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• Clarence Thomas Sexually Harassed Me. Yes, He Should Be Impeached.

  19-02-2018 23:48 via yahoo.com
  The impeachment of Clarence Thomas is a pipe dream.
  
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• More Than 1,500 Attend Funeral for School Shooting Victim Alaina Petty, 14

  19-02-2018 23:11 via yahoo.com
  She was one of 17 students and staff members killed in the shooting
  
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• Head bowed, Florida shooting suspect returns to court for hearing

  19-02-2018 23:09 via yahoo.com
  A former student accused of last week's deadly shooting at a Florida high school returned to court for one of two hearings on Monday in a case that has galvanized advocates of stricter gun control, including many of the rampage survivors.Nikolas Cruz, his head bowed, hands shackled to his waist and wearing a red, jail-issued jumpsuit, showed no emotion during the first, procedural session in Fort Lauderdale.The hearing ended with Broward Circuit Court Judge Elizabeth Scherer ruling that a defens
  
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• Donald Trump ranked worst president in US history by nearly 200 political scientists

  19-02-2018 22:57 via yahoo.com
  Nearly 200 of America's top political scientists have voted Donald Trump the worst president in US history.According to the 2018 Presidents & Executive Politics Presidential Greatness Survey, Mr Trump ranks even lower than disgraced President Richard Nixon – even among conservatives.Mr Nixon sits at 33.
  
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• Man Accused Of Breaking Off Terra-Cotta Warrior’s Thumb For Souvenir

  19-02-2018 22:56 via yahoo.com
  Some people’s idea of justice is an eye for an eye, but China wants “severe punishment” for a man who stole a clay thumb.
  
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• Chicago Cubs' Anthony Rizzo On Going Home in Wake of Tragedy: 'Hardest Thing I Ever Had to Do'

  19-02-2018 22:39 via yahoo.com
  Chicago Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo visited victims at the hospital and spoke at a vigil in Parkland, where he told the community that they are not alone.
  
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• Roseanne Jokes Her National Anthem Was 'Better' Than Fergie's

  19-02-2018 22:27 via yahoo.com
  Fergie’s rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the 2018 NBA All-Star Game on Sunday has been widely judged a colossal flop, with some people calling it one of the worst performances of the national anthem ever.
  
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• PSVR Platformer Moss Release Date Announced

  19-02-2018 22:14
  PlayStation VR platformer Moss is launching next week.
  As detailed on PlayStation Blog, developer Polyarc's PSVR title will launch on February 27. Moss was officially announced during last year's Sony E3 press conference and has players guide an adorable little mouse named Quill through a magical adventure.
  The game is played from a third-person perspective, and you'll be helping Quill fight enemies and traverse colorful environments. For more on Moss, be sure to check out our E3 preview of the
  
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• Florida Principal Posts Emotional Video Message For Students: 'I Will Hold You As Long as You Need'

  19-02-2018 21:26 via yahoo.com
  Principal Ty Thompson posted the message online three days after 17 of his students and staff were killed.
  
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• Pennsylvania Supreme Court Issues New Congressional Map To Replace Gerrymandered One

  19-02-2018 21:06 via yahoo.com
  Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court on Monday issued a new congressional map to replace the state’s current one, which the court said is so partisan it violates the state’s Constitution.
  
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• Turkey warns Syrian army against helping Kurdish YPG in Afrin

  19-02-2018 20:58 via yahoo.com
  By Angus McDowalland Tuvan GumrukcuBEIRUT/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey warned on Monday it would confront Syrian government forces if they entered Syria's northwestern Afrin region to help the Kurdish YPG militia repel a Turkish offensive.Turkey began its Afrin operation with allied Syrian rebels last month against the YPG, which Ankara sees as a threat along its border with links to the Kurdish PKK insurgency at home.
  
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• Woman Filmed Berating Flight Attendant on Plane Gets Suspended From Job

  19-02-2018 20:56 via yahoo.com
  Susan Peirez started shouting after being seated near a baby.
  
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• Classmates petition for military burial for Florida school shooting hero JROTC cadet

  19-02-2018 20:45 via yahoo.com
  JROTC cadet Peter Wang will be remembered for his heroic actions by holding the door open to allow fellow classmates and school staff to flee during the Valentine's Day school shooting.
  
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• Melania Affectionately Rests Hand on Trump's Arm at Mar-a-Lago Party

  19-02-2018 20:37 via yahoo.com
  But the moment of serenity didn't last.
  
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• Fable Fortune Leaving Early Access This Week

  19-02-2018 20:35
  Fable Fortune is leaving Steam Early Access and Xbox Game Preview this week.
  Developers Mediatonic and Flaming Fowl Studios announced the collectible card game will launch as a free-to-play title on PC via Steam and Xbox One on February 22. The title will feature a handful of updates and bug fixes. The developers will share more details about the changes closer to the update's launch.
  Early Access players will also be able to log-in and receive free Fancy cards and card packs throughout thi
  
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• Return To Albion With This Collectible Card Game

  19-02-2018 20:26
  Fable Fortune, a collectible-card game created by Flaming Fowl Studios and Mediatonic, is leaving early access behind and is set for a full release on February 22 for Xbox One and PC.
  The beta launched back in July 2017 and has given the developers time to respond to community feedback and add some new features to the final version, including:Heroic Tales, a single-player story mode allowing
  players to experience the backstory for each of the six Heroes
  New emote system that allows players to
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• US postal worker found fatally shot in mail truck

  19-02-2018 20:17 via yahoo.com
  Dallas police say a U.S. Postal Service worker has been found shot to death inside a mail truck along a busy highway.
  
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• Florida Senator Marco Rubio says suspected school shooter should be executed

  19-02-2018 20:12 via yahoo.com
  The man accused of killing 17 people at a Florida high school should be executed, Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio has said.“The answer is yes,” Senator Mr Rubio said after being asked whether suspect Nikolas Cruz should be given the death penalty if convicted, noting that “I’d imagine most people” would agree.An attorney representing Cruz, who has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder over the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in P
  
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• Gay Olympian Feels Bad Adam Rippon Is Dealing With Anti-LGBTQ Politics

  19-02-2018 20:11 via yahoo.com
  As the first two publicly out gay men to win medals at the Winter Olympics, figure skaters Eric Radford and Adam Rippon have broken barriers and established legacies that will extend beyond the ice rink.
  
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• Teenagers stage 'lie-in' outside White House in support of Parkland shooting victims

  19-02-2018 20:09 via yahoo.com
  A group of Washington, D.C., teenagers staged a “lie-in” outside the White House on Monday to show their support for the victims of last week’s mass shooting at a Florida high school — and to demand action from President Trump on gun control.
  
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• Mike Pence won’t commit to wall spanning entire US-Mexico border

  19-02-2018 20:03 via yahoo.com
  Mike Pence has sidestepped questions about the ideal shape of Donald Trump’s proposed border wall.During an interview that took place near America’s border with Mexico, the Vice President was repeatedly asked about what type of barrier should be constructed.“President Trump will make the final decision about the structure of the wall, but the first step is that Congress has to fund it,” Mr Pence told interviewer Ainsley Earhardt.
  
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• Russia and Trump campaign may still have colluded, suggests top Democrat

  19-02-2018 20:02 via yahoo.com
  Evidence of collusion between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia could still come to light, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee has suggested, even though the indictment handed down last week against Russians and Russian companies did not indicate that an American was knowingly involved in US election meddling.A portion of the 13 Russians that were indicted last week for allegedly meddling in the 2016 election are said to have communicated with “unwittin
  
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• Teens hold a 'lie-in' at White House calling for gun control

  19-02-2018 19:59 via yahoo.com
  A group of Washington, D.C., teenagers staged a “lie-in” outside of the White House on Monday to show their support for the victims of last week’s mass shooting at a Florida high school — and to demand action from President Trump on gun control.“We have organized this protest in solidarity with all of those who were affected by the horrific school shooting in Florida,” the organization said in a statement posted on its Facebook page. “We call on Presiden
  
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• Slain Teacher Told His Fiancee What To Say If He Died In A School Shooting

  19-02-2018 19:58 via yahoo.com
  A high school teacher shot to death while protecting students in last week’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida, once considered that he could die in such violence, and gave his fiancee instructions on what to say if it happened.
  
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• Farting Passenger Forces Plane To Make Emergency Landing

  19-02-2018 19:52 via yahoo.com
  A flight from Dubai to Amsterdam had to make an emergency landing in Vienna after a fight broke out because one of the passengers wouldn’t stop breaking wind.
  
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• Siblings From Parkland High School Write Essays To Say 'Never Again'

  19-02-2018 19:43 via yahoo.com
  Last Wednesday, siblings Taryn and Zach Hibshman went to class together at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School like they did every other day.
  
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• Pit bull dog 'protects child from burglar' in Nebraska

  19-02-2018 19:37 via yahoo.com
  A pit bull protected a nine-year-old boy who was home alone during an attempted robbery in Nebraska.Shane Shafer's mother had left him to go and pick up her other children.While he was alone, a man with ski mask broke in and Shane called on his dog, Baby Girl, to help.
  
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• British model Chloe Ayling shows Italian police farmhouse where she shared a bed with 'kidnapper', in Milan trial video

  19-02-2018 19:37 via yahoo.com
  Video footage of British glamour model Chloe Ayling retracing her movements from a city studio where she was allegedly grabbed to a farmhouse where she was held for six days was played on Monday at the trial of a Polish man charged with her kidnapping. The 20-year-old model was allegedly snatched by a group calling itself Black Death after being lured to a fake modelling shoot at a studio in Milan in July.  According to prosecutors, Ms Ayling was drugged at the studio, zipped inside a
  
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• Polish-Jewish relations at 30-year low, chief rabbi says 

  19-02-2018 19:21 via yahoo.com
  Poland’s chief rabbi has said Polish-Jewish relations are at their worst for 30 years as controversy rages over a new law that critics claim is an attempt to whitewash Polish crimes against Jews during the Second World War. Michael Schudrich’s comments came just hours after vandals scrawled swastikas and anti-Polish statements on the Polish embassy in Tel Aviv, demonstrating the level of anger over the law, which has made it a criminal offence to blame the Polish nation or state for
  
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• Turkey warns as Syrian government poised to enter Afrin

  19-02-2018 19:14 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — Turkey warned the Syrian government Monday against entering the Kurdish-controlled enclave in northern Syria where a major Turkish military offensive is underway, saying it would hit back at the troops if their goal is to protect the Kurdish fighters.
  
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• Mega Man Legacy Collection 1 + 2 Switch Release Date

  19-02-2018 19:05
  Mega Man Legacy Collection 1 and 2 will release for Nintendo Switch on May 22.
  Following the release of Legacy Collection 2 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One this past August, Capcom announced in December that Legacy Collection 1 and 2 will come to Switch this spring. The Switch release date was announced today on Capcom's blog.
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• Rhode Island State Senator Charged With Extorting Sex from Page

  19-02-2018 19:03 via yahoo.com
  The indictment says GOP Sen. Nick Kettle coerced a male page into sex on two occasions in 2011
  
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• The Latest: Turkey denies reports that Syria will aid Kurds

  19-02-2018 19:00 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local):
  
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• Feathers fly as chicken shortage shuts KFCs across Britain

  19-02-2018 18:51 via yahoo.com
  LONDON (AP) — Fast-food fans were in a flutter Monday after most of the 900 KFC outlets in the U.K. and Ireland were forced to close because of a shortage of chicken.
  
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• High School Students Lead Protest Against Gun Violence In Front Of White House

  19-02-2018 18:39 via yahoo.com
  Dozens of students gathered in front of the White House on Monday to demand changes to gun laws, just days after a deadly mass shooting at a Florida high school left 17 people dead.
  
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• The Duchess Of Cambridge Faces Criticism For Not Wearing Black To The BAFTAs

  19-02-2018 18:35 via yahoo.com
  Stars at the British Academy Film Awards on Sunday night wore all-black in support of the Time’s Up initiative, much like they did at January’s Golden Globe awards.
  
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• Islamic State kills 27 Iraqi militiamen near Kirkuk

  19-02-2018 18:34 via yahoo.com
  By Mustafa MahmoudKIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Islamic State militants ambushed a convoy of pro-government militia fighters near the northern Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk late on Sunday, killing at least 27 of them, the government-backed Popular Mobilisation Forces said on Monday.Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.A security official said Iraqi forces were pursuing the militants, who had disguised themselves in police uniforms to carry out the ambush.
  
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• Rainbow Six Siege Dev Defends Limited Run Loot Boxes

  19-02-2018 18:13
  Rainbow Six Siege will be rolling out loot boxes for a limited run, and brand director, Alexandre Remy, has stepped in early to defend the decision.
  The loot boxes will be a part of the Outbreak event pegged for March 6, and will be available to purchase alongside the existing free alpha packs that reward players with cosmetic items.
  "I feel like the loot boxes act like the gift shop after the rollercoaster," Remy told MCV. "I am feeling very empathetic towards players upset with this, but
  
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• Court video shows kidnapped model revisiting scenes of crime

  19-02-2018 18:13 via yahoo.com
  MILAN (AP) — Video of a British model retracing her movements from a city studio where she was allegedly grabbed to a farmhouse where she was held for six days was played Monday at the trial in Italy of a Polish man charged in her kidnapping for ransom.
  
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• I Lost My Little Brother At Sandy Hook. Here's What's Different About The Florida Shooting.

  19-02-2018 18:11 via yahoo.com
  Last week on Valentine’s Day, a 19-year-old gunman entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where he had been expelled.
  
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• Diablo Creator Shares Thoughts on Diablo 3

  19-02-2018 18:00
  David Brevik, the co-founder of Blizzard North and creator of Diablo, recently shared his thoughts on the latest entry in Blizzard's critically acclaimed action role-playing series, which was released well after his departure from the studio.
  "I think that Diablo III ended up being a great game, especially after the expansion," Brevik said on the latest episode of our monthly interview show IGN Unfiltered. "I thought that they added a lot of really great stuff to it that fleshed i
  
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• France to let wolf packs grow despite angry farmers

  19-02-2018 17:59 via yahoo.com
  The French government announced Monday it will allow the wolf population to grow 40 percent despite pressure from farmers in mountain regions who are worried about their sheep flocks.A new strategy unveiled by the centrist government of President Emmanuel Macron will enable the number of wolves to increase from an estimated 360 now to 500 by 2023.Hunting wiped out the grey wolf in France during the 1930s and they only returned in 1992 via Italy -- currently home to around 2,000 wolves -- before
  
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• Scott Pruitt Cancels Israel Trip Amid Backlash Over Travel Expenses

  19-02-2018 17:48 via yahoo.com
  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has scrapped plans for a business trip to Israel previously scheduled for this week, an agency official said.
  
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• Turkey warns against Syria regime support for Kurd militia

  19-02-2018 17:34 via yahoo.com
  Turkey's foreign minister on Monday warned against any intervention by Syrian pro-government forces to support Kurdish militias in northern Syria, saying it would not prevent Ankara from pressing on with its month-old offensive.Mevlut Cavusoglu was reacting to a report from Syrian state news agency SANA saying pro-government forces were expected in the Afrin region to counter the Turkish offensive against the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia.Turkey views the YPG as a terrorist off
  
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• Trump backs efforts to bolster FBI gun checks

  19-02-2018 17:32 via yahoo.com
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump offered support Monday for an effort to strengthen the federal gun background check system as he hunkered down at his private Florida golf course just 40 miles from last week's deadly school shooting.
  
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• Where is Joshua Thiede? Uber and Lyft Driver Dialed 911 Day He Disappeared, Family Says

  19-02-2018 17:28 via yahoo.com
  Joshua Thiede was last seen driving for either Uber or Lyft on Wilshire Boulevard just north of the 110 Freeway in Los Angeles, Calif. last Monday.
  
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• Woman falls out window to her death while violating protective order

  19-02-2018 17:17 via yahoo.com
  Police say a woman is dead after falling five stories from the window of an apartment where she wasn't supposed to be.
  
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• Parkland students call out Trump, Rubio and the NRA

  19-02-2018 17:03 via yahoo.com
  Students who survived the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., are demanding action on gun control — and they continue to call out President Trump's response to last week's massacre.
  
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• Trump, Republicans voice support for federal background checks on guns

  19-02-2018 16:57 via yahoo.com
  The proposal would force federal agencies to improve their reporting of things like criminal convictions to make sure they come up on gun background checks. It would not have stopped the Florida shooter.
  
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• IS ambushes Iraqi Shiite-led force, killing 27 fighters

  19-02-2018 16:49 via yahoo.com
  BAGHDAD (AP) — Islamic State militants ambushed a group of Iraq's Shiite-led paramilitary fighters, killing at least 27 more than two months after Baghdad declared victory over the extremist group, officials said Monday
  
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