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• Tesla’s Elon Musk Charged with Securities Fraud, Could Lose CEO Job

  29-09-2018 23:58 via yahoo.com
  UPDATE, 9/29/18, 6:00 p.m.: Elon Musk has agreed to step aside as Tesla board chairman in a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.Tesla will also pay a $20 million fine and has agreed with the SEC to add two independent board members.Elon Musk could be ousted from the leadership of Tesla after rejecting a settlement proposal from federal prosecutors this week addressing a tweet he made about his intention to take the company private.
  
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• Elon Musk To Resign As Tesla Chairman In SEC Settlement

  29-09-2018 23:56 via yahoo.com
  Tech giant Elon Musk is resigning as Tesla's chairman but will remain as CEO
  
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• North Korea refuses to denuclearise

  29-09-2018 23:02 via yahoo.com
  North Korea's foreign minister has warned of increasing "mistrust" between Pyongyang and Washington DC, announcing that his country would not take the first steps towards denuclearisation without further guarantees from the Trump administration. Ri Yong-ho, addressing the United Nations general assembly on Saturday, said North Korea was growing frustrated at the slow progress since the June summit between Donald Trump, the US president, and Kim Jong-un, North Korea's leader. Mr Kim has said
  
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• Christine Blasey Ford Would Have Been Called ‘Hysterical’ If She Acted Like Kavanaugh: Pelosi

  29-09-2018 22:44 via yahoo.com
  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that if Christine Blasey
  
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• Canada's race against time with US to reach NAFTA deal

  29-09-2018 21:12 via yahoo.com
  Will Canada and the United States thaw their unprecedented diplomatic chill and reach a deal to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement by a US-imposed Sunday deadline?Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, Canada's chief NAFTA negotiator, opted to push back her planned Saturday speech before the UN General Assembly until Monday so she could concentrate on trade matters.Negotiators are racing against the clock because of a US-set deadline.
  
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• Doubling Down On Sexism Won't Help Republicans In The Midterms

  29-09-2018 21:01 via yahoo.com
  In the wake of Thursday's hearing on allegations of sexual assault against
  
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• ACLU Opposes Kavanaugh Nomination In Rare Break From Own Policy

  29-09-2018 21:00 via yahoo.com
  The American Civil Liberties Union, which typically does not endorse
  
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• US court opens new legal 'Stairway,' overturns Zeppelin case

  29-09-2018 20:58 via yahoo.com
  The court in San Francisco overturned a 2016 judgment by a jury which found no proof the classic 1971 Zeppelin song breached the copyright of "Taurus," written by Randy Wolfe of a Los Angeles band called Spirit.Wolfe's trustee, Michael Skidmore, filed the case in 2015 on behalf of his late friend who long maintained he deserved credit for "Stairway" but drowned in 1997 having never taken legal action over the song.The case is "remanded for a new trial," the higher court panel ruled Friday in a 3
  
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• The hearing's over, but people still aren't buying Kavanaugh's discredited argument

  29-09-2018 20:47 via yahoo.com
  Brett Kavanaugh's seemingly tenuous relationship with the truth is still haunting those who watched him testify on Thursday. At times, the prospective Supreme Court justice abandoned composure to shed tears and scream, but at his most jarring he straight-up refused to answer questions directly, was unwilling to request an FBI investigation, and, as further research revealed, apparently lied under oath. In the days since the hearing, people have replayed his testimony in their minds and on their
  
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• 'Vamos!': Garcia firing up Europe at Ryder Cup

  29-09-2018 20:42 via yahoo.com
  SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France (AP) — Sergio Garcia and Phil Mickelson were handed captain's picks for the Ryder Cup as much for their value in the team room as out on the course.
  
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• At U.S. Marine base, families plead for housing help after Florence

  29-09-2018 20:30 via yahoo.com
  Some, like Jennifer Maher, said they feel unsafe in their Camp Lejeune homes but were told they will not be moved because assessment crews determined their houses are habitable.Another 267 suffered sustained damage but were habitable.
  
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• Teenage Boy Attacked by Shark at Southern California Beach Is Expected to Recover

  29-09-2018 20:27 via yahoo.com
  The victim was reportedly lobster diving when the incident occurred
  
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• Teenage Boy Attacked by Shark at Southern California Beach

  29-09-2018 20:27 via yahoo.com
  The victim was reportedly lobster diving when the incident occurred
  
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• Two Mississippi police officers killed in gunfight with man

  29-09-2018 20:17 via yahoo.com
  Two police officers were shot and killed in a southern Mississippi town during a confrontation, officials said.
  
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• After Florence, North Carolina political unity to be tested

  29-09-2018 20:07 via yahoo.com
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — As Hurricane Florence was thrashing North Carolina earlier this month, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's leadership amid the devastation won widespread praise, including some from Republican politicians who have been passing laws to undercut him ever since he was elected.
  
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• North Korea says there is 'no way' it will give up nuclear weapons without trust

  29-09-2018 19:58 via yahoo.com
  North Korea has said it cannot unilaterally give up its nuclear weapons and attacked the US for failing do more to build a relationship of trust.In a speech before the United Nations General Assembly in New York, North Korea’s foreign minister, Ri Yong Ho, said Pyongyang had in the last year taken “significant goodwill measures”.This included stopping nuclear and missiles tests, dismantling the nuclear test site, and pledging not to proliferate nuclear weapons and nuclear techn
  
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• How the US-China trade war may be good for Beijing

  29-09-2018 19:57 via yahoo.com
  The opening salvos of the trade war between the US and China were deafening, and while the battle is far from over, a rift between the countries may be beneficial to Beijing in the long term, experts say. Donald Trump, the US President, fired the first warning earlier this year by taxing key Chinese exports including solar panels, steel and aluminium. The most significant escalation rolled in this week with new tariffs affecting $200 billion (£150 billion) worth of items, effecti
  
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• Senate fights over Kavanaugh confirmation

  29-09-2018 19:42 via yahoo.com
  What is the impact of the FBI investigation into Kavanaugh? 'Fox & Friends' panel weighs in.
  
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• Cat Rescued After Going for a Ride in Vehicle's Engine Compartment

  29-09-2018 19:36 via yahoo.com
  Thankfully, the animal is in good health.
  
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• Syria calls on US, French, Turkish forces to withdraw immediately

  29-09-2018 19:35 via yahoo.com
  Syria's foreign minister on Saturday denounced US, French and Turkish forces operating in his country as "occupying forces" and demanded that they leave immediately.Addressing the UN General Assembly, Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem also called on Syrian refugees to come home, even though the country's war is now in its eighth year.
  
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• Minecraft Village and Pillage Update Announced

  29-09-2018 19:30
  Minecraft's next big update, which will add Pillagers and over 10 new Villagers, is coming in 2019, Mojang announced today during Minecon Earth 2018.
  Appropriately titled Village and Pillage, the update introduces Pillagers, an unfriendly group of characters equipped with dangerous Beasts. Players will have the ability to defend villages from Pillager attacks.
  The update will also bring eleven new Villagers to the world of Minecraft, including the Librarian, Butcher, Cleric Cartographe
  
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• Minecraft: Dungeons Announced for PC

  29-09-2018 19:30
  
  Minecraft: Dungeons, a brand new game set in the world of Minecraft, is coming to PC in 2019, Mojang announced today during Minecon Earth 2018.
  Being developed internally by a "small and dedicated team" within Mojang, the developer describes Minecraft: Dungeons as an "action-adventure game inspired by classic dungeon crawlers." It'll support up to four players and feature various new weapons, items, and mobs, as well as a variety of environments to explore and an overarching quest that'll see pl
  
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• Parkland Dad Fred Guttenberg Reminds Kavanaugh His Life Is 'Not Ruined'

  29-09-2018 19:05 via yahoo.com
  The father of a child killed in the Parkland, Florida, high school massacre
  
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• Syria rebel faction rejects Idlib deal

  29-09-2018 19:02 via yahoo.com
  A formerly US-backed Syrian rebel group on Saturday rejected a deal between Russia and Turkey to avert a large-scale military assault on rebel-held Idlib province.The deal makes way for a demilitarised zone between rebel and regime-held areas in and around the northwestern governorate, Syria's last insurgent bastion.
  
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• Is PlayStation Taking Notes from Xbox Game Pass?

  29-09-2018 19:01
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  With the recent announcement that PlayStation Now will allow for players to download and play PS4 and PS2 games offline from Sony's subscription streaming service, the crew of IGN's weekly PlayStation show Beyond dug into the topic.
  Watch the video above to see Jonathon Dornbush, Brian Altano, and Max Scoville discuss whether PlayStation Now's new capabilities are taking a note out of Xbox's Game Pass system, and whether we could see the service be combined with PlayStation Plus in the f
  
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• Every Amiibo Figure Ever

  29-09-2018 19:00
  Amiibo may not be the wild craze they were when they first released, but they are still some of the best official Nintendo figurines you can find. As of publish, 175 official Amiibo have been made or announced, though that number comes with some caveats.
  Here's gallery of every single Amiibo figurine released or announced, sorted by game series. There are a whole lot in there, so be sure to use the arrow keys for quicker browsing if you are viewing on the desktop site:
  Now, let's get a few thing
  
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• Minecraft: Dungeons Is A Co-op Dungeon Crawler Coming To PC Next Year

  29-09-2018 18:56
   Minecraft is all about imagining a new worlds and going on adventures within them. Minecraft: Dungeons takes the first part out of the equation and instead focuses on dungeon-crawling with your friends.Announced at this year's Minecon, Dungeons is a four-player dungeon crawler using Minecraft's iconic blocky art style, but emphasizing the loot-hording and exploration aspects of the original game. This won't supplant Minecraft, however, as Dungeons is being made by a smaller team at Mojang.
  
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• Deadly earthquake and tsunami kill hundreds in Sulawesi, Indonesia

  29-09-2018 18:50 via yahoo.com
  At least 384 people were killed and many swept away when a major earthquake and tsunami hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, authorities said on Saturday.
  
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• North Korea says 'no way' it will disarm without trust in US

  29-09-2018 18:44 via yahoo.com
  North Korea's foreign minister on Saturday told the United Nations there was "no way" that his country would disarm first as long as the United States continued to push for tough enforcement of sanctions against Pyongyang.Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Ri Yong Ho accused Washington of creating a deadlock in talks on denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
  
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• How to Upgrade Your PS4 Hard Drive (Before Red Dead 2!)

  29-09-2018 18:41
  Learn how to upgrade your PlayStation 4 storage to accommodate Red Dead Redemption 2's 105 GB install requirement.
  
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• Dragalia Lost: How to Save Battery Life and More Beginner Tips

  29-09-2018 18:41
  Use these tips to get a good start in Nintendo's new mobile game.
  
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• Ruth Bader Ginsburg: New York leaders seek to name building in justice's honor

  29-09-2018 18:34 via yahoo.com
  Ruth Bader Ginsburg smiles as she takes questions from first-year students at Georgetown Law.As Washington is gripped by the supreme court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, some New York City leaders are attempting to change the name of a Brooklyn government building to honor a current justice: Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
  
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• Hundreds killed by Indonesian quake, tsunami, with toll seen rising

  29-09-2018 18:30 via yahoo.com
  At least 384 people were killed, many swept away as giant waves crashed onto beaches, when a major earthquake and tsunami hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, authorities said on Saturday.The tsunami followed a 7.5 magnitude earthquake."When the (tsunami) threat arose yesterday, people were still doing their activities on the beach and did not immediately run and they became victims," Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, the spokesman for Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency BNPB said in a briefing in Jaka
  
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• Palestinians ask UN court to revoke US Jerusalem embassy move

  29-09-2018 18:27 via yahoo.com
  Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Maliki said Saturday the Palestinians have petitioned the UN's top court, alleging that the US inauguration of an embassy in Jerusalem was illegal.The Palestinians have filed a lawsuit at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) "for violating international law by moving its embassy in Israel to the occupied city of Jerusalem", he said, quoted by the official Palestinian news agency WAFA.In December, US President Donald Trump recognised Jerusalem as the capi
  
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• Cologne on lockdown as Erdogan wraps up ill-tempered visit to Germany

  29-09-2018 18:24 via yahoo.com
  Germany had invited Erdogan for the three-day state visit in an attempt to mend ties hit by a crackdown on his opponents following a failed coup in 2016, hoping to secure the release of several of its citizens who remain in detention.Chancellor Angela Merkel said after meeting Erdogan on Friday that "deep divisions" remain.On Saturday in Cologne, the Turkish leader sought to strike a conciliatory note.
  
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• Bottas takes pole over Hamilton at Russian GP

  29-09-2018 18:20 via yahoo.com
  SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Valtteri Bottas beat Formula One leader Lewis Hamilton to pole position for the Russian Grand Prix on Saturday, setting a strategy conundrum for their Mercedes team.
  
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• Christine Blasey Ford's Friend Doesn't Deny Assault Claim, Lawyer Says

  29-09-2018 17:51 via yahoo.com
  An attorney for Leland Keyser stated plainly in a letter to the Senate
  
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• North Korea Foreign Minister Says Country Won't Disarm Without Trust

  29-09-2018 17:49 via yahoo.com
  Ri Yong Ho called on the U.S. to follow through on promises made during a summit
  
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• Syrian Foreign Minister Says Country's 'Battle Against Terrorism Is Almost Over'

  29-09-2018 17:24 via yahoo.com
  Civil war has plagued the country for more than seven years
  
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• Syria says vital border crossing with Jordan to reopen

  29-09-2018 16:46 via yahoo.com
  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Preparations to reopen a vital border crossing between Syria and Jordan have been completed, setting the stage for its reopening next month, Syria's state-run news agency said Saturday.
  
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• Airline now says 1 missing after Pacific lagoon plane crash

  29-09-2018 16:08 via yahoo.com
  WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The airline operating a flight that crashed into a Pacific lagoon in Micronesia on Friday now says one man is missing, after earlier saying all 47 passengers and crew had safely evacuated the sinking plane.
  
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• Rival rallies as Erdogan opens mega mosque in Cologne

  29-09-2018 15:49 via yahoo.com
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was to open one of Europe's largest mosques in Cologne on Saturday as he wrapped up a controversial visit to Germany, with police deploying in force to manage the rival rallies.Erdogan left the German capital after a breakfast meeting with Angela Merkel, their second talks in two days.
  
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• Early Morning Confrontation Leaves 2 Mississippi Police Officers Dead

  29-09-2018 15:38 via yahoo.com
  A suspect was wounded in the exchange and taken for treatment to a hospital
  
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• Chad troops kill 17 jihadists after 6 die in Lake Chad attacks

  29-09-2018 15:24 via yahoo.com
  N'Djamena (AFP) - Six people, including two soldiers, died in an overnight Boko Haram attacks near Lake Chad, security and army sources said on Saturday, saying Chadian troops had killed 17 assailants in a counter-offensive.Three forestry officials and a customs officer and two soldiers were killed in attacks on Moussarom and Ngueleya located in the Lake Chad region, south of Baga Sola, a security source told AFP.Chadian army spokesman Colonel Azam said "17 Boko Haram members have been killed" a
  
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• Why the PS4 Spider-Man Deserves His Own Comic

  29-09-2018 15:00
  
  Marvel Comics released Spider-Geddon #0 this week. While that comic serves as a direct lead-in to the upcoming Spider-Geddon crossover, that's by no means the only selling point. Spider-Geddon #0 is notable for serving as the comic book debut of the Peter Parker of Marvel's Spider-Man video game on PS4. And if this issue accomplished anything, it's showing how much potential this version of Spidey has for his own ongoing comic book series.
  Warning: spoilers for Marvel's Spider-Man on PS4 ahead!
  
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• Maddox Ritch's Father Grieves Death of 6-Year-Old: 'I Found Out I'm Not a Dad Anymore'

  29-09-2018 14:52 via yahoo.com
  He took to Facebook to post about the tragedy.
  
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• Lawsuit alleging Trump’s private business is violating the Constitution approved by federal judge

  29-09-2018 14:51 via yahoo.com
  A federal judge on Friday gave the go-ahead to a lawsuit filed by 200 congressional Democrats against Donald Trump alleging that Trump has violated the Constitution by doing business with foreign governments while in office.The lawsuit is based on the Constitution’s emoluments clause, which bars presidents from taking payments from foreign states without Congress’s consent.The president’s business, which he still owns, has hosted foreign embassy events and visiting foreign offi
  
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• The Latest: Hamas hoping, again, to ease Gaza blockade

  29-09-2018 14:50 via yahoo.com
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Latest on the Israel-Palestinians conflict (all times local):
  
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• Airline Searching for Missing Man After Saying All 47 Passengers Survived Plane Crash

  29-09-2018 14:05 via yahoo.com
  The airline said one man remains unaccounted for.
  
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• Sex abuse scandal: Pope seeks prayers to fight 'devil'

  29-09-2018 13:52 via yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis asked Saturday for daily prayers to protect the Catholic Church from what he says are "attacks by the devil," in his latest response to the clerical sex abuse and cover-up scandal roiling his papacy.
  
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