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• Police Praise Hero UNC Charlotte Student Who 'Took the Fight' to Gunman Before He Was Killed

  01-05-2019 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Student Riley Howell, 21, "absolutely" saved lives and died a hero during at shooting at UNC Charlotte Tuesday.
  
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• Student killed in University of North Carolina-Charlotte shooting 'died a hero'

  01-05-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  One of the two students who were killed in a shooting at the University ofNorth Carolina at Charlotte on Tuesday attempted to stop the gunman by jumpingon him
  
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• Get a free shiny in Pokemon Let's Go with the new Pokemon Pass app

  01-05-2019 23:39 via gamesradar.com
  If you live in the US, you too can own a white Eevee or an orange Pikachu
  
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• US to give migrants DNA tests to prove family ties

  01-05-2019 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  US border authorities plan to give migrant families DNA tests to determine whether or not the adults and children are related, Department of Homeland Security officials said Wednesday.A "Rapid DNA" test program is being launched in several places along the US-Mexico frontier, where tens of thousands of undocumented migrants have been crossing the border each month, many in family units asking for asylum."We know the problem we are seeing, we know these are fraudulent family units," an official s
  
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• What Next-Gen Console Features Do You Want?

  01-05-2019 23:29
  Welcome back to Game Scoop!, IGN's weekly video game podcast. This week we're discussing next-gen consoles, Phantom Dust, the 1998 Video Game Buyer's Guide, and more. Watch the video above or hit the link below to your favorite podcast service.
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• Kamala Harris' Exchange with William Barr During His Testimony Before Senate Judiciary on Mueller Report

  01-05-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Kamala Harris' Exchange with William Barr During His Testimony Before Senate Judiciary on Mueller Report
  
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• Deutsche Bank Subpoena Deadline Pushed Back to Allow for Hearing

  01-05-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The House of Representatives has agreed to extend the time for Deutsche Bank AG and Capital One Financial Corp. to respond to subpoenas seeking the bank records of President Donald Trump, his family and several of his companies, until seven days after a federal judge rules on the Trumps’ request to block them.
  
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• The Latest: BCA head: Damond probe thorough, independent

  01-05-2019 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Latest on a Minneapolis police officer being convicted of murder and manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed woman who had called 911 (all times local):
  
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• US STOCKS-Wall St drops after Fed chair dampens rate-cut hopes

  01-05-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. stocks ended lower on Wednesday and the S&P 500 snapped a three-day streak of record high closes as comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell appeared to dampen hopes the central bank could move later this year to cut interest rates.In its policy announcement, the Fed held rates steady as expected and struck a cautious tone on inflation.
  
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• 'Selfless' student killed in UNC Charlotte shooting reportedly jumped on gunman to shield peers

  01-05-2019 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The two University of North Carolina at Charlotte students who were killed during a campus shooting Tuesday evening have been identified as 19-year-old Ellis Parlier and 21-year-old Riley Howell, who reportedly died after jumping on the gunman to protect his classmates.
  
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• Barr Mounts Dual Defense of Role in Mueller Probe and of Trump

  01-05-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  In a contentious Senate Judiciary hearing, Barr deflected attacks by Democrats on his decision to oppose an urgent request by Mueller to publicly release summaries of the Russia investigation, and he repeatedly excused conduct by President Donald Trump that the special counsel said could constitute obstruction of justice.The attorney general’s robust defense of Trump prompted several Democrats to call him biased and demand his resignation.Barr is scheduled to appear again Thursday, this ti
  
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• Key takeaways from AG Barr's testimony, Mueller's letter

  01-05-2019 22:46 via finance.yahoo.com
  It was Attorney General William Barr's testimony, but Robert Mueller's words stole the show.In his appearance Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Barr was on the defensive after a letter from Mueller surfaced criticizing how the attorney general handled the public release of the special counsel's core findings.The letter laid bare some of the internal tensions between the attorney general and the special counsel as Barr defended his rollout of the Russia report— and President
  
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• New Gameplay Today – Observation

  01-05-2019 22:45
  Click here to watch embedded mediaPublisher: Devolver DigitalDeveloper: No CodeRelease: Spring 2019 Rating: Rating PendingPlatform: PlayStation 4, PCScottish developer No Code, formed by developers who worked on Alien Isolation, won big in 2017 with Stories Untold, a creepy and stylish horror adventure. This year, the company is bringing its audience to the horrors of space with Observation, a game where you play as an artificial intelligence on a space station where things have g
  
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• Google’s awesome new privacy feature will auto-delete your location history

  01-05-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  We had our first hint this was coming thanks to a beta version of Google Maps from a few months ago, inside of which code was found that revealed Google was considering an excellent new privacy feature. And today, after getting a black eye from reports last summer that revealed Google was tracking and saving your location even when you thought you'd disabled the feature, Google announced the addition of a new privacy control available to users: Auto-deletion of your location history.The feature,
  
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• William Barr defiant amid calls to resign over his handling of Mueller report

  01-05-2019 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  A letter from Robert Mueller expressed concern that the attorney general’s summary did not reflect ‘the nature of this office’s work’The US attorney general, William Barr, has defended his handling of the special counsel Robert Mueller’s report as Democrats called for his resignation and accused him of deliberately misrepresenting the investigation’s findings in the president’s favor.Barr appeared before Congress on Wednesday, delivering his first public
  
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• Epic Games Acquires Rocket League Studio Psyonix

  01-05-2019 22:14
  Fortnite creator Epic Games has announced that it has acquired Psyonix, the studio behind the wildly successful Rocket League.
  Psyonix revealed the news on its blog and promises that this will only bring about positive changes for Rocket League and its community. According to Psyonix, "Rocket League always has been and always will be a community-driven game, and now that we have joined forces with Epic, we will be able to serve our community in even bigger and better ways!"
  As for these changes,
  
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• Epic just bought the Rocket League studio, here's what it means for the Steam version

  01-05-2019 22:08 via gamesradar.com
  Psyonix says this won't affect the game, but it will affect Steam
  
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• University of North Carolina at Charlotte shooting: What We Know Now

  01-05-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The latest: The alleged gunman has been identified as a former student Trystan Andrew Terrell. A vigil is planned for Wednesday. Exams are postponed.
  
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• Anti-Semitic attacks spike, killing most Jews in decades

  01-05-2019 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli researchers reported Wednesday that violent attacks against Jews spiked significantly last year, with the largest reported number of Jews killed in anti-Semitic acts in decades, leading to an "increasing sense of emergency" among Jewish communities worldwide.
  
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• Guatemalan migrant, a 16-year-old boy, dies in government custody in Texas

  01-05-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  For the third time since December, a migrant child died in government custody, raising questions about the treatment of minors along the border.
  
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• UNC Charlotte shooting: Two students killed in deadly campus shooting identified

  01-05-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Ellis Parlier, 19, and Riley Howell, 21, were killed Tuesday in a shooting on the campus of UNC Charlotte Tuesday.
  
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• Donald Trump's latest attacks on Joe Biden: More than 60 retweets

  01-05-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has what may have been his busiest morning ever on Twitter attacking Joe Biden
  
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• Barr Deflects as Democrats Say He Misled on Mueller Summary

  01-05-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Barr was put on the defensive hours ahead of his testimony Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee with the disclosure that Mueller had written a letter objecting that the attorney general misrepresented his report on Russia interference in the 2016 election.“It was my decision how and when to make that public, not Bob Mueller’s,” Barr said of a summary he released in late March.Barr said questions about Mueller’s concerns are “mind-bendingly bizarre”
  
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• Trystan Terrell: Student arrested over deadly North Carolina university shooting

  01-05-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The man accused of shooting two people dead on a college campus has been filmed smirking as he told reporters: "I went into a classroom and shot some guys."Trystan Andrew Terrell made the chilling remarks as he was cuffed and taken into custody on Tuesday night, shortly after two people were killed and four injured at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Charlotte.The shooting began around 5.40pm, when Terrell entered an anthropology class and began shooting, according to witnesses, until h
  
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• Borderlands 3 microtransactions are coming but they won't be 'pay-to-win'

  01-05-2019 21:05 via gamesradar.com
  Borderlands 3 microtransactions explained: They exist but "we're not trying to nickel and dime people"
  
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• 2020 litmus test: All Democratic candidates should call for Trump impeachment proceedings

  01-05-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Our country faces an emergency. Presidential candidates who call for Trump impeachment proceedings to begin show they can be trusted to handle it.
  
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• 7 Best Performing Funds for Your 401(k)

  01-05-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Best investments to add to your 401(k).
  
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• Israel's Netanyahu slams global rise in anti-Semitism

  01-05-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday denounced a rise in anti-Semitism around the world, at a ceremony on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day."The extreme left and the extreme right (around the world) agree on only one thing: their hatred of the Jews," Netanyahu said at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.Netanyahu said anti-Semitism was also found in a New York Times cartoon depicting him as a guide dog wearing a Star of David collar and leading a blind US Presiden
  
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• Number of Venezuelans fleeing to Brazil surges during attempt to oust Maduro

  01-05-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Close to triple the usual number of Venezuelans fled to Brazil on Tuesday, when Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido led an attempt to oust socialist leader Nicolas Maduro from power, according to Brazilian government data released on Wednesday.Some 850 Venezuelans came to Brazil on Tuesday by foot, the government said, compared with the usual range of between 250 and 300.The migrants arrived in Brazil's Roraima state, one of the country's most isolated and poor, which borders Venezuela and
  
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• Borderlands 3 First Gameplay Revealed

  01-05-2019 20:40
  Gearbox Software has shown Borderlands 3’s gameplay for the first time, in a live stream that highlighted a number of new features the studio is introducing in its upcoming loot shooter, which is currently available for preorder and is also set to be shown off at E3.
  And if you're looking for a breakdown of every little bit of info, definitely check out our list of 50 Borderlands 3 details revealed today.
  For starters, player movement appears to be much more fluid than in previous gam
  
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• U.S. Military Intervention in Venezuela 'Possible' as Turmoil Continues

  01-05-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said an attempted "coup" by opposition leader Juan Guaidó has been defeated
  
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• Pompeo, Lavrov trade accusations on Venezuela in phone call

  01-05-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov traded accusations in a phone call Wednesday that the other power was destabilizing Venezuela after an aborted military uprising.With the United States pushing to topple President Nicolas Maduro, Pompeo charged that Russia and Cuba were instrumental in keeping the leftist firebrand in power.Pompeo "stressed that the intervention by Russia and Cuba is destabilizing for Venezuela and for the US-Russia bilateral relationsh
  
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• 5 Great Gift Ideas for Mother's Day

  01-05-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Mother’s Day is approaching fast, but there’s still enough time to pick up exactly the right gift to show Mom how much you care—and how much you’ve learned from her. If she brought you up to be a...
  
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• UPDATE 2-U.S. FAA directive enshrines changes to Boeing 787 Dreamliner

  01-05-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday said it was mandating new flight control software and parts to Boeing Co's 787 Dreamliner to address what it called an unsafe operating condition of certain products on the plane.The FAA's airworthiness directive to plane operators makes compulsory changes Boeing outlined in service bulletins in 2017 and early 2018 for certain areas in 787's tire and wheel "threat zones" that may be susceptible to damage, the company said.Boeing's carbon comp
  
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• Warhammer: Chaosbane Is The Diablo Clone I Didn't Know I Needed

  01-05-2019 20:19
  During the second phase of its beta, Warhammer: Chaosbane is shaping up to be the Diablo clone I didn't know I needed. Numerous copycats have cropped up since Blizzard's action-RPG launched seven years ago, but it's been a while since a standout entry has really made us pay attention. If the rest of Warhammer: Chaosbane is as good as its opening hours, this could be the best bet to satisfy all your loot-collecting, dungeon-crawling needs.
  Set in the fantasy-themed Warhammer universe, Chaosbane p
  
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• Maduro's 'death squads' add a new, terrifying layer of intimidation and violence to the chaos in Venezuela

  01-05-2019 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  The first difference I noticed was the FAES. Driving back into Caracas after an absence of more than eight years, a patrolling truck of masked, black-clad agents wielding their arms like warnings was a noticeable – and menacing – addition to the city’s streets.  This feared new unit – known as the Special Actions Force – did not exist when I moved to Venezuela as a correspondent in Hugo Chávez’s heyday more than a decade ago. Securit
  
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• Klobuchar Gets Barr to Defend Trump Over and Over Again

  01-05-2019 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) forced Attorney General William Barr to repeatedly defend President Trump from evidence presented in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 448-page report that he attempted to obstruct justice on multiple occasions.Klobuchar, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, brought up during Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Trump’s thinly veiled threats against his former fixer and personal attorney Michael Cohen, his interactions with former campaig
  
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• Tension grows between U.S. and Russia over Venezuela standoff

  01-05-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Pompeo by phone that further "aggressive steps" in Venezuela would be fraught with the gravest consequences, the Russian ministry said.The U.S. State Department said Pompeo urged Russia in the call to stop supporting Maduro.On Tuesday, Pompeo accused Russia of intervening to persuade Maduro to abandon a plan to leave the country following a call by opposition leader Juan Guaido for Venezuela's military to help him oust Maduro.
  
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• Odd Truce Takes Hold in Caracas After Day of Violent Clashes

  01-05-2019 20:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Maduro let them do it.The country settled back into its strange status quo, with the armed forces sticking by Maduro, who won a rigged re-election last year, and the Trump administration standing by Guaido, the lawmaker more than 50 nations recognize as Venezuela’s legitimate leader.
  
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• Barr, Mueller's traded barbs over probe go public

  01-05-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Tensions between DOJ leaders and special counsel Robert Mueller's team broke into public view in extraordinary fashion as Attorney General William Barr pushed back at complaints over his handling of the Trump-Russia investigation report. (May 1)
  
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• Borderlands 3 will let you slide around just like Apex Legends

  01-05-2019 20:02 via gamesradar.com
  You'll also be able to mantle and destroy cover
  
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• Borderlands 3 Fast Travel Explained

  01-05-2019 20:02
  As part of today’s Borderlands 3 blowout, IGN had the opportunity to sit down and talk with creative director Paul Sage about how how fast travel will help players traverse planets in the biggest Borderlands yet.
  In Borderlands 3, players can use their ship, the Sanctuary 3, to travel to planets for the first time. Players can continue to use the ship to travel between planets thereafter, but fast travel can be used to travel between points on these planets, and to other planets players ha
  
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• Borderlands 3 Includes Loot and Level Scaling, but Can Be Turned Off

  01-05-2019 20:01
  As part of today’s Borderlands 3 blowout, IGN had the opportunity to sit down and talk with creative director Paul Sage about how the loot and level scaling works for the game’s co-op play.
  “If a level 30 player comes in and plays in a level 20 player’s game, there’s level 30 loot dropping for them: that’s the loot-instancing,” said Sage.
  "But also there’s got to be challenges... so imagine you’re level 20 and I’m level 30 and I come in
  
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• Borderlands 3 has a Captain America and Breaking Bad Easter egg and it’s perfect

  01-05-2019 20:00 via gamesradar.com
  There’s plenty more where that came from
  
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• After all that Troy Baker/Gearbox drama, here’s what Rhys actually sounds like in Borderlands 3

  01-05-2019 20:00 via gamesradar.com
  Listen for yourself
  
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• A Device That Heats Tobacco, But Doesn't Burn It, Can Now Be Sold in the U.S. Here's What to Know About IQOS

  01-05-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Is it safer than cigarettes?
  
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• Pandora's Box

  01-05-2019 19:59
  Publisher: 2K GamesDeveloper: Gearbox SoftwareRelease: September 13, 2019 Platform: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PCThere’s a certain expectation for video game sequels to do everything the previous game did bigger and better and also revolutionize the series in a way that previous games were not able, either through technology or time. This expectation may not always be fair, but when Borderlands 3 was revealed earlier this year, developer Gearbox Software emphasized the former rather than the
  
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• At Mueller report hearing, Republicans shift to Clinton and Obama

  01-05-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Reference to the Strzok-Page texts was an early sign that the Republican members would try to shift the hearing to attack former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama.
  
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• Apple’s new iPad mini just got its first discount ever

  01-05-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  If you're thinking about buying a new Apple iPad mini, we have good news and bad news for you. The good news is if you buy it from Amazon you can save a little money, because it just went on sale for the first time ever. The bad news is that "little" is definitely the operative word here -- you'll only save $10. Every penny counts, of course, so why would you pay $399 when you could pay $389? Of course if you want a really good deal on an iPad, you're better off getting a current-gen 9.7-inch Ap
  
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• Hoda Kotb admits she 'forgot everything' about having a baby and, yes, she Googles

  01-05-2019 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The "Today with Hoda & Jenna" host talked to People about adjusting to life with two kids.
  
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