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• Israel, Hamas agree truce to end Gaza flare-up: Palestinian officials

  09-08-2018 23:50 via yahoo.com
  There was no formal comment from Israel, but an Israeli official who spoke on condition of anonymity denied a cease-fire had been reached.Israel rarely acknowledges reaching any such agreement with Hamas, a group it designates as a terrorist organization and with which it has fought three wars in the past decade.A surge in cross-border rockets and air strikes in recent weeks have prompted the United Nations and Egypt to try to broker a truce to prevent another all-out conflict.
  
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• The Latest: Bank exec unaware of Manafort's alleged lies

  09-08-2018 23:40 via yahoo.com
  ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The Latest on the trial of Paul Manafort (all times local):
  
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• Video: How audio and movement were synced in Sunset Overdrive

  09-08-2018 23:38
  Kristen Quebe and Bryan Higa discuss the customizable movement system created for Sunset Overdrive, and how an audio system was developed to match the many different kinds of movement in the game....
  
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• Oklahoma teen who killed parents, siblings gets life in prison

  09-08-2018 23:37 via yahoo.com
  Michael Bever who was 16 at the time of the killings, was found guilty in May by a jury in a Tulsa County District Court of five counts of first-degree murder along with assault and battery with intent to kill in connection with his attack on a sibling who survived."This is the most brutal homicide case I have ever prosecuted," Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler said in an interview.An attorney for Bever was not immediately for comment.
  
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• Manafort trial - live updates: Robert Mueller's team ask Rick Gates discussion to be kept secret to protect Russia investigation

  09-08-2018 23:36 via yahoo.com
  After three days of dramatic testimony in the trial of Paul Manafort,, prosecutors returned on Thursday to the nuts and bolts of their case against Donald Trump's former campaign chairman as they sought to show he obtained millions of dollars in bank loans under false pretenses.Attorneys for special counsel Robert Mueller also got a rare — and narrow — acknowledgement from Judge TS Ellis III that he likely erred when he angrily confronted them a day earlier over whether he had allowe
  
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• Washington demands probe into Yemen bus strike

  09-08-2018 23:27 via yahoo.com
  The United States called Thursday for a "thorough" investigation following the deaths of 29 children in northern Yemen in a strike on a bus carried out by the Saudi-led coalition.State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said the US was "concerned" by reports of an attack resulting in civilian deaths."We are calling the Saudi led coalition to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into the incident," she said.
  
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• Eight Reasons To Be Excited For World Of Warcraft: Battle For Azeroth

  09-08-2018 23:24
  World of Warcraft’s Battle for Azeroth expansion arrives next week, and with it comes a host of new additions to the fantasy MMO. From new PVP and PVE modes to giant frog mounts, we break down the eight most exciting changes coming to World of Warcraft in Battle for Azeroth.The Story
  [SPOILERS for WoW: Legion and Battle for Azeroth follow.]Battle for Azeroth picks up after World of Warcraft’s previous expansion, Legion, which concluded with the titan-turned-demon Sargeras stabbi
  
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• Kris Kobach's Lead In Kansas Governor's Race Shrinks After Vote Count Discrepancy

  09-08-2018 23:13 via yahoo.com
  Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach saw his lead in the Republican
  
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• Publishing platforms need policies around not-for-profit game devs

  09-08-2018 23:12
  In an interview with Polygon, Glitch executive director Evva Kraikul discusses the hurdles that not-for-profit organizations face when negotiating with platform holders to publish their games.  ...
  
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• Ubisoft Confirms Steep Is No Longer Coming to the Nintendo Switch

  09-08-2018 23:03
  
  Ubisoft's open world extreme snow sport game Steep is no longer coming to the Nintendo Switch.
  Confirmed via a reply on Twitter, the official Steep account said "We are wholly dedicated to supporting the live game, and made the decision to stop Steep development on the Nintendo Switch platform to focus on bringing new live content and challenges to Steep players instead. We’ll have more exciting news to share soon."
  Steep was originally announced during the Switch's reveal event in January
  
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• White House announces Space Force, but don't try to enlist just yet

  09-08-2018 23:02 via yahoo.com
  The Space Force debate has hinged on whether the existing Air Force Space Command can protect American satellites in orbit and handle other military challenges in space.
  
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• Supreme Court clears way for Tennessee to execute murderer

  09-08-2018 22:51 via yahoo.com
  The decision cleared the path for the lethal injection and came just hours before the state was scheduled to put to death Billy Irick, 59, at 7 p.m. CDT (0000 GMT) at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville.The execution would be the first in the state since 2009 and the 15th this year in the United States.Lawyers for Irick, who has been on death row more than three decades, said he has suffered from psychosis for his entire life and putting him to death would violate legal norms
  
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• Red Dead Redemption 2 Confirmed to Run in 4K on PS4 Pro

  09-08-2018 22:42
  Though many had assumed Red Dead Redemption 2 would run in 4K on the PlayStation 4 Pro, Sony and Rockstar have confirmed this to be true.
  Via the PlayStation Blog, Sony has posted the six minute gameplay trailer of Red Dead Redemption 2 that was revealed this morning with the text "Captured entirely from in-game footage on PlayStation 4 Pro, watch this introduction to Red Dead Redemption 2’s gameplay in 4K."
  An identical caption can be found beneath the YouTube video itself on Sony's
  
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• Shadow of the Tomb Raider lets you turn off glowing hints for a more immersive experience

  09-08-2018 22:36 via gamesradar.com
  Separate difficulty settings for combat, exploration, and puzzles
  
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• Zimbabwe opposition leader charged after asylum bid fails

  09-08-2018 22:25 via yahoo.com
  HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Senior Zimbabwean opposition figure Tendai Biti on Thursday was charged with inciting public violence and declaring unofficial election results as fears grew about a government crackdown following the disputed July 30 election.
  
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• Saudi critics jab Canada on Twitter and TV as diplomatic feud deepens

  09-08-2018 22:25 via yahoo.com
  Justin Trudeau said his government was engaging with Saudi Arabia to resolve the spat but stood firm on Canada’s stance.Soon after Saudi Arabia announced that Canada’s ambassador to the kingdom was now persona non grata, a surge of Saudi Twitter accounts began expressing concerns about Canada’s treatment of indigenous peoples.
  
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• Saudi Arabia Lashes Out at Canada—What’s Behind the Recent Diplomatic Row?

  09-08-2018 22:24 via yahoo.com
  Canada is putting its foot down over Saudi human-rights abuses—but will it last?
  
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• Venezuelan migrants throng Ecuador-Colombia border high up in Andes

  09-08-2018 22:23 via yahoo.com
  Impoverished Venezuelans are fleeing food shortages, hyperinflation, and violent crime in their homeland, often taking days-long bus rides across South America because they cannot afford flights.Ecuador's government on Wednesday declared a state of emergency in three provinces due to a jump in Venezuelans who arrived through Colombia.Authorities said up to 4,500 Venezuelans had crossed daily since the weekend, up from around 500 to 1,000 people previously.
  
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• Judge backs off comments to prosecutors in ex-Trump aide Manafort's trial

  09-08-2018 22:10 via yahoo.com
  Ellis has repeatedly prodded prosecutors to move swiftly while seemingly giving Manafort's defense team more latitude.Manafort has pleaded not guilty to 18 counts of bank fraud, tax fraud and failing to disclose foreign bank accounts.On Thursday, prosecutors in a legal filing asked the judge to correct some statements he had made on Wednesday.
  
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• GameMaker Studio 2 now offers Switch support in open beta

  09-08-2018 21:56
  Game devs working with YoYo Games†™ 2D engine GameMaker Studio 2 can now create and export games for the Switch through the open beta, with a full launch due this year....
  
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• Nevada death-row inmate on legal delays: 'Just get it done'

  09-08-2018 21:43 via yahoo.com
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada death-row inmate whose execution has been postponed twice said a legal fight over the drugs to be used in his lethal injection is taking a tortuous toll on him and his family and he just wants his sentence carried out.
  
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• Parents Charged With Murder After Refusing To Get Medical Help For Sick Baby: Cops

  09-08-2018 21:41 via yahoo.com
  A Michigan couple who told cops they declined to get medical help for their
  
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• Monster Hunter: World debuts on PC, becomes Steam's biggest new launch of 2018

  09-08-2018 21:41
  After several months of waiting, Monster Hunter: World was released on Steam today and has already become the platform's biggest launch of 2018.  ...
  
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• Mendocino Complex Fires grow to over 300,000 acres collectively

  09-08-2018 21:37 via yahoo.com
  Cal Fire officials said crews are still working hard to contain the Mendocino Complex Fires which have scorched over 300,000 collectively.
  
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• Imam Says Body Found at New Mexico Compound Is His Missing Grandson

  09-08-2018 21:36 via yahoo.com
  Authorities say they have yet to officially identify the body
  
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• Ubisoft quietly ends development on planned Steep Switch release

  09-08-2018 21:34
  Ubisoft no longer plans to bring its snowboarding game Steep to Nintendo†™s platform, as revealed via Twitter today. ...
  
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• Pawtraits! Husband and wife capture diverse personalities of a wide variety of dog breeds

  09-08-2018 21:30 via yahoo.com
  These adorable pawtraits seem to show the personalities of a variety of canines, capturing their incredible diverseness in their expressions and fine details.Whether it be Chika the miniature schnauzer’s shy wave or Fiji the basenji’s cheeky side-eye, Alexander Khokhlov and Veronica Ershova allow the personalities of their subjects to really come out in their series, “The Dog Show.”Khokhlov and Ershova, who are from Moscow, have taken portraits of about 50 breeds of pooch
  
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• Israeli aircraft strike Gaza after Palestinians fire rockets into Israel

  09-08-2018 21:23 via yahoo.com
  Israeli aircraft struck more than 150 targets in Gaza overnight and Palestinian militants fired scores of rockets including a long-range missile deep into Israel, escalating fighting despite talks on a truce to avert an all-out conflict.Israel has fought three wars in the past decade with Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the Gaza strip.
  
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• 15 Standout Details From The Red Dead Redemption II Gameplay Trailer

  09-08-2018 21:20
  Today the public got its most in-depth look at Red Dead Redemption II to date with a six-minute gameplay trailer that highlighted the many new features coming to Rockstar's first game built from the ground up for the current-generation consoles. The richly detailed world – from striking vistas of pristine landscapes to densely packed shelves in the general store – proved the famed open-world developer is taking its craft to the next level.The six-minute clip gives us a lot to digest,
  
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• Don't Miss: The making of the original Harvest Moon for SNES

  09-08-2018 21:12
  Take a look back at this 2012 talk from Yasuhiro Wada where he discusses the development of the original Harvest Moon for the Super Nintendo, which released on this day in 1996....
  
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• Police chief 'shaken' after son accused of beating Sikh man

  09-08-2018 21:09 via yahoo.com
  MANTECA, Calif. (AP) — A San Francisco Bay Area police chief said his family is "shaken to the core" after his son was arrested in the beating of a 71-year-old Sikh man.
  
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• At least 29 children killed in strike on Yemen bus

  09-08-2018 21:09 via yahoo.com
  An attack on a bus at a market in rebel-held northern Yemen killed at least 29 children Thursday, the Red Cross said, as the Saudi-led coalition faced a growing outcry over the strike.The coalition said it had carried out a"legitimate military action", targeting a bus in response for a deadly missile attack on Saudi Arabia on Wednesday by Huthi rebels.Coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki told AFP that claims by aid organisations that children were inside the bus were "misleading", adding that the
  
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• Perfect World-owned Echtra Games is behind the next Torchlight game

  09-08-2018 20:53
  That game is Torchlight Frontiers and will take place in a "shared, persistent, and dynamically generated" world, a new addition to the series that had previously only offered co-op multiplayer play. ...
  
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• Brazil wrestles with ban of controversial weed killer

  09-08-2018 20:47 via yahoo.com
  Brasília (AFP) - Brazil's government is contesting a court suspension of licenses for products with glyphosate, one of the most common industrial weedkillers and the subject of a high-profile US case against agrochemical colossus Monsanto.Brazil's government promises to appeal, given the importance of glyphosate to Brazil's huge agriculture industry, the world's biggest exporter of soya."The whole direct planting system is based on glyphosate," Agriculture Minister Blairo Maggi told Valor
  
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• The Only iPhone Cable You'll Ever Need Is 62% Off

  09-08-2018 20:45 via yahoo.com
  The 10-foot Aduro lightning cable is the best and last iPhone charger you'll ever buy.
  
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• New Mexico compound: Children 'kidnapped and trained to carry out school shootings by Muslim extremists'

  09-08-2018 20:34 via yahoo.com
  A child who was among a group of youngsters being held inside a rural New Mexico compound, said they were being trained by their captors to conduct school shootings.Five suspects were arrested after police found 11 starving children between the ages of one and 15 inside a makeshift structure with a nearby shooting range.One of the children's foster parents told prosecutors "the defendant had trained the child in the use of an assault rifle in preparation for future school shootings", according t
  
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• Laura Ingraham Has Been Peddling White Nationalism For Years: A Reminder

  09-08-2018 20:34 via yahoo.com
  From her perch on a prime-time national television show, conservative
  
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• Nasa probe will still be circling Sun at end of Solar System say scientists

  09-08-2018 20:15 via yahoo.com
  Nasa's new solar spacecraft is so indestructable that parts of it will be circling the Sun until the Solar System ends, eight billion years from now, scientists have said.  The US space agency launches its Parker Solar Probe on Saturday, which will travel closer to the Sun than any mission before, to unlock the secrets of fierce radioactive storms which threaten Earth.  Earth, and all the other objects in the Solar System are constantly plowing through what is known as the solar wind -
  
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• Alt-Right Site Gab Says Microsoft Threatening Shutdown Over Anti-Semitic Posts

  09-08-2018 20:06 via yahoo.com
  The accusation follows a series of actions against conservative conspiracy site InfoWars.
  
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• Puerto Rico: 1,400 died from hurricane but toll still at 64

  09-08-2018 20:04 via yahoo.com
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico is estimating in a report to Congress that Hurricane Maria killed more than 1,400 people, though an island official said Thursday that the confirmed toll remains frozen at 64 pending a scientific review due out soon.
  
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• Blog: Evolving classic RTS interactions for VR - Part 1

  09-08-2018 19:55
  Here's how we sought to evolve the real-time strategy genre for virtual reality, while ditching our preconceptions along the way....
  
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• Sony has sold over 525 million PlayStation systems since 1994

  09-08-2018 19:49
  Sony has announced that it has sold over 525 million PlayStation systems since the line debuted 20+ years ago with the original boxy gray PlayStation console....
  
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• Melania Trump's parents granted full US citizenship

  09-08-2018 19:48 via yahoo.com
  Viktor and Amalija Knavs were naturalized as U.S. citizens on Thursday.
  
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• Oklahoma teen to serve 5 life terms for killing family

  09-08-2018 19:44 via yahoo.com
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A 19-year-old Oklahoma man convicted of stabbing his parents and three siblings to death was sentenced Thursday to five life terms in prison to run consecutively, meaning that even with the possibility of parole he likely won't ever be released.
  
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• Xbox Games with Gold for August 2018 will have you racing, battling, and surviving

  09-08-2018 19:30 via gamesradar.com
  See which games are free with your Xbox Live Gold subscription this month.
  
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• Could Ford and Volkswagen Co-Develop a Pickup Truck? That Rumor Explained

  09-08-2018 19:22 via yahoo.com
  It’s entirely possible that the next-generation Ranger and Amarok could merge.
  
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• Court Orders EPA To Ban Chlorpyrifos, A Pesticide Linked To Brain Damage In Kids

  09-08-2018 19:20 via yahoo.com
  A federal court on Thursday ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to ban
  
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• Jam City's Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery clears $50 million in revenue

  09-08-2018 19:15
  The mobile intelligence firm Sensor Tower estimates that the free-to-play mobile game has generated $55 million in revenue since its late April launch. ...
  
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• Wildfire smoke from California has reached New York City, 3,000 miles away

  09-08-2018 19:04 via yahoo.com
  Anthony Wexler, the director of the Air Quality Research Center at the University of California, Davis, packed his bags and drove his family out to the coast.  They're escaping the smoke. Davis, California, sits amid a layer of wildfire smoke in Northern California. To the northwest, the largest fire in state history, the Mendocino Complex Fire, continues to burn. To the southeast, the Ferguson Fire has closed down smoke-choked Yosemite National Park indefinitely. And to the North, the Carr
  
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• Spain-France border town sees marked increase in migrants

  09-08-2018 18:57 via yahoo.com
  Irún (Spain) (AFP) - With migrant arrivals to Spain's southern shores on the rise, more of them are heading north to the border town of Irun, some sleeping rough as they wait to cross into neighbouring France, locals and officials say.Residents and associations in the northern Basque city joined forces last month in an informal network to bring food and clothes for the migrants after they were alarmed at the increase, said Bibi Liras, an activist.
  
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