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• Vatican knew of Pennsylvania sex abuse cover-up, prosecutor says

  28-08-2018 23:47 via yahoo.com
  (Reuters) - The Vatican knew of a cover-up of child sex abuse by Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania through secret archives that bishops in the state shared with church leaders in Rome, the state's attorney general Josh Shapiro said on Tuesday.Shapiro first made the allegations against the Vatican during an Aug. 14 news conference to unveil a report on a two-year investigation into how Catholic clergymen in the state allegedly groomed and sexually abused children.
  
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• The Latest: Texas governor reacts to officer's conviction

  28-08-2018 23:46 via yahoo.com
  DALLAS (AP) — The Latest on a white former police officer charged in the shooting death of a black teenager in Texas (all times local):
  
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• Texas jury finds ex-police officer guilty of murdering black teen

  28-08-2018 23:20 via yahoo.com
  The police officer, Roy Oliver, 38, was fired by the Balch Springs Police Department for violating department policy a few days after he fatally shot Jordan Edwards, 15, a standout high school student and athlete.Oliver, along with another officer, had responded to reports of underage drinking at a house party in the predominantly black and Hispanic city of Balch Springs, about 15 miles (25 km) southeast of Dallas.First Assistant District Attorney Michael Snipes said Oliver was a trigger-happy p
  
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• Onimusha's Insane 20-Level Dungeon

  28-08-2018 23:12
  When Onimusha: Warlords came out for PS2 back in 2001, it was most often described as a feudal-Japan version of Resident Evil. The survival horror genre of the late '90s and early 2000s was dominated by games with fixed cameras, tank controls, and lots of pixelated blood-spatter, and Onimusha was right in line with its contemporaries. As a huge fan of the survival-horror genre, I was instantly sold by Onimusha: Warlords' setting, a blend of Japanese history and mythology.
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• A 9-Year-Old Colorado Boy's Death by Suicide Highlights the Challenges Facing LGBTQ Kids

  28-08-2018 23:02 via yahoo.com
  They're far more likely to attempt suicide
  
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• Republicans resist plan to rename Senate building for McCain

  28-08-2018 22:59 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A proposal to rename the Senate's oldest office building for John McCain ran into resistance Tuesday from Republican senators reluctant to take away an honor already bestowed on an earlier Senate titan — and a leader of Southern senators during a tumultuous era in the nation's history.
  
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• South Sudan rebels to sign latest draft peace deal: Sudan

  28-08-2018 22:50 via yahoo.com
  President Salva Kiir and the leader of the main rebel group, Riek Machar, signed up to the ceasefire and power-sharing agreement earlier this month after an initial deal in June aimed to end fighting that first broke out in 2013.Kiir's government and some small opposition groups had initialled the draft at a ceremony hosted by Khartoum outside the Sudanese capital earlier on Tuesday, but Machar's SPLM-IO and another rebel group refused to sign, saying that disputes over power sharing and a new c
  
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• Shooting suspect was able to buy guns despite mental illness

  28-08-2018 22:37 via yahoo.com
  BALTIMORE (AP) — The young man who opened fire at a Florida video game tournament had shown abundant signs he was struggling with a mental disorder: He was prescribed an anti-psychotic drug as an adolescent and had been hospitalized at least twice for mental illness.
  
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• Jacob Caldwell, Ohio Boy Reported Missing 1 Year Ago, Found Safe by Police

  28-08-2018 22:23 via yahoo.com
  The teen had run away days after the murder of his father, police said.
  
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• Hurricane Maria killed 2,975 in Puerto Rico: new official toll

  28-08-2018 22:19 via yahoo.com
  Hurricane Maria killed 2,975 people in Puerto Rico, according to the results of a long-awaited independent investigation commissioned by the government of the US island territory.After nearly a year of controversy over the true toll of the 2017 monster storm, the governor of Puerto Rico said the new estimate would now be considered the official death toll."I'm giving an order to update the official number of deaths to 2,975," Governor Ricardo Rossello said at a press conference.
  
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• Tesla wins court case against Ontario government over rebate cancellation

  28-08-2018 22:09 via yahoo.com
  A Canadian court has ruled in favour of Tesla Incafter the electric carmaker challenged the province of Ontario's wind-down of an electric vehicle rebate.In a ruling on Monday, Judge Frederick Myers of Ontario struck down the transition programme set up by the new Ontario government, which excluded Tesla customers from qualifying for rebates.A Tesla spokeswoman welcomed the decision.
  
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• Marriott International seals deal on mega-merger of rewards programs -- And the perks are seemingly endless

  28-08-2018 21:54 via yahoo.com
  Rewards programs are one of the best-kept secrets when it comes to hospitality
  
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• Latest: 10th and final victim of Chicago apartment fire dies

  28-08-2018 21:51 via yahoo.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on the fire that killed nine children in Chicago (all times local):
  
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• Ahead of Destiny 2: Forsaken, Bungie drops new details on the annual pass and the return of heavy machine guns

  28-08-2018 21:47 via gamesradar.com
  "The main thing we want to change with Year 2 of Destiny is that there's never a content drought"
  
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• The Forgotten Capcom Horror Series That Needs a Reboot

  28-08-2018 21:46
  
  With Resident Evil 7’s successful reinvigoration of the horror franchise last year and the upcoming remake of Resident Evil 2 looking equally terrifying, it’s safe to say that Capcom’s premiere franchise is riding high. Now that’s all well and good, but in their efforts to repair their favored series, Capcom are missing a golden opportunity to revive a few of their extinct titles, starting with Dino Crisis.
  For those too young to remember the time when dinosaurs roamed th
  
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• Russia to hold biggest military drills since Cold War

  28-08-2018 21:40 via yahoo.com
  Russia will flex its military muscles and hold the biggest war games since the Cold War era next month, including almost 300,000 troops and 1,000 aircraft, the defence ministry said Tuesday, leading NATO to warn of a "more assertive Russia".Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said the exercises would be similar in size to those held in September 1981 by the Soviet authorities, called Zapad-81, or West 81."This will be something of a repeat of Zapad-81, but in some senses even bigger," Shoigu said in
  
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• US midterms: North Carolina’s gerrymandered congressional map unconstitutional and must be redrawn, judges rule

  28-08-2018 21:38 via yahoo.com
  Federal judges have struck down North Carolina’s Republican-gerrymandered congressional map as illegal for a second time, in a decision that could leave officials in the state scrambling just months before the midterm elections in November.The ruling is the latest development in a case that fair elections advocates say features such drastically gerrymandered districts that it could represent one of the clearest chances for the Supreme Court to clarify the constitutionality of extreme parti
  
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• Effort To Rename Russell Senate Building For McCain Is Running Into GOP Resistance

  28-08-2018 21:34 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― A bipartisan effort to rename a Senate office building to honor
  
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• Jimmy Carter Calls Trump’s First Reaction To McCain's Death 'A Serious Mistake'

  28-08-2018 21:24 via yahoo.com
  Jimmy Carter remains unimpressed with President Donald Trump's belated effort
  
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• Elon Musk Can't Stop Baselessly Calling Hero Cave Rescuer A Pedophile

  28-08-2018 21:20 via yahoo.com
  Elon Musk, a tech billionaire who can't keep his mouth shut, continues to
  
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• Jacksonville Shooting Survivors Retain Morgan & Morgan For Expected Lawsuit

  28-08-2018 21:11 via yahoo.com
  Orlando-based law firm Morgan & Morgan announced that it is filing a
  
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• Cyberpunk 2077 Devs Experimenting With Fully Destructible Environments

  28-08-2018 21:01
  The development team at CD Projekt Red is pulling in a heavy amount of in-game destruction to Cyberpunk 2077 in order to create the rawness of a dystopian world.
  CDPR Level Designer Miles Tost shared insights during an interview with IGN into the physical environments that make up Cyberpunk 2077.
  "So we're trying to push the interactivity of the world by adding in details from a physical side," Tost said. "The game will be highly physical, will have a lot of destruction. You can see that in the
  
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• U.S. envoy Haley questions Palestinian refugee numbers

  28-08-2018 20:57 via yahoo.com
  U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Tuesday appeared to question the world body's count of Palestinian refugees, the latest in a series of steps by the Trump administration challenging how relief aid is delivered to the Palestinians.In remarks at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington think tank often sympathetic to Israel, Haley agreed with a questioner who suggested that the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA), which helps Palestinian refugees, overcounts the
  
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• 22 Games Announced for Switch in the Nintendo Switch Nindies Showcase Summer 2018

  28-08-2018 20:54
  
  Nintendo streamed its Nintendo Switch Nindies Summer Showcase Summer 2018 and announced and discussed 22 games that will be released on the Switch this year and through early 2019, and we've made a rundown of each one.
  This showcase is what Nintendo is calling a "part 2" to Nintendo UK's Indie Highlight video that released last week and focused on 16 other indie games that are headed to the Switch.
  Release: September 6, 2018
  Originally released in 2016, Hyper Light Drifter has you playing as The
  
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• Canada's Trudeau says he will defend dairy farmer protections in NAFTA

  28-08-2018 20:53 via yahoo.com
  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday his position on the supply management system that protects Canada's dairy farmers has not changed and he will defend it as Canada works to renew the NAFTA trade deal with the United States and Mexico."My position on defending supply management has not changed," he told reporters during a visit to the province of Quebec.
  
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• Journalist who helped pen pope bombshell says author wept

  28-08-2018 20:51 via yahoo.com
  ROME (AP) — An Italian journalist who says he helped a former Vatican diplomat pen his bombshell allegation of sex abuse cover-up against Pope Francis says he persuaded the archbishop to go public after the U.S. church was thrown into turmoil by revelations in the Pennsylvania grand jury report.
  
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• Puerto Rican Governor Raises Official Hurricane Maria Death Toll From 64 To Nearly 3,000

  28-08-2018 20:46 via yahoo.com
  The governor of Puerto Rico on Tuesday raised the government's official death
  
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• Destiny 2: Forsaken's Launch Trailer Begins The End Of Cayde-6

  28-08-2018 20:30
  Destiny 2: Forsaken is coming out fairly soon and Bungie is eager to celebrate the upcoming expansion with, well, a funeral. There's no more jokes for Destiny's resident jokester in the newest content's launch trailer, which you can find below.The launch trailer shows new weapons, armor, and abilities for Forsaken, as well as a host of new story content and cutscenes. If you're hoping to go in fresh, keep your eyes off the launch trailer, and get ready for Forsaken when it launches next week on
  
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• Defenders rally around pope, fear conservatives escalating war

  28-08-2018 20:27 via yahoo.com
  Francis' supporters say the accusations in Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano's 11-page public statement aim to pave the way for a conservative pope to succeed him who would reverse his openings to divorced and homosexual Catholics.In the statement published at the weekend, Vigano, the former Vatican ambassador to Washington, called on Francis to resign on the grounds the pope knew for years about the sexual misconduct of an American cardinal and did nothing.
  
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• Missouri Enacts Law Protecting Citizens From Unwittingly Buying Fake Meat

  28-08-2018 20:15 via yahoo.com
  The Show Me State may need to tweak its nickname. America, meet the Show Meat
  
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• Jacksonville Gunman David Katz Treated for Severe Mental Issues at Least Twice Before Shooting

  28-08-2018 20:12 via yahoo.com
  Katz had been treated for schizophrenia, according to his parents' divorce papers.
  
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• Texas Company Sells Plans for 3D-Printed Guns Online Despite Court Order

  28-08-2018 19:50 via yahoo.com
  Wilson says selling plans is in line with a Seattle federal judge's Monday order
  
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• Blizzard removes real-money purchase options for loot boxes in Belgium

  28-08-2018 19:45 via gamesradar.com
  Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm lose loot box payment options
  
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• McSally: I'm the Republican firewall in the Senate

  28-08-2018 19:42 via yahoo.com
  Arizona Republican primary frontrunner stresses the importance of keeping the seat red to prevent Democrats from taking power; Peter Doocy reports from Tempe on the state's primary races.
  
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• Xbox Free Games With Gold for September Announced

  28-08-2018 19:32
  The Xbox Live Games With Gold lineup for September 2018 has been revealed.
  Announced through Xbox Wire, the following games will be available for Xbox Live Gold members next month: Prison Architect - September 1-30 (Xbox One)Livelock - September 16-October 15 (Xbox One)LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars - September 1-15 (Xbox One, Xbox 360)Sega Vintage Collection: Monster World - September 16-30 (Xbox One, Xbox 360)Prison Architect has players design, build, and run a maximum security prison. We
  
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• Prosecutors Charge 13th Suspect In 15-Year-Old Lesandro Guzman-Feliz's Death

  28-08-2018 19:31 via yahoo.com
  A 13th suspect has been indicted in the June stabbing death of a 15-year-old
  
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• Mollie Tibbetts investigation: Aunt pushes back against 'racist, false narrative'

  28-08-2018 19:23 via yahoo.com
  After Rob Tibbetts said in his daughter's eulogy, ''The Hispanic community are Iowans,'' her aunt is also speaking out, saying those who are politicizing the murder are ''hijacking Mollie.''
  
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• Halo: The Master Chief Collection's Major Xbox One X Update Is Now Live

  28-08-2018 19:19
  The latest major update for Halo: The Master Chief Collection is now live.
  The massive 73GB update, which 343 Industries announced and detailed last October, features a rework of the game's matchmaking system, 4K HDR support for Xbox One X, shorter load times, improved matchmaking, offline LAN support, and much more.
  The changes come just ahead of The Master Chief Collection's addition to Xbox Game Pass on September 1.
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• Puerto Rico Raises Official Death Toll in Hurricane Maria From 64 to 2,975

  28-08-2018 18:51 via yahoo.com
  The death toll in Hurricane Katrina was 1,200
  
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• Fortnite's The Ace Pack is the game's best deal

  28-08-2018 18:50 via gamesradar.com
  We did the math and this Fortnite Starter Pack is a lot of bang for your V-Buck
  
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• Dog That Reportedly Lived Outside for 12 Years Treated to Bucket List in Last Days

  28-08-2018 18:48 via yahoo.com
  With just weeks to live, Miss Willie was given a bucket list with all the experiences she deserved.
  
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• In Senate primary, Arizona Republicans compete over who loves Trump most

  28-08-2018 18:45 via yahoo.com
  Voters there and in Florida were heading to the polls to pick candidates for Nov. 6, when Democrats will try to pick up 23 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and two seats in the Senate to gain majorities and slam the brakes on Trump's legislative agenda.In Arizona, a Southwestern state that Trump won by 4 percentage points in the 2016 White House race, Republican establishment favorite U.S. Representative Martha McSally has led consistently in opinion polls over former state Senator Kel
  
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• Hundreds line up for public viewing of Aretha Franklin in Detroit

  28-08-2018 18:44 via yahoo.com
  Viewing is taking place at the museum of African-American history in Detroit.
  
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• Marvel's Spider-Man DLC Details Revealed

  28-08-2018 18:42
  Insomniac Games Community Director, James Stevenson revealed Tuesday on the PlayStation blog the schedule and details for the first DLC from Marvel's Spider-Man: The City That Never Sleeps.
  The DLC will consist of three installments, with the first chapter being Marvel’s Spider-Man: The Heist and will release on Oct. 23. The Heist focuses on Felicia Hardy, also known as Black Cat and features new missions and challenges for players, along with a new faction of enemies and three a
  
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• US delegation met Syria spy chief: newspaper

  28-08-2018 18:37 via yahoo.com
  A high-level US security delegation met Syria's powerful intelligence boss in Damascus two months ago, a pro-regime Lebanese daily newspaper reported Tuesday.According to Al-Akhbar, a Lebanese newspaper close to the pro-Damascus Hezbollah movement, senior US security officials visited Damascus during the last week of June."The delegation held a meeting of four hours" with Ali Mamluk, the head of Syria's security services, said Al-Akhbar, which reported that the meeting was facilitated by Emirati
  
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• Untitled Goose Game Gets A New Trailer, Also Coming To Switch

  28-08-2018 18:15
  House House, the developers of the goose harassment simulator Untitled Goose Games, have announced that the goose will soon be loose on the Switch as well as PC.Untitled Goose Game is a puzzle-style game where players take the role of a goose trying to achieve goals that inevitably involve annoying, bothering, and otherwise inconveniencing humans around you. We listed it as one of the best indie games we saw at GDC 2018, where we messed with an unlucky gardener.The demo we watched pitted the pub
  
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• Iran's Rouhani blames Iran's troubles on US sanctions

  28-08-2018 18:15 via yahoo.com
  Iran’s parliament voted on Tuesday to reject President Hassan Rouhani’s explanations for economic hardship after a dramatic grilling on live TV. Thuy Ong reports
  
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• US state is first to define what can be considered meat

  28-08-2018 18:07 via yahoo.com
  A great deal, as far as the US state of Missouri is concerned.A new state law went into effect Tuesday banning manufacturers from marketing lab-grown and plant-based meat substitutes with terms that previously implied meat products.If it didn't come from an animal, it isn't meat in Missouri.
  
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• Tesla wins green rebate lawsuit against Canada's Ontario province

  28-08-2018 18:02 via yahoo.com
  US electric automaker Tesla has won a lawsuit against Canada's most populous province of Ontario after its new government scrapped a rebate initiative for electric car purchases.The Electric and Hydrogen Vehicle Incentive Program, launched by the previous Ontario Liberal administration, offered rebates of up to Can$14,000 (US$11,000) on qualifying vehicles."Tesla only sought fair treatment for our customers and we hope the ministry now does the right thing by delivering on its promise to ensure
  
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• Shovel Knight Showdown Battle Mode Revealed

  28-08-2018 18:00
  As Yacht Club Games finishes up on the promises of its original Kickstarter campaign for Shovel Knight, the developer has finally revealed the local multiplayer battle expansion set to debut for the title next year — Shovel Knight Showdown.
  IGN can exclusively pull back the curtain on Showdown, a series of new modes that allow up to four players to play as one of several characters from the beloved game and compete. But rather than first going into detail, check out 10 minutes of four-play
  
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