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• Canada ambassador walks back comments on Huawai executive

  24-01-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Canada's ambassador to China on Thursday walked back comments that Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou has a "strong case" against extradition to the United States, following a political backlash.Meng was arrested on December 1 while changing planes in Vancouver at the request of the United States, which says she committed fraud by lying to bankers about allegedly violating American sanctions on Iran.
  
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• Donald Trump delays State of the Union Address after Nancy Pelosi bars him from House chamber

  24-01-2019 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump said in a late night tweet on Wednesday that he would delay a State of the Union address until the government shutdown was over. The move came in response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's move to bar him from delivering the annual presidential address in its traditional location, the chamber of the House of Representatives. Nancy Pelosi, the Democrat Speaker of the House, announced the US president was not welcome for the planned major speech on Jan 29. She s
  
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• Florida Secretary of State Resigns amid Blackface Controversy

  24-01-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Florida secretary of state Michael Ertel submitted his resignation Thursday after photos surfaced of him dressed in blackface as a victim of Hurricane Katrina at a Halloween party in 2005.The Tallahassee Democrat obtained the pictures, which show Ertel wearing false breasts, lipstick, a purple shirt with the words “Katrina Victim” written on it, dark paint on his face, and a New Orleans Saints bandana just two months after Katrina devastated New Orleans.“There&rs
  
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• Sebring Florida bank shooting: All 5 victims killed were women

  24-01-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities have begun to release details about the lives that were lost in a shooting at a Florida bank on Wednesday.
  
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• Nancy Pelosi is wrong to postpone State of the Union: Today's talker

  24-01-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  'Now is the time to get together and air our respective visions before the public — and do so in a dignified way that respects our traditions.'
  
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• Ford figures no-deal Brexit could cost it $1 billion

  24-01-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  A big blow in a market where Ford is already struggling.
  
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• Hawaii's Gabbard formally launches campaign for president

  24-01-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  HONOLULU (AP) — U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a Hawaii Democrat known for bucking the party establishment and for criticizing U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, formally launched her campaign for president with a video posted online Thursday.
  
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• Fallout 76's new Survival mode will take the gloves off PvP and it's getting a beta this March

  24-01-2019 23:14 via gamesradar.com
  Survival mode will essentially be the same game but with far fewer restrictions on PvP
  
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• Trump postponement is latest twist in changeable State of the Union

  24-01-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  The presidential address is an annual rite in U.S. politics that often changes and has been delayed before, although the Trump-Pelosi spat may have led to the first postponement initiated by someone other than the president.Trump said late on Wednesday that he would delay his address, which had been slated for Jan. 29.Trump acknowledged it was Pelosi's "prerogative" to cancel and said he would wait.
  
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• Tubbs Fire in Sonoma County was caused by homeowner equipment, not PG&E, investigators say

  24-01-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The deadliest fire of the 2017 North Bay fires was reportedly caused by private equipment.
  
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• Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax Would Cost Jeff Bezos $4.1 Billion in First Year

  24-01-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The Amazon.com Inc. founder and the other 174 Americans on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a ranking of the world’s 500 richest people, would collectively owe $61 billion.Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, plans to propose a tax of 2 percent on those with assets of $50 million to $1 billion and 3 percent on all fortunes exceeding $1 billion, the Washington Post reported Thursday.Almost all of Bezos’s net worth is tied up in Amazon stock, and such a tax bill could force him to sell s
  
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• Giant couture meme dresses are the most relatable fashion on the runway

  24-01-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Viktor & Rolf's Spring 2019 Couture Collection has arrived, and let me tell ya, fashion will never be the same.During Fashion Week in Paris on Wednesday, ambitious designers Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren debuted their latest line of tulle-heavy ball gowns on the runway. The expensive and elaborate dresses were each adorned with bold, dramatic statements like "Leave me alone," "Go to hell," "I'm not shy I just don't like you," and a simple yet powerful, "NO." For many, the gowns came
  
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• U.S. seeks to cut off money for Venezuela's Maduro, aid opposition

  24-01-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Although short on details, the announcement signals that Washington is willing to go beyond traditional diplomatic measures and will seek to drain cash from Maduro's government, which is already struggling under an unprecedented economic meltdown.Such a move would significantly strengthen the hand of Guaido, who swore himself in as interim head of state on Wednesday with the support of Washington and nations around the region."What we're focusing on today is disconnecting the illegitimate Maduro
  
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• Western Digital quarterly revenue misses estimates, shares fall

  24-01-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  (Reuters) - Western Digital Corp reported a bigger-than-expected 20.7 percent fall in quarterly revenue on Thursday, exacerbating concerns that a China-led slowdown in smartphone demand is weighing on sales of its data storage devices.
  
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• Learn More About The Importance Of Your Bike

  24-01-2019 22:44
  Publisher: Sony Interactive EntertainmentDeveloper: SIE Bend StudioRelease: April 26, 2019 Rating: Rating Pending Platform: PlayStation 4Days Gone developer Sony Bend started a series of videos focused on the bleak world featured in the game and what you'll have to do to survive in it. Today, the studio released the latest in its "World Series" of videos. This time, the focus shifts toward Deacon St. John's trusty motorcycle.His drifter bike is much more than a means to travel. Sure, the bike ca
  
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• Commerce secretary says there's no 'good excuse' for furloughed workers to run out of cash

  24-01-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  "There really is not a good excuse why there really should be a liquidity crisis," Ross said, explaining furloughed federal workers should get loans.
  
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• Soul Calibur 6 may see more returning fighters as DLC, according to datamined files

  24-01-2019 22:05 via gamesradar.com
  If these files are to be believed, a few familiar faces are on the way
  
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• China, Russia side with Maduro as US backs Venezuela challenger

  24-01-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States, Britain and major South American nations recognised opposition chief Juan Guaido as Venezuela's interim leader Thursday but China and Russia threw their weight behind embattled President Nicolas Maduro.Here are some of the key reactions after parliamentary speaker Guaido declared himself "acting president" of Venezuela on Wednesday.US President Donald Trump recognised Guaido as acting leader, declaring his National Assembly "the only legitimate branch of government duly electe
  
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• Dem senator explodes at Ted Cruz for 'crocodile tears' over shutdown

  24-01-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  In an impassioned speech, the Colorado senator decried Cruz as a hypocrite over his role in forcing a 2013 government shutdown.
  
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• Government shutdown strains emerge in US air travel system

  24-01-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The strain of a 34-day partial government shutdown is weighing on the nation's air-travel system, both the federal workers who make it go and the airlines that depend on them.
  
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• Kingdom Hearts 3: How to Unlock the Starlight Keyblade Early

  24-01-2019 21:49
  You can work toward unlocking the Starlight Keyblade immediately in Kingdom Hearts 3 right now.
  
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• GTA Online: The Benefactor Schlagen GT Sports Car

  24-01-2019 21:49
  The new The Benefactor Schlagen GT Sports Car and Benefactor Tee have been added to GTA Online this week, along with new discounts and bonus rewards.
  
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• Fortnite: Search Between Mysterious Hatch, Giant Rock Lady, and Precarious Flatbed Challenge

  24-01-2019 21:49
  The eighth week of Season 7 is here and we have a map for the search between a mysterious hatch, a giant rock lady, and a precarious flatbed.
  
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• Anthem Adds a Social Hub

  24-01-2019 21:49
  The lead producer on Anthem has revealed a new social area that has been implemented following player feedback.
  The new Launch Bay is an area where players can "hang out... use the forge, reload and grab a new contract," according to a tweet from BioWare's Michael Gamble.
  He went on to explain that once a mission is wrapped up, players can choose to go to the NPC-centric Fort Tarsis. In regards to implementing the Launch Bay using player feedback, Gamble added, "We figured that we coul
  
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• Second bomb attack in days hits Damascus

  24-01-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  A bomb attack hit near the Russian embassy in the Syrian capital Thursday but caused no casualties, state media said, in the second such blast in Damascus in less than a week.Eight years into Syria's devastating civil war, President Bashar al-Assad's regime is in control of almost two-thirds of the country.Until last week, Damascus had enjoyed more than a year of respite from planted explosives.
  
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• House Democrats to Seek Testimony From Wall Street CEOs, Sources Say

  24-01-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The chief executive officers of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Wells Fargo & Co., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citigroup Inc., Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Corp. could be asked to testify before the House Financial Services Committee, according to people familiar with the discussions.
  
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• Shutdown 5th week: air transport workers warn 'system will break'

  24-01-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Air transport workers warned Thursday that the five-week-old US government shutdown could cause US commercial aviation to collapse.Speaking at the US capital's Reagan Washington National Airport, leaders of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, Air Line Pilots Association and Association of Flight Attendants warned that if the deadlock between President Donald Trump and Democrats in Congress over funds for a border wall does not end soon, flights could be cut back around the country.
  
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• Heinz made Ketchup Caviar so Valentine's Day dates can dine like fancy trash

  24-01-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Nothing says romance like small round capsules filled with tomato goo. That's the new Heinz motto, probably.Why? Well, for starters the condiment company is celebrating Valentine's Day with a fancy new product called Ketchup Caviar, which is, essentially, exactly what it sounds like.Think regular caviar, then remove the delicacy of fish eggs, replace it with balls filled with ketchup, and you have Ketchup Caviar. You OK? Alright, good.> America's favorite ketchup presents America's favorite c
  
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• Polishing Snow

  24-01-2019 21:00
  Publisher: Deep SilverDeveloper: 4A GamesRelease: February 15, 2019 Rating: Mature Platform: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC
  As we go into a surprisingly packed time for video game releases, Metro Exodus is hoping to surprised and delight players when it releases in a few weeks. In an ongoing series about the development of the game, developers 4A Games talk about the actual artistry of creating the broken and cold world of Metro, including how it acknowledges and celebrates Slavic culture.You can c
  
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• Warren to Propose ‘Wealth Tax’ as Income-Inequality Fix

  24-01-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) will propose a so-called wealth tax on Americans with more than $50 million in total assets, two economists helping develop the policy told the Washington Post Thursday.The tax would raise $2.75 trillion over ten years and would affect just 0.1 percent of the population, or 75,000 families, according to Saez and Zucman.“The Warren wealth tax is pretty big.
  
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• Get to know Days Gone's Drifter bike with this road-ready new trailer

  24-01-2019 20:43 via gamesradar.com
  Your motorcycle is your lifeline in this harsh open world
  
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• Southwest Airlines: Hawaii flights likely delayed for months

  24-01-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Southwest Airlines' long-awaited flights to Hawaii are going to be delayed for months due to the government shutdown, executives said Thursday.
  
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• Venezuela military chief declares loyalty to Maduro and warns US not to intervene

  24-01-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuela’s military chief has declared his support for president Nicolas Maduro and warned the US not to intervene – a move that may be crucial if the man sworn in for a second term two weeks ago is to cling on to power.As Britain became the latest nation to recognise opposition politician Juan Guaido as the country’s president, military forces loyal to Mr Maduro took to the airwaves to declare their support.In a televised speech on Thursday, defence minister Vladimir Padrino
  
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• Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen subpoenaed by Senate panel: adviser

  24-01-2019 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's former personal attorney and self-described "fixer" Michael Cohen has been subpoenaed to testify by the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, Cohen's adviser Lanny Davis said on Thursday.Coming one day after he postponed an appearance before a House of Representatives investigative panel, the subpoena thrust Cohen back into the spotlight, with MSNBC and CNN saying he will appear before the intelligence panel in mid-February."This morning the
  
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• Starbucks Happy Hour means buy-one-get-one free Frappuccino and espresso drinks today

  24-01-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Starbucks' Happy Hour is back Thursday, Jan. 24 with a buy-one-get-one free deal on espresso drinks and Frappuccino blended beverages.
  
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• 18% of Developers Are Reportedly Working on Next-Gen Games

  24-01-2019 20:18
  According to a recent report, about 18 percent of developers are working on next-gen games in some form.
  This data comes from GDC’s State of the Game Industry 2019 report, which polled nearly 4,000 developers, giving an indicative, but not perfectly accurate, look at what many developers around the world are up to. Specifically, about 16 percent of developers said they are working on games for both existing and unannounced platforms, while only 2 percent said they are working exclusively o
  
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• Trump tariffs reduce Ford UAW workers' profit-sharing checks by $750 each

  24-01-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Tariff costs of $750 million cut into how much Ford factory workers will share in company profits, the company CFO revealed Wednesday.
  
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• Last Chance to Preorder Resident Evil 2

  24-01-2019 20:08
  
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  Capcom's upcoming Resident Evil 2 is a ground-up remake of the 1998 classic, built using Capcom's RE Engine. The RE Engine is the same graphics engine used in Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. The Resident Evil 2 demo "One Shot" has been played over 1.4 million times, according to Capcom.
  The Resident Evil 2 release date is January 25, but you can try out the 30-minute demo until January 30. Preor
  
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• US requests UN Security Council meeting on Venezuela

  24-01-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States on Thursday called for a UN Security Council meeting on the crisis in Venezuela after it recognized opposition leader Juan Guaido as the acting president.The US mission to the United Nations said it requested that the council meet in open session at 9 am (1400 GMT) Saturday.US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is expected to attend, diplomats said.
  
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• Hamas refuses to let Qatar pay Gaza salaries

  24-01-2019 19:59 via news.yahoo.com
  In November Qatar began a six-month, $150 million program to fund the wages and shipments of fuel for power generation in Gaza.The staggered payments, widely seen as a Qatari bid to increase its regional role, need Israel's permission to get through - an involvement that has riled many among Hamas' Islamist leadership.Khalil Al-Hayya, a senior Hamas official in Gaza, said on Thursday Israel had broken previous agreements brokered by Qatar and Egypt.
  
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• 2019 Editors' Choice Awards: The Best Trucks, SUVs, and Vans

  24-01-2019 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Our extensive automotive knowledge and comprehensive testing help us separate the best from the rest.
  
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• Hamas says rejects Qatari aid millions over Israeli conditions

  24-01-2019 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas said Thursday they would not accept a fresh tranche of Qatari funds, accusing Israel of imposing new conditions on the money entering the blockaded Palestinian territory."We refuse to receive the third Qatari grant in response to the (Israeli) occupation's behaviour and attempts to evade the agreement," Khalil al-Hayya, Hamas's deputy head in Gaza, told journalists.The funds to pay salaries of Hamas employees and support impoverished Gazans are in exchange for relati
  
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• Google pushed to curb employee protests while claiming to support walkouts, documents show

  24-01-2019 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Google is under fire from its own employees after it asked the US government to change rules which allow staff to plan activism on their work email accounts.  The Silicon Valley tech giant urged the National Labor Relations Board, the US agency which enforces labour laws, to roll back rules which stop companies punishing activist employees who form unions or circulate petitions on workplace communication systems, documents obtained by Bloomberg show. Last November thousands of Google e
  
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• Airbus warns no-deal Brexit could spark 'harmful decisions' for UK

  24-01-2019 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Airbus chief Tom Enders on Thursday warned the European aerospace giant could make "very harmful decisions" for Britain if it leaves the European Union without a deal, while Ford said it could cost them $800 million.Enders branded the government's handling of Brexit a "disgrace" and suggested 14,000 jobs at its sites designing and manufacturing wings at Filton in southwest England and Broughton in north Wales were under threat."If there is a no-deal Brexit, we at Airbus will have to make potenti
  
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• As U.S. Digs In at Embassy, Venezuela Military Supports Maduro

  24-01-2019 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  President Nicolas Maduro quickly severed diplomatic ties with the U.S. on Wednesday after Donald Trump publicly backed the opposition’s Juan Guaido as the legitimate leader of Venezuela and gave U.S. diplomats 72 hours to leave the country.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo responded to Maduro by saying the U.S. doesn’t recognize his authority and therefore won’t pull its staff, prompting Diosdado Cabello, a close Maduro ally, to make the threatening comments.
  
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• Apple puts brakes on car team but keeps eye on road

  24-01-2019 19:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Apple acknowledged Thursday that it has trimmed its team devoted to self-driving car technology but stressed that its still in the race.Apple's comment came in response to a CNBC report that the staff of a secretive Project Titan was reduced this week by more than 200 people, some of whom were transferred to jobs elsewhere at the California-based technology group."We have an incredibly talented team working on autonomous systems and associated technologies at Apple," the company said in a releas
  
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• Activists wary of Saudi Davos welcome after Khashoggi murder

  24-01-2019 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Activists are criticising the World Economic Forum for allowing a large Saudi presence in Davos this week without devoting time to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.The Saudi presence "is deeply distressing", Amnesty International chief Kumi Naidoo told AFP on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the global elite in the Swiss Alps.The WEF's annual meeting, he said, comes "literally months after one of the most atrocious violations we have ever seen against the journalistic community".
  
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• Does Anthem Still Feel Like a BioWare Game?

  24-01-2019 19:00
  BioWare has shown a whole heck of a lot of Anthem gameplay in the last few months. We’ve had massive IGN First features on it (all of which you can find here) and the developer has done its own weekly livestreams showing off combat, customization, and more. But through all of that, there have still been persistent questions about how putting a BioWare story into a living, shared-world shooter will play out. Most importantly, will Anthem feel like a BioWare game, or is it something entirely
  
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• Bioware had an entire team dedicating to 'stripping' story references from the Anthem alpha

  24-01-2019 19:00 via gamesradar.com
  You really, really won't be learning much about Anthem's story before launch
  
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• Bioware had an entire team dedicating to 'stripping' story references from the alpha

  24-01-2019 19:00 via gamesradar.com
  You really, really won't be learning much about Anthem's story before launch
  
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