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• Laura Ingraham Once Sent A Student Reporter To Secretly Tape LGBTQ Group

  03-04-2018 23:33 via yahoo.com
  Fox News personality Laura Ingraham continues to face backlash for mocking a
  
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• YouTube shooting: Female suspect dead, four wounded - what we know so far

  03-04-2018 23:17 via yahoo.com
  Police Chief Ed Barberini said during a news conference that the female victim found was "believed to be the shooter" but that police and other law enforcement agencies are continuing to investigate the "active" situation.One staff member at the San Bruno campus - located 11 miles from San Francisco - said he barricaded himself in a room after hearing shots.Another reported seeing "blood drips" on the floor and stairs as he fled the building as armed police swarmed the site.
  
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• Trump is not first president to deploy troops to US-Mexico border

  03-04-2018 23:17 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump said on Tuesday he wants to use the military to secure the border until his promised border wall is built.Despite his claim on Tuesday that he is taking an almost unprecedented step, Donald Trump is not the first commander in chief to deploy troops to the US-Mexico border.Barack Obama sent 1,200 members of the National Guard to the frontier in 2010, following on from George W Bush’s decision four years earlier to boost the military presence there.
  
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• Cecile Richards on Trump Era activism: "Do more than you ever thought you could."

  03-04-2018 23:12 via yahoo.com
  Cecile Richards, longtime president of Planned Parenthood, speaks with Rachel Maddow about her new book “Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead.”
  
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• Video: Yoko Taro and Platinum Games' postmortem of Nier: Automata

  03-04-2018 23:10
  At GDC 2018, Nier: Automata director Yoko Taro and Platinum Games' Takahisa Taura took to the stage to talk a bit about how (and why) they worked together to design the game. ...
  
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• Beyond: How Far Cry 5 Compares To The Rest of the Series

  03-04-2018 23:00
  This week, it's Max, Brian, and Zach discussing (without spoilers) where Far Cry 5 ranks for them compared to the previous games, as well as this month's PlayStation Plus lineup. Then, Caleb Lawson joins us to talk about Wipeout Omega Collection's PSVR update, and another unceremoniously launched Planet of the Apes game.
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• Japanese couple apologise for ignoring work pregnancy timetable by conceiving ‘before their turn’

  03-04-2018 22:59 via yahoo.com
  A Japanese worker has been reprimanded by her boss for “selfishly breaking the rules” after she became pregnant before it was her “turn”, according to media reports. The woman was working at a private childcare centre in Aichi prefecture, north Japan, when she found out she was pregnant. However, the timing reportedly clashed with “shifts” drawn by the childcare centre director, which listed when female staff were allowed to marry and have children. The plight
  
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• States, cities sue U.S. to block 2020 census citizenship question

  03-04-2018 22:55 via yahoo.com
  A group of U.S. states and cities sued the Trump administration to stop it from asking people filling out 2020 census forms whether they are citizens.The lawsuit by 17 states, Washington D.C. and six cities challenged what they called last week's "unconstitutional and arbitrary" decision by the U.S. Department of Commerce, which oversees the Census Bureau, to add the citizenship question.
  
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• Manhunt on for Phoenix man in girlfriend's San Diego killing

  03-04-2018 22:45 via yahoo.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The mother of a Phoenix woman killed in San Diego pleaded for the public's help Tuesday to find her daughter's boyfriend, a former Marine charged with murder in the case.
  
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• Democrat To Run Anti-Trump Twitter Ad All Month In Mar-A-Lago Zip Code

  03-04-2018 22:32 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gwen Graham is
  
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• Anti-Semitism Is Rising, But Trump Won’t Fill A State Department Job To Fight It

  03-04-2018 22:26 via yahoo.com
  A State Department position designed specifically to focus on anti-Semitism
  
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• Here’s why Oklahoma teachers are striking, even after getting a $6,100 Pay raise

  03-04-2018 22:23 via yahoo.com
  Last week, the Oklahoma Legislature signed off on a $6,100 raise for the state’s public school teachers. On Monday, they went on strike.
  
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• Get a job: Housemarque is looking for a Sr. Game Designer

  03-04-2018 22:23
  Housemarque is looking for a Sr. Game Designer to focus on designing, tweaking, and optimizing the player experience for an unannounced triple-A project. ...
  
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• The Latest: Russian spokeswoman mocks Britain's allegations

  03-04-2018 22:22 via yahoo.com
  MOSCOW (AP) — The Latest on the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain (all times local):
  
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• Police Identify YouTube Shooting Suspect, But Say Motive Is Still Unclear

  03-04-2018 22:20 via yahoo.com
  A woman opened fire at the YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California, on
  
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• Multiple People Injured In Shooting At YouTube Headquarters, Female Suspect Dead

  03-04-2018 22:20 via yahoo.com
  A suspected lone shooter is dead following reports of gunfire Tuesday
  
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• Venture capital fund Makers Fund invests in Bossa Studios, TinyBuild, and more

  03-04-2018 22:19
  The venture capital firm Makers Fund has invested in a number of notable companies through the game development world, ranging from esports companies to game developers and publishers....
  
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• YouTube Shooting: Female Opens Fire at Company Headquarters, Injuring Three Before Killing Self

  03-04-2018 22:14 via yahoo.com
  The area around YouTube's offices had been on lockdown.
  
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• YouTube Shooting: Female Opens Fire at Company Headquarters, Injuring 3 Before Killing Self

  03-04-2018 22:14 via yahoo.com
  The area around YouTube's offices had been on lockdown.
  
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• Middle-earth: Shadow of War devs admit loot boxes messed with the "core premise" but they'll be gone soon

  03-04-2018 22:08 via gamesradar.com
  War Chests will be a thing of the past
  
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• Agents arrest designer of Kansas water slide that killed boy

  03-04-2018 22:01 via yahoo.com
  DALLAS (AP) — One of the designers of a massive Kansas water park slide that decapitated a 10-year-old boy has been arrested in Texas, federal authorities said Tuesday.
  
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• China's defense chief calls his Moscow trip a signal to US

  03-04-2018 21:55 via yahoo.com
  MOSCOW (AP) — China's new defense minister says his visit to Russia is a signal to the United States about the increasingly close military ties between Moscow and Beijing.
  
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• Bristol family killed in Florida car crash after watching SpaceX launch at Kennedy Center

  03-04-2018 21:53 via yahoo.com
  Four members of a British family on holiday in Florida have been killed in a car crash on leaving the Kennedy Space Center. Adam Stephenson, 30, from Bristol, was driving a rented Mitsubishi saloon car on Monday evening at around 6pm when he turned left into the path of a pickup truck. Mr Stephenson was killed with his wife Maryanne, 29, and his parents Bryan, 59, and Sheralyn, 56. All were pronounced dead at the scene, Titusville police said. Adam Stephenson's brother stayed behind and chose no
  
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• Parkland Students Protest Clear Backpacks With Tampons And $1.05 Price Tags

  03-04-2018 21:33 via yahoo.com
  When survivors of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting returned to classes
  
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• Labor of love: Vintage Vespa fans cling to the past in Pakistan

  03-04-2018 21:30 via yahoo.com
  As cheap Chinese-made motorbikes flood Pakistan's roads, fans of vintage Vespa scooters are scrambling to find spare parts and preserve models that hark back to a quieter, bygone era.
  
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• UK defense lab: No ID yet for source of nerve agent

  03-04-2018 21:28 via yahoo.com
  LONDON (AP) — Britain's defense laboratory acknowledged Tuesday it hasn't tracked down the source of the nerve agent that poisoned a Russian ex-spy, a statement the Kremlin said proved that British accusations of Moscow's involvement were baseless.
  
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• CDC: 'Nightmare Bacteria' Pose Growing Threat

  03-04-2018 21:25 via yahoo.com
  "Nightmare bacteria" with unusual resistance to antibiotics of last resort were found more than 200 times in the United States last year in a first-of-a-kind hunt. (April 3)
  
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• Trump: 'I want to get out' of Syria

  03-04-2018 21:22 via yahoo.com
  President Trump said he will make a decision soon on U.S. force levels in Syria, saying he wants to “bring our troops back home” as soon as possible.
  
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• Opinion: Game design that's good enough to eat

  03-04-2018 21:19
  Gamasutra contributor Katherine Cross digs into Order of the Oven Mitt, a new edible game from game designer Jenn Sandercock....
  
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• NASA's X-Plane is designed to fly at supersonic speeds without the sonic boom

  03-04-2018 21:19 via yahoo.com
  NASA wants to prove that it can fly a plane faster than the speed of sound without blasting American neighborhoods below with sonic booms.  Previously, commercial supersonic travel had been limited to the Atlantic Ocean, where people wouldn't be jarred awake by planes traveling overhead at more than 760 miles per hour. But with an innovative plane design that might subtly morph in the air to tame sound waves, NASA hopes to build a quieter supersonic plane that would revolutionize travel.&nb
  
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• Trump Tells Baltic Presidents Not To Call On U.S. Reporters: 'Real News, Not Fake News'

  03-04-2018 21:18 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump on Tuesday continued his attacks on the
  
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• Don't Miss: 7 lessons learned while designing This War of Mine

  03-04-2018 21:02
  "I let myself look on the game from a distance. I''ll do my best to analyze those key design features that I think did the most benefit. These are the things that I will remember for my future projects." ...
  
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• UK lab says cannot determine spy nerve agent was Russian-made

  03-04-2018 20:56 via yahoo.com
  The British military facility analysing the nerve agent used to poison a spy said on Tuesday it could not prove the substance was made in Russia, as Russian President Vladimir Putin put his hopes in a meeting with the world's chemical weapons watchdog.Gary Aitkenhead, chief executive of the Porton Down defence laboratory, told Britain's Sky News that analysts had identified the substance as military-grade Novichok, the word used for a category of nerve agents developed in Soviet times."It is our
  
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• Why West of Loathing's devs priced their $20 game at just $10

  03-04-2018 20:45
  "I think it's in line with other games that cost 20 bucks, but there was no way to convince someone of that if they hadn't played it yet."...
  
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• Video Shows Texas Officer Punching Suspect During Arrest

  03-04-2018 20:45 via yahoo.com
  Video appears to show a Fort Worth Police Department officer punching a suspect while he was on the ground during a recent arrest.
  
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• Boater offers few answers in deaths of grandfather, mother

  03-04-2018 20:27 via yahoo.com
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A Vermont man accused by his family of killing his millionaire grandfather and possibly his mother in an attempt to collect inheritance money offered few clues in court regarding the deaths or his possible role in them.
  
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• Florida car crash kills four British family members

  03-04-2018 20:18 via yahoo.com
  Four members of a British family have been killed in a car crash while on holiday in Florida, police have said.The family had just left Nasa’s Kennedy Space Centre when their rented Mitsubishi saloon was hit by a Ford pick-up truck at about 18:00 local time [23:00 GMT] on Monday.Driver Adam Stephenson, 30, his wife Maryanne Stephenson, 29, and his parents Brian Stephenson, 66, and Sheralyn Stephenson, 56, died in the collision in Titusville.
  
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• How the Minds Behind Hitman Are Mutating the XCOM Formula

  03-04-2018 20:03
  I wasn’t sure what to make of Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden when I first saw its cinematic reveal trailer, mostly because of the giant duck. Based on a classic Swedish pen and paper RPG, it gave a glimpse of a very strange kind of post apocalypse. And while the trailer was cool, it didn’t really tell me what kind of game it was. But after seeing Mutant’s mix of real-time exploration and XCOM-inspired combat in action, I knew the duck didn’t stop there.
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• Marco Rubio on gun control: It depends who he's talking to

  03-04-2018 19:56 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — It was one week after the fatal shootings at a Parkland, Florida, high school, and Republican Sen. Marco Rubio was looking to show solidarity with an angry crowd of parents and students in his home state. He told them — and a national television audience — that 18-year-olds should not be able to buy a rifle and said, "I will support a law that takes that right away."
  
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• Harley-Davidson Recalls 250,000 Bikes for Faulty Brakes

  03-04-2018 19:53 via yahoo.com
  Harley-Davidson Recalls 250,000 Bikes for Faulty Brakes 2008 to 2011 Harley-Davidson VRSC, Touring, and CVO Touring models being recalled due to finicky ABS So far 2018 isn’t off to a great start for Harley-Davidson. On top of a steadily declining customer
  
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• Ghost Recon Wildlands: Year 2 DLC Plan Revealed

  03-04-2018 19:53
  Ubisoft has revealed the plan for Year 2 of Ghost Recon Wildlands' DLC.
  Ubisoft announced Ghost Recon Wildlands is getting another year of post-launch content, which will include additions to both the campaign and Ghost War PvP modes.
  Year 2 will see four major free Special Operations updates, each of which will feature a different theme, updates for the PvE campaign including special missions and challenges with exclusive rewards, updates to the Ghost War PvP mode, and features which have been
  
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• Teenager accepted by all 20 top-ranked universities he applied to — with full scholarships

  03-04-2018 19:50 via yahoo.com
  A high school senior from Houston, Texas, was accepted by each of the 20 top-
  
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• YouTube shooting: Three injured and female suspect dead with 'self-inflicted gunshot wound' after incident at tech giant's California base

  03-04-2018 19:44 via yahoo.com
  Police responding to a shooting incident on the campus of US tech giant YouTube said a woman found dead with self-inflicted gunshot wounds was the likely attacker, bringing to an end a massive security operation in California's Silicon Valley.At least three other people were found with injuries and were taken to hospital during the incident on Tuesday afternoon in San Bruno, around 10 miles south of San Francisco.Three people suffered gunshot wounds and one believed to have an ankle injury, acco
  
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• YouTube HQ shooting: Three injured and female suspect dead with 'self-inflicted gunshot wound' after incident at tech giant's California base

  03-04-2018 19:44 via yahoo.com
  Police responding to a shooting incident on the campus of US tech giant YouTube said a woman found dead with self-inflicted gunshot wounds was the likely attacker, bringing to an end a massive security operation in California's Silicon Valley.At least three other people were found with injuries and were taken to hospital during the incident on Tuesday afternoon in San Bruno, around 10 miles south of San Francisco.Three people suffered gunshot wounds and one believed to have an ankle injury, acco
  
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• 2 Florida Republicans Now Joining Calls For Scott Pruitt To Resign

  03-04-2018 19:33 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Reps. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.)
  
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• Moscow threatens sanctions against Latvia over removal of Russian from secondary schools 

  03-04-2018 19:28 via yahoo.com
  Russia's parliament has threatened economic sanctions in response to a language reform in neighbouring Latvia that will see older schoolchildren taught in Latvian rather than Russian. The call for sanctions further raises tensions with Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, members of the European Union and Nato who have been wary of Vladimir Putin's promises to “defend the rights” of Russian speakers in other countries. On Tuesday, the leaders of the three countries expressed their concern
  
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• Central American 'caravan': What is it and why does Trump claim it is helping migrants reach US?

  03-04-2018 19:15 via yahoo.com
  Mr Trump’s comments — delivered both in-person and on Twitter — appeared to follow after Fox News highlighted the caravan of over 1,000 Central Americans who are currently travelling through Mexico.The group of over 1,000 migrants are coming primarily from Honduras, and include children, men, and women.
  
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• Russia's first postal drone has the worst possible maiden voyage

  03-04-2018 19:10 via yahoo.com
  You'd think a country that was capable of undermining an American presidential election would have better drone technology, but you'd be wrong. People in the Russian city of Ulan-Ude gathered on Monday for the first voyage of a postal drone, meant to deliver to the remote parts of the Siberian wilderness. The drone was supposed to carry a small package to a neighboring village, but it never finished that trip.Russia's first postal drone takes its maiden flight - and crashes straight into a wall.
  
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• Gun safety advocates seek to override Rauner's veto of gun dealer license measure

  03-04-2018 18:58 via yahoo.com
  Gun safety advocates gave passionate and emotional testimony on Tuesday in Chicago as part of a push for lawmakers to override Gov. Bruce Rauner's veto of a bill to license gun dealers.
  
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• Blog: Building a collectible card game for mobile

  03-04-2018 18:54
  A postmortem of our financially disastrous, but well-received collectible card game Amazia, explaining how a single pivot during development ultimately changed the fate of the game....
  
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