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• DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen Defends Separation Of Families At The Border

  18-06-2018 23:57 via yahoo.com
  Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen stuck to talking points on Monday
  
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• PUBG Creator Loves Seeing Other Games Get Battle Royale Modes

  18-06-2018 23:27
  From indie games like Fear the Wolves and Rapture Rejects to blockbusters like Battlefield V and Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, battle royale games were a big part of E3 2018. The man who popularized the genre noticed, and he's all for it.
  "We have our own internal roadmap. And of course there'sgoing to be competitors," PUBG Creative Director Brendan Greene told GameSpot when asked if the trend affected PUBG's development. "This year is a battle royale of battle royales. Everyone has their own royal
  
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• Lucy Hale Says She Was Assaulted: 'It's Happened To Me'

  18-06-2018 23:21 via yahoo.com
  It appears stories from the recent Me Too movement hit close to home for
  
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• Donald Trump To Establish ‘Space Force’ And Twitter Users Can’t Deal

  18-06-2018 22:54 via yahoo.com
  Making America great again wasn't good enough for Donald Trump. Now he's
  
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• Report: Lincoln MKC Replacement to Be Called Corsair

  18-06-2018 22:46 via yahoo.com
  Sea, air, and land: “Corsair” has a long history.
  
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• Sensible Object raises $3.2M for R& D toward board games using Alexa

  18-06-2018 22:43
  Sensible Object, developer of the voice-augmented trivia board game When in Rome, has raised $3.2 million to be used toward R& D for board games that will utilize Amazon Alexa....
  
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• Syrian, Iraqi forces say US bombs military border positions, U.S. denies

  18-06-2018 22:27 via yahoo.com
  By Angus McDowallBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian state media said on Monday that U.S.-led coalition aircraft had bombed a Syrian army position near the Iraqi border, causing deaths and injuries, but the U.S. military denied it was responsible.The attack took place in al-Harra, southeast of the town of Albu Kamal, state news agency SANA said, citing a military source.A commander in the alliance fighting alongside Damascus told Reuters that drones that were "probably American" had bombed the positions o
  
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• Melania Trump and Laura Bush join debate over children separated from families at US-Mexico border

  18-06-2018 22:27 via yahoo.com
  Melania Trump waded into a debate over children being separated from their families at the Mexico border, saying the United States should "govern with heart". In a rare intervention the first lady's spokeswoman said she wanted Republicans and Democrats to work together to achieve "successful immigration reform". Her comments were taken by some as an implicit criticism of her husband's recently introduced "zero tolerance" policy at the border. A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries
  
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• Children Separated From Parents At The Border Heard In Heartbreaking New Audio

  18-06-2018 22:27 via yahoo.com
  ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization, published audio on Monday of
  
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• Ford Previews Revamped Michigan Central Station

  18-06-2018 22:24 via yahoo.com
  The 18-story facility will act as Ford’s hub for future mobility projects, and could employ up to 2,500 people.
  
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• Nintendo Will Continue to Announce More 2DS, 3DS Games

  18-06-2018 22:20
  Nintendo’s E3 2018 Direct put the spotlight entirely on the Nintendo Switch’s upcoming lineup. But Nintendo has far from forgotten its 3DS and mobile lineups.
  Speaking to IGN at E3 2018, Nintendo of America President Reggie FIls-Aime said, in addition to the Nintendo 3DS and 2DS titles already announced, Nintendo will announce more games for the system in the coming months, as it continues to see sales success.
  “We're going to continue , we're going to continue to have some new
  
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• Analyst: 66% of console players still prefer physical games over digital

  18-06-2018 22:19
  The majority of players still prefer physical games over digital on console, and Nielsen Games reports that the exact opposite is true for players on PC....
  
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• The Fallout 76 beta will open to Xbox One players first (if you pre-order)

  18-06-2018 22:12 via gamesradar.com
  You'll need to pre-order to play the Fallout 76 beta
  
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• The Latest: Minnesota opens key hearing on Enbridge pipeline

  18-06-2018 22:10 via yahoo.com
  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Latest on the opening of a hearing before Minnesota regulators on Enbridge Energy's proposal for replacing its Line 3 crude oil pipeline across Minnesota (all times local):
  
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• President Of American Academy Of Pediatrics Calls Trump Border Policy 'Child Abuse'

  18-06-2018 22:04 via yahoo.com
  The children separated from their parents at the border are experiencing
  
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• American Academy Of Pediatrics President Calls Trump Border Policy 'Child Abuse'

  18-06-2018 22:04 via yahoo.com
  The children separated from their parents at the border are experiencing
  
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• Second Motor Will Add $5000 to Tesla Model 3’s Price

  18-06-2018 22:03 via yahoo.com
  Musk: Top-of-the-line Model 3 will “beat anything in its class on the track.”
  
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• UN chief warns of risk of war in Gaza

  18-06-2018 22:00 via yahoo.com
  UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning that Gaza is close to the brink of war and expressed shock over the number of Palestinians killed and wounded by Israeli live fire during protests, in a report obtained by AFP on Monday.Guterres told the Security Council that he "unequivocally condemns the steps by all parties that have brought us to this dangerous and fragile place" in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.The report was sent to the council last week ahead of a meeting on Tuesday on t
  
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• A Texas Sheriff's Deputy Sexually Assaulted a 4-Year-Old and Threatened to Deport Her Mother, Police Say

  18-06-2018 22:00 via yahoo.com
  Investigators arrested the 47-year-old on suspicion of super aggravated sexual assault of a child
  
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• Breaking Down The Improvements Coming To NBA Live 19

  18-06-2018 21:55
  After nearly a decade of struggling to field a competitive basketball game, last year EA Sports finally put some proper pieces into place that signal a better future for the NBA Live franchise. NBA Live 19 looks to continue the upward trajectory with some needed changes to the on-court action and some interesting additions to The One mode. Here's everything we learned from playing a couple games and chatting with creative director Connor Dougan. GAMEPLAYNBA Live 19 introduces the Real Play
  
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• Meghan, Duchess of Sussex's Dad Finally Speaks About Missing The Royal Wedding

  18-06-2018 21:43 via yahoo.com
  Thomas Markle, the father of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, made a rare television
  
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• British Man Accidentally Kills Himself While Demonstrating 'Stab-Proof' Vest

  18-06-2018 21:42 via yahoo.com
  Jordan Easton mistakenly thought he was wearing a vest that was 'stab-proof,' authorities said.
  
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• Michelle Obama Seconds Laura Bush's Criticism Of Child Separation Policy

  18-06-2018 21:41 via yahoo.com
  Former first lady Michelle Obama neatly criticized the Trump administration's
  
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• Get a job: Armature Studio is hiring a Sr. Gameplay Programmer

  18-06-2018 21:41
  Armature Studio is looking to bring a Sr. Gameplay Engineer on board at its Texas-based studio to design innovative gameplay systems for an ongoing project. ...
  
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• Former Israeli government minister charged with spying for Iran

  18-06-2018 21:39 via yahoo.com
  A former Israeli government minister, once imprisoned for trying to smuggle drugs, is back behind bars after being charged with spying for archenemy Iran, the country's internal security agency said Monday. The Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency, said Gonen Segev was extradited from Guinea and arrested upon arrival in Israel last month on suspicion of "committing offenses of assisting the enemy in war and spying against the state of Israel." It said Mr Segev, a former energy minister, acted a
  
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• Westworld Mobile Game Coming This Week

  18-06-2018 21:26
  The popular HBO sci-fi series Westworld is receiving a mobile game on June 21 for Android and iOS, as confirmed by the official App Store Twitter account.
  As reported by Mashable, the game is already out in Australia and other territories, but has yet to hit the US market.
  Announced last March, the game starts the player as a new employee at Delos Destinations. Put through a training simulation of Westworld Park, the player is responsible for keeping the park running smoothly by managing Hosts a
  
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• Re-Boot: The All-New VW Jetta Plays a Little Golf

  18-06-2018 21:26 via yahoo.com
  The Golf with a trunk returns, sort of.
  
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• Democratic Lawmakers Call On DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen To Resign

  18-06-2018 21:16 via yahoo.com
  Several Democratic lawmakers said Monday that Department of Homeland Security
  
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• Chris Pratt 'Dying To Get Back Together' With 'Parks And Recreation' Cast

  18-06-2018 21:12 via yahoo.com
  Let's get the Pawnee gang back together.
  
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• How The Last of Us Remains a Masterpiece 5 Years Later

  18-06-2018 21:11
  In a weird way, The Last of Us has nothing to do with gnarly-looking, fungus-infected, brain-dead humans who want nothing more than to rip the flesh from your face as you trek across the rural U.S. in search of answers. That's why, early on in development, Naughty Dog hesitated over even including them in the game that's since sold 17 million copies in five years.
  The Last of Us is, instead, very much about the familial bond between a man, Joel, and a girl, Ellie, over a 15-hour journey of steal
  
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• Texas deputy arrested on allegation of child sexual assault

  18-06-2018 21:07 via yahoo.com
  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A sheriff's deputy in South Texas is accused of sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl and threatening the child's mother with deportation if she reported him, authorities said.
  
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• The Latest: Inspector general: FBI employees aren't perfect

  18-06-2018 21:01 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on an inspector general report that criticizes the FBI and Justice Department (all times local):
  
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• Trump And His Allies Are Lying Through Their Teeth About Family Separations

  18-06-2018 20:57 via yahoo.com
  On May 7, the Trump administration announced a policy of systematically
  
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• Supreme Court sidesteps major rulings on electoral map manipulation

  18-06-2018 20:54 via yahoo.com
  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dealt a setback to election reformers by declining to use high-profile cases from Wisconsin and Maryland to curb the ability of state lawmakers to draw electoral districts purely for partisan advantage.Sidestepping major rulings, the nine justices decided both cases on narrow legal grounds and put off perhaps until their next term, which begins in October, a more definitive ruling on whether courts can step in to limit the contentious practice known as partisan g
  
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• Niece Wears Princess Diana's Marriage Tiara For Her Own Wedding

  18-06-2018 20:52 via yahoo.com
  Princess Diana's wedding-day tiara made a royal comeback over the weekend,
  
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• Senate candidate's first campaign ad depicts Trump administration as literal dumpster fire

  18-06-2018 20:48 via yahoo.com
  Richard Painter, a former White House ethics attorney under President George W. Bush who is running for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota as a Democrat, is taking his pointed criticism of President Trump straight to voters.
  
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• Don't Miss: A Game Design Deep Dive into Darkest Dungeon's Affliction System

  18-06-2018 20:44
  Chris Bourassa & Tyler Sigman of Red Hook Studios: "We wanted to capture the human response to stress. Any person can break under pressure, and people break in different ways."...
  
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• The Most Important Stories of E3 2018

  18-06-2018 20:27
  E3 is a whirlwind of announcements, trailer reveals, gameplay demos, and insightful interviews, and 2018 was no exception. Starting with Sony’s week of announcements leading up to the show, to all of the major press conferences, and straight through a show filled with hands-on impressions, there were hundreds of stories throughout the week. That’s why we thought it would be a good idea to wade through it all and highlight the stories that are going to ultimately have the biggest impa
  
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• Supreme Court sides with Florida man in free speech case

  18-06-2018 20:19 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who has been an outspoken critic of the south Florida city where he lives is now 2-0 in disputes with the city before the Supreme Court.
  
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• Dunkin' Donuts Sign Asks Customers To Snitch On Workers Not Speaking English

  18-06-2018 20:19 via yahoo.com
  A Dunkin Donuts in Baltimore is under fire for posting a sign offering
  
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• Valve introduces limits for new games to prevent 'fake' ones from gaming Steam

  18-06-2018 20:17
  "We don't believe these constraints will negatively impact real games in any way, and the removal of fake games should improve the store experience for everyone."...
  
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• Grandmother wrestles rabid bobcat in fight to the death

  18-06-2018 20:15 via yahoo.com
  A grandmother from Georgia, US, fought off a rabid bobcat with her bare hands, wrestling with it and silently strangling the wild animal as it clawed at her face. DeDe Phillips, 46, was well aware of how dangerous the animals could be.  Bobcats are America’s most numerous wild cat with a population of around a million. “It was either me or the cat and it was going to be the cat that day,” she said.  “They go for your jugular. Because when they can get the v
  
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• Trump Defends Immigration Policies As Backlash Grows

  18-06-2018 20:08 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump is standing by his administration's highly
  
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• Preorder the Smash Bros. Ultimate GameCube Controller

  18-06-2018 19:55
  If you want to play Super Smash Bros. Ultimate the old-fashioned way, now's your chance to preorder.
  Less than a week after Nintendo announced the upcoming Super Smash Bros. Ultimate would support GameCube controllers, the devices are now up for preorder on Amazon.
  Complete with an updated Super Smash Bros. logo, the Smash GameCube controller will set you back $29.99. The GameCube controller adapter, which will support four controllers and appears to be the same one Nintendo sold
  
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• Fortnite's in-Game TVs Broadcasting Mysterious Red Skull

  18-06-2018 19:48
  
  Another Fortnite mystery is afoot, with red skulls being broadcast on the in-game TVs.
  Fortnite looks like it's ushering in another in-game event, with a red skull being broadcast on the in-game TVs at Snobby Shores.Epic Games used a similar approach with the meteor event, with the emergency broadcast being displayed on the in-game screens before it finally hit the map.
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• Warriors Orochi 4 Release Date Revealed

  18-06-2018 19:44
  KOEI Tecmo has announced the release date and platforms for Warriors Orochi 4.
  The publisher revealed the newest entry in the action franchise will come out on October 16 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC.
  KOEI Tecmo also shared a brief gameplay trailer featuring Zeus using his lightning attack during battle.
  Warriors Orochi 4 was announced earlier this year during the Omega Force 20th Anniversary event in Japan. The series features characters from both Dyn
  
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• California ER Doctor Suspended After Video Shows Her Berating Patient: 'Are You Dead Sir?'

  18-06-2018 19:42 via yahoo.com
  Dr. Beth Keegstra thought the patient, Samuel Bardwell, was trying to score prescription drugs.
  
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• Destiny 2's Cayde-6 Is Really, Truly Dead, Says Bungie

  18-06-2018 19:41
  Bungie has some bad news for Destiny 2 fans who were holding out hope that fan-favorite character Cayde-6 wasn't truly dead in the Forsaken DLC trailer.
  "He's dead. His ghost is dead," Bungie Principal Producer Scott Taylor told GamesRadar during E3. Continuing, Taylor explained that there were several reasons for the move.
  "We wanted to establish the tone of the game and show that we're serious about it," he explained. "We also want people to process it. You'll play a mission with him, and you'
  
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• Pot growers refuse to let go of dream after Kilauea volcano erupts

  18-06-2018 19:38 via yahoo.com
  Dale Altman and his grandson Josh Doran live on a 5-acre (2-hectare) plot atop a hill on Hawaii’s Big Island by the erupting Kilauea volcano, where they grow medical marijuana.
  
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• Americans own 40 percent of world's firearms: study

  18-06-2018 19:37 via yahoo.com
  Americans make up only four percent of the global population but they own 40 percent of the world's firearms, a new study said Monday.There are more than one billion firearms in the world but 85 percent of those are in the hands of civilians, with the remainder held by law enforcement and the military, according to the Small Arms Survey.The survey, produced by the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, says it bases its estimates based on multiple sources, includi
  
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