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• Will Bill Cosby Go to Prison? Here's How Long Legal Experts Think He Could Serve

  26-04-2018 23:55 via yahoo.com
  He faces a maximum sentence of 30 years
  
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• Parents sue North Korea, saying Warmbier 'tortured and murdered'

  26-04-2018 23:47 via yahoo.com
  The wrongful-death suit was filed in U.S. District Court at a diplomatically delicate time, weeks ahead of an expected meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump.“Otto was taken hostage, kept as a prisoner for political purposes, used as a pawn and singled out for exceptionally harsh and brutal treatment by Kim Jong Un," his father Fred Warmbier said in a statement.Warmbier, from Wyoming, Ohio, died at age 22 after being imprisoned in North Korea from J
  
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• Man charged in Oklahoma killings says he'll talk to families

  26-04-2018 23:38 via yahoo.com
  VINITA, Okla. (AP) — A man charged in the 1999 deaths of an Oklahoma couple and the disappearance of their 16-year-old daughter and her friend said he doesn't know when the missing victims are, but that he's willing to speak with the victims' families.
  
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• Ubisoft Continues Its Q1 Winning Streak

  26-04-2018 23:30
  Welcome back to Game Scoop!, IGN's weekly video game talk show. This week we're talking Far Cry 5, Red Dead Redemption 2, God of War, and more. Watch the video above or download the podcast below.
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• Video: Doing good user research at the end of game production

  26-04-2018 23:06
  At GDC 2015, Electronic Arts' Veronica Zammitto talks about what to do when you start testing early, and keep testing -- all the way through until the final leg of game production.  ...
  
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• Bill Cosby: The rise of fall of America's favourite television 'family man'

  26-04-2018 22:52 via yahoo.com
  From 1984 to 1992, Bill Cosby was known as Dr Cliff Huxtable: the sweater-wearing, well of wisdom from The Cosby Show.As accusations flooded in over the past two years, longtime fans of Cosby and his career saw the allegations as an attack on black men, a witch hunt and the fall of their revered hero.The release of a 2005 deposition involving Andrea Constand in July 2015 helped tarnish Cosby’s squeaky clean image and encouraged authorities to reopen a criminal investigation into the actor.
  
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• American Airlines flight makes emergency landing at RDU

  26-04-2018 22:52 via yahoo.com
  An American Airlines flight made an emergency landing at RDU Thursday morning.
  
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• Xbox earnings on the rise thanks to third-party games and services

  26-04-2018 22:48
  Microsoft closed out the third quarter of its fiscal year last month, and today the company reported both its games business and the company as a whole saw revenues rise during the period. ...
  
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• Get a job: CD Projekt Red is hiring a Gameplay Programmer

  26-04-2018 22:45
  CD Projekt Red is looking for a talented Gameplay Programmer to join its team in Warsaw, Poland. ...
  
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• Every IGN God of War Review

  26-04-2018 22:43
  If you have been living under a rock for the past 13 years or are suffering from a very selective form of amnesia, you're going to want to sit down for this shocker: Sony Santa Monica's new God of War masterpiece is actually the eighth game in the series (counting non-numbered sequels) since it kicked off in 2005 on the PlayStation 2. IGN's been along for the whole ride, so we're now able to go back and look at what our reviewers were thinking in the moment when Kratos first leaped ont
  
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• The CDC Is Telling Consumers to Stay Away from Romaine. Here's What You Should Eat Instead

  26-04-2018 22:42 via yahoo.com
  These leafy greens may even be healthier
  
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• Bill Cosby: How Andrea Constand stood up for more than just herself

  26-04-2018 22:42 via yahoo.com
  Andrea Constand exited the courtroom smiling after American actor Bill Cosby was convicted of three counts of aggravated indecent assault.Donning a white suit jacket and blue top Ms Constand looked relieved, if nothing else, as she stepped out into the spring weather.Ms Constand has been fighting for recourse since 2004 when Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  
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• Tim Schafer: Don't be limited by ideas of what games & quot;should& quot; be

  26-04-2018 22:29
  "Interactivity is what's unique about games, a powerful tool that can't be ignored, but I don't like limited ideas about what games 'should' be."...
  
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• What's your emergency? 911 a different call for black, white

  26-04-2018 22:26 via yahoo.com
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two recent encounters at a Philadelphia Starbucks and a Pennsylvania golf club that led to allegations of racism against black patrons escalated into full-blown confrontations when people decided to call 911 to report incidents that clearly weren't emergencies.
  
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• BattleTech review round-up: 'Feels like the board game in all the right ways'

  26-04-2018 22:12 via gamesradar.com
  What the critics are saying about BattleTech, the return of the original mech battle game
  
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• Hollywood Celebrities React To Bill Cosby Guilty Verdict

  26-04-2018 22:00 via yahoo.com
  Comedian Bill Cosby was found guilty on Thursday in Montgomery County,
  
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• Diamond And Silk Appear To Lie Under Oath About Trump Payments

  26-04-2018 21:50 via yahoo.com
  Conservative internet pundits Lynnette "Diamond" Hardaway and Rochelle "Silk"
  
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• First lady Melania Trump celebrates her birthday

  26-04-2018 21:47 via yahoo.com
  Mrs. Trump will celebrate the special occasion with her family Thursday evening.
  
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• 32nd anniversary of Chernobyl nuclear disaster

  26-04-2018 21:47 via yahoo.com
  Chernobyl nuclear power plant 32 years after the world's worst nuclear accident spread radioactive fallout across Europe in 1986, particularly contaminating Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.
  
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• H1Z1 developer Daybreak Games lays off some staff

  26-04-2018 21:34
  H1Z1 developer Daybreak Games has laid off a portion of its workforce, cutting jobs across various departments within the studio in the process. ...
  
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• Ex-Fox News contributor confirmed as Trump's ambassador to Germany

  26-04-2018 21:33 via yahoo.com
  The appointment comes a day before Angela Merkel is due to arrive in Washington.The US Senate confirmed Richard Grenell, a former United Nations spokesperson and Fox News contributor, as Donald Trump’s ambassador to Germany.
  
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• Toddler Alfie Evans' parents say they'll work with doctors

  26-04-2018 21:32 via yahoo.com
  LONDON (AP) — The father of terminally ill toddler Alfie Evans said Thursday that he would work with doctors to give his son "dignity and comfort," as he called for a truce in a divisive case that has pitted doctors and the British courts against Alfie's parents, Christian groups and the pope.
  
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• Father of gravely ill UK child Alfie Evans seeks hospital truce

  26-04-2018 21:31 via yahoo.com
  The father of gravely ill Alfie Evans, the 23-month-old boy whose plight has drawn international attention, said on Thursday he wanted to build bridges with staff at the British hospital he has been battling in the courts over his son's treatment.Evans has a rare, degenerative disease and has been in a semi-vegetative state for more than a year.A British court rejected an appeal by the boy's parents, Tom Evans and Kate James, on Wednesday to take their son to Italy.
  
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• Take a look back at some of the early concepts for What Remains of Edith Finch

  26-04-2018 21:11
  Giant Sparrow has released a trio of early design concepts for its game What Remains of Edith Finch or, as it was known during the early stages of development, The Nightmares of Edith Finch....
  
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• Chrissy Teigen Wants To Know If Kim Kardashian Is Still Down For Dinner

  26-04-2018 21:01 via yahoo.com
  They'll always have Waffle House.
  
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• Golden State Killer Case: Surviving Victim Reacts to Arrest of Suspect

  26-04-2018 21:00 via yahoo.com
  Jane Carson Sandler was attacked in bed while her 3-year-old son lay beside her.
  
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• Bill Cosby's verdict is a rare moment of justice in a long, uphill battle

  26-04-2018 20:57 via yahoo.com
  After years of rumors, accusations and finally criminal charges, Bill Cosby has been found guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand 14 years ago.Cosby, who has been accused of multiple sexual assaults and rapes by nearly 60 women spanning decades, has maintained his innocence – with his lawyers smearing his accusers as liars and promiscuous.
  
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• NVC E3 Predictions LIVE - Today at 3 pm PT/6 pm ET!

  26-04-2018 20:37
  
  Hey! Listen! NVC will be live streaming IGN's weekly Nintendo Podcast today exclusively on ign.com!
  Join Filip, Peer, Brian, and Zach this Thursday at 3:00 PM PT/6:00 PM ET as they discuss the latest Nintendo releases, share their big E3 2018 predictions, and chat with the community LIVE! Don’t worry, you can still catch the full episode on Friday as usual on YouTube.com/NintendoVoiceChat and your favorite podcast listening services.Continue reading…
  
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• Russia presents unharmed Syrians to OPCW, Western envoys condemn 'stunt'

  26-04-2018 20:32 via yahoo.com
  By Stephanie van den BergTHE HAGUE (Reuters) - Russia and Syria presented more than a dozen unharmed people from Ghouta, Syria, at the premises of the Organisation for the Prohibition for Chemical Weapons on Thursday to support claims there was no chemical attack in the region this month.Britain dismissed the move as a theatrical "stunt", and said allied powers including France and the United States had boycotted the closed-door briefing."The OPCW is not a theater," Peter Wilson, Britain's envoy
  
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• Hero in Cowboy Hat Foils Armed Grocery Store Robbery

  26-04-2018 20:31 via yahoo.com
  Yippee ki yay!
  
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• Stardew Valley Publisher Reveals New Game

  26-04-2018 20:25
  Stardew Valley publisher Chucklefish revealed a new game today called Eastward. Developed by a small Shanghai-based indie game studio called Pixpil, Eastward is an adventure game set in a world on the verge of collapse, with RPG and dungeon-crawling elements and influences from '90s anime, The Legend of Zelda, and the Mother series. It's coming to PC and Mac, but has not been given a release date.
  In Eastward, you control a worker named John, who has to guide a young girl named Sam through a ser
  
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• King of the kids Trump says Jackson 'treated very, very unfairly'

  26-04-2018 20:12 via yahoo.com
  Surrounded by reporters' children at a White House event Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump said White House physician Dr. Ronny Jackson was "treated very, very unfairly" after Jackson withdrew from consideration to head the Veteran Affairs department. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
  
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• Ex-Port Authority Honcho Caren Turner Apologizes for Obscenity-Laced Rant at Cops

  26-04-2018 20:09 via yahoo.com
  Turner says she "let me emotions get the better of me."
  
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• Fortnite Season 4 Tease Hints at Comet Arrival

  26-04-2018 20:02
  Season 4 of Fortnite is imminent, and so is the arrival of the mysterious comet, if the officia Fortnitel Twitter account is anything to go by.
  The Fortnite comet has been the topic of much discussion since it was first spotted hurtling towards Tilter Towers last month. The in-game televisions scattered around the map are now displaying an emergency broadcast and the latest tweet from the official Fortnite account teasing Season 4 has a decidedly streaking-comet-vibe to it.
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• The Best PS4 Games

  26-04-2018 20:00
  If you’re just now picking up a PlayStation 4 or PS4 Pro, you’re in luck — there are a lot of fantastic games to play. So whether you’re just buying a system, or have owned once since the 2013 launch and are looking to play the greatest hits, these are the best 25 games you can play, as ranked by a group of our biggest and most knowledgeable PS4 fans.
  Review scores factored into compiling this list, but the ranking takes many more aspects into account. The ways these game
  
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• At least 10 youths missing in Israel flash flood

  26-04-2018 19:53 via yahoo.com
  At least 10 youths were missing after they were swept away by a flash flood in the Negev Desert in southern Israel on Thursday, and seven others were in critical condition, police and emergency services said. Scarlett Cvitanovich reports.
  
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• Golden State Killer Case: Suspect Joseph James DeAngelo Hiding in Plain Sight Before Arrest, Cops Say

  26-04-2018 19:52 via yahoo.com
  Neighbors were shocked that the accused killer lived in their midst for decades.
  
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• Spoiler Alert: 2019 Ford Transit Spied, Still Looks Like Van

  26-04-2018 19:51 via yahoo.com
  No surprises here.
  
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• Armenian protest leader says he's only possible PM

  26-04-2018 19:46 via yahoo.com
  Armenia's protest leader Nikol Pashinyan on Thursday ruled out any possibility of compromise with authorities, saying he should be elected prime minister in a vote next week.Earlier in the day Armenia's parliament set May 1 as the date to elect a prime minister in a bid to defuse escalating tensions and Russian leader Vladimir Putin stressed the "importance" of the vote in phone talks with the acting head of government.Addressing supporters at a rally in the capital Yerevan, Pashinyan said he wa
  
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• Scott Pruitt Admits He Knew About Controversial EPA Staff Raises

  26-04-2018 19:43 via yahoo.com
  Scott Pruitt, the embattled Environmental Protection Agency administrator,
  
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• Official: Israel will strike Tehran if Iran attacks Tel Aviv

  26-04-2018 19:26 via yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's defense minister said in an interview published Thursday that his country will strike Tehran if attacked by archenemy Iran, escalating an already tense war of words between the two adversaries.
  
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• Waffle House shooting hero raises more than $160,000 for victims

  26-04-2018 19:24 via yahoo.com
  Waffle House shooting hero James Shaw Jr. has raised more than $160,000 to help the victims' families.
  
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• Epic Moves Ahead With Its Lawsuit Against 14-Year-Old Fortnite Cheater

  26-04-2018 19:24
  Epic Games is pressing forward with their lawsuit against a minor who was caught cheating in Fortnite — thereby violating the terms of service — despite attempts from the boys' mother to have the case dismissed.
  The case was brought to the media's attention last year, when Epic sued two Fortnite players for cheating. One of the players turned out to be a 14-year-old boy, whose mother tried to have the case dismissed in a letter to the court. The latest filing, obtained
  
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• China set to open world's longest sea bridge

  26-04-2018 19:23 via yahoo.com
  The Daily Digit is the story behind the numbers that make our world turn. Today we're looking at the massive undertaking to connect Hong Kong to Mainland China via a 34-mile-long sea bridge. When it opens to the public, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge will be the longest bridge of its kind and will cut driving time between Hong Kong and Macau by roughly 60 percent. Just make sure to hit the rest stop before getting on the bridge.
  
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• The ‘Bittersweet’ Story Behind Michelle McNamara’s Golden State Killer Book That Sold Out Overnight

  26-04-2018 19:18 via yahoo.com
  Patton Oswalt's late wife "helped the hunter catch a monster"
  
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• Rising US autism rate an 'urgent' concern: health agency

  26-04-2018 19:07 via yahoo.com
  The autism rate in the United States has climbed to one in 59 children, up from prior estimates of one in 68, a US government report said on Thursday.Calling the neurodevelopmental disorder an "urgent public health concern," the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the change represents an uptick from 1.5 percent to 1.7 percent of children.The latest figures are "broad and startling," said Walter Zahorodny, an associate professor of pediatrics at Rutgers New Jersey Medical Schoo
  
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• Explosion rocks oil refinery in Superior, Wisconsin

  26-04-2018 19:05 via yahoo.com
  Raw video: Emergency officials on scene after blast at Husky Energy oil refinery.
  
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• Why Battle Royale Is the Right Game Mode to Copy

  26-04-2018 19:00
  Battle royale is the latest trend that’s been sweeping across the games industry. In most examples of the growing genre, 100 players are dropped into a zone where they must find loot and kill each other off solo or as a squad as the size of the map gradually shrinks. Though PUBG is the game that really kicked things off when it was released in Steam Early Access last year, it’s since been aped by Epic’s Fortnite Battle Royale, a game that has gradually become a juggernaut in it
  
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• This May Be Why Autism Diagnoses Are On the Rise, According to the CDC

  26-04-2018 19:00 via yahoo.com
  About 1.7% of 8-year-olds have autism spectrum disorder
  
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• Russia parades Syrian 'witnesses' to disprove gas attack

  26-04-2018 18:59 via yahoo.com
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Russian diplomats brought alleged "witnesses" from Syria, including an 11-year-old child, to the headquarters of the global chemical weapons watchdog in the Netherlands to disprove allegations of a chemical weapons attack by the Syrian government.
  
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