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• Students, alumni challenge legacy preference at top colleges

  14-02-2018 23:54 via yahoo.com
  BOSTON (AP) — Students and alumni at some of the nation's top universities are urging their schools to reconsider admissions policies that give an edge to relatives of alumni.
  
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• Get a sweet Dell Ultrasharp, ultra curvy monitor for just $500

  14-02-2018 23:50 via gamesradar.com
  Fill your eyeballs with this 34-inch widescreen
  
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• Capcom President: Monster Hunter World Would Be 'Difficult' to Bring to Nintendo Switch

  14-02-2018 23:49
  Capcom's President has said bringing Monster Hunter World to Nintendo Switch would be Difficult.
  Kotaku reports Japanese business magazine Toyo Keizai asked Capcom President Huruhiro Tsujimoto about bringing Monster Hunter World to the Nintendo Switch.
  Tsujimoto confirmed Capcom is aware of the request but added "However, taking into account various conditions, bringing Monster Hunter: World now for release is difficult. The reason is that the Switch has different functions from o
  
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• FBI: Instagram messages show teen planned school shooting

  14-02-2018 23:44 via yahoo.com
  ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) — A teen charged with killing a first grader in a South Carolina school shooting targeted his old elementary school because he knew a police officer wouldn't be there, an FBI agent who uncovered his social media messages said.
  
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• The Florida School Shooting Was the 18th School Shooting of the Year. And It's Only February

  14-02-2018 23:42 via yahoo.com
  At least 14 people were injured in the shooting, authorities say
  
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• Clash of Clans developer Supercell reports a decline in profits

  14-02-2018 23:34
  Finnish mobile game studio Supercell said today it earned $810 million in profit and $2 billion in revenue for fiscal 2017....
  
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• Overwatch Public Test Realm Hero Changes Detailed

  14-02-2018 23:32
  The newest hero changes coming to Overwatch's Public Test Realm have been detailed.
  In the latest developer update video, game director Jeff Kaplan explains that an error made during the main game's latest patch meant that some heroes received changes which were not yet ready for release.
  Instead, they were meant to roll out in an update to be tested on the game's public test realm server, which is out now and includes balance changes to heroes Mei, Doomfist, and Sombra.
  Mei has been buffed with
  
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• This My Little Pony-inspired fighting game finally makes online lobbies worth your time

  14-02-2018 23:12 via gamesradar.com
  Them's Fightin' Herds' lobby is a game unto itself
  
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• EPA Head Says He Needs to Fly First Class Because People Are Mean to Him in Coach

  14-02-2018 22:38 via yahoo.com
  Pruitt said he had some "incidents" on flights shortly after his appointment
  
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• Manafort co-defendant Gates shows up in court with new lawyer

  14-02-2018 22:34 via yahoo.com
  Thomas Green, a high-powered defense lawyer at Sidley Austin in Washington, D.C., appeared for the first time in court on Wednesday alongside President Donald Trump's former deputy campaign chairman Richard Gates.Gates and Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort were both indicted in late October by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, as part of his ongoing investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 U.S. election.
  
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• Beija Flor crowned Rio carnival winners with dig at corruption

  14-02-2018 22:31 via yahoo.com
  Traditional samba school Beija Flor was crowned winner of the Rio carnival Wednesday after a performance that portrayed politicians as rats with money-stuffed briefcases in sharply political parades.Superstar drag queen Pabllo Vittar appeared in the last parade with Beija Flor in the wee hours of Tuesday.Second-placed Paraiso do Tuiuti also had a sharply satirical theme, depicting conservative President Michel Temer perched on a sackful of money -- in keeping with a parade filled with unusually
  
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• Parkland shooting: Officials say there are 'numerous fatalities' at Florida high school

  14-02-2018 22:30 via yahoo.com
  Officials in Florida have said there were “numerous fatalities” following a school shooting and that at least 17 people had been shot.Police rushed to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, 45 miles north of Miami, following reports that there was an active shooting incidents.The report came as students were about to leave for the day.
  
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• Trump is silent on the flu. Ebola? That was Obama's fault.

  14-02-2018 22:28 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump blamed the Ebola outbreak in 2014 on then-President Obama. But he has been silent on this year's flu, which has been far more deadly to Americans.
  
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• Stormy Daniels Says Trump Lawyer Breached Agreement, So She's Free To Talk

  14-02-2018 22:25 via yahoo.com
  Former adult film actress Stephanie Clifford says she is ready to tell her story after the president’s lawyer reportedly breached a nondisclosure agreement preventing her from speaking publicly about her alleged affair with President Donald Trump.
  
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• Syria's War Has Never Been More International

  14-02-2018 22:20 via yahoo.com
  If the coming defeat of ISIS and rebel forces in Syria was supposed to bring an end to the seven-year conflict there, no one told Iran, Israel, Turkey, Russia, or the United States.
  
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• Syria 'repels' Israeli surveillance aircraft: state media

  14-02-2018 22:16 via yahoo.com
  Syria on Wednesday repelled Israeli surveillance planes that breached its southern border, state media reported, days after an Israeli fighter jet was downed during raids on the war-torn country."Syrian air defences have repelled Israeli surveillance planes over Quneitra, forcing them to leave Syrian airspace," the official SANA news agency said.On Saturday, the Syrian government said it fended off an Israeli raid on a military base in the centre of the country, hitting more than one warplane.
  
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• Florida shooting: 17 dead in 'absolutely pure evil' high school massacre in Parkland - as it happened

  14-02-2018 22:12 via yahoo.com
  Seventeen people have been killed and more than a dozen injured after a gunman opened fire at a Florida high school.Aerial footage showed students streaming out of the school with their hands in the air before dropping their backpacks into a large pile next to police and sitting on nearby grass.Sheriff Scott Israel of Broward County said the 19-year-old suspect - identified in media reports as Nikolaus Cruz - is in custody and that investigators are beginning to "dissect" what happened in the at
  
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• Mom sentenced to jail time for baptizing her daughter amid custody battle

  14-02-2018 21:56 via yahoo.com
  A North Carolina mother was sentenced to seven days in prison after she had her daughter baptized, according to the Charlotte Observer.
  
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• Get a job: Nexon's OC Studio is hiring a Game Director

  14-02-2018 21:52
  Nexon is looking for a Game Director to be responsible for setting the product and design vision of the game and leading a team to create an enjoyable gameplay experience....
  
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• Attorney General lambasts U.S. Senate bill to reform sentencing

  14-02-2018 21:38 via yahoo.com
  By Sarah N. LynchWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a stark warning on Wednesday to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, urging it not to approve a draft criminal sentencing reform bill that Sessions claimed would reduce sentences for "a highly dangerous cohort of criminals."In a letter seen by Reuters, Sessions told Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman and fellow Republican Charles Grassley that he feared passage of the legislation would be "a grave error."Grassley's co
  
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• How the original 'Roseanne' sitcom was started

  14-02-2018 21:33 via yahoo.com
  John Goodman, who plays Dan Conner on the show, said he and Roseanne Barr hit it off from the very beginning.
  
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• Suspect Went to Walmart and McDonald's After Killing 17, Police Say: The Latest on the Florida School Shooting

  14-02-2018 21:30 via yahoo.com
  The suspected gunman, a former student, has been taken into custody
  
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• 'Roseanne' star Roseanne Barr says 'we're lucky' to have Trump as President

  14-02-2018 21:27 via yahoo.com
  "Trump offended half of America and [Hillary Clinton] offended the other half, so that's great for, for sitcoms. It's great for comedy," Barr said.
  
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• Alt.Ctrl.GDC Showcase: Mark Wars

  14-02-2018 21:23
  Mark Wars will have players drawing lines with markers in order to guide their ever-moving robot to a goal before their opponent can. ...
  
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• Another White House Official Just Resigned Because He Couldn’t Get a Security Clearance

  14-02-2018 21:19 via yahoo.com
  Due to his previous marijuana use
  
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• At Least 17 Dead After Troubled Former Student Allegedly Opens Fire On Florida High School

  14-02-2018 21:12 via yahoo.com
  At least 17 people were killed and 15 injured after a shooter opened fire in a South Florida high school on Wednesday afternoon.
  
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• Parkland shooting: Police capture gunman who left 'numerous fatalities' after opening fire at a Florida high school

  14-02-2018 21:11 via yahoo.com
  Seventeen people have been killed and more than a dozen injured after a former student entered a Florida high school and opened fire, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel confirmed.In the latest incident of gun violence to rock the US - there have reportedly been 18 school shootings so far in 2018 - police said a young man man entered the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, north of Miami, and began firing.It's a horrific situation," Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Robe
  
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• Florida shooting: 17 killed as gunman opens fire at at Parkland high school

  14-02-2018 21:11 via yahoo.com
  At least 17 students at a Florida high school were killed after a gunman opened fire on them with an automatic rifle, in one of the deadliest school shootings on record in the US.Officials said another 14 were injured at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the small city of Parkland, around 45 miles north of Miami.Mr Cruz had been expelled for “disciplinary reasons”, while teachers said they had previously been warned that he could pose a danger to the campus.
  
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• Congress Should Impeach President Trump if He Refuses to Speak to Mueller

  14-02-2018 21:07 via yahoo.com
  It conflicts with his Constitutional duty, writes a former lawyer for Spiro Agnew
  
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• Survivors of Parkland school shooting share harrowing stories

  14-02-2018 21:05 via yahoo.com
  Tammy Leitner, reporter for NBC News, talks with Rachel Maddow about the stories she has learned from survivors of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, with students cowering in corners and texting family outside.
  
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• Morgan Tsvangirai, the enduring face of Zimbabwe's opposition dies

  14-02-2018 20:56 via yahoo.com
  Morgan Tsvangirai, who has died after a battle with cancer, was the face of Zimbabwe's downtrodden opposition for decades.Jail, beatings by pro-regime thugs and perennial disappointment at the ballot box never dented the 65-year-old's desire to move the country past the decades of autocratic rule by former president Robert Mugabe and his acolytes.Only outside mediation helped put the lid back on Zimbabwe's fractious politics and usher in a period of power sharing and relative calm.
  
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• Pence on Porter scandal: 'The White House could've handled this better'

  14-02-2018 20:55 via yahoo.com
  Vice President Mike Pence said on Wednesday that the White House mishandled the allegations involving former staff secretary Rob Porter.
  
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• Zimbabwe opposition leader Tsvangirai dies in South Africa

  14-02-2018 20:52 via yahoo.com
  Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai died on Wednesday after a long battle with cancer, casting his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party into the unknown less than three months after the army ousted long-time ruler Robert Mugabe.Tsvangirai, who died in South Africa, was 65.The family communicated this to me," MDC vice-president Elias Mudzuri told Reuters.
  
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• Families of Florida school shooting victims still being notified

  14-02-2018 20:41 via yahoo.com
  Mayor Christine Hunschofsky of Parkland, Florida, talks with Rachel Maddow about how the state of Florida has rallied resources to her community as officials engage the grim task of notifying the families of victims of the shooting.
  
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• Sea of Thieves Stress Tests Happening This Month

  14-02-2018 20:40
  Sea of Thieves will be getting a few stress tests this month leading up to the game's March 20 release date, Rare has announced.
  The first of these scale tests begins February 16 at 2 am PT/5 am ET/10 am UK/8 pm AEST and concludes on February 18 at 2 am PT/5 am ET/10 am UK/8 pm AEST. Xbox Insiders and and closed beta participants can partake in the stress tests, which Rare will use  to get feedback on the game's server capabilities and identify areas for improvement ahead of
  
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• School shooting drills prove beneficial in Parkland gun tragedy

  14-02-2018 20:39 via yahoo.com
  Melissa Falkowski, a teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, talks with Rachel Maddow about what she experienced as a gunman terrorized her school, and how previous drills prepared students and staff for the very real horror.
  
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• Don't Miss: I'd Ship It—Ladykiller in a Bind's use of BDSM

  14-02-2018 20:36
  The title of Christine Love's Ladykiller in a Bind helpfully serves as the game's comical premise, sex is front and center, particularly the much-derided but little-understood subculture of BDSM. ...
  
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• Warhammer: Vermintide 2 Release Date Announced

  14-02-2018 20:30
  Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is coming to PC on March 8, developer Fatshark announced today. A console release date has not been revealed at this time.
  Fatshark also announced a preorder exclusive beta for Vermintide 2, which will begin on February 28. In addition to beta access, those who preorder on Steam will receive the Vermintide 1 DLC Death on the Reik.
  The sequel to 2015's Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide will stay "true to the beautifully dark atmosphere of the world," while introducing
  
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• Kingdom Come: Deliverance review round-up: This ambitious open-world RPG shines despite some rough edges

  14-02-2018 20:29 via gamesradar.com
  Technical glitches don't take the magic out of rewarding role-playing
  
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• Trump refuses to yield on immigration, causing more division on Capitol Hill

  14-02-2018 20:23 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump reaffirmed a hardline position on a prospective immigration deal on Wednesday, throwing a wrench into fraught negotiations over how to protect hundreds of thousands of young, undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers.As the US Senate scrambles to broker an agreement by the end of the week, Trump made clear in a statement that any immigration bill must include drastic changes to legal immigration in order to earn his signature.
  
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• How 1 Very Special Submarine Ravaged Japan During World War II

  14-02-2018 20:13 via yahoo.com
  At midnight on July 23, the Barb slipped up to within a kilometer of the shore, and a landing party commanded by Lt. William Walke, paddled quietly to the beach.While three men took up guard positions—they encountered a sleeping Japanese guard in a watchtower, whom they left unharmed—the other five buried the demolition charge and managed not blow themselves up jury-rigging the detonation circuit.In the closing months of World War II, heavy losses and depleted fuel sto
  
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• Sam's Club to offer free shipping for premium members

  14-02-2018 20:09 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Sam's Club is offering free shipping for premium members and simplifying its membership tiers.
  
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• All-New 2018 Jeep Wrangler Improves Upon a Classic

  14-02-2018 20:08 via yahoo.com
  Redesigning the Jeep Wrangler is a delicate job. Designers have to  honor its history and respect its loyal owner base, while addressing significant shortcomings in a marketplace that has seen dr...
  
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• How to Watch the Rainbow Six Siege Invitational Finals

  14-02-2018 19:41
  Rainbow Six Siege has only gotten bigger since its release over two years ago, and as the community has grown, so have the stakes at this year's Invitational. Last year’s $200,000 USD prize pool has more than doubled, as 16 teams will compete this week for $500,000 USD.IGN will be streaming the final two days of the Invitational’s Main Event beginning this Saturday, February 17, at 7 a.m. PT (10 a.m. ET/3 p.m. UK/Sunday, February 18, at 2 a.m. AET). Coverage will resume the following
  
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• VA head changed records to hide travel boondoggle, report alleges

  14-02-2018 19:33 via yahoo.com
  The Department of Veterans Affairs chief David Shulkin was accused of a cover-up that involved altering emails relating to a trip that cost taxpayers more than $120,000, according to a report.
  
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• Elizabeth Warren Gives Speech On 'Pocahontas' As Slur, Addresses Claims Of Native Ancestry

  14-02-2018 19:32 via yahoo.com
  surprised guests at the National Congress of American Indians on Wednesday with an impassioned speech calling out President Donald Trump’s habit of calling her “Pocahontas.”
  
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• Taliban letter addresses 'American people,' urges talks

  14-02-2018 19:09 via yahoo.com
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — In a rambling nearly 3,000-word letter issued Wednesday, the Taliban urged the "American people" to press their government to withdraw from Afghanistan, reminding them that the Afghan war is the longest conflict in which they have been embroiled — and at a cost of "trillions of dollars."
  
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• 'Kingpin Granny' Arrested in Huge Drug Bust, Cops Say

  14-02-2018 19:02 via yahoo.com
  Betty Jordan of Parsons, Tenn., was allegedly in possession of more than 1,000 prescription pills.
  
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• Taliban publishes open letter to Americans

  14-02-2018 18:53 via yahoo.com
  The Taliban has published an open letter to the American people, calling on them to demand an end the conflict in Afghanistan and to reject “the inexperienced policies of president Trump and his war-monger advisors”. Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for the Taliban, released copies of the 10-page document on Wednesday in several languages, detailing insurgent gains and so-called failures of the “illegitimate” US-led invasion, now in its 17th year. The authors write that
  
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• Sea of Thieves' Kraken looks terrifying in these leaked screenshots - here's how fighting it will work

  14-02-2018 18:31 via gamesradar.com
  Strap: The massive Sea of Thieves monster is finally revealed and it isn't squidding around
  
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