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• Witnesses describe harrowing Florida bridge collapse: "It's totally smashed to the ground"

  15-03-2018 23:43 via yahoo.com
  Rescue crews are searching for survivors after a newly installed pedestrian bridge collapsed in Miami. Witnesses are talking about what they saw, and how they tried to help. CBS News national correspondent Manuel Bojorquez reports.
  
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• Ryan Zinke To U.S. Rep. Whose Grandparents Were Imprisoned In WWII: 'Konnichiwa!'

  15-03-2018 23:43 via yahoo.com
  Let's all hope President Donald Trump's next candidate for secretary of state
  
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• Video: How prototyping can help animators be more effective

  15-03-2018 23:37
  In this 2014 GDC session, Epic Games' Jay Hosfelt shares the tools and techniques for creating quick "gray box" animation assets for designers. ...
  
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• Attack on Titan 2 Review

  15-03-2018 23:36
  With its first Attack on Titan game in 2016, developer Omega Force laid down a rough but promising groundwork for what a game based around the anime phenomenon should be: fast-paced and thrilling aerial battles against gargantuan Titans with a unique control scheme that allows you to zip around effortlessly using Omni-Directional Mobility Gear. Attack on Titan 2 builds upon that foundation with a much-improved interface and some cool new tricks to slice the napes of a Titan in fun and extravagan
  
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• Bridge collapses on cars near Florida International University; fatalities confirmed

  15-03-2018 23:33 via yahoo.com
  A number of people have been confirmed dead after a newly installed pedestrian bridge on the campus of Florida International University collapsed on Thursday.
  
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• S.C. church shooter's sister charged for weapons at school

  15-03-2018 23:24 via yahoo.com
  The teenage sister of avowed white supremacist Dylann Roof, who was sentenced to die for the 2015 massacre at a historic South Carolina black church, was arrested for carrying weapons and drugs at her high school, police said on Thursday.Morgan Roof, 18, had a knife, pepper spray and marijuana when she was searched at A.C. Flora High School in Columbia, South Carolina, on Wednesday, said Richland County Sheriff's Department Lieutenant Curtis Wilson.Roof was charged with simple possession of mari
  
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• Mueller demands Russia documents from Trump Organization: NYT

  15-03-2018 23:19 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow relays a report by The New York Times that Robert Mueller has sent a subpoena to the Trump Organization for Russia-related documents over a time that extends to before Donald Trump declared his candidacy.
  
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• Dragon Ball FighterZ Update to Fix Lingering Online Issues

  15-03-2018 23:18
  Dragon Ball FighterZ is getting an update tomorrow to fix issues with online play and add more features, including communities with in-game rewards.
  The update, which has been detailed on the game's Steam page, will greatly improve Ring Match matchmaking and server stability, which have had issues since the game launched on January 26. The patch will also add the Z-Union feature to the game.
  Z-Union will allow players to join Unions, or fan clubs, of their favorite character and get special rewa
  
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• Tonnes of gold and silver bars fall from Russian plane 

  15-03-2018 23:15 via yahoo.com
  A Russian plane loaded with precious metals lost its glittering cargo on take-off Thursday, scattering the runway with gold and silver. The Antonov plane was taking off after refuelling in an airport at Yakutsk in Siberia when its cargo door flew open - dropping nearly 200 bars from the Kupol gold mine in the remote Chukotka region, investigators said. The cargo of bars of concentrated ore used to transport the precious metals weighed 9.3 tonnes. "As it gathered height, the cargo
  
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• Democrats' Surrender On Torture Is Nearly Complete

  15-03-2018 22:57 via yahoo.com
  In the same tweet he used to unceremoniously fire Secretary of State Rex
  
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• Thousands flee violence in mass exodus from Syrian towns

  15-03-2018 22:50 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — Tens of thousands of terrified men, women and children streamed out on foot and in pick-up trucks Thursday from besieged enclaves on two fronts, fleeing bombings from the Syrian military near the capital, Damascus, and Turkish troops in the country's north.
  
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• Splinter Cell Rumors? Be Still My Heart!

  15-03-2018 22:45
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  Rumors of Splinter Cell's return in 2018 have our hearts aflutter. We discuss what we'd want to see in a potential new game. Plus: Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 runs from Red Dead Redemption 2, Shadow of the Tomb Raider's teaser campaign gets spoiled...by Square Enix themselves, Microsoft announces their E3 plans, movie reviews for both Tomb Raider and Ready Player One, and much more!
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• Vanessa Trump Files For Divorce From Donald Trump Jr.

  15-03-2018 22:44 via yahoo.com
  Vanessa Trump filed for divorce from her husband, Donald Trump Jr., on
  
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• Fortnite breaks record for most-viewed stream on Twitch

  15-03-2018 22:42
  Twitch broke its record for most-viewed stream by a single player last night when streamer Tyler "Ninja" Blevins was joined by rapper Drake while playing Fortnite....
  
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• 'End of an era': New York shoppers glum at Toys 'R' Us

  15-03-2018 22:39 via yahoo.com
  New York (AFP) - At the Toys 'R' Us in Times Square, in the heart of Manhattan, all is more or less normal -- noisy gizmos for sale drown out the store's background music, and employees stand at the ready.
  
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• Two undocumented farmworkers die fleeing immigration officials - who were chasing wrong person

  15-03-2018 22:25 via yahoo.com
  Two undocumented farmworkers died in California while fleeing immigration agents who were pursuing the wrong person.Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrived in the early morning at a house they believed belonged to a Mexican citizen who had previously been deported.When a man exited the house and got into his vehicle, the agents turned on their emergency lights and pulled him over.
  
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• Saudi crown prince warns it will build nuclear bomb if Tehran does the same

  15-03-2018 22:11 via yahoo.com
  Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has set out plans for Saudi Arabia to develop nuclear weapons if Tehran makes the same move in the event of a collapse of the international nuclear deal signed in 2015.The prospect of a Middle East nuclear arms race will unnerve European leaders who are urging Donald Trump to retain the Iran nuclear deal which imposed strict curbs on the Iranian nuclear programme in return for sanctions relief.
  
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• Police: Disgruntled worker killed nurse in Alabama hospital

  15-03-2018 22:07 via yahoo.com
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A job-related dispute led to a health care worker opening fire inside a hospital in a shooting that left two people dead and another critically injured, authorities said Thursday.
  
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• Mueller subpoenas Trump Org, Democrats point to Russian bank deal

  15-03-2018 22:05 via yahoo.com
  Rep. Eric Swalwell talks with Rachel Maddow about evidence House Intel Democrats say they've seen that shows the Trump Organization negotiating a deal with a sanctioned Russian bank during the election season.
  
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• Without Toys R Us, 30,000 jobs, a black hole for toy makers

  15-03-2018 22:04 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The demise of Toys R Us will have a ripple effect on everything from toy makers to consumers to landlords.
  
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• The Latest: Some students face suspensions after walkout

  15-03-2018 21:58 via yahoo.com
  The Latest on the nationwide student walkout to protest gun violence (all times local):
  
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• Steve Bannon Doesn't Deny Anything He Said In 'Fire And Fury'

  15-03-2018 21:57 via yahoo.com
  Former White House strategist Steve Bannon says he doesn't deny anything
  
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• Democrats accuse Trump officials of seeking State Department purge of those not loyal to president

  15-03-2018 21:55 via yahoo.com
  Two top Democrats in the House of Representatives have sent a letter to the White House and State Department saying that information from a whistleblower alleges that Donald Trump appointees are targeting career civil servants who supposedly don’t support the President.The ranking members of the House’s oversight and foreign affair committees – Representatives Elijah Cummings and Eliot Engel, respectively – said the whistleblower obtained documents showing Trump appointee
  
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• No, The Queen Isn't Being Shady About Meghan Markle And Prince Harry's Wedding

  15-03-2018 21:54 via yahoo.com
  Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have been engaged since November, but Queen
  
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• Zinke says Interior negotiating lower price for $139K doors

  15-03-2018 21:47 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Interior Department has negotiated a significantly lower price for a $139,000 project to upgrade double doors in his office, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Thursday.
  
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• Meghan McCain Rips Liz Cheney For Explaining Torture To Her Father

  15-03-2018 21:46 via yahoo.com
  After Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) appeared to explain the value of so-called
  
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• The House Passed a School Safety Bill While Students Walked Out of Class. Here's What's in It. And What's Not

  15-03-2018 21:41 via yahoo.com
  There are no gun control measures in the bill
  
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• I was illegally removed from power, says Robert Mugabe

  15-03-2018 21:35 via yahoo.com
  Robert Mugabe has denounced his former right-hand man's ascent to president of Zimbabwe as "illegal" as he gave his first interviews since he was ousted in a soft coup last year. "It was truly a military takeover. We must undo this disgrace," Mr Mugabe said of his swift removal  from power in November that saw Emmerson Mnangagwa installed in the first transfer of power in almost 40 years. Mr Mugabe told reporters in the mansion he built in the plush Borrowdale suburb, in front of a wedding
  
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• How a 'bug' in an educational writing game cursed at children

  15-03-2018 21:28
  How the educational writing game Secret Writer's Society could swear at kids undetected. ...
  
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• 'Several fatalities' in pedestrian bridge collapse at Florida university

  15-03-2018 21:24 via yahoo.com
  A pedestrian bridge collapse at Florida International University has resulted in 'several fatalities' and left others injured, authorities said.
  
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• Witness describes deadly Miami bridge collapse

  15-03-2018 21:23 via yahoo.com
  Isabella Carrasco, who witnessed the bridge collapse at Florida International University, says she saw “about five or six cars crushed under the bridge."
  
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• Rachel, Lawrence ask 'Could McMaster's replacement be an upgrade?'

  15-03-2018 21:23 via yahoo.com
  Amid reports that President Donald Trump will remove his National Security Advisor, Lawrence O'Donnell asks: H.R. McMaster was an upgrade from Michael Flynn — any chance of another upgrade? Rachel Maddow breaks it down.
  
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• Russia 'complicit' in Assad atrocities: Pentagon

  15-03-2018 21:13 via yahoo.com
  Russia is "complicit" in atrocities perpetrated by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad because of its "deliberate" choice to violate terms of a ceasefire in besieged Eastern Ghouta, the Pentagon said Thursday, in comments hammered home separately by the US national security advisor.Thousands of civilians poured out of Eastern Ghouta as the capture of a key town brought Syria's government even closer to retaking the devastated rebel enclave outside Damascus."The Russians made a deliberate choice not
  
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• A look at how (and why) devs work memorials and tributes into games

  15-03-2018 21:11
  "It can be a bit rattling to take my pain and anger and transform it into a game world [but] that is balanced by very beautiful scenes that brought me a lot of peace and closure as well."...
  
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• Woman charged with second-degree murder in officer's death

  15-03-2018 21:10 via yahoo.com
  CLINTON, Mo. (AP) — A woman who is charged with second-degree murder in the killing of a western Missouri police officer said she didn't know a man in her home had a gun when she let five officers inside and shooting erupted.
  
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• Judge allows Democrats to challenge GOP's Nevada recalls

  15-03-2018 21:03 via yahoo.com
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge on Thursday allowed voters to remove their signatures from petitions seeking recalls of two Democratic lawmakers, possibly dooming a controversial Republican effort to flip the state Senate to GOP control.
  
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• ‘The sound was thundering’: Florida bridge collapse witnesses describe screams and chaos at scene

  15-03-2018 20:56 via yahoo.com
  Witnesses of the bridge collapse at Florida International University in Miami have described a cloud of dust being sent into the air alongside a thunderous boom as the newly built, 950-tonne pedestrian structure smashed into the street below, trapping several vehicles.People could be heard screaming from the trapped cars underneath the rubble of the bridge as emergency responders arrived and began to search for survivors.“The sound was thundering,” Piqué Philips, who was drivi
  
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• Donald Trump hits Russia with new sanctions as Western leaders back Theresa May on poisoning

  15-03-2018 20:42 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump yesterday hit Russia with new sanctions for election meddling and cyber-attacks as Washington vowed to punish Moscow’s “nefarious attacks”.   Nineteen people and five Russian organisations were targeted in what amounts to the most significant action against Moscow since President Trump took office.   The news came shortly after Western leaders backed Britain in blaming Russia for the nerve agent attack in Salisbury 10 days ago. Mr Trump, with France's Emm
  
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• Lebanon plans to boost army presence on Israel border

  15-03-2018 20:37 via yahoo.com
  By Steve SchererROME (Reuters) - Lebanon plans to increase its military presence along its southern border with Israel, Prime Minister Saad Hariri said on Thursday at a meeting in Rome, where he is seeking financial support for the armed forces.Bolstering Lebanon's army and internal security forces is seen as a way for the international community to keep Hezbollah, which has helped sway the Syrian civil war in President Bashar al-Assad's favour, from broadening its clout in the Lebanese heartlan
  
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• Bridge collapses at Florida International University in Miami

  15-03-2018 20:31 via yahoo.com
  Several people were killed and cars crushed when a newly installed pedestrian bridge spanning several lanes of traffic collapsed at Florida International University in Miami-Dade County, officials said. There were at least five to six vehicles crushed underneath the pedestrian crosswalk.The bridge connects the university with the city of Sweetwater and was installed on Saturday in six hours over the eight-lane highway, according to a story that was posted on the university’s website. It wa
  
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• The Latest: Russian lawmaker: US had access to nerve agent

  15-03-2018 20:26 via yahoo.com
  MOSCOW (AP) — The Latest on the poisoning of a Russian ex-spy in England (all times local):
  
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• The Kraken Emerges In The Gameplay Launch Trailer

  15-03-2018 20:21
  Sea of Thieves sets sail in a few days, and the official launch gameplay trailer features a lot of what we've been shown over the last few months. There's plenty of sword fights with skeletons and ship-to-ship combat. There's treasure hunting and dancing around to tunes from the hurdy-gurdy. There's even an adorable little pig running around. Adventure awaits in this colorful world.
  Suddenly, the scene darkens as the waters run black and still. A tentacle bursts forth and towers above your ship
  
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• We Should Prepare Our Bodies for Minions In Smash Bros.

  15-03-2018 20:18
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• Novichokolate from Putin? Graffiti irony near Russian embassy tackles nerve attack

  15-03-2018 20:14 via yahoo.com
  Opponents of President Vladimir Putin used graffiti on Thursday to take an ironic swipe at Russia over the nerve toxin attack on a former double agent.Britain and Russia have been trading public insults over the use of a Soviet-era nerve agent called Novichok to strike down former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the English city of Salisbury."Dine at the Russian Embassy," read the white graffiti stenciled onto the pavement near the Russian embassy in London.
  
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• How Dota Plus Could Influence Other Major Competitive Games

  15-03-2018 20:14
  With the rise of MOBAs, digital card games, survival shooters, and other “games as a service” titles, it feels like the question on every developer’s mind is “how do we monetize our game?” That may sound like a jab at “loot box culture”, but in truth it's just the state of modern gaming given the popularity of free-to-play titles and microtransactions. Assuming the monetization is fair and balanced, this cycle can be a win for both the player and develop
  
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• Woman Who Fatally Shot Boyfriend in YouTube Stunt Gets 180 Days in Prison

  15-03-2018 20:13 via yahoo.com
  As part of the deal, Monalisa Perez is banned for life from possessing a firearm or from collecting payments for her story.
  
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• The 5 biggest changes in Fortnite: Battle Royale 3.3: Remote Explosives in, Smoke Grenades out, and more

  15-03-2018 20:11 via gamesradar.com
  Fortnite: Battle Royale's latest patch makes some explosive tweaks
  
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• Toys 'R' Us Is Closing Stores and the Internet Is Having a Hard Time

  15-03-2018 20:08 via yahoo.com
  "Pouring a Capri Sun out for Geoffrey"
  
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• Mueller Subpoenas The Trump Organization: Report

  15-03-2018 20:08 via yahoo.com
  Special Counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed documents from the Trump
  
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• Get a job: Ubiquity6 is looking for a Software Engineer

  15-03-2018 20:02
  Ubiquity6 is seeking a Software Engineer to focus on Augmented Reality Multiplayer Networking for its upcoming projects. ...
  
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