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• Firefighter Adopts Baby Girl He Delivered on The Job after Saving Her Life

  27-12-2017 23:54 via yahoo.com
  Firefighter Marc Hadden had saved dozens of life with the department in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, but on Nov. 14, 2011, he found himself delivering a baby for the very first time after a woman called 911 complaining of abdominal pain
  
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• Dollar General To Create 400 New Jobs In Texas As It Expands In Rural America

  27-12-2017 23:54 via yahoo.com
  Dollar General, a favorite spot for household staples across the country, is expanding even further.
  
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• Federal murder complaint filed against postal worker

  27-12-2017 23:49 via yahoo.com
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal criminal complaint Wednesday stated that a disgruntled Ohio postal worker murdered two U.S. government employees for performing their official duties.
  
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• Thousands of Puerto Rico police owed overtime call in sick

  27-12-2017 23:47 via yahoo.com
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Thousands of police officers are calling in sick every day in Puerto Rico, partly to press demands for unpaid overtime pay for hurricane recovery efforts as concerns grow over people's safety in a U.S. territory struggling to restore power.
  
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• 26 Photos That Show The Natural Disasters Humanity Faced In 2017

  27-12-2017 23:40 via yahoo.com
  For those in the United States, 2017 will probably always be associated with the record hurricanes that caused widespread damage in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico.
  
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• No US pressure behind Guatemala embassy move to Jerusalem: FM

  27-12-2017 23:34 via yahoo.com
  The United States did not pressure Guatemala into announcing it will move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, the Central American state's foreign minister said Wednesday.There wasn't any overture from the United States to make this happen.This was a decision by the government, the state and the foreign policy of Guatemala," the minister, Sandra Jovel, told a news conference in Guatemala City.
  
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• The Type A's Must-Have Guide To Getting Organized In 2018

  27-12-2017 23:15 via yahoo.com
  The holidays can definitely be a time of gluttony, and we don’t mean just the food.
  
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• Sophitia Shows Off Her Skills In This Reboot Developer Diary

  27-12-2017 23:12
  In a developer diary for Soulcalibur VI, producer Motohiro Okubo explains what makes this reboot version of Sophitia so special.
  Okubo kind of frames Sophitia as Soulcalibur's Ryu, making her a good character for novices who fights with an orthodox style. Okubo noted that Sophitia and Mitsurugi were the first characters made for the game and every other character was built around their style and visuals.
  Check out the developer diary below. Soulcalibur VI is scheduled for PlayStation 4, Xbox On
  
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• Disneyland Theme Park Loses Power On One Of The Busiest Days Of The Year

  27-12-2017 23:04 via yahoo.com
  A power outage at Disneyland took some of the magic out of the day for thousands of guests on Wednesday.
  
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• Police: Phoenix baby bent in half by father has died

  27-12-2017 22:59 via yahoo.com
  A six-month-old child died after his father reportedly bent him in half to keep him from crying.
  
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• The Latest: No arrest after passenger got on wrong flight

  27-12-2017 22:49 via yahoo.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on a Tokyo-bound flight that returned to Los Angeles (all times local):
  
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• How One Dying Man Changed The Debate About The Tax Bill

  27-12-2017 22:49 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― What mattered was that he showed up — that he put himself in front of the people whose opinions on the arcana of U.S. fiscal policy would have a direct and immediate impact on his weakening body.
  
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• FCC issues final extension for video game CVAA accessibility waiver

  27-12-2017 22:47
  At the request of the ESA, the FCC has extended an existing waiver that temporarily makes video games exempt from the accessibility requirements set forth in the CVAA of 2010....
  
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• Luann de Lesseps Entered Incorrect Hotel Room with a Man Before Arrest, Police Say

  27-12-2017 22:46 via yahoo.com
  Luann de Lesseps‘ arrest on Saturday night came after she was discovered trespassing in a hotel room with an unidentified male who was once her ex, according to a police report
  
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• 18 Tweets That Capture The Struggle Of Translating For Immigrant Parents As A Kid

  27-12-2017 22:45 via yahoo.com
  If you grew up with immigrant parents who didn’t speak English, you probably remember your first job as a child: family interpreter.
  
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• Victims in basement apartment were mom, 2 kids, 2nd woman

  27-12-2017 22:37 via yahoo.com
  TROY, N.Y. (AP) — Police worked Wednesday to try and unravel the mystery of who killed a woman, her partner and her two young children, whose bodies were found in a riverfront apartment house the day after Christmas.
  
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• The United States Should Resolve to Avoid War With North Korea in 2018

  27-12-2017 22:29 via yahoo.com
  The greatest danger to world peace in the coming year is the prospect of war on the Korean Peninsula — and Trump is making matters worse.
  
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• Greek urban guerrilla group claims responsibility for courthouse blast

  27-12-2017 22:21 via yahoo.com
  A Greek urban guerrilla group claimed responsibility on Wednesday for a blast at an Athens court on Dec. 22, accusing the judiciary of acting as a proxy for politicians supporting austerity in the crisis-hit country.Nobody was injured in the early-morning blast at the Athens Court of Appeal.In a statement, the Group of People’s Fighters (OLA) said the Court of Appeal had upheld the legality of austerity measures, such as cutting pensions and salaries, in return for bailouts from internatio
  
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• FBI won't take over investigation of detective's slaying

  27-12-2017 22:11 via yahoo.com
  BALTIMORE (AP) — The FBI won't take over an investigation into the homicide of a Baltimore city detective who was shot in the head the day before he was to testify before a federal grand jury about a group of indicted officers, the city's top police official said Wednesday.
  
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• Markets Right Now: Stocks end barely higher in quiet trading

  27-12-2017 22:08 via yahoo.com
  The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local):
  
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• Conditions Favorable for Democrats in 2018

  27-12-2017 22:01 via yahoo.com
  Steve Kornacki, national political correspondent for MSNBC, talks with Joy Reid about how the political conditions in 2018 compare with those of past midterm elections.
  
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• Nintendo Reportedly Delaying 64GB Switch Game Cards

  27-12-2017 21:59
  Nintendo reportedly won't offer 64-gigabyte game cards for Switch until 2019.
  The Wall Street Journal says Nintendo originally planned to deliver the bigger Switch game cards to developers in the second half of 2018. But there's apparently been a delay due to technical issues.
  The largest Nintendo Switch game card currently is 32 gigabytes. That's considerably smaller storage compared to a Blu-ray, which can hold up to 50 gigabytes of data for a PlayStation 4 or Xbox One game.
  Now there hav
  
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• First few patients evacuated from besieged Syria rebel enclave

  27-12-2017 21:59 via yahoo.com
  Aid workers have evacuated the first few ill patients from Syrian rebel bastion Eastern Ghouta under a deal struck after the UN said hundreds are in critical condition following a four-year government seige.Three children and a man were loaded overnight into ambulances bound for hospitals in Damascus before being transported out past government lines that have held the region's estimated 400,000 residents in a stranglehold since 2013.A total of 29 emergency medical cases are expected to be evacu
  
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• Man Arrested for Damaging ATM After It Gave Him 'Too Much Money': Cops

  27-12-2017 21:50 via yahoo.com
  Michael Joseph Oleksik, 23, punched the touch screen in frustration, authorities said.
  
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• Steve Bannon cuts ties with far-right candidate trying to unseat Paul Ryan

  27-12-2017 21:45 via yahoo.com
  The source said Steve Bannon had not been a fan of Paul Nehlen.Paul Nehlen, the far-right activist who is challenging House speaker Paul Ryan for his congressional seat, will not get the backing of Breitbart News and Steve Bannon.A source close to Bannon, the former White House chief strategist who is orchestrating a slate of challengers to Republican establishment figures, confirmed to the Guardian that Nehlen became persona non grata after he appeared on a white supremacist podcast, Fash the N
  
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• Russia: Explosion injures 10 at St. Petersburg supermarket

  27-12-2017 21:26 via yahoo.com
  ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — At least 10 people were injured Wednesday by an explosion at a supermarket in St. Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city and the site of a deadly subway bombing this year.
  
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• 21 Of The Best Feminist Books Of 2017

  27-12-2017 21:18 via yahoo.com
  From the Women’s March in January and the subsequent record number of women running for political offices, to the #MeToo movement, 2017 has been a remarkable year for women.
  
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• Trump Team Readies Flynn Smear Strategy: WaPo

  27-12-2017 21:13 via yahoo.com
  Joyce Vance, former U.S. attorney, talks with Joy Reid about a Washington Post report that Donald Trump's legal team is preparing a strategy to discredit Mike Flynn in case his testimony is used against Trump.
  
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• Mueller Probing GOP Work With Russian Hacking

  27-12-2017 21:11 via yahoo.com
  Natasha Bertrand, political correspondent for Business Insider, talks with Joy Reid about a report that the Mueller investigation is expanding to look at the extent to which RNC digital operations overlapped with Russian hacking activity.
  
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• Best of 2017: Meaning and choice, or how to design decisions that feel intimately difficult

  27-12-2017 21:10
  Kuba Stokalski, lead designer at 11 bit Studios, explores the conflict at the heart of many choices in This War of Mine - and examines how it can be used in other contexts. ...
  
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• A Complete Guide to EA Sports UFC 3's Preorder Bonuses

  27-12-2017 21:08
  
  Mixed martial arts fans can step back into the octagon on February 2, 2018, when EA Sports UFC 3 launches on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. In extremely unsurprising news, Conor McGregor will be gracing the cover once again.
  If you’re thinking about preordering EA Sports UFC 3, you’ll want to know about the special editions and preorder bonuses that are available. We have you covered with all those details below, so keep on reading.
  Price: $60
  Even the Standard Edition of EA Sports UFC
  
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• Coalition has no plans to target Islamic State in Syrian government-controlled areas

  27-12-2017 21:02 via yahoo.com
  By Idrees AliWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Despite saying that the Syrian government is not doing enough to stop Islamic State militants from moving through its territory, the U.S.-led coalition fighting the group does not intend to target militants in those areas, a senior coalition official said on Wednesday.The comments by British Army Major General Felix Gedney indicate that the coalition will rely on the Syrian government to go after Islamic State militants in areas controlled by forces loyal to S
  
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• Zelda Director: Speedruns, Shrine Skips 'All According to Plan'

  27-12-2017 21:00
  Players have pulled off a lot of incredible stunts in Breath of the Wild, from completing the entire game in just a few hours to finding ways to beat long shrines with quick, easy physics skips.
  After working on such a gigantic, meticulously-designed game, we asked series producer Eiji Aonuma and game director Hidemaro Fujibayashi how they feel seeing people find shortcuts and alternate solutions.
  “That was definitely one of our goals. That's totally all according to plan,” Fujibayas
  
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• Ohio Teens Charged With Tossing Sandbag Off Overpass That Killed Man

  27-12-2017 20:59 via yahoo.com
  Four Ohio teenagers have been charged with murder for allegedly throwing a sandbag off an overpass that struck and killed a 22-year-old man.
  
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• Parents, make sure to register for GDC 2018 childcare!

  27-12-2017 20:58
  Game Developers Conference organizers are proud to continue their partnership with experienced childcare provider KiddieCorp to offer GDC 2018 attendees access to an on-site children's program....
  
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• 10 hurt in Saint Petersburg supermarket bombing

  27-12-2017 20:57 via yahoo.com
  A homemade bomb blast at a supermarket in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg injured 10 people on Wednesday, officials said, sparking a probe into attempted murder. "According to preliminary information, an explosion of an unidentified object occurred in a store," a spokeswoman for Russia's Investigative Committee, Svetlana Petrenko, said in a statement. The blast was caused by a "homemade explosive device with the power equivalent to 200 grammes of TNT filled with lethal fragments," she said.
  
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• Blog: How to build audio for VR games

  27-12-2017 20:56
  What's the difference working with Virtual Reality compared to flat-screen games except for Binaural positioning? This article shares insights on creating audio for VR Games. ...
  
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• The Most Mind-Blowing Space Pictures of 2017

  27-12-2017 20:48 via yahoo.com
  Gaze upon them. Do it.
  
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• Mark Hamill Is Sorry For Slamming Luke Skywalker In 'The Last Jedi,’ OK?

  27-12-2017 20:30 via yahoo.com
  Earlier this month, actor Mark Hamill spoke pretty candidly about how he didn’t like the way director Rian Johnson had him portray Luke Skywalker in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.” “He’s not my Luke Skywalker,” Hamill said in an interview posted by Spanish-language movie site SensaCine.
  
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• Celebs Discuss Their Favorite Head-to-Head Games

  27-12-2017 20:30
  Welcome to Best. Game. Ever., our new video series where we ask entertainers, athletes, comedians, and creators to weigh in on their all-time favorite video games. From Mario to Master Chief, 8-bit to 4K, we're celebrating the best games ever, and in our second episode, we're taking a look at the best head-to-head titles.
  In Episode 2, Game of Thrones' Liam Cunningham, The Walking Dead's Austin Amelio, comedian Heather Anne Campbell, and more talk about their favori
  
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• Blast rips through supermarket in Russia's St Petersburg, 10 hurt

  27-12-2017 20:28 via yahoo.com
  A blast ripped through a supermarket in Russia's St Petersburg on Wednesday evening, injuring at least 10 shoppers, investigators said.The explosion was caused by a homemade bomb packed with pieces of metal with a force equivalent to 200 grammes of TNT, they said.Russian media reports said the bomb had been hidden in a locker where shoppers leave their belongings in a branch of the Perekrestok supermarket chain.
  
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• Obama beats Trump again as most admired American man in poll

  27-12-2017 20:27 via yahoo.com
  Obama has topped the survey for 10 straight years, since 2008 when he was first elected to the White House.Wednesday brought bad news for Donald Trump: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are still the man and woman most admired by Americans, according to the results of an annual Gallup poll.
  
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• 2 Children Among 4 Dead in Basement in Troy After Act of 'Savagery,' Police Say

  27-12-2017 19:59 via yahoo.com
  “Only a person of savagery would do something like this.”
  
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• Teacher Says She Was Bumped From First-Class Seat For Congresswoman: 'My Beef Isn't With Her'

  27-12-2017 19:57 via yahoo.com
  Jean-Marie Simon says she was told to sit in economy after Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee took her seat.
  
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• One dead after 4.2 magnitude quake near Iran capital Tehran

  27-12-2017 19:54 via yahoo.com
  One person died of a heart attack and at least 56 people were slightly hurt when an earthquake of 4.2 magnitude shook an area 50 km (31 miles) west of the Iranian capital Tehran on Wednesday, the state news agency IRNA reported.Later on Wednesday, a quake with a magnitude of 5.1 hit the town of Hojedk in southeastern Kerman province, state television reported, adding that there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.On Dec. 12, an earthquake of magnitude 6.2 jolted the same area in Ke
  
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• New Study Reveals When China Will Pass U.S. for World's No. 1 Economy

  27-12-2017 19:40 via yahoo.com
  A new report outlines how the digital revolution has changed everything.
  
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• Pro-Trump Singer Says Corey Lewandowski Sexually Assaulted Her At A Party

  27-12-2017 19:31 via yahoo.com
  Singer Joy Villa, who unironically wore a “Make America Great Again” dress to the 2017 Grammys, says she has filed a sexual assault complaint with police against President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.
  
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• Mystery Dem-backed super PAC Highway 31 spent millions in Alabama race

  27-12-2017 19:24 via yahoo.com
  A mysterious super PAC poured millions into the special Alabama Senate race between Doug Jones and Roy Moore, and that group was reportedly funded heavily by the Democratic Senate Majority PAC.
  
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• 18 Post-Holiday Sales On Clothes, Shoes, Accessories And More

  27-12-2017 19:13 via yahoo.com
  The hustle and bustle of the holidays might have come to an abrupt halt, but that doesn’t mean the sales have.
  
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• Steph Curry, Chance The Rapper Join Barack Obama In Inspiring PSA

  27-12-2017 19:01 via yahoo.com
  Chance the Rapper and NBA star Steph Curry have teamed up with former President Barack Obama to deliver a powerful message on self-worth.
  
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