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• Investors hopeful Mexico's Lopez Obrador will veer to the center

  29-06-2018 23:30 via yahoo.com
  By Rodrigo CamposNEW YORK (Reuters) - Mexican assets are poised to strengthen even if leftist front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wins Sunday's presidential election, analysts say, on expectations he will govern from the center and as the uncertainty stemming from the race fades.Lopez Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor, holds a roughly 20-point lead over his nearest rival ahead of the July 1 vote, according to the latest polls, putting him on track to become the first leftist Mexican presi
  
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• Don't Miss: A look at choice overload in game design, and how to avoid it

  29-06-2018 23:27
  It's easy to overwhelm players with too much choice. In this classic post, game user researcher Bob Tilford discusses the literature of excess choice and how it relates to game design! ...
  
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• Larry Nassar And Trainer Debbie Van Horn Charged With Child Sexual Abuse

  29-06-2018 23:23 via yahoo.com
  Larry Nassar and former USA Gymnastics trainer Debbie Van Horn were charged
  
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• Assassin's Creed's Creator Shares Screenshots And Gameplay GIFs From Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey

  29-06-2018 23:16
  Patrice Désilets was an integral figure at Ubisoft before leaving in 2010, rejoining, and then being fired in 2013. He directed Prince of Persia: Sands of Time and created the Assassin's Creed franchise, which today has grown far beyond his original vision. You can read all about his path in the games industry in detail here.Since leaving Ubisoft, he and his new studio, Panache Digital Games, have been working on Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey. After showing it privately to some folks a
  
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• The Democratic Socialists of America show their muscle in New York congressional upset

  29-06-2018 23:15 via yahoo.com
  Ocasio-Cortez will be the first DSA member in Congress this century, but she isn’t the first candidate to score a dramatic upset with the help of the left-wing organization. And if they have their way, she won’t be the last.
  
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• Judge: Colorado Walmart triple killing case will go to trial

  29-06-2018 23:10 via yahoo.com
  BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A man charged with killing three people at a crowded suburban Denver Walmart last fall fired seven shots in about 20 seconds near the entrance before walking out without saying anything, the lead investigator said Friday.
  
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• Maryland police were unaware of hostile tweets by murder suspect

  29-06-2018 23:01 via yahoo.com
  Police, however, had known that the suspect, Jarrod Ramos, had posted threatening comments on his web page about the newspaper, which he had unsuccessfully sued for defamation in 2012.It is hard to keep up with them," Altomare said.Ramos had accused one of the Capital Gazette's newspapers, The Capital, of defamation for reporting on his guilty plea to a misdemeanor charge of harassing a female acquaintance online.
  
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• Bus full of campers overturns on NJ Turnpike in Cherry Hill

  29-06-2018 22:56 via yahoo.com
  A school bus carrying about two dozen children crashed and overturned on the New Jersey Turnpike. No serious injuries have been reported.
  
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• 'This Is a Moment of Great Urgency.' Former President Barack Obama Tries to Mobilize Democrats at Fundraiser Event

  29-06-2018 22:50 via yahoo.com
  Former President Barack Obama re-emerged into the political scene at a DNC event, making subtle references to his disapproval of the current administration
  
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• Ex-hatemonger confirms white supremacists recruit in Minecraft, Fortnite

  29-06-2018 22:32
  Self-described former extremist turned peace advocate Christian Picciolini confirmed on Reddit that white supremacists regularly recruit new members in games like Minecraft, Call of Duty and Fortnite. ...
  
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• Vaccination critic placed on probation by medical board

  29-06-2018 22:31 via yahoo.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California pediatrician and outspoken critic of mandatory vaccinations has been placed on probation for 35 months by the state's medical board.
  
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• Mueller: Flynn not ready to be sentenced yet in Russia probe

  29-06-2018 22:31 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn is not ready to be sentenced yet, special counsel Robert Mueller said Friday in a one-page filing that suggests the former White House official is still cooperating with prosecutors.
  
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• Man causes $500,000 worth of damage driving through San Angelo Walmart

  29-06-2018 22:25 via yahoo.com
  A man who allegedly drove his pick up truck through the front of a Walmart superstore is facing multiple charges, police said.Officers in the Texan city of San Angelo estimated that 19-year-old Caleb Wilson caused $500,000 (£379,000) as his Dodge Ram careered through the shop.When they checked to see if Wilson had left the scene, authorities said that Wilson sped towards them.
  
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• People are sending wire hangers to a senator who they think is too soft on protecting abortion rights

  29-06-2018 22:21 via yahoo.com
  People are sending a warning to a senator whose stance on protecting abortion rights isn't strong enough for them. On Wednesday, after U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement, Republican Senator Susan Collins said she views Roe v. Wade — the ruling that ensures nation-wide abortion access — as "settled law."  "It's clearly precedent," she said on Wednesday when asked about her stance on protecting abortion laws. "I always look for judges who respect p
  
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• The Supreme Court's Union Fees Decision Could Be a Huge Blow for Democrats

  29-06-2018 22:19 via yahoo.com
  'This is a political disaster for the Democratic Party'
  
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• Pres. Obama and Jon Stewart; different method, same message

  29-06-2018 22:16 via yahoo.com
  Republicans have worked overtime to normalize Donald Trump's countless breaks in presidential tradition and his divisive rhetoric but Pres. Obama and Jon Stewart separately and in their own ways remind Americans not to normalize this behavior and to vote.
  
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• Get a job: Housemarque is hiring a Writer

  29-06-2018 22:15
  Housemarque is looking for a Writer who understands story structure, drama and interactive storytelling, and is familiar with the particular challenges and opportunities present when writing for games....
  
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• XXXTentacion Prepared Will, Leaving Everything to Family and Claiming He Has No Children

  29-06-2018 22:07 via yahoo.com
  The rapper was shot dead on June 18 in an apparent robbery.
  
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• Trump: 'Journalists, like all Americans, should be free from the fear of being violently attacked'

  29-06-2018 22:03 via yahoo.com
  Amid a debate over what motivated the alleged gunman to carry out this week's deadly mass shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper, President Trump took a break from his usual anti-media rhetoric to condemn the killings.
  
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• Annapolis gunman wanted to 'kill as many as possible'

  29-06-2018 22:03 via yahoo.com
  The 38-year-old gunman who carried out a deadly assault on a newspaper office in Annapolis had barricaded a back door hoping to "kill as many" as he could, authorities said Friday, confirming he pursued a years-long vendetta against the paper.Police said the suspect -- identified as Maryland resident Jarrod Ramos -- used a legally purchased pump-action shotgun in an onslaught that left five employees of the Capital Gazette dead, and two others wounded on Thursday.A judge ordered Ramos held witho
  
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• Honda Pilot And HR-V Get Updated Tech, Styling Cues For 2019

  29-06-2018 21:53 via yahoo.com
  The Pilot gets a new face, and both now comes with standard Honda Sensing.
  
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• Valve is working on its own 'more accurate and more useful' Steam Spy-like tools

  29-06-2018 21:52
  Valve knows that Steam Spy has been a useful tool for developers but laments that the service is not accurate enough. The company hopes to introduce its own tools to solve this problem. ...
  
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• Oakland girl at center of brain death debate has died after surgery

  29-06-2018 21:47 via yahoo.com
  A family member says Jahi McMath, the Oakland girl at the center of the medical and religious debate over brain death, has died after surgery.
  
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• The coming war over Trump's next Supreme Court nominee

  29-06-2018 21:45 via yahoo.com
  Immediately after Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the Supreme Court on Wednesday, pro-choice and civil rights organizations across the country started preparing for a fight.
  
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• School Bus Overturns on Jersey Turnpike

  29-06-2018 21:33 via yahoo.com
  A school bus carrying several children crashed and overturned on the New Jersey Turnpike. No serious injuries have been reported. (June 29)
  
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• Israeli forces kill two Palestinians in Gaza border protests: Gaza medics

  29-06-2018 21:33 via yahoo.com
  By Nidal al-MughrabiGAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinians, one of them a 14-year-old boy, and wounded 415 others with live fire and tear gas during protests along the Gaza border on Friday, Gaza health officials said.Gaza medical officials said the boy, Yasser Abu Al-Naja and Mohammad Al-Hamayda, 24, were hit by live bullets.The Israeli military said in a statement that troops had used "large amounts of riot dispersal means".
  
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• 'Play On!' Toys 'R' Us says goodbye with heartfelt message

  29-06-2018 21:33 via yahoo.com
  Toys 'R' Us posted a heartfelt goodbye message on its website, telling customers to "Play on!" on the day the popular chain closes the rest of its U.S. stores.
  
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• The Fortnite missile launch is happening on Saturday and you only have one shot to see it yourself

  29-06-2018 21:32 via gamesradar.com
  Here's when you can watch Fortnite's one-time-only blast off event
  
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• The Fortnite missile launch is happening on Saturday and you only have one shot to see it

  29-06-2018 21:32 via gamesradar.com
  Here's when you can watch Fortnite's one-time-only blast off event
  
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• Epic Games Confirms In-Game Weekend Event

  29-06-2018 21:30
  
  Update #2: Fortnite's epic in-game event occurred, and what started as a simple rocket launch turned into so much more. Read our breakdown of the Fortnite missile launch, which initially offered more questions than answers, and stay tuned to IGN for more updates as the latest Fortnite mystery develops.
  Update: Epic Games has confirmed the countdown is pointing to a one-time only event.
  An update in Fortnite reads "Get in-match on Saturday by 10:30 am PT/1:30 pm ET/7:30 pm CET and look
  
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• California park slaying probe looks back to 7 past shootings

  29-06-2018 21:26 via yahoo.com
  CALABASAS, Calif. (AP) — Detectives investigating the fatal shooting of a camper at a popular California wilderness park last week will look for links to seven past shootings in the area dating back to 2016, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said Friday.
  
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• Worried Guatemalan mom waits in US for a daughter taken away

  29-06-2018 21:09 via yahoo.com
  HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — She came to the U.S. to help her family and ended up having it torn apart instead.
  
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• Here's A Look At Disney World’s Toy Story Land

  29-06-2018 20:59 via yahoo.com
  On Saturday, the long-awaited Toy Story Land will officially open at Walt
  
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• Nintendo says the Switch is played as much docked as it is portably

  29-06-2018 20:57
  Nintendo says that the Switch's use between docked and portable mode is about even, with roughly 50 percent of tracked playtime taking place in each mode....
  
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• Fortnite 50v50 mode returns with some tweaks, and Final Fight's going to the vault for now

  29-06-2018 20:47 via gamesradar.com
  Fortnite cancels Final Fight Teams of 12 mode early to bring back the original big team battle
  
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• Sil Lai Abrams Accuses Russell Simmons Of Rape, A.J. Calloway Of Assault

  29-06-2018 20:25 via yahoo.com
  Author and activist Sil Lai Abrams accused music mogul Russell Simmons of rape
  
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• Annapolis Shooting Suspect Had A History Of Abusive Behavior Toward A Woman

  29-06-2018 20:23 via yahoo.com
  The man suspected of killing five people as they worked in their Maryland
  
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• Every Leaked Skin, Emote, and Glider From Fortnite's Latest Patch

  29-06-2018 20:21
  
  Detective outfits, patriotic emotes, and a ton of new gliders and back bling have been datamined from Fortnite's most recent patch.
  Fortnite Intel provided images for each unreleased addition while fnbr.co revealed the alleged name and rarity for each new cosmetic item. This update features a hefty amount of items for a total of nine new outfits, four harvesting tools, five gliders, five pieces of back bling, and five emotes. A release date for these items was not uncovered.From left to rig
  
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• Hollow Knight Has Sold Over 250,000 Copies on Switch

  29-06-2018 20:09
  The atmospheric Metroidvania Hollow Knight has sold over a quarter of a million copies on the Switch in its first two weeks.
  Developer Team Cherry revealed the number to IGN, and says the team is currently working on a patch to address bugs in the launch build.
  In an interview with Waypoint, Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime said that "Hollow Knight on Switch is doing exceptionally well," and now Team Cherry has shared exactly how well the title has been doing.
  Hollow Knight was originally r
  
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• Judge Cuts ZeniMax's $500 Million Court Winnings From Facebook in Half

  29-06-2018 20:08
  After a Texas jury awarded ZeniMax $500 million in its suit against Oculus last year, U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade has reduced that payout to $250 million.
  As reported by Bloomberg, Kinkeade's decision to retain a $250 million payout includes $200 million for breach of contract and an additional $50 million for copyright infringement. The $250 million that he is removing from the payout includes damages against Oculus co-founders Brendan Iribe and Palmer Luckey.
  Additionally, Kinkeade rejecte
  
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• Israel will not accept any Syrian refugees on its territory: defense minister

  29-06-2018 20:02 via yahoo.com
  By Ori LewisJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel will not allow any Syrian refugees to enter its territory but will continue to provide them with humanitarian aid, Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Friday.More than 120,000 people in southwestern Syria have beenforced to flee since the Syrian government launched an offensive to recover an area bordering Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from rebels, a monitoring group said.The Israeli military said an increased number of Syri
  
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• Hezbollah says 'very big victory' imminent in south Syria

  29-06-2018 20:02 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (Reuters) - The leader of Iran-backed Hezbollah, a key Damascus ally, said on Friday a "very big victory" was near in south Syria, where an army offensive has made rapid gains against insurgents. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah also denied a statement by a Saudi-led coalition that its forces had killed eight members of Lebanon's Hezbollah in Yemen. While Nasrallah has said his Shi'ite movement has not sent fighters to Yemen, he said "we do not confirm or deny" if Hezbollah has any other kind of p
  
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• Second Life creator's VR platform High Fidelity secures $35M investment

  29-06-2018 20:01
  High Fidelity has closed a $35 million funding round, raising money the company says it plans to use to continue to develop its open source, blockchain-powered social VR platform.  ...
  
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• EU moves on migrant plans, while 100 reported missing at sea

  29-06-2018 19:47 via yahoo.com
  BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders Friday drew up new plans to screen migrants in North Africa for eligibility to enter Europe, saying they set aside major differences over stemming the flow of people seeking sanctuary or better lives. But the show of unity did little to hide the fact that the hardest work still lies ahead.
  
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• Police Chief On Annapolis Shooting Suspect: 'I Will Not Say His Name Today'

  29-06-2018 19:42 via yahoo.com
  The police chief investigating Thursday's deadly shooting at the Capital
  
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• I Call BS On Needing $1 Million To Retire (And Other Bad Retirement 'Rules')

  29-06-2018 19:39 via yahoo.com
  Ann Brenoff's "On The Fly" is a column about navigating growing older ― and a
  
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• Maxine Waters receives 'very serious' death threat on same day as Capital Gazette shootings

  29-06-2018 19:34 via yahoo.com
  A member of the US House of Representatives whose call for the harassment of Trump administration officials earned her the opprobrium of right-wingers has cancelled events in Texas and Alabama after a “very serious death threat” was made against her.“There was one very serious death threat made against me on Monday from an individual in Texas which is why my planned speaking engagements in Texas and Alabama were cancelled this weekend,” Ms Waters said.
  
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• We're talking with Six Ages developer David Dunham at 3PM EDT

  29-06-2018 19:26
  Chat with the lead developer of Six Ages, the follow-up to iOS cult hit King of Dragon Pass, at 3PM EDT. ...
  
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• Revellers battle it out with wine in Spain

  29-06-2018 19:25 via yahoo.com
  Revellers poured buckets of wine over each other in northern Spain on Friday in an annual wine battle in the country’s Rioja producing-region. La Batalla de Vino is held each June in the town of Haro on the feast of St Peter, an event organizers say draws thousands of people. On Friday, participants soaked each other with buckets and toy spray guns, turning their clothes a shade of purple. (AP)
  
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• Passenger Tossed From Flight in Dispute With Flight Attendant Over Airplane Mode in Indiana

  29-06-2018 19:23 via yahoo.com
  Robyn Rodgers, of New York, took to Instagram to discuss the incident.
  
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