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• Apex Legends Has Hit 25 Million Total Players, Details Upcoming Events

  11-02-2019 23:58
  EA's new battle royale shooter Apex Legends has reached 25 million total players since its debut last week.
  An update on the official EA website from Respawn Entertainment CEO Vince Zampella announced the news of the milestone, which also notes that the game hosted two million concurrent players during its peak over the weekend.
  During its first three days, Apex Legends drew in 10 million players, 2.5 million of which were during the first day.
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• Separated migrant families demand millions from US agencies

  11-02-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — Eight immigrant families who were separated under Trump administration policy filed claims Monday seeking millions of dollars in damages for what a lawyer called "inexplicable cruelty" that did lasting damage to parents and children.
  
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• Journalist Sues Twitter for Banning Her over ‘Women Aren’t Men’ Tweets

  11-02-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  After a number of temporary suspensions, Twitter in November permanently locked the verified account of Murphy, a Canadian writer and self-described feminist, informing her that she had violated the platform’s hateful-conduct rules.In late October, Twitter added “targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals” to its list of prohibited behavior and applied the policy retroactively to Murphy’s earlier tweets.“Women aren’t men,” read a
  
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• Why It Matters If Amy Klobuchar Is An Abusive Boss

  11-02-2019 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Sunday’s announcement of the presidential candidacy of Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar gives new urgency to a spate of stories in the past week about Senator Klobuchar’s long track record of angry, harsh, and frankly abusive behavior towards her staffers over her twelve years in the Senate.Some of Klobuchar’s defenders argue that discussion of Klobuchar’s mistreatment of her subordinates is sexist, irrelevant, or both.Senator Klobuchar’s treatment of her staff behin
  
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• Apex Legends reaches a staggering 25 million players in just a week

  11-02-2019 23:50 via gamesradar.com
  Apex Legends continues to set records with an amazing first week
  
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• Clamor for ouster of top Democrats slows in Virginia

  11-02-2019 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The clamor for the resignation of Virginia's top two politicians seemed to die down Monday, with some black community leaders forgiving Gov. Ralph Northam over the blackface furor and calling for a fair hearing for Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax on the sexual assault allegations against him.
  
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• Snow slams Northwest again and even Hawaii gets some

  11-02-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  SEATTLE (AP) — Schools closed across Washington state and the Legislature canceled all hearings Monday with winter snowstorms pummeling the Northwest again as a larger weather system wreaked havoc in the region and even brought snow to Hawaii.
  
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• Virginia Democrats hold fire on impeachment of lieutenant governor

  11-02-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Fairfax is one of three top state Democrats engulfed by scandal this month.Governor Ralph Northam and Attorney General Mark Herring have also faced criticism after admitting they wore blackface in the 1980s.Patrick Hope, a Democratic member of Virginia's House of Delegates, said he believed Fairfax should have resigned already after two women accused him of sexual assault but added he would not move immediately on his weekend call for impeachment proceedings.
  
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• Every IGN BioWare Game Review - Vote For Your Favorite

  11-02-2019 23:00
  It's been 23 years since a duo of Canadian physicians founded BioWare and started injecting awesome RPGs (and a few action games) directly into the veins of gamers around the world. Later this week it'll release Anthem, which is expected to be one of the biggest games of 2019, so it's a good time to look back and remember the friends we made along the way. IGN's reviewed almost all of BioWare's catalog, and you can flip through all of them in the slideshow below – and, with your memor
  
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• Watch the Jump Force Pre-Launch Tournament Live

  11-02-2019 22:59
  Update: The live player for today's Jump Force pre-launch tournament is up!
  The tournament begins at 2pm PT/5pm ET/10pm UK (Tuesday, February 12 at 9am AET). You can watch the stream in the video player below:
  In anticipation for Jump Force's impending release, we're exclusively partnering with Bandai Namco to stream a big pre-launch tournament live on Monday, February 11, right here on IGN.
  Folks from Bandai Namco, Bandai America, VIZ, Xbox, 8 Way Super Dash, Nissin, and Gamestop
  
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• District 9 director Neill Blomkamp is working on something for Anthem

  11-02-2019 22:43 via gamesradar.com
  And he isn't against Chappie appearing in Apex Legends
  
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• Accused gunman in Pittsburgh shooting pleads not guilty to 19 new charges

  11-02-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  The accused gunman in the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting that left 11 dead in October pleaded not guilty to 19 additional criminal counts.
  
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• Teenager secretly gets vaccinated and blasts 'conspiracy theory-believing' anti-vax parents: 'God knows how I'm still alive'

  11-02-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  A teenager has told how be secretly got vaccinated against the wishes of his parents, who he claimed believed debunked anti-vaccine “conspiracy theories”, they read on the internet.Ethan Lindenberger, 18, appealed for help on a Reddit forum, asking which vaccines he should obtain as he said had never received any, because “my parents are kind of stupid and don’t believe in vaccines”.After reading the advice, and consulting with a pastor, the teenager last December w
  
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• Crackdown 3 Won't Ship With Competitive Multiplayer Parties

  11-02-2019 22:33
  Publisher: Microsoft Game StudiosDeveloper: Sumo DigitalRelease: February 15, 2019 Rating: MaturePlatform: Xbox One, PC
  Crackdown 3 is coming out in just a few weeks and fans of the series are excited to co-op through the city together as private super agents making their own buddy cop movie. While players will get to run around Crackdown's open world together, it doesn't seem they will be able to do everything in the game together.Wrecking Zone, Crackdown's cloud-based destructive multiplayer,
  
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• Nationwide manhunt for disbarred attorney accused of stabbing his mother to death, stealing her car

  11-02-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  -year-old Richard Merritt was supposed to surrender for a 15-year prison sentence for other crimes; Steve Harrigan reports from Atlanta.
  
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• Joy Behar tells Meghan McCain not to 'have a hissy fit' in heated exchange on 'The View'

  11-02-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Joy Behar and Meghan McCain are back at it again, having another heated exchange on Monday's episode of "The View."
  
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• Venezuelan opposition envoy says Brazil will send aid to border

  11-02-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan opposition envoy Maria Teresa Belandria was received as her country's official ambassador in Brazil on Monday and said Brazil's government would provide all possible support to get humanitarian aid to the border.Belandria told reporters that several Brazilian government agencies would be involved in the aid operation, which would open up a second route for food and medicine to enter Venezuela after the main one in Colombia.The lawyer and international law expert was appointed Venezuel
  
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• Denver teachers go on strike in latest US educator walkout

  11-02-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  DENVER (AP) — Striking teachers on Monday picketed outside of schools and marched through Denver's streets as car horns blared in support of the latest U.S. walkout amid a swell of educator activism that has affected at least a half-dozen state over the last year.
  
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• McDonald's brings Donuts Sticks to breakfast starting next week

  11-02-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  McDonald’s is launching McCafé Donuts Sticks nationally for a limited time on Feb. 20. They'll be sold daily until 10:30 a.m.
  
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• Man pleads guilty to 2 murder counts in 1998 triple-murder

  11-02-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — A northern Indiana man pleaded guilty to two counts of murder Monday, the same day jury selection was set to begin in his third trial in a 1998 triple-murder .
  
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• Massive crowds mark 40th anniversary of Iran revolution

  11-02-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran's president on Monday insisted "enemy" plots against the country would fail as vast crowds marked 40 years since the Islamic revolution at a time of heightened tensions with the United States."The presence of people today on the streets all over Islamic Iran... means that the enemy will never reach its evil objectives," a defiant President Hassan Rouhani told those thronging Tehran's Azadi (Freedom) Square, decrying a "conspiracy" involving Washington.Chador-clad women, militia members in c
  
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• Ilhan Omar: Democrat congresswoman accused of antisemitism over Israel tweets

  11-02-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Ilhan Omar, a newly elected US congresswoman, has been accused of antisemitism after she criticised a pro-Israel lobby group online.In two tweets posted late on Sunday night the Minnesota Democrat implied that funding from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was responsible for US politicans’ support for Benjamin Netanyahu‘s controversial Israeli government.Following calls from fellow Democrats for her to apologise, Ms Omar has since posted a message on her Twitter a
  
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• Iran revolution brought repression, failure: Trump

  11-02-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran's Islamic revolution four decades ago has been a complete failure for the country, President Donald Trump said Monday.In a tweet written on the anniversary of the upheaval that was also sent out in Farsi, Trump said: "40 years of corruption.The regime in Iran has produced only #40YearsofFailure.
  
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• The Latest: Delegate: Impeachment push sparked criticism

  11-02-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Latest on scandals involving Virginia's Democratic leaders (all times local):
  
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• Fierce battles near final IS foothold in eastern Syria

  11-02-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic State group militants cornered in their last foothold in eastern Syria fought back with suicide car bombs, snipers and booby traps Monday, slowing Kurdish fighters advancing under the cover of U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, Kurdish news agencies and a Syrian war monitor said.
  
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• Watch Dogs 3 for next-gen rumors swirl thanks to our old friend, the trademark application

  11-02-2019 21:03 via gamesradar.com
  Hack the planet on PS5 and Project Scarlett?
  
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• Budget talks resume amid pessimism over border differences

  11-02-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Politically freighted border security negotiations are teetering just days before a potential new government shutdown. The turmoil is testing the changed balance of power in Washington, with lawmakers engaged in a sparring match over immigration policy that is challenging their ability to reach an accord.
  
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• AccuWeather Alert: 2 bouts of winter weather push through the region

  11-02-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Winter storm watches and advisories have been issued for parts of the New York area as two systems threaten to bring some snow, ice and rain to the region.
  
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• Rep. Ilhan Omar apologizes for 'anti-Semitic' tweets

  11-02-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The Minnesota freshman Democrat issued a statement on Monday apologizing for what critics viewed as anti-Semitic comments that she made over the weekend.
  
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• Democrats Con Their Base with Green New Deal

  11-02-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  In the days since Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey unveiled their “Green New Deal,” we’ve seen the headlines lurch from new rape allegations against Virginia lieutenant governor Justin Fairfax, to confusion and lies about a background document issued by Ocasio-Cortez’s office that contained some, ahem, vivid interpretations of the Green New Deal (upgrading every building in ten years, sustaining people “unwilling” to work, phasing
  
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• Mortal Kombat 11 Director Responds to Alleged Roster Leak

  11-02-2019 20:40
  A possible roster leak for Mortal Kombat 11 surfaced on SteamDB, rumored to have revealed 11 character additions for the game, including three brand new fighters that are unknown.
  The leak appeared in an achievements list on SteamDB, which is a third-party database that takes the exact information from Steam's internal data to show it publicly.
  Due to that process, an achievements list would theoretically have to be added to the PC version of a game by the actual developers for it to appear on S
  
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• Acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan meets Afghan president in Kabul

  11-02-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan Monday, where he met with President Ashraf Ghani as the United States leads a push for peace talks with the Taliban.The visit comes after Washington held major talks with Taliban officials in Qatar last month that negotiators hope could herald a breakthrough in the grinding 17-year conflict.US President Donald Trump is pushing to end US involvement in Afghanistan, where 14,000 American troops are still deployed -- ra
  
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• Chicago Weather: Snow, sleet, freezing rain coming Monday evening

  11-02-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  A Winter Weather Advisory was issued for Monday evening into Tuesday morning.
  
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• California governor to withdraw National Guard from border

  11-02-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  In a rebuke to President Donald Trump, the governor of California on Monday was set to sign an order to pull most of the National Guard troops deployed on the Mexico border.Governor Gavin Newsom's office said he was signing the order ahead of his State of the State speech on Tuesday.Newsom's office said most of the 360 troops deployed at the US-Mexico border will be redeployed to focus on "the actual threats" facing the western state, such as wildfires.
  
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• Apex Legends has a hidden tribute to a developer's dog (and a little Loch Ness Monster)

  11-02-2019 20:26 via gamesradar.com
  Keep an eye out for these stuffed animal companions
  
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• California to withdraw troops from border calling Trump’s immigration crisis ‘manufactured political theatre’

  11-02-2019 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  A second US state is planning on pulling National Guard troops away from its border with Mexico, calling Donald Trump’s claims of a crisis at the border a “manufactured” problem and “political theater”.California Governor Gavin Newsom is expected to say as much on Tuesday during his state of the state address, his first since his election in November.“The border 'emergency' is a manufactured crisis, and California will not be part of this political theatre,&rd
  
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• AOC suggests cocktail recipes to sip while sorting different political issues: 'Hard Brexit - a straight shot of bathtub gin'

  11-02-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York congresswoman and former bartender, has suggested a series of special cocktail recipes for those working for change.The recipes, which include one named Hard Brexit – “a straight shot of bathtub gin, with no imported botanicals” – followed an online suggestion by journalist Anand Giridharadas, who recently said the 29-year-old congresswoman had in a month “changed America’s discourse about billionaires and the common good
  
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• Apex Legends Couldn't Have Been Revealed Any Other Way

  11-02-2019 19:34
  Welcome back to Game Scoop!, IGN's weekly video game talk show. This week we're discussing Apex Legends, Metroidvanias, and more. Watch the video above or download the podcast below.
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• 2019 Volvo S60 Is Sophisticated and Comfortable

  11-02-2019 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  All-New 2019 Volvo S60 Is Sophisticated and ComfortableThe 2019 Volvo S60 is a stylish compact luxury sedan that’s new from the ground up. In fact, it’s an entirely different car than the outgo...
  
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• Italy's Salvini calls Guaido after meeting Venezuela delegation

  11-02-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Italy's far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini spoke by phone with Venezuela's Juan Guaido on Monday after meeting with an opposition delegation he sent from the crisis-hit Latin American nation, his spokesman said.Salvini, who is also deputy prime minister, had a "friendly" conversation with Guaido in which he expressed his "total support" for free elections, later saying they should happen "as soon as possible".Guaido, who heads Venezuela's opposition-controlled National Assembly, last mon
  
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• Axis & Allies Invades Steam Early Access

  11-02-2019 19:10
  Developer Beamdog announced an online adaptation of Axis & Allies, the long-running World War II-themed board game, aptly titled, Axis & Allies Online. For anyone unfamiliar, Axis & Allies tasks players with maneuvering and battling for control over the board as either, as you might expect, the Axis or Allied powers.This is not the first time that Axis & Allies has been translated to a video game. It was brought to PC in 2004, and while that had an online component to i
  
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• Fleeing IS holdout, French women say foreigners still inside

  11-02-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Two French women who fled the Islamic State group's last pocket in Syria told AFP on Monday more foreigners were trapped inside, barred from leaving by Iraqi jihadists.The Muslim converts said they paid smugglers to take them out of the battered IS-held holdout of Baghouz to territory held by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces.
  
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• Pressure mounts on Virginia Democrats over sex assault, racism scandals

  11-02-2019 18:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Fairfax is one of three top Democrats in the state engulfed by scandal this month.Governor Ralph Northam and Attorney General Mark Herring have also faced criticism after admitting to having worn blackface in the 1980s.Patrick Hope, a Democratic member of the state's House of Delegates, said he believed Fairfax should have resigned already after two women accused him of sexual assault but added he would not move immediately on his weekend call for impeachment proceedings.
  
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• U.S. will keep investigating journalist Khashoggi's murder: Pompeo

  11-02-2019 18:51 via news.yahoo.com
  "America is not covering up for a murder," Pompeo said during a visit to Hungary, adding that the United States would take more action to hold accountable all those responsible for the U.S.-based journalist's death inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October.After initially denying his death, Saudi Arabia has confirmed that its agents killed Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and critic of the Saudi government.U.S. lawmakers, Democrats and some of Trump's fellow Republicans, have sough
  
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• Who Is Michael Sanchez? The Brother of Jeff Bezos' Girlfriend Faces Scrutiny

  11-02-2019 18:45 via news.yahoo.com
  The brother of a woman who had an affair with Amazon head Jeff Bezos denied being the source of texts published by the National Enquirer.
  
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• Star Wars: Episode 9 leaked concept art shows new characters and old favorites

  11-02-2019 18:44 via gamesradar.com
  Rey, Kylo Ren, Lando Calrissian, and new characters all on show
  
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• As Maduro Digs In, His Aides Hunt for an Emergency Escape Route

  11-02-2019 18:36 via news.yahoo.com
  The financial noose is tightening globally, many neighbors and western nations are calling on him to hold elections or step aside, and the opposition has galvanized under Juan Guaido into a more cohesive force.Maduro has insisted publicly he’s going nowhere and a departure could be several steps away, if it happened at all.Any potential safe havens bring risks, both for Maduro and the countries involved.
  
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• U.S. lawmakers to hold border security talks in bid to avert shutdown

  11-02-2019 18:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The talks were scheduled to resume in Washington hours before Republican President Donald Trump plans a rally in the Texas border city of El Paso, where he is expected to promote his long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.An anti-wall protest will greet the Republican president, led by hometown Democrat Beto O'Rourke, the former congressman who is considering running for his party's 2020 presidential nomination after gaining national prominence last year by nearly upsetting Republican T
  
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• Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect Robert Bowers pleads not guilty to new charges

  11-02-2019 18:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The 46-year-old man accused of killing 11 people during an attack at a synagogue in Pittsburgh in October 2018 has pleaded not guilty to new charges.On Monday, Robert Bowers pleaded not guilty to 19 additional federal charges of hate crimes, as well as the obstruction of free exercise of religious beliefs and discharging a firearm.Mr Bowers now faces 63 charges.
  
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• Rick Steves: The pros and cons of cruising in Europe

  11-02-2019 18:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Cruising might not be for everyone, but it's an economic, efficient and popular of mode of travel in Europe and beyond.
  
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