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• Assassin's Creed Odyssey's Combat Abilities Offer Powerful Choices

  01-08-2018 23:55
  In fully embracing the RPG genre, Assassin's Creed Odyssey has put player choice front and center across the board. This doesn't just apply to the branching story and new romance options, but also in the way you fight and the skills you bring onto the battlefield. We recently sat down with Odyssey's Game Director, Scott Phillips, to discuss the redesigned fight mechanics and the addition of customizable combat abilities into the series.
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• New York City prosecutors split on trying marijuana cases

  01-08-2018 23:53 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Caught in New York City with a doobie or a dime bag? The consequences you'll face vary from borough to borough.
  
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• Paul Manafort trial: Expected star witness Rick Gates 'may not' testify during ex-Trump aide's court case

  01-08-2018 23:41 via yahoo.com
  Prosecutors have raised the possibility that their expected star witness "may not" testify against Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort, as they concentrated on Mr Manafort's lavish lifestyle during the second day of his bank fraud trial.The trial is the first courtroom test for Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who was tasked last year with investigating Russia's efforts to meddle in the 2016 presidential election and to determine whether any of President Trump's campaign team wer
  
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• That Trump Tweet Attacking Robert Mueller? Sorry, Republicans Haven't Seen It.

  01-08-2018 23:38 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Republicans really, really hate questions about President Donald
  
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• Philippines President Duterte Orders Luxury Vehicles Worth $5.5 Million Crushed

  01-08-2018 23:37 via yahoo.com
  Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte oversaw the destruction of 68 smuggled
  
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• Iran is seen readying major exercise as tensions with U.S. simmer

  01-08-2018 23:32 via yahoo.com
  By Phil StewartWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States believes Iran is preparing to carry out a major exercise in the Gulf in the coming days, apparently moving up the timing of annual drills amid heightened tensions with Washington, U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday.Iran has been furious over U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of an international nuclear deal and reimpose sanctions on Tehran.Senior Iranian officials havewarned the country would not easily yield to a ren
  
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• Zynga's mobile 'forever franchises' contribute to Q2 growth

  01-08-2018 23:31
  Zynga reports that it now generates 90 precent of its revenue from mobile games thanks to its "forever franchises", which include Words With Friends, Zynga Poker, and CSR2....
  
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• Aeromexico crash: Stronger planes can mean fewer fatalities

  01-08-2018 23:30 via yahoo.com
  Passengers in plane crashes like the Aeromexico accident — in which no one died — have better chances of survival due to better aircraft construction and safety standards, experts say.
  
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• New York prosecutors eye illicit foreign lobbying

  01-08-2018 23:28 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The special counsel in the Russia probe has referred investigations into possible unlawful foreign lobbying to federal prosecutors in New York, two people familiar with the inquiry said Wednesday.
  
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• Expected star witness may not testify in Trump ex-aide Manafort's trial

  01-08-2018 23:28 via yahoo.com
  U.S. prosecutors raised the possibility on Wednesday that an expected star witness may not testify against President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort even as the judge tried to rein in their portrayal of Manafort's lavish lifestyle. Jonah Green has more.
  
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• Obama dips into midterm election with first endorsements

  01-08-2018 23:27 via yahoo.com
  By John WhitesidesWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Barack Obama dipped into November's midterm election fight for the first time on Wednesday, endorsing 81 Democrats in 14 states with a focus on young, diverse candidates and lower-level races.Obama, whose relatively low political profile since leaving office last year has frustrated some fellow Democrats, described the list as a first wave of endorsements and said he was eager to campaign this fall to "make the case for why Democrati
  
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• The Latest: Jurors hear about lavish spending by Manafort

  01-08-2018 23:25 via yahoo.com
  ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The Latest on special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation and the trial of onetime Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort (all times local):
  
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• Saving Earth: Don't Fall Into Climate Change Fatalism

  01-08-2018 23:23 via yahoo.com
  You reap what you sow. The chickens have come home to roost. The ship has
  
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• Danish Muslim Women Protest As Ban On Face Veils Enters Full Force

  01-08-2018 23:22 via yahoo.com
  Muslim women and their allies organized protests in two Danish cities on
  
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• The Latest: Turkish minister shrugs off sanctions for pastor

  01-08-2018 23:05 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on an American pastor detained in Turkey (all times local):
  
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• White House says Trump is ‘not obstructing,’ but is ‘fighting back’ against the Mueller probe

  01-08-2018 22:56 via yahoo.com
  Press secretary Sarah Sanders stressed Donald Trump’s tweets were “not an order” but instead reflected “the president’s opinion.”
  
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• Man says 'voices' made him kill NY date, admits LA attack

  01-08-2018 22:56 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — A man accused of killing a New York City woman he met on a dating app says voices in his head made him do it.
  
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• Investigators retrieve black boxes from Mexican plane after stormy crash

  01-08-2018 22:53 via yahoo.com
  By Efrain VazquezDURANGO, Mexico (Reuters) - Investigators sifting through the wreckage of an Aeromexico passenger jet on Wednesday located the plane'sflight recorders, which may hold clues about what caused it to crash as it took off during stormy weather in northern Mexico.The Mexico City-bound Embraer 190 passenger jet smashed into scrubland near the runway shortly after the plane took off from an airport in northern Durango state on Tuesday.Nearly everyone on the flight suffered minor injuri
  
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• Israel halts fuel shipments to Gaza citing continued fire balloon launches

  01-08-2018 22:49 via yahoo.com
  Israel will stop shipments of fuel and gas to the Gaza Strip from Thursday in response to militants in the enclave launching incendiary balloons that have torched fields in Israel.A statement from Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman's office on Wednesday said he had ordered a halt to fuel supplies into the strip via the Kerem Shalom crossing until further notice."The decision has been taken in view of the continued terror of incendiary balloons and friction along the (border) fence," the statemen
  
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• White House press secretary Sarah Sanders responds to questions about President Trump's tweet saying Attorney General Jeff Sessions should end the Mueller investigation

  01-08-2018 22:40 via yahoo.com
  At Wednesday’s White House press briefing, press secretary Sarah Sanders took several questions from reporters about President Trump’s tweet saying that Attorney General Jeff Sessions should end special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
  
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• Another Year, Another Warning The Earth Is Screwed

  01-08-2018 22:34 via yahoo.com
  The last four years have been the warmest four years on record, according to a
  
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• Trump urges attorney general to end Russia probe 'right now'

  01-08-2018 22:23 via yahoo.com
  By Doina Chiacu and Susan CornwellWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump appealed to Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end an investigation into Russia's role in the 2016election, drawing a rebuke from his fellow Republicans in Congress who said the probe must go on.It was Trump's most direct call for his top U.S. law enforcement officer to shut down Special Counsel Robert Mueller's criminal investigation and Democrats promptly accused the president of trying to obstruct justice.In a
  
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• Turkey lira slumps to record lows over US sanctions

  01-08-2018 22:13 via yahoo.com
  The Turkish lira on Wednesday slumped to record lows of 5.0 against the dollar as the US hit Turkey's justice and interior ministers with sanctions over the case of an American pastor on trial for terror-related charges.Before his move home last week, Brunson, who led a Protestant church in the Aegean city of Izmir, had spent nearly two years in jail.It then hit 5.0 again after the official announcement from the White House.
  
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• Weekly Jobs Roundup: Capcom, FoxNext, and more are hiring now!

  01-08-2018 22:04
  Developers like FoxNext, Roblox, Capcom, Deck Nine, and more are looking to fill multiple positions across several different disciplines. ...
  
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• 2017 shatters global climate records including highest sea levels, hottest year without El Niño

  01-08-2018 22:01 via yahoo.com
  2017 shattered various climate records, including the highest global temperature for a non-El Niño year, lowest Arctic sea ice extent, highest sea levels as well as greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.
  
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• Manhunt Underway for the Alleged Killer of Houston Doctor Who Treated President George H.W. Bush

  01-08-2018 21:50 via yahoo.com
  Joseph James Pappas, 65, is suspected of killing prominent Houston doctor to revenge his mother's death, police said.
  
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• Judge raps prosecutors over testimony on Manafort's luxuries

  01-08-2018 21:45 via yahoo.com
  ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The judge in Paul Manafort's financial fraud trial warned prosecutors Wednesday against using the word "oligarchs" to describe wealthy Ukrainians, and admonished them for spending so much time documenting the former Trump campaign chairman's extravagant lifestyle.
  
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• This month's Humble Book Bundle includes tabletop and board game design

  01-08-2018 21:43
  Humble Bundle's Book Bundle for this month, titled Game Design & Puzzlecraft, includes eBooks and PDFs covering video game, tabletop, and board game design....
  
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• Dramatic video captures crash of Mexico plane

  01-08-2018 21:40 via yahoo.com
  Dramatic video purportedly taken from inside the cabin of an Aeromexico passenger jet shows the moment the plane took off and then crashed in Durango, Mexico. All 103 passengers and crew survived. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
  
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• Israel warns Iran of military response if it closed key Red Sea strait

  01-08-2018 21:39 via yahoo.com
  Israel would deploy its military if Iran were to try to block the Bab al-Mandeb strait that links the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday.Last week, Saudi Arabia said it was suspending oil shipments through the strait, on the main sea route from the Middle East to Europe, after Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis attacked two ships in the waterway.Saudi Arabia and Iran are in a three-year-old proxy war in Yemen, which lies on the southern side of Bab al-Mand
  
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• Kirsten Gillibrand Pays The Price For Speaking Out Against Al Franken

  01-08-2018 21:28 via yahoo.com
  No one in Congress is more associated with the Me Too movement than Sen.
  
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• Don't Miss: A postmortem of Failbetter Games' Sunless Sea

  01-08-2018 21:22
  Failbetter Games co-founder Alexis Kennedy offers a look behind the scenes at what went right (and wrong) during development of the studio's darkly comedic roguelike game Sunless Sea....
  
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• Elon Musk Announces Classic Atari Games Will Come to Tesla Cars Soon

  01-08-2018 21:19
  Elon Musk announced on Twitter Wednesday his collaboration with Atari to release some of the classic games in the Tesla V9.0 update in approximately 4 weeks.
  The tweet reads: "Some of best classic @Atari games coming as Easter eggs in Tesla V9.0 release in about 4 weeks. Thanks @Atari!"Some of best classic @Atari games coming as Easter eggs in Tesla V9.0 release in about 4 weeks. Thanks @Atari!
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• 500 detained fathers and sons to go on strike after being separated

  01-08-2018 21:13 via yahoo.com
  The demonstrators are asking US officials to expedite their immigration cases because of the ‘unjust’ conditions they face.More than 500 migrant fathers and sons detained in Texas after being separated from each other for weeks and months have launched a strike against unfair conditions.The fathers plan to resist orders and refuse food at three sites at Karnes detention center, while the sons are set to refuse to participate in school activities.
  
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• Tamar Braxton Gets an Earful From Delta Air Lines Pilot as She Reportedly Tries to Get Off Plane

  01-08-2018 21:10 via yahoo.com
  Her sister, Towanda, accused the pilot of ridiculing the TV personality.
  
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• Valve Announces Artifact Release Date

  01-08-2018 21:08
  Artifact, the Dota 2 influenced digital collectible card game from Valve, is set to release on Steam November 28, 2018 for PC, MacOS and Linux, and later in 2019 for iOS and Android devices.
  The game offers more than 280 cards in its shipping set and players will be able to buy and sell their cards on the Steam Community Marketplace.
  Artifact will be playable by attendees of this year's PAX West in Seattle, which runs from August 31 to September 3. At PAX, players can battle each other over
  
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• 'It Felt Like We Were On a Different Planet.' A Rare, 'Apocalyptic' Fire Tornado Developed During A Devastating California Wildfire

  01-08-2018 21:02 via yahoo.com
  A fire tornado, for lack of a better term, had just ripped through this area of Northern California about a mile and a half away from downtown Redding, a city with a population of more than 91,800.
  
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• 'Eager' Obama endorses dozens of Democrats in US midterm races

  01-08-2018 21:01 via yahoo.com
  Former president Barack Obama announced his support Wednesday for several dozen Democratic candidates for Congress and state office, signalling he is "eager" to remain a political force through November's midterm elections.Amid obvious signs that President Donald Trump will hit the campaign trail for Republicans over the coming months, the nation's first African-American commander in chief is making it clear he too will campaign for several candidates ahead of the most anticipated midterm vote i
  
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• Grisly Video Shows LAPD Cops Fatally Shooting Armed Suspect and Woman Used as Human Shield

  01-08-2018 20:59 via yahoo.com
  The drama began with a frantic 911 call about a stabbing at a church.
  
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• Salt and Sanctuary: Switch Review

  01-08-2018 20:55
  Editor's Note: Salt and Sanctuary was originally released in 2016 for PS4, Vita, and PC. With the release of the Switch version, we decided to dive back into the sanctuary and update our review for Nintendo's hybrid console. 
  Forget about mages and warriors—in an RPG with a name like Salt and Sanctuary, I figured it was only appropriate to save the world as a chef. It's one of the eight starting classes, after all, and thus, clad in apron and armed with a three-foot iron pot
  
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• Valve's Dota 2 card game Artifact debuts this November

  01-08-2018 20:46 via gamesradar.com
  And it will make a cameo at PAX West later this month
  
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• Israeli court sentences Arab poet for incitement to violence

  01-08-2018 20:31 via yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — The father of an Israeli Arab poet who was sentenced to five months in prison for incitement to violence online said Wednesday that the ruling was unjust.
  
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• US slaps sanctions on Turkey justice, interior ministers over detained pastor

  01-08-2018 20:30 via yahoo.com
  The US Treasury Department on Wednesday hit Turkey's justice and interior ministers with sanctions over the case of an American pastor being tried on terror charges."We believe he's a victim of unfair and unjust attention by the government of Turkey," White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told journalists, referring to Andrew Brunson, an American pastor at the center of a bitter diplomatic spat between NATO allies Washington and Ankara.Brunson, who led a Protestant church in the Aegean city of I
  
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• Your free PS Plus games for August bring crimes and horror with Mafia 3 and Dead by Daylight

  01-08-2018 20:19 via gamesradar.com
  Check out what's coming to Sony's Instant Game Collection next
  
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• Big crowds welcome home Congo presidential hopeful Bemba after long absence

  01-08-2018 20:10 via yahoo.com
  By Amedee MwarabuKINSHASA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of cheering supporters greeted opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba on Wednesday as he returned to Democratic Republic of Congo after a decade in prison to submit his candidacy for December's presidential election.Bemba, a former vice president and warlord whose war crimes convictions at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague were quashed on appeal in May, is expected to pose a stiff challenge to President Joseph Kabila or his p
  
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• McDonald's Apologizes to Woman For Serving Her Cleaning Solution Instead of Coffee

  01-08-2018 20:03 via yahoo.com
  Definitely not what she ordered
  
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• Van Nuys LAPD shooting: Lawsuit to be announced by family, legal team of innocent woman killed

  01-08-2018 19:57 via yahoo.com
  A lawsuit is expected to be announced by the family of a woman who was shot and killed by LAPD officers during a hostage situation in Van Nuys.
  
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• The NRA's Convenient Hypocrisy On 3D-Printed Plastic Guns

  01-08-2018 19:54 via yahoo.com
  The widespread release of downloadable blueprints for 3D-printed firearms
  
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• CCP to transition EVE Online publisher to NetEase in China

  01-08-2018 19:51
  CCP has ended its arrangement with Tiancity, the previous publisher handling EVE Online†™s Serenity server, and penned a deal with NetEase to keep the online game up and running going forward. ...
  
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• TS Ellis: Who is the 'no nonsense' judge running the Paul Manafort trial?

  01-08-2018 19:44 via yahoo.com
  TS Ellis III, the veteran judge presiding over the case, cut in: "I take it you plan to offer evidence?".Rather than painting broad strokes of their client's political resume, the defence should provide specific examples of Mr Manafort's contributions, the judge went on to suggest.For lawyers and colleagues of Mr Ellis III, who have known the US Navy veteran and federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia for decades, such potentially harsh interruptions are considered a part of his standard practice.
  
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