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• Trump's tax returns are another thing at stake in the midterms

  03-10-2018 23:55 via yahoo.com
  If Democrats retake the House, they may be able to see something President Trump has been hiding for years: his tax returns.
  
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• Way-too-early Vegas odds predict 2019 Stanley Cup winner

  03-10-2018 23:44 via yahoo.com
  The Washington Capitals have their work cut out for them if they hope to claim
  
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• Dreams uses the Bubblebath Engine, and other fun factoids about Media Molecule's next game

  03-10-2018 23:33 via gamesradar.com
  The developer of LittleBigPlanet has been hard at work
  
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• I Visited the Chinese-North Korean Border. Here's What I Found.

  03-10-2018 23:15 via yahoo.com
  Sanctions are being enforced, but they don't matter.
  
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• WB Games to Distribute Cyberpunk 2077 in North America

  03-10-2018 23:13
  CD Projekt Red has announced that Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment will "be responsible for the distribution and promotion of Cyberpunk 2077 in North America, and will bring the game to PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One."
  “We’ve worked with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment on The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and both releases turned out to be really successful, so we’re entering this new stage of our cooperation with great confidence,&rdqu
  
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• Fenty Beauty

  03-10-2018 23:00 via yahoo.com
  Broadening makeup’s palette
  
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• Super Mario Party review round-up: "The bull$#@%, frankly, is minimal"

  03-10-2018 22:50 via gamesradar.com
  See how the Super Mario Party reviews are shaking out around the internet
  
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• Sarah Sanders Defends Trump's Christine Blasey Ford Comments, Twitter Users Flip

  03-10-2018 22:50 via yahoo.com
  You'd think there would be little one could say to defend President Donald
  
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• California Man, 90, Accused of Killing Stepdaughter After Her Fitbit Implicates Him in Crime

  03-10-2018 22:42 via yahoo.com
  Karen Navarra was found dead in her San Jose home by officers responding to a welfare check on Sept. 13, San Jose police said.
  
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• Honda joins forces with GM's Cruise to develop autonomous vehicles

  03-10-2018 22:39 via yahoo.com
  Japanese carmaker Honda has joined forces with the General Motors tech startup Cruise to develop autonomous vehicles as the race to market self-driving cars heats up, the companies announced Wednesday.Honda's investment promises broader market access for the new cars once they are ready for the public.The Japanese government hopes to showcase self-driving cars when Tokyo hosts the Summer Olympics in 2020.
  
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• ATF: Hundreds of guns stolen in Memphis seized near Chicago

  03-10-2018 22:21 via yahoo.com
  MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Most of the roughly 400 guns that were stolen from a United Parcel Service facility in Tennessee have been recovered in the Chicago area, federal authorities said.
  
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• JPMorgan Sees ‘Full-Blown Trade War,’ and China Stock ETF Sinks

  03-10-2018 22:09 via yahoo.com
  The conflict between the world’s two largest economies will only escalate as the U.S. maxes out tariffs on Chinese imports, the dollar strengthens and the yuan weakens further, JPMorgan strategists including Pedro Martins Junior, Rajiv Batra and Sanaya Tavaria wrote in a report, lowering their recommendation on the shares to neutral from overweight.The $4.9 billion iShares China Large-Cap ETF sank to a two-week low.
  
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• The Latest: Putin urges EU to help rebuild Syria

  03-10-2018 21:53 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the Syrian conflict (all times local):
  
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• In a surprise, first alien moon discovered is big and gaseous

  03-10-2018 21:53 via yahoo.com
  "It's big and weird by solar system standards," Columbia University astronomy professor David Kipping said of the moon, known as an exomoon because it is outside our solar system.The newly discovered exomoon and the planet it orbits, estimated to be several times the mass of our solar system's largest planet Jupiter, are both gaseous, an unexpected pairing.Kipping and study co-author Alex Teachey, a Columbia graduate student, said their observations using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Kepler
  
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• Get a job: Funcom is hiring External Producers

  03-10-2018 21:36
  Funcom is looking to hire two talented External Producers to handle the management of the company†™s publishing projects. ...
  
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• Foreign aid gathers pace for Indonesia's desperate quake survivors

  03-10-2018 21:32 via yahoo.com
  Desperate residents on the west coast of Sulawesi island were scavenging for food in farms and orchards as the government struggled to overcome shortages of water, food, shelter and fuel in a disaster zone with no power and degraded communications.The official death toll from last Friday's 7.5 magnitude quake has risen to 1,407, many killed by tsunami waves it triggered.An international effort to help is gearing up, after the government overcame a traditional reluctance to take foreign help.
  
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• Everything I Got Wrong About Red Dead 2's Story

  03-10-2018 21:30
  After obsessively picking through each of the trailers for Red Dead Redemption 2 as they trickled out over the past year or so, I thought I had a pretty good handle on how things were going to unfold for Arthur, Dutch, and the rest of their band of not-so-merry misfits. I still do, for the most part, but after getting to see the first four hours of the game, I’m glad to say that I was dead wrong on some of the “how’s” of our antiheroes getting from A to B.
  WARNING: MINIMA
  
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• Super Mario Party Review

  03-10-2018 21:21
  
  Super Mario Party is the best Party in two console generations. It’s done away with some, but not all, of the slowness, you get to play a ton of great minigames with the cool, but not perfect Switch controllers, and that infuriating randomness of awarded stars at the end of a game is … still a problem. But even those painful upsets feel like less of a party killer this time, because Super Mario Party, especially in the team-based Partner Party mode, is competitive, strategic, and, a
  
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• Get a Dyson vacuum on sale for $80 off from Walmart

  03-10-2018 21:19 via yahoo.com
  A clean and organized home can help to reduce stress and even has some mental health benefits. And while finding the time to keep up with everything can be a challenge, having the right tools makes all the difference. Walmart is currently offering this Dyson Bagless Upright Vacuum for $199, which is $80 off the list price of $279. SEE ALSO: 7 of the best handheld vacuums to make cleaning a breeze The DC33 relies on a bagless system: simply take the tank out of the vacuum and dump out the dirt wi
  
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• Melania Trump pays poignant visit to slave fortress in Ghana

  03-10-2018 21:16 via yahoo.com
  Melania Trump laid a wreath at a 17th-century slave fortress in Ghana on Wednesday, vowing never to forget where Africans were held before being shipped away into further hardship, most across the Atlantic. Ghana is the jumping-off point for her first major solo international trip as first lady - a tour of Africa, a continent her husband reportedly referred to derisively. She will also visit Malawi, Kenya and Egypt. "It's very emotional... I will never forget (the) incredible experienc
  
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• UN court orders US to lift some Iran sanctions

  03-10-2018 21:13 via yahoo.com
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations' highest court on Wednesday ordered the United States to lift sanctions on Iran that affect imports of humanitarian goods and products and services linked to civil aviation safety.
  
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• How Serious Sam set itself apart in the era of Duke Nukem and Quake

  03-10-2018 21:05
  Croteam†™s chief creative officer Davor Hunski tells the story of how Serious Sam†™s hand-made engine came to be and how a vertical slice demo ultimately saved the game....
  
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• Chuck Grassley Demands To See Christine Blasey Ford's Therapy Notes

  03-10-2018 20:30 via yahoo.com
  Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) demanded on
  
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• White House Won't Say If Trump Is Limiting FBI's Kavanaugh Probe

  03-10-2018 20:28 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders refused to say
  
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• Don't Miss: 7 great minigames that game developers should study

  03-10-2018 20:27
  An engaging minigame can deepen a players engagement in the overarching game. We look at 7 instructive examples that game developers should examine closely....
  
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• FEMA Tests New Presidential Emergency Alert System On Cellphones

  03-10-2018 20:20 via yahoo.com
  In case you missed it, the Federal Emergency Management Agency tested its
  
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• 10 Best Mega Man Bosses

  03-10-2018 20:15
  
  With the launch of Mega Man 11, what better time to take a trip down memory lane? Over the last 30 years in just the mainline Mega Man games, the evil Dr. Wily has sent nearly 80 Robot Masters after our cobalt crusader. But which were the best of the best?
  For this list we looked at mainline Mega Man titles only, meaning the X, Legends, Battle Network, ZX, and Star Force series are all off-limits. On top of that we’re only looking at Robot Masters, meaning this is “mans” only (
  
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• Palestinian teen killed in clashes with Israeli army: Gaza ministry

  03-10-2018 20:09 via yahoo.com
  A Palestinian teenager was killed during clashes with Israeli soldiers near the Gaza border on Wednesday, the health ministry in the enclave said.Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told AFP that Ahmed Abu Habel, 15, succumbed to a head wound after being hit with a tear gas cannister fired by soldiers near a checkpoint between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
  
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• Assassin's Creed Odyssey: 50 Gorgeous Photo Mode Pictures I Took During Our Review

  03-10-2018 20:09
  Assassin's Creed Odyssey is out this week and it's a sprawling recreation of Ancient Greece and the decades-long war between Sparta and Athens for dominion over it.
  While I said in my Assassin's Creed Odyssey review that it's the best Assassin's Creed game in the series to date, and I think it's amazing, this is the first game that made me really fall in love with Photo Mode. I'd played around with the mode before in games like Horizon: Zero Dawn, God of War, and recently, Marvel's Spider-Man, b
  
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• Merkel arrives in Israel for Netanyahu talks

  03-10-2018 20:05 via yahoo.com
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in Israel late Wednesday for talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, despite differences between them on a range of issues.Merkel and members of her cabinet will on Thursday participate in the latest in a series of bilateral talks between Germany and Israel.The visit comes after Netanyahu's harsh criticism of European countries over Iran, Israel's main enemy.
  
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• Authorities investigate ricin scares

  03-10-2018 19:56 via yahoo.com
  Suspicious envelopes were sent to the Pentagon.
  
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• Cops Use Slain Woman's Fitbit To Charge 90-Year-Old Stepdad

  03-10-2018 19:53 via yahoo.com
  A 90-year-old man in California has been charged in the slaying of his 67
  
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• Melania Trump Makes 'Very Emotional' Trip to Ghana Castle That Once Held Slaves

  03-10-2018 19:51 via yahoo.com
  It was a somber visit for the first lady.
  
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• Don't Expect The Brett Kavanaugh FBI Investigation To Solve Everything

  03-10-2018 19:47 via yahoo.com
  Last week, Republicans finally agreed to have the FBI investigate Christine
  
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• Donald Trump hits back at reports he dodged tax as New York state tax department 'reviews' allegations 

  03-10-2018 19:38 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has dismissed as a "boring hit piece" a damning New York Times report that claims he engaged in dubious tax dodges.   The paper's lengthy investigation claims that Mr Trump received at least $413 million (£318 million) from his father, much of that through murky tax schemes, including some which were fraudulent. On Wednesday Mr Trump accused the newspaper of "doing a very old, boring and often told hit piece on me." In a tweet, he said: "Added up, this means that 97
  
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• Germany says shares US goals on Iran

  03-10-2018 19:32 via yahoo.com
  Germany on Wednesday told the United States that it shared its goals on Iran even as the Europeans press ahead to save a denuclearization deal threatened by US sanctions.German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas met in Washington with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who has voiced outrage over European plans to preserve commercial ties with Iran."In the end, we pursue the same goals with respect to Iran," Maas told reporters after meeting Pompeo.
  
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• Konami's Dance Dance Revolution is getting a movie adaptation

  03-10-2018 19:29
  The arcade game Dance Dance Revolution is being reimagined as a film where only dancing can save the world from a coming apocalypse. ...
  
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• NASA skeptical on sabotage theory after mystery ISS leak

  03-10-2018 19:26 via yahoo.com
  NASA expressed doubts Wednesday over a theory floated in Russia that a tiny hole that caused an air leak on the International Space Station was the result of sabotage.The breach detected on August 29-30 in a Russian space craft docked at the orbiting station was not the result of a manufacturing defect, according to the Russian space agency, which says it is investigating the possibility that it was drilled maliciously.Russian space agency Roscosmos immediately launched an investigation into the
  
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• National Security Advisor John Bolton brands Iran ‘rogue regime’ as US pulls out of 1955 treaty

  03-10-2018 19:22 via yahoo.com
  National Security Advisor John Bolton has called Iran a 'rogue regime', shortly after the US announced it is terminating a 1955 treaty over calls to end sanctions that impact the import of humanitarian goods and products to the country.Mr Bolton, defending the policy decision announced on Wednesday by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, pushed back on comments from Iran's foreign minister earlier this week that the United States is bullying countries, in violation of international law, by asking tha
  
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• Graham on Kavanaugh confirmation process: ‘Enough. Vote. Don’t destroy this man’s life’

  03-10-2018 19:16 via yahoo.com
  Sen. Lindsey Graham is suspicious of the numerous allegations coming out against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Graham lists the allegations and says, “Don’t destroy this man’s life.” Graham also says that if a seat on the Supreme Court should become open in a presidential election year, he would want to wait until the next election to confirm a nominee.
  
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• If you only ever play one Splatoon 2 event, make it Splatoween

  03-10-2018 19:15 via gamesradar.com
  Splatoon 2 Splatoween: What it is, when it is, and how to get your own glowing Jason mask
  
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• Bezos' space company designing large lunar lander

  03-10-2018 19:13 via yahoo.com
  The lander is part of Blue Origin's broader mission of enabling a future in which millions of people live and work in space, the company said."The next logical step in this path is a return to the Moon," Blue Origin said in a statement."To do this we need reusable access to the lunar surface and its resources."The company, founded by Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Officer Bezos, has said it aims to land on the moon in about five years.
  
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• BlizzCon 2018 Schedule Released, Could Hint at Big Things for Diablo

  03-10-2018 19:10
  Blizzard Entertainment has released the official schedule for BlizzCon 2018, and it looks like some big Diablo announcements could be coming our way.
  On the official BlizzCon 2018 schedule, Diablo: What’s Next is slotted to be the first panel to take place on the main “Mythic” stage starting Friday, Nov. 2 at 12:30 PT. The description of the panel reads: "Join the Diablo team as they discuss of what's in store for the heroes of Sanctuary.”
  Interestingly, this Diablo panel
  
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• Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment signs on to distribute Cyberpunk 2077

  03-10-2018 19:01
  The role sees WBIE taking over both distribution and promotion for CD Projekt Red's upcoming game based on the longrunning Cyberpunk 2020 tabletop franchise....
  
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• Slow arrival of aid frustrates Indonesia quake survivors

  03-10-2018 18:46 via yahoo.com
  Some survivors are taking matters into their own hands five days after the quake that killed more than 1,400 people.
  
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• Christine Blasey Ford's Friend Says Ford Didn't Coach Her On Polygraph Exam

  03-10-2018 18:46 via yahoo.com
  A friend of Christine Blasey Ford said Wednesday that, contrary to claims by
  
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• "No one goes to Disneyland to see Mickie Mouth" - Final Fantasy 14 devs reflect on localization challenges

  03-10-2018 18:45 via gamesradar.com
  Even simple misspellings can cause headaches
  
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• Honda Will Build a High-Volume Self-Driving Car with General Motors' Cruise Automation

  03-10-2018 18:45 via yahoo.com
  Honda is partnering with General Motors to spend billions of dollars on autonomous cars in a new joint-venture manufacturing deal.Cruise Automation, the San Francisco startup GM purchased in 2016 for $1 billion, is cashing a $750 million equity stake from Honda.The Japanese automaker has also promised to drop some $2 billion over 12 years with GM and Cruise to mass-assemble a fully autonomous car that may never wear a Honda logo.
  
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• Win A Matter of Life and Death on Blu-ray

  03-10-2018 18:36 via gamesradar.com
  We have five copies of the 1940s fantasia to give away!
  
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• Trump plans travel push to stave off 'blue wave' in House races

  03-10-2018 18:36 via yahoo.com
  Trump's Republican Party is at risk of losing control of the House in the Nov. 6 midterm vote at a time when, historically, the party in control of the White House loses ground in Congress.Trump heads on Thursday to Minnesota where Republicans want to give a boost to two House candidates: one in an open race and another, a first-term incumbent, who is running in a Democratic-leaning district.If a "blue wave" sweeps Democrats into power in the House, they could stop Trump's legislative agenda and
  
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