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• Turkish prosecutor seeks extradition of NBA's Kanter over Gulen links: Anadolu

  16-01-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkish prosecutors are seeking the extradition of New York Knicks center Enes Kanter over his links to the U.S.-based cleric accused of orchestrating a failed coup in 2016, state-owned Anadolu news agency said.Kanter, a vocal critic of President Tayyip Erdogan, was indicted by a Turkish court last year over alleged membership of an "armed terrorist group" after being contacted repeatedly by people close to Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen.Anadolu said on Tuesday prosecutors had sought the issue
  
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• Goldman Sachs, Bank of America rock earnings

  16-01-2019 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Goldman Sachs reported better-than-expected profits on Wednesday despite higher legal costs as it works through the 1MDB scandal, while Bank of America's earnings were lifted by higher interest rates.Goldman reported mixed operational performance across its trading, investing and lending businesses, while Bank of America saw its profits triple compared to a year earlier.Goldman Chief Executive David Solomon described conditions in the real economy as "quite robust," echoing other bank executives
  
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• Bungie asks Destiny 2 players for Gambit feedback ahead of Joker's Wild DLC

  16-01-2019 23:06 via gamesradar.com
  How would you improve Gambit?
  
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• Congressional Democrats move to stop U.S. Census citizenship question

  16-01-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats in the U.S. Congress on Wednesday were moving ahead with legislation to prevent the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, following a court decision this week blocking inclusion of such information.Representative Carolyn Maloney, a senior Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told reporters that she is re-introducing her bill, which was ignored by Republicans in 2017-2018 when they controlled the House of Representatives.
  
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• LAUSD teachers strike day 3: Everything you need to know

  16-01-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  The LAUSD and United Teachers Los Angeles have yet to reach a deal. Here's everything you need to know about the ongoing teachers strike.
  
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• Kidnap suspect's lawyers: Confession problematic for defense

  16-01-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Defense attorneys for the man accused of kidnapping a Wisconsin teenager and killing her parents acknowledged Wednesday that they're starting the case at a disadvantage after their client gave detectives a detailed confession and said they're not sure he can get a fair trial in the state.
  
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• Deadly IS-claimed suicide attack hits US forces in north Syria

  16-01-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  A suicide attack killed four US personnel in northern Syria Wednesday, costing Washington its worst combat losses in the war-torn country since 2014 as it prepares to withdraw.The bombing, claimed by the Islamic State group, comes after US President Donald Trump's shock announcement last month that he was ordering a full troop withdrawal from Syria because the jihadists had been "largely defeated".The Pentagon said "two US servicemembers, one Department of Defense (DoD) civilian and one contract
  
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• Marriott is rolling out a brand new rewards program -- Here's everything you need to know

  16-01-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  When you're a frequent traveler, it's almost self-sabotage to not join some
  
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• What Those Rumored DLC Characters Could Bring to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

  16-01-2019 22:00
  
  Recently, certain rumors have suggested who the mystery DLC characters in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate might be. If these rumors are to be believed, we would be getting Erdrick from Dragon Quest, Ryu Hayabusa from Ninja Gaiden, Steve (the default character in Minecraft), and the Doom Marine from Doom.
  Honestly, some of these sound pretty far-fetched, but I also didn’t believe we were getting a duck and a dog from a forgotten NES game, and that they’d just end up calling the fighter &ld
  
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• Hours after U.S. troops killed in Syria, Pence says Islamic State defeated

  16-01-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Pence did not mention the attack in his address to 184 chiefs of U.S. diplomatic missions who gather annually in Washington from around the world to discuss foreign policy strategy."The caliphate has crumbled and ISIS has been defeated," Pence told the U.S. ambassadors and other senior American diplomats, referring to Islamic State.In separate statements later, both the White House and Pence condemned the attack and expressed sympathy for the deaths of the U.S. personnel.
  
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• Mike Pence amends claim that 'ISIS has been defeated' following deadly attack on U.S. troops

  16-01-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The same day that ISIS fighters in Syria claimed responsibility for a deadly bomb attack, Vice President Mike Pence echoed the president's assessment that the group had been vanquished.
  
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• Anthem has matchmaking for every activity by default, but you can solo most of the game if you want

  16-01-2019 21:36 via gamesradar.com
  Anthem will let you raid with randos all you want
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a social media star, to school House Democrats on Twitter use

  16-01-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The lesson comes as a generational divide between members of Congress and the tech platforms they oversee has been on full display.
  
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• Plans revealed for a massive atom smasher that dwarfs the Large Hadron Collider

  16-01-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  The famous Large Hadron Collider, an insanely massive particle accelerator that's helped scientists crack some of the most deeply hidden mysteries of the universe, is about to be dwarfed by an atom smasher that's much bigger and more powerful.European physicists have just unveiled their proposal for the construction of a new particle smasher that calls for a 62-mile circular collider costing roughly the equivalent of $10 billion. Plans for the so-called Future Circular Collider were revealed Tue
  
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• White House condemns Steve King ‘white supremacy’ comments as ‘abhorrent’

  16-01-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The White House has condemned embattled Republican Representative Steve King for questioning why terms like “white supremacy” and “white nationalist” have become offensive.Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that the comments from Mr King, a politician from Iowa known for a history of controversial remarks over race and immigration were “outrageous” and “inappropriate”.“Steve King’s comments were abhorrent,” Ms Sanders tol
  
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• Sea of Thieves Update Requires Full Download and Reinstall

  16-01-2019 21:25
  Rare has announced that Sea of Thieves will be receiving a major update that will require players to download and reinstall a full version of the game - though the new version’s file size will be significantly smaller.
  Announced through the official Sea of Thieves website, the update will be coming to PC and Xbox One on February 6. Executive producer Joe Neate explained that this new version is necessary to keep the overall size of the game from spiraling out of control with subsequent upd
  
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• May Wins Confidence Vote and Opens Cross-Party Brexit Talks

  16-01-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  U.K. leader Theresa May survived an attempt to oust her government and immediately opened talks with rival political parties in an attempt to break the Brexit deadlock, as time runs out to reach a deal.The prime minister fought off the threat of a national election and won the right to continue running the country when the House of Commons voted 325 to 306 against a motion of “no confidence” in her administration.May invited other party leaders, who back keeping much closer ties to t
  
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• Assassin's Creed Odyssey: Ubisoft Responds to DLC Criticisms

  16-01-2019 21:14
  Spoilers for Assassin's Creed Odyssey and its DLC to follow.
  Assassin's Creed Odyssey set out to redefine the series with its RPG focus, allowing players to shape their character through dialogue and romance options, but the release of the second episode of the Legacy of the Blade DLC, Shadow Heritage, has seemingly invalidated a lot of players' in-game choices by forcing a heterosexual romance with the offspring of the first ever assassin, Darius.
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• Man accused of pushing, punching girl outside Asheville Mall

  16-01-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Police are investigating after a 51-year-old man was caught on camera pushing and punching a girl in the face outside of Asheville Mall on Saturday.
  
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• Russia, US in war of words over arms treaty

  16-01-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Russia on Wednesday accused Washington of being uncooperative on efforts to save a crucial arms control treaty, only to be accused by the US of dishonesty.Tensions have raged for months over the fate of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty (INF) signed in 1987 by then US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.US President Donald Trump has promised to walk away from the agreement and President Vladimir Putin threatened a new arms race, saying Europe would be its main
  
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• How From Software Is Changing Its Approach To Storytelling For Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

  16-01-2019 21:00
  Publisher: ActivisionDeveloper: From SoftwareRelease: March 22, 2019 Rating: Rating Pending Platform: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PCSet in the waning years of Sengoku-era Japan, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice features a brighter, more colorful world than we’ve seen out of From Software. This lets them create environments with a different air about them than either Bloodborne or Dark Souls, as the developer tries to both elicit and play with the beauty of Japan during the Warring States period. The
  
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• Netflix Price Hike Points to the Changing Math of Cord Cutting

  16-01-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Here's some bad news for those looking forward to the season 3 premiere of “Stranger Things”: The demogorgon isn't the only thing on the rise. Netflix is planning to boost prices for all of its m...
  
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• Al-Qaeda Hotel Attack Kills 21, Shaking Kenya Economy Pillar

  16-01-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Using hand grenades, automatic rifles and a suicide-bomber, the militants stormed 14 Riverside in Nairobi on Tuesday afternoon, a venue popular with business travelers and Kenya’s elites and home to offices of companies including Pernod Ricard SA and Dow Chemical East Africa Ltd. That precipitated an 18-hour siege around the DusitD2 hotel, which President Uhuru Kenyatta said ended about 9 a.m. Wednesday with the attackers dead.Somalia-based al-Shabaab took responsibility for the assault, t
  
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• The Latest: Sheriff defends Jayme Closs 911 response

  16-01-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  BARRON, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on the kidnapping of Wisconsin teenager Jayme Closs and the killing of her parents (all times local):
  
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• American CEO Who Narrowly Avoided 9/11 Among 14 Killed in Nairobi Terrorist Attack

  16-01-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Jason Spindler was a U.S. citizen based in Kenya
  
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• Trump's Attorney General pick raises alarms with comments on probing Clinton foundation and uranium conspiracy

  16-01-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  New questions have been raised surrounding Donald Trump's pick to become the next attorney general and his views on investigating the Clinton Foundation and a uranium mining company.William Barr began two days of confirmation hearings on Tuesday to become the next head of the Justice Department, fielding questions from senators about Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian impact on the 2016 election and other legal issues he would oversee if confirmed.The Republican &m
  
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• New Richard Branson-backed cruise line Virgin Voyages to have 'massive' suites

  16-01-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Virgin Voyages, the new cruise line backed by Richard Branson's Virgin Group, will have some of the biggest suites at sea.
  
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• Vance County Schools to keep lunches to a 'minimum' to conserve food, funding during government shutdown

  16-01-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Vance County Schools said it's making changes to lunch menus to conserve food and funding during the government shutdown.
  
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• Ghostbusters 3 teaser trailer reveals summer 2020 release and the return of the Ecto-1

  16-01-2019 19:47 via gamesradar.com
  Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray are suiting up after all this time
  
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• EPA Nominee Wheeler Defends Rollbacks While Pressed on Climate

  16-01-2019 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Wheeler, a former energy lobbyist who has served as acting administrator for six months, did not mention global warming in his opening remarks to the Environment and Public Works Committee, instead touting agency deregulatory efforts he said would spare businesses some $1.8 billion in compliance costs.“How does it happen that the nominee to be head of the Environmental Protection Agency does not mention the words climate change at a time when the scientific community thinks climate change
  
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• Rep. Wenstrup on a State of the Union during a shutdown: Americans need to hear from the president

  16-01-2019 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Republican Congressman Brad Wenstrup from Ohio says Speaker Pelosi's request for President Trump to postpone the State of the Union address makes no sense.
  
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• Update: EA Comments on Alleged Star Wars Game Cancellation

  16-01-2019 19:31
  Update #2: EA has officially commented on the reports that an open world Star Wars game has been canceled.
  In a statement provided to IGN, a representative for EA said "the great work by our team in Vancouver continues and will evolve into future Star Wars content and games."
  EA's full statement reads:
  There’s been speculation overnight about one of our Star Wars projects. As a natural part of the creative process, the great work by our team in Vancouver continues and will evolve into
  
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• Pelosi tells Trump to postpone State of the Union over record-long government shutdown

  16-01-2019 19:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi has asked Donald Trump to postpone his annual State of the Union address amid a government shutdown now into its 26th day.The move could deny the president the grandeur of the annual platform, which he is likely to use to criticise Ms Pelosi and Democrats over the shutdown.Democrats have said they will not sanction $5.7bn (£4.4bn) funding for Mr Trump’s proposed border wall which the president has made a central demand for reopening the government.
  
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• Venus-Jupiter conjunction: Set your alarm for this celestial meet-up on Tuesday morning

  16-01-2019 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Jupiter and Venus will shine bright together before dawn on Tuesday in an astronomical event known as a conjunction.
  
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• Pence urges US diplomats to promote legal immigration

  16-01-2019 19:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday urged US diplomats to emphasize that the United States still welcomes legal immigrants, amid unrelenting pressure from President Donald Trump to seal off Mexico with a wall."I urge you to assure our allies this administration will continue to stand for legal immigration, even while we address the humanitarian and security crisis on our southern border," Pence told 180 US ambassadors and chiefs of mission abroad who were back at the State Department for an a
  
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• Fortnite V-Bucks linked to large-scale money laundering scheme

  16-01-2019 19:02 via gamesradar.com
  Fortnite money has been used to process very real, very stolen money
  
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• Fortnite Made the Most Annual Revenue of Any Game in History Last Year

  16-01-2019 19:01
  Fortnite made a whopping $2.4 billion in revenue last year and now holds the record for the most annual revenue of any video game in history, according to SuperData's Year in Review - and that's not including figures from Android or its PvE mode, Save the World.
  SuperData also reports that 34% of all US players "regularly" bought Battle Passes, contributing to last year's impressive figures.
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• Brits in Spain see glimmer of hope in UK Brexit vote drubbing

  16-01-2019 18:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Jávea (Spain) (AFP) - On the sun-drenched eastern coast of Spain where British pensioners and business-owners are uncertain for their futures as Brexit ticks closer, the crushing parliamentary defeat of Theresa May's EU divorce deal has sparked a glimmer of hope."This might not happen," Lyle Starritt told AFP, the day after May suffered a historic drubbing in the House of Commons on Tuesday, when MPs rejected the deal she struck with the European Union.Britons interviewed by AFP, all of w
  
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• A Deadly Suicide Blast in Syria Shows the Battle Against ISIS Is Far From Over

  16-01-2019 18:54 via news.yahoo.com
  A suicide attack in Manbij is just the latest hard truth assessment on how the U.S. remains locked in a brutal fight against ISIS.
  
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• The 2020 Toyota Highlander Looks Redesigned beneath Some Weird Camouflage

  16-01-2019 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  The next-gen three-row SUV will transition to a new platform but should keep the same family-oriented mission.
  
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• Sears, Kmart may survive: Eddie Lampert wins Chapter 11 bankruptcy auction

  16-01-2019 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Sears Holdings could escape its brush with annihilation after the retailer's chairman and largest investor prevailed in an auction.
  
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• Every Star Wars Game EA Has Released...and Canceled

  16-01-2019 18:43
  Electronic Arts has had a somewhat tumultuous relationship with Star Wars since it acquired the franchise's exclusive game license in 2013. At the time, EA announced three of its top studios — DICE, Visceral Games, and BioWare — would be developing games set in a galaxy far, far away. Nearly six years, a studio closure, and a handful of canceled projects later, DICE is the only EA studio to have put out a AAA Star Wars game, leading many fans to question the publisher's plans for the
  
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• AP Explains: Who are al-Shabab attackers of Kenya hotel?

  16-01-2019 18:42 via news.yahoo.com
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The overnight attack on a hotel complex in Nairobi that left 14 dead was quickly claimed by the Islamic extremist group al-Shabab, which has targeted Kenya with several devastating assaults in recent years, leaving hundreds dead. Here's a look at the group which has been called the deadliest in Africa:
  
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• Southwest Airlines flights canceled, delayed due to computer issue in Baltimore

  16-01-2019 18:39 via news.yahoo.com
  A data connectivity issue with Southwest Airlines phones and computer systems Tuesday resulted in delayed flights to and from BWI.
  
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• Super Meat Boy Creator's Personal Approach to Game Design

  16-01-2019 18:37
  Welcome to Humans Who Make Games, a new podcast hosted by comedian Adam Conover that takes a deep dive into some of the most beloved games today with the brilliant designers behind them.
  On the first episode, Conover chats with Edmund McMillen—the mind behind indie hits like Super Meat Boy and The Binding of Isaac—about how he got started making games, the origin of his signature gruesome aesthetic, and the very personal approach he takes to designing games.
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• SAS soldier hailed as a hero after charging into gunfire to take down terrorists in Nairobi hotel

  16-01-2019 18:31 via news.yahoo.com
  A member of the SAS helped save hundreds of lives when he charged into gunfire to rescue civilians trapped during a terrorist attack in Nairobi. A mission mounted by Kenyan forces on Wednesday ended a 20-hour assault on 14 Riverside, a luxury hotel and office complex in one of the city's most affluent districts, killing at least some of the perpetrators. Uhuru Kenyatta, the Kenyan president, said that 14 civilians were killed before the attack was ended in one of the biggest military operations
  
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• Brexit-voting town urges British MPs to grow up

  16-01-2019 18:26 via news.yahoo.com
  In the Brexit-voting town of Redcar in northeastern England, residents voiced dismay at the political infighting that threatens to delay Britain's departure from the EU and called on politicians to "make this work for the country"."I think they're behaving like children," said one resident, Mark Blakey, a day after British MPs voted overwhelmingly against a Brexit deal agreed with Brussels in a humiliating blow for Prime Minister Theresa May."There's a lot of political infighting, a lot of peopl
  
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• The Division 2 closed beta set for February 7, new story trailer released

  16-01-2019 18:20 via gamesradar.com
  You don't have to pre-order to get in, but it will guarantee you a slot
  
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• Jayme Closs kidnapping suspect's father: 'All I care about' is Jayme's family

  16-01-2019 18:13 via news.yahoo.com
  The grandfather of a Wisconsin girl who was kidnapped after her parents were killed in October said Wednesday that he appreciates the sympathy being expressed by the suspect's father.
  
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• Terrified civilians hide, send farewells, during Nairobi siege

  16-01-2019 18:08 via news.yahoo.com
  When an explosion and gunfire rang out at an upmarket hotel complex in Nairobi, people hid under desks, cowered in bathrooms or hunkered down in their cars, some hiding through the entire 20-hour siege.Here are some of the stories from survivors of the attack in the Westlands district of the Kenyan capital that was claimed by Somali Islamist group Al-Shabaab."Please tell my family I love them," 38-year-old Ronald Ng'eno wrote on Twitter in what he believed was his final goodbye.
  
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