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• Correction: Chemical Plant Fire-Texas story

  16-03-2018 23:59 via yahoo.com
  CRESSON, Texas (AP) — In a story March 15 about an explosion and fire at a North Texas chemical plant, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a missing worker is named Dillon Mitchell. His name is Dylan Mitchell.
  
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• 1,100 Students from Two Illinois High Schools Get Detention for Walkout

  16-03-2018 23:54 via yahoo.com
  About 1,100 students at two suburban Chicago high schools will serve hour-long detentions for participating in this week`s walkout to protest gun violence.
  
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• US doctors indicted in opioid prescription bribery scheme

  16-03-2018 23:51 via yahoo.com
  Five Manhattan doctors have been indicted for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from a pharmaceutical company in exchange for prescribing a powerful synthetic opioid, a prosecutor said Friday.The indictments come as the United States grapples with an opioid abuse epidemic that kills scores of people every day, and has been declared a national health emergency by President Donald Trump.Two employees of Arizona-based drug maker Insys pleaded guilty and participated in the invest
  
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• Botswana accuses US of 'encouraging' elephant poaching

  16-03-2018 23:51 via yahoo.com
  Botswana's President Ian Khama on Friday accused the US government of encouraging elephant poaching following its recent decision to reverse a ban on imports of sport-hunted trophies.Khama was speaking at an African elephant conservation conference in Botswana."I want to take this moment to condemn in the strongest possible terms, the decision taken by... the (Donald) Trump administration who on the 1st of March this year... issued a memorandum that with immediate effect, the US government would
  
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• Sea of Thieves Free with Xbox One X Purchase for Limited Time

  16-03-2018 23:50
  
  For a limited time, those who purchase an Xbox One X will receive a free digital copy of Sea of Thieves.
  As detailed on Xbox Wire, the promotion will run from March 18 through March 24 in "most Xbox markets." The Xbox One X costs $500 USD on its own.
  Additionally, Microsoft will also offer a Sea of Thieves Xbox One S bundle. Priced at $300 USD, the bundle will launch alongside the game on March 20 and comes with a digital copy of Sea of Thieves, an Xbox One controller, a 1TB Xbox
  
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• Gina Haspel should be arrested – not put in charge of the CIA

  16-03-2018 23:41 via yahoo.com
  Haspel personally oversaw torture at a CIA black site in Thailand, and she even seemed torelish the role.Haspel also oversaw George W Bush’s rendition to torture program and, unsurprisingly, many in the intelligence community that are connected to the US torture program are now leaping to her defense, saying that she shouldn’t be penalized now for just following orders back then.
  
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• Video: How SimCity's sandbox was built

  16-03-2018 23:29
  In this 2013 GDC talk, Maxis' Dan Moskowitz explains how SimCity's sandbox was built. ...
  
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• Sonic Mania Plus Adds New Characters, Competitive Mode

  16-03-2018 23:24
  
  An updated physical release of Sonic Mania titled Sonic Mania Plus has been revealed, complete with new playable characters and modes.
  SEGA announced the edition during the SXSW Sonic the Hedgehog panel and later posted to the Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter feed. The new edition is coming in Summer 2018.
  The updated game will feature an all-new four player competition mode, as well as an "Encore Mode." No details about the new modes have been revealed so far.Sonic Mania Plus promo art with updated f
  
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• Correction: Veterans Home-Shooting story

  16-03-2018 23:14 via yahoo.com
  YOUNTVILLE, Calif. (AP) — In a story March 9 about a fatal shooting at a California veterans' home, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Jennifer Golick phoned her husband to tell him a former patient was holding her captive. Her father-in-law, Bob Golick, told the AP the information in a telephone interview soon after Golick was taken hostage. The California Highway Patrol investigated the crime and found that there was no evidence Jennifer Golick called her husband while captiv
  
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• Seoul aims for more talks about talks with North Korea this month

  16-03-2018 23:09 via yahoo.com
  By Christine Kim and Steve HollandSEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - South Korea said on Friday it was seeking high-level talks this month with North Korea to prepare for a summit and that South Korean President Moon Jae-in may meet Donald Trump before the U.S. president's planned meeting with the North Korean leader.Amid a flurry of diplomacy from Asia to Europe to Washington, Trump reaffirmed his plan to meet with North Korea's Kim Jong Un by the end of May during a phone call on Friday with Moon an
  
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• Homeless family of 4 found dead in parked van in California

  16-03-2018 22:58 via yahoo.com
  GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (AP) — A homeless couple and their two young children, all dressed for bed, were found dead from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning in a parked van that had its windows covered with blankets and a shade to block out the light outside a Southern California strip mall, police said Friday.
  
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• Court Just Found Black Victim Of White Supremacist Assault Not Guilty Of... Assault

  16-03-2018 22:58 via yahoo.com
  Anti-racist protester DeAndre Harris, who was brutally beaten by a group of
  
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• Sea of Thieves AMA: From fishing to tattoos, here are 10 things you need to know

  16-03-2018 22:52 via gamesradar.com
  This Sea of Thieves Reddit AMA has a bunch of new details on the game
  
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• Academy 'launches sexual harassment investigation into its president John Bailey' days after the Oscars

  16-03-2018 22:51 via yahoo.com
  The head of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is reportedly under investigation for sexual harassment.The academy, which oversees the Oscars, is responding to multiple allegations against president John Bailey, according to reports in the Hollywood Reporter and Variety.In a statement, the Academy said it “treats any complaints confidentially to protect all parties”.
  
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• Police: Missing teen went to Mexico with 45-year-old man

  16-03-2018 22:48 via yahoo.com
  ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Police say a missing Pennsylvania teenager traveled to Mexico with a 45-year-old man, and they encouraged her Friday to return home to her family.
  
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• Lawyers call US gun charges for Mexican man 'vindictive'

  16-03-2018 22:48 via yahoo.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Attorneys for a Mexican man acquitted of murder in a San Francisco shooting that helped fuel the U.S. immigration debate are pressing for documents to help them argue that his U.S. gun charges are vindictive.
  
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• White House turnover: the appeal and the risks for Trump

  16-03-2018 22:41 via yahoo.com
  National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster is about to lose his White House job.It’s Chief of Staff John Kelly who is on the way out, perhaps as soon as today.As Mr. Trump heads into his second year in office, widespread and conflicting reports about upheaval among top White House and executive branch staff have created an air of turmoil and uncertainty in Washington as important decisions on tariffs, North Korea, and other big issues loom ahead.
  
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• High school students face detention for participating in gun violence protest after Parkland shooting

  16-03-2018 22:38 via yahoo.com
  A Pennsylvania high school has said it will discipline students who walked out of class to protest gun violence in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida last month.Pennridge High School said it would give a day of detention to the more than 200 students who walked out of class as part of the nationwide protest on Wednesday, according to local news outlets.The walkout was organised after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where a lone gunman shot and killed 17 st
  
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• Civilians flee as two big Syria battles enter decisive phases

  16-03-2018 22:32 via yahoo.com
  By Tom Perry and Dahlia NehmeBEIRUT (Reuters) - Thousands of civilians were fleeing from besieged enclaves at opposite ends of Syria on Friday as two major battles in the multi-sided war entered decisive phases, with hundreds of thousands of people trapped in the path of both assaults.Air strikes killed scores of people in eastern Ghouta, a war monitor said, and weary residents streamed out on foot for a second day, as Russian-backed government forces pressed their campaign to capture the last b
  
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• Established Japanese devs are making games under a new approach

  16-03-2018 22:28
  A profile published by Polygon earlier today examines how a growing number of established Japanese game developers have taken a different approach for creating new titles. ...
  
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• Turkish court rules to release jailed journalist Sahin Alpay: CNN Turk

  16-03-2018 22:09 via yahoo.com
  A Turkish penal court ordered the release of a journalist jailed over alleged ties to a failed coup, the private broadcaster CNN Turk reported on Friday.Sahin Alpay, a journalist in the now defunct Zaman daily, is to be released under judicial control and confinement to his house, CNN Turk said.Turkey's Constitutional Court had ruled earlier on Friday for a second time that the rights of Alpay had been violated while in custody and had requested his release.
  
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• Authorities investigating claims teacher fed puppy to turtle

  16-03-2018 22:09 via yahoo.com
  PRESTON, Idaho (AP) — Authorities are investigating reports a teacher fed a sick puppy to a snapping turtle in a rural Idaho town that was the setting for the teenage cult classic film "Napoleon Dynamite."
  
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• Man beaten at white nationalist rally not guilty of assault

  16-03-2018 22:01 via yahoo.com
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A black man who was severely beaten the day of a violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and then charged with misdemeanor assault in the same incident was found not guilty Friday.
  
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• Missing teen may have flown to Cancun with 45-year-old man

  16-03-2018 21:58 via yahoo.com
  Police say a 16-year-old Pennsylvania teen, who went missing after she was signed out of school by a 45-year-old man, may have flown to Cancun with him. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
  
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• As Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson Didn’t Follow the Script for Success

  16-03-2018 21:58 via yahoo.com
  Don’t hate the player — hate the game.
  
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• GDC 2018 is this week! Follow along on Gamasutra's official event page

  16-03-2018 21:49
  Game Developers Conference 2018 is here, and Gamasutra reporters will be onsite bringing you loads of stories. Follow along on our event page here!...
  
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• GDC 2018 is next week! Follow along on Gamasutra's official event page

  16-03-2018 21:49
  Game Developers Conference 2018 is just around the corner, and Gamasutra reporters will be onsite bringing you loads of stories. Follow along on our event page here! ...
  
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• Torture allegations dog Gina Haspel as she is poised to be first female CIA head

  16-03-2018 21:48 via yahoo.com
  Gina Haspel is set to become the first female director in the 70-year history of the CIA.More than a decade ago Haspel reportedly oversaw an infamous secret CIA prison in Thailand where a terrorism suspect, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, was waterboarded, a process that simulates drowning.“It’s wonderful this president or any president wants to nominate a woman as head of the CIA – but not Gina Haspel,” said John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer who has spoken out about waterboar
  
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• DeAndre Harris: Black man beaten at Charlottesville rally cleared of assaulting white supremacist

  16-03-2018 21:46 via yahoo.com
  A black man who was beaten at a white supremacist rally this summer – and later charged with assault – has been acquitted on all charges.DeAndre Harris made national headlines when he was attacked in a parking garage following the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in August.Supporters were shocked when one of his alleged assailants – white supremacist Harold Ray Crews – responded by filing his own assault charges against Mr Harris.
  
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• Senators want CIA to lift veil on nominee's black site past

  16-03-2018 21:43 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Gina Haspel's long spy career is so shrouded in mystery that senators want documents declassified so they can decide if her role at a CIA black site should prevent her from directing the agency.
  
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• A look at how Campo Santo created convincing water for a (cut) game trailer scene

  16-03-2018 21:32
  "To bring the scene to life, we'd need nice-looking water, which wouldn't be convincing if it didn't react to the motion of the characters and surrounding geometry." ...
  
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• Trump weighs in on Nevada Senate race, clearing the way for Heller. But will it be enough?

  16-03-2018 21:26 via yahoo.com
  The president nudged Danny Tarkanian to drop his GOP primary challenge against Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., and instead run for a vacated U.S. House seat.
  
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• Abortions in the U.S. Are Safe and Effective, a New Report Says

  16-03-2018 21:22 via yahoo.com
  And without long-term risks
  
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• Veteran Democratic Congresswoman Louise Slaughter dies

  16-03-2018 21:19 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Veteran U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter, a Kentucky blacksmith's daughter who went on to chair one of Congress' most important committees, died Friday at a Washington hospital where she was being treated after falling in her home, her top aide said. She was 88.
  
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• The Latest: White House pushes back against rumors of exodus

  16-03-2018 21:16 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on reports of turmoil in the West Wing (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: Police chief pledges respect for speech rights

  16-03-2018 21:14 via yahoo.com
  SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The Latest on Vice President Mike Pence's planned visit to Savannah for St. Patrick's Day (all times local):
  
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• Earnings report roundup: Game industry winners and losers in Q4 2017

  16-03-2018 21:13
  Who's up and who's down? The info is all arranged in easy-to-read charts for our quarterly rundown of the financial winners and losers in the quarter ending 31 December 2017....
  
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• Nintendo's influence on independent devs and their games

  16-03-2018 21:02
  Independent developers share the influence that Nintendo has had on their work....
  
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• As fighting rages, can Russia forge a peace in Syria?

  16-03-2018 21:01 via yahoo.com
  Nearly two and a half years after the Russian military began an intensive bombing campaign in Syria in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Russia is struggling to engineer a political solution in the war-ravaged country, analysts say.The Kremlin has presented its landmark Syria operation as a success, shrugging off western criticism over the killing of civilians while claiming to have withdrawn a significant part of its forces."During the battle against the Islamic State group (IS), it
  
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• Couple to get $2.5M after police called abduction a hoax

  16-03-2018 20:43 via yahoo.com
  VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) — A couple reached a $2.5 million settlement with a Northern California city and its police department after investigators dismissed the woman's elaborate and bizarre kidnapping as a hoax.
  
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• US seeks to raise pressure on Europe over Iran nuclear deal

  16-03-2018 20:42 via yahoo.com
  VIENNA (AP) — Washington wants its European allies to agree on further measures against Iran in return for keeping a landmark nuclear deal with Tehran alive, U.S. officials said Friday.
  
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• The Latest: Turtle euthanized amid reports it ate a puppy

  16-03-2018 20:33 via yahoo.com
  PRESTON, Idaho (AP) — The Latest on turtle eats puppy (all times local):
  
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• Watch Street Fighter 2 played IRL and meet the coding wizard who made it happen

  16-03-2018 20:30 via gamesradar.com
  Abhishek Singh spent a month building the augmented reality version of the Capcom classic
  
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• Don't Miss: The minimalist sound design of The Witness

  16-03-2018 20:25
  'It's a very minimalist game,' says Andrew Lackey, 'which meant we couldn't introduce any sound that was unnecessary, or that didn't fit with the game's logic.' Like, for example, a soundtrack. ...
  
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• Labour MPs who criticise Jeremy Corbyn on Russia should be deselected, says ally

  16-03-2018 20:24 via yahoo.com
  A key ally of Jeremy Corbyn has suggested moderate Labour MPs who blame Russia for spy poisoning are "enemies" who should be deselected. Chris Williamson, the Labour MP for Derby North, said Labour MPs who had decided Moscow was “unequivocally” to blame were “baying for blood” and suggested they face de-selection.  Mr Corbyn, the Labour leader, is under intense pressure over his repeated failure this week to condemn directly Russia for carrying out a nerve agent atta
  
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• Blog: How smart UX decisions inspired Golfclash's success

  16-03-2018 20:22
  This post looks at the UX in mobile title Golfclash, and how it leverages 'learning from your opponents' as an effective on-boarding tool. ...
  
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• Jurassic World Evolution Release Date Outed

  16-03-2018 20:17
  Jurassic World Evolution, the dinosaur park management strategy game based on the beloved film franchise, is only a couple of months from release.
  Evolution will be released on June 12 for Xbox One, PS4, and PC, as outed by Instagram user failcube (spotted by PlayStation Lifestyle) in a photo taken from a recent preview event.
  IGN was at the event and can confirm the release date is accurate.
  Developer Frontier Developments previously worked on the RollerCoaster Tycoon series as well as Eli
  
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• Pakistan doing 'bare minimum' to help US: official

  16-03-2018 20:10 via yahoo.com
  Pakistan is doing the "bare minimum" to squeeze the Taliban and terror groups, a senior US administration official said Friday, despite Washington's threat to freeze two billion dollars' worth of aid.The official's comments also come as Pakistan is trying to avoid being put on a global watch list over terrorism financing that could hamper its ability to receive foreign investment."They have done the bare minimum to appear responsive to our requests," the official added, citing the need to prod t
  
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• Palestinian kills 2 Israeli soldiers in car-ramming attack

  16-03-2018 19:58 via yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian killed two Israeli soldiers and badly wounded two others when he rammed his vehicle into them in the West Bank on Friday, the military said.
  
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• Palestinian ramming attack kills 2 Israeli soldiers in West Bank: military

  16-03-2018 19:56 via yahoo.com
  By Ali SamudiJENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - A Palestinian motorist rammed and killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded two others in the occupied West Bank on Friday, the Israeli military said.The army said the driver was a "terrorist" who ran over soldiers who were securing routes near the Jewish settlement of Mevo Dotan, west of the Palestinian town of Jenin.Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, an Israeli military spokesman, said on Twitter that an "officer and soldier were killed and two soldiers were in
  
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