taken to hospitals
  
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• Islamic State claims attack on spy agency center in Afghan capital

  18-12-2017 20:57 via yahoo.com
  Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on Monday near a training facility of Afghanistan's main intelligence agency in the capital, Kabul.The Afshar area of Kabul where the attack occurred is close to a training facility of the National Directorate of Security, the main Afghan intelligence agency, as well as a private university.
  
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• President Trump Stresses 'America First' in National Security Strategy Speech

  18-12-2017 20:54 via yahoo.com
  The strategy could sharply alter U.S. international relationships
  
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• New Zealand Deems Loot Boxes Not Gambling

  18-12-2017 20:54
  Video game loot boxes are not gambling, according to New Zealand’s gambling regulator.
  Speaking to Gamasutra, the Gambling Compliance office of New Zealand's Department of Internal Affairs said, "the Department is of the view that loot boxes do not meet the legal definition of gambling."
  Trish Millward, a licensing compliance manager at the Department of Internal Affairs, said her office has been closely following the current loot box discussion that's happening around the world and doesn'
  
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• President Trump Says Amtrak Derailment Shows Need to Pass Infrastructure Plan

  18-12-2017 20:51 via yahoo.com
  "Our soon to be submitted infrastructure plan must be approved quickly"
  
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• Gamasutra's Best of 2017: Alissa McAloon's top 6 games

  18-12-2017 20:37
  From shockingly dark visual novels to infinitely cheerful golf adventures, I managed to play a healthy variety of wonderful games in 2017 despite nearly doubling my backlog at the same time. ...
  
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• 18 Best Horror Games of 2017

  18-12-2017 20:36
  
  2017 turned out to be a fantastic year for horror games. A beloved old franchise returned to its roots in Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. The 2015 hit SOMA finally launched on Xbox One and unveiled its all-new Safe Mode, making it a great time for new players to dive in. More than a handful of smaller indie gems shined through the big-name franchises, and a few even housed secrets darker than we could've imagined.
  Here are the best horror games of 2017.
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• Israel finds no wrongdoing in paraplegic Palestinian's death

  18-12-2017 20:34 via yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — An investigation by the Israeli military into the death of a paraplegic Palestinian man cleared Israeli troops of wrongdoing on Monday, saying it found "no moral or professional failures" in the incident.
  
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• The Latest: At least 2 sought in Chicago teen's death

  18-12-2017 20:32 via yahoo.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on a teenager killed while delivering newspapers with his stepfather in Chicago (all times local):
  
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• Dauntless: Frostfall Update Brings Wintry Monster Slaying

  18-12-2017 20:29
  All month long we're highlighting cool games that might not be on your radar, as part of IGN First: Games to Watch in 2018.
  Today you monster-slaying PC players out there can get a first glimpse at the new wintertime content update coming to Dauntless, dubbed the Frostfall update.
  The Frostfall seasonal event kicks off on Dec 19th until early January! The update adds a ton of new content, and revitalizes a bunch of existing features, all while coating the world in a wintry, holiday vibe, so
  
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• 15-Year-Old Fatally Shot in Chicago While Delivering Newspapers With His Stepfather

  18-12-2017 20:14 via yahoo.com
  Chicago police are trying to determine if Brian Jasso was a victim of mistaken identity
  
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• Dissidia Final Fantasy NT Open Beta Announced

  18-12-2017 20:01
  
  Dissidia Final Fantasy NT is getting an open beta next month in North America and Europe.
  Square Enix announced on Twitter the beta will run from January 12 to January 21. More details about the beta will be revealed closer to its launch.Dissidia Final Fantasy NT open beta announcement. Image via Twitter.Continue reading…
  
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• Blog: The importance of virtual reality headphone tech

  18-12-2017 20:00
  How does headphone technology impact a virtual reality experience? Video game music composer Winifred Phillips discusses three headphone models targeting the VR marketplace to find out....
  
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• Pastor Whose Pregnant Wife Was Murdered in Their Home Remarries

  18-12-2017 19:54 via yahoo.com
  He proposed in November.
  
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• Donald Trump uses fatal train derailment to tout infrastructure plan and attack US spending in Middle East

  18-12-2017 19:43 via yahoo.com
  US President Donald Trump has responded to a deadly train derailment in Washington State by promoting his latest policy priority: infrastructure."The train accident that just occurred in DuPont, WA shows more than ever why our soon to be submitted infrastructure plan must be approved quickly," Mr Trump tweeted hours after the fatal crash.It was unclear from where Mr Trump took the $7 trillion figure.
  
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• U.S. appeals judge steps down amid harassment inquiry

  18-12-2017 19:42 via yahoo.com
  Alex Kozinski, a renowned U.S. federal appeals court judge based in San Francisco, resigned on Monday after the court's chief judge initiated an inquiry into harassment accusations, Kozinski said in a statement.The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals judge said he was retiring immediately from the lifetime appointment to avoid being a distraction for the federal judiciary.The Washington Post, which on Monday first reported the retirement, said earlier this month that six women had come forward to
  
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• Trump Decides Climate Change Is No Longer A National Security Threat

  18-12-2017 19:38 via yahoo.com
  In a break with two decades of military planning, President Donald Trump has eliminated climate change from his administration’s list of threats to national security.
  
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• Trump Judicial Nominee Drops Out After Embarrassing Hearing, Per Senate Aide

  18-12-2017 19:35 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump’s judicial nominee Matthew Petersen has withdrawn his name from consideration after a video went viral of him failing to answer basic questions about law in his confirmation hearing, according to an aide to a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
  
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• Blog: How to avoid going crazy while developing your indie game

  18-12-2017 19:34
  Developing indie games can be a harrowing experience. So, here are a few things to keep in mind if you're an indie who's keen to cling to their sanity. ...
  
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