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• 5 Holiday Party Ideas That Have Nothing To Do With Ugly Sweaters

  04-12-2018 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The holidays are here, and so are the fun parties.
  
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• Tim Sweeney says Fortnite prepped Epic to run a game store

  04-12-2018 23:47
  Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney discusses how the new Epic Games Store operates in an interview with Game Informer. ...
  
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• A Trump Appointee Hunted For Election Fraud. It Looks Like It Was Right Under His Nose.

  04-12-2018 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  In the past, U.S. Attorney Robert Higdon Jr. has taken pains to prosecute a
  
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• VW may use Ford's U.S. plants to build cars, deepen alliance

  04-12-2018 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Ford has unused factory capacity — and then there's the matter of GM
  
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• Rumor: Metroid Prime Trilogy for Nintendo Switch will be at The Game Awards, release early next year

  04-12-2018 23:30 via gamesradar.com
  The trilogy will reportedly feature enhanced graphics
  
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• Wall Street dives on angst over growth, US-China truce

  04-12-2018 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Wall Street stocks plunged Tuesday on worries about US economic growth and revived doubts about trade wars as the Trump administration sent mixed signals on their detente with China.A day after global stocks rallied on a weekend US-China announcement suspending new tariffs, international markets mostly pulled back as investor focus shifted to the lack of concrete progress in reaching a long-term agreement to the dispute."Can the US and China really resolve their differences in 90 days?" asked Ro
  
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• Michelle Obama Was Just As Boy Crazy As The Rest Of Us In High School

  04-12-2018 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Before she was the first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama was just
  
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• Student Says Teacher Injured Him During Class

  04-12-2018 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Alex Humbles, 12, says a teacher at his Oklahoma middle school forcefully grabbed him by the arm, leaving behind red marks. Humbles admits he was talking back but says this teacher shouldn't have touched him.
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Demands 'Living Wage' For Hill Workers

  04-12-2018 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  New York Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is pushing hard on her
  
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• Woman who says she was taped in hotel shower sues for $100M

  04-12-2018 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A woman who claims hidden-camera footage of her in a hotel shower was posted on a dozen pornographic web sites by someone who tried to extort her filed a $100 million lawsuit.
  
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• Dragon Age 4 Reportedly Not Being Released Until at Least 2021

  04-12-2018 23:03
  Though BioWare has plans to announce something Dragon Age-related this month, it appears the next Dragon Age game is still at least a few years away from being released.
  Reported by VentureBeat, sources familiar with BioWare claim that the game is still in the early stages of development, saying that the studio and EA have yet to decide on a name for the upcoming title. However, it appears a final name could be decided on prior to a possible reveal at The Game Awards on Thursday.
  The game was re
  
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• VW says final generation of combustion engines will launch in 2026

  04-12-2018 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  After their production span, Volkswagen will be all-electric
  
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• GOP Rep. Chris Stewart On Khashoggi Killing: 'Journalists Disappear All Over The Country'

  04-12-2018 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  After a classified briefing between lawmakers and the CIA on the killing of
  
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• Trump family values: Eric starts Twitter storm with unwanted marital advice

  04-12-2018 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A simmering feud between conservative lawyer George Conway and Eric Trump spilled into a second day on Tuesday, as the two argued over the issue of wife-respecting.The spat began Monday when Conway, a frequent Trump critic despite being husband to top Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, suggested the president had engaged in witness tampering when he tweeted about longtime associate Roger Stone’s vow to stand up to special counsel Robert Mueller.
  
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• Google's cross-platform mobile app dev kit Flutter hits v. 1.0

  04-12-2018 22:49
  Google has released version 1.0 of its open-source, cross-platform app building toolkit Flutter, with plans to bring the platform to the web as well. ...
  
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• Markets Right Now: US stocks dive as trade jitters return

  04-12-2018 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):
  
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• Captain Marvel's Skrull Villains Explained

  04-12-2018 22:46
  
  2019's Captain Marvel movie will include several firsts for the MCU, like being set in the '90s and featuring a two-eyed Nick Fury. Perhaps the most notable new development, however, is the inclusion of the Skrulls as the main villains of the film. One Avenger against an entire cosmic empire? We like those odds.
  Ben Mendelsohn (Rogue One) will play the Skrull leader, Talos, in the highly anticipated Brie Larson film. But who are the Skrulls, and why do they have such a bone to pick wit
  
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• May Suffers Parliament Defeats Ahead of Key Vote: Brexit Update

  04-12-2018 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  The premier then lost a third big vote that could prove even more significant: it gives Parliament the power to shape the final Brexit settlement if, as expected, May fails to get her deal approved in the Commons in a vote on Dec. 11.Pro-Brexit Tory Boris Johnson, who quit as foreign secretary in protest at May’s plan for keeping close to EU trade rules, savaged her deal.The government should go back to Brussels and say Britain will leave without one, he said.
  
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• Former Sen. Bob Dole stands to honor former President George H.W. Bush

  04-12-2018 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Former Sen. Bob Dole stands and salutes to honor President George H.W. Bush, who lies in state in the Capitol Rotunda. The 41st president died Friday at the age of 94.
  
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• Wall Street drops 3 percent as confusion over U.S.-China trade truce mounts

  04-12-2018 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Wall Street tumbled more than 3 percent on Tuesday, led lower by bank and industrial shares, as investors worried anew about global trade.
  
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• Rockstar 'Does Not Have Plans' to Reset Progress Following Red Dead Online Beta

  04-12-2018 22:28
  Rockstar Games has clarified earlier comments that some Red Dead Online progress from the beta might not carry over to the final game, saying there are not any plans to reset rank or stats progression.
  Rockstar said the following in an official comment: "We appreciate all the continued feedback we are receiving on the Red Dead Online Beta. For players concerned about the potential for progress and stat resets, we currently do not have any plans to reset them as part of the Beta’s rollout.
  
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• Halo TV showed gets delayed, director departs

  04-12-2018 22:20 via gamesradar.com
  "The production demands of this series are enormous"
  
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• What Washington Post Employees Actually Think About Amazon

  04-12-2018 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  A little over five years ago, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos bought The
  
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• Get a job: Ubiquity6 is looking for an Augmented Reality Prototyper

  04-12-2018 22:01
  Ubiquity6 is looking for an experienced dev to rapidly prototype and refine augmented reality experience features and prototypes as a member of its team in San Francisco. ...
  
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• Highest-Paid YouTuber Is 7-Year-Old Ryan

  04-12-2018 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  This 7-year-old YouTuber probably makes more money than you do.
  
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• Union: Chicago teachers stage 1st US charter school strike

  04-12-2018 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — Teachers employed by a Chicago charter school network took to the picket lines Tuesday in what their union described as the first strike at any of the privately run, taxpayer-funded schools in the U.S.
  
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• PlayStation Classic's hidden settings accessible through USB keyboards

  04-12-2018 21:47
  Sony's PlayStation Classic has a hidden menu setting, and all it takes to gain access is a keyboard....
  
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• Down but not out yet, GOP seeks to hamstring incoming Dem governors

  04-12-2018 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Following Democratic successes in the midterm elections, Republican legislatures in Michigan and Wisconsin are looking to limit the power of incoming officials via lame-duck session power grabs.
  
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• Sheriff: Woman kills jail escapee who kicks in her door

  04-12-2018 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An inmate who had escaped minutes earlier from a county jail in South Carolina was shot and killed by a woman after he kicked in her back door, the local sheriff said.
  
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• PUBG Mobile grabs Best Game in 2018 Google Play Awards

  04-12-2018 21:31
  Google Play has announced its Best Apps of 2018, a list that includes a good number of mobile games released on Android this year....
  
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• Overwatch teases Winter Wonderland's return on December 11 with holiday Blizzard World

  04-12-2018 21:25 via gamesradar.com
  Overwatch's holiday Winter Wonderland event is coming next week for good little humans and omnics
  
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• Israel launches operation to destroy Hezbollah tunnels

  04-12-2018 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel's army said Tuesday it has discovered Hezbollah tunnels infiltrating its territory from Lebanon and launched an operation to destroy them, a move likely to raise tensions with the Iran-backed group.The surprise announcement came hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Brussels over regional dangers, with both having repeatedly warned about the activities of Israel's arch foe Iran.Netanyahu said he discussed the operation with Pom
  
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• Volkswagen says next generation of combustion engine cars to be its last

  04-12-2018 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  German auto giant Volkswagen will begin rolling out its last generation of combustion engine cars in 2026, in its latest green pledge as it looks to turn the corner on the "dieselgate" emissions cheating scandal.Michael Jost, Volkswagen's strategy chief, told an industry conference on Tuesday that the firm's employees were working on "the last platform for vehicles that aren't CO2 neutral"."We're gradually fading out combustion engines to the absolute minimum," he said at the conference near the
  
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• Twitter Users Get Salty After Researcher Reveals Just How Few French Fries You Should Actually Eat

  04-12-2018 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  No one can seriously call french fries are "healthy" and keep a straight face,
  
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• Rastakhan's Rumble elbow-drops into Hearthstone, bringing some underdog deck archetypes back into the spotlight

  04-12-2018 21:06 via gamesradar.com
  Throw down in the Gurubashi Arena with the latest expansion
  
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• Crash Team Racing Remaster Teased for The Game Awards

  04-12-2018 21:04
  
  If a pair of fuzzy dice and a brief note are anything to go off of, it appears CTR: Crash Team Racing is primed for a reveal at The Game Awards.
  IGN received a large, orange pair of fuzzy dice (reminiscent of Crash himself) in the mail, along with a note that reads: "Sliding into the Game Awards on 12/6... - Anonymous.” One of the die only has a six on it, while the other has the standard one-six. Combined, it adds up to a six and a 21, perhaps hinting at a Friday, June 21 (6/21) release d
  
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• Woman with concealed carry permit fatally shoots escaped inmate who broke into her home

  04-12-2018 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities in South Carolina say a woman with a concealed carry permit
  
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• Climate talks shift to nitty-gritty details of Paris accord

  04-12-2018 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  KATOWICE, Poland (AP) — Negotiators at the U.N. climate talks got down to the nitty-gritty task Tuesday of finalizing the rules for the Paris accord, a landmark agreement by countries three years ago to curb global warming.
  
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• Valve's Steam Link app lands on Raspberry Pi

  04-12-2018 20:45
  Valve has rolled out Raspberry Pi support for its Steam Link app in beta, allowing anyone with access to the microcomputer the ability to remotely tap into an instance of Steam on another machine....
  
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• What Bribery Experts Say About The Trump Organization's Plan To Give Putin A Penthouse

  04-12-2018 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  It's not yet clear whether the shady-sounding plan of President Donald Trump's
  
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• The Latest: Inmate moved to death watch as execution looms

  04-12-2018 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Latest on Thursday's scheduled execution of a Tennessee inmate (all times local):
  
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• Sully The Service Dog Arrives To View Owner George H.W. Bush's Casket

  04-12-2018 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Former President George H.W. Bush's unfairly maligned service dog, Sully, was
  
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• Mike Pompeo Says U.S. Is Suspending Nuclear Treaty Obligations Due to Russian 'Cheating'

  04-12-2018 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States will suspend its obligations under a landmark nuclear treaty in 60 days in response to Russia’s alleged violation of the pact, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday.
  
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• Graham breaks with Trump, says evidence against Saudi prince in murder is 'a smoking saw'

  04-12-2018 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The South Carolina senator has been one of the president's most dependable allies, until now.
  
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• How to Fit a Christmas Tree Into Your Tiny Living Room

  04-12-2018 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Hang your Christmas tree from your ceiling this year
  
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• Don't Miss: Resident Evil and the power of narrative context

  04-12-2018 20:08
  When combining confined gameplay with narrative and context, you can create an incredibly immersive experience, argues Frictional Games' Thomas Grip....
  
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• This Is Why We Say 'Scot-Free' (And Not 'Scott Free')

  04-12-2018 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A figure by the name of "Scott Free" appeared to be trending on Twitter on
  
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• Utah Joins More Than 30 States That Have Legalized Medical Marijuana

  04-12-2018 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Utah is joining more than 30 other states in legalizing medical marijuana
  
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• Nato says Russia in breach of Cold War-era nuclear treaty as US says it will suspend participation

  04-12-2018 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Nato has accused Russia of violating a landmark Cold War-era nuclear treaty, paving the way for the US to leave the pact.US secretary of state Mike Pompeo said America would suspend its treaty obligations in 60 days over the alleged violations.The six-month withdrawal period from the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) would begin after this point.
  
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• Play Ventures aims to invest $30 million in video game startups

  04-12-2018 19:38
  Investments aren†™t limited to just game development; Play Ventures is looking at dishing out early investments to companies working with streaming, marketing, user acquisition, and more. ...
  
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