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• Marvel's Avengers Gameplay Demo Being Released Publicly After Gamescom - Comic Con 2019

  18-07-2019 23:59
  San Diego Comic Con attendees at the Marvel Games Panel got an early look at gameplay for Square Enix's Avengers game. But Crystal Dynamics confirmed that this demo footage will be publicly available a week after Gamescom in August.
  During the Marvel Games Panel, Crystal Dynamics showed off footage from its upcoming Marvel's Avengers game. Along with an extended gameplay video, Crystal Dynamics showed off the customization menu for Avengers. Crystal Dynamics director Shaun Escayg says that playe
  
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• AOC to DHS chief: Border agents shared 'images of my violent rape' in secret Facebook group

  18-07-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioned Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan about the whereabouts of Border Patrol agents who threatened her in a secret Facebook group.
  
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• Everything we learned from the Terminator: Dark Fate panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2019

  18-07-2019 23:49 via gamesradar.com
  The Terminator: Dark Fate panel kicked off San Diego Comic-Con with a bang
  
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• Lindsey Graham on criticism of Trump: 'I don't remember John McCain having to go through this crap'

  18-07-2019 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Graham made the remark when asked about the contrast between how President Donald Trump and former Sen. John McCain treat their political opponents.
  
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• AOC grills acting DHS secretary about CBP Facebook group

  18-07-2019 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan about graphic photos posted in a Facebook group for current and former members of Customs and Border Patrol
  
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• Sheriff's deputy, 1 other killed in north Arkansas shooting

  18-07-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities say two people, including a sheriff's deputy, were killed Thursday in a shooting in rural northern Arkansas.Arkansas State Police spokesman Bill Sadler said Stone County Sheriff's deputy Sergeant Mike Stephen, 56, was killed as he was responding to a call in Leslie when a suspect opened fire.Sadler said Stephen arrived around 8:40 a.m. at a house in response to a domestic welfare check call, shortly before other deputies arrived.
  
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• Iran seizes foreign oil tanker in Persian Gulf, 12 on vessel, state media reports

  18-07-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Twelve crews members were on the Panamanian-flagged vessel when it was captured near the Strait of Hormuz.
  
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• Borderlands: GOTY Edition is free to play on Xbox One and PC through Sunday

  18-07-2019 23:26 via gamesradar.com
  The game will also be available for half-off the week after the freebie ends
  
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• Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 Confirms Loki, Cylcops, Colossus, And Details First DLC Wave

  18-07-2019 23:20
  Publisher: NintendoDeveloper: Team NinjaRelease: July 19, 2019 Rating: Teen Platform: Switch
  Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, Nintendo's try at this whole "Marvel games" thing is hours away at this point, but there's still some questions left to be answered. At E3 this year, Nintendo confirmed that the game would be getting an expansion featuring characters from the X-Men and other series, but didn't detail which. At the Marvel Games panel at San Diego Comic-Con, we finally got infor
  
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• Police responding to foul odor find woman dead in New York City apartment

  18-07-2019 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Police are investigating the death of a 33-year-old woman found dead with obvious signs of trauma to her body.
  
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• Don't Miss: Making Insomniac's Spider-Man do what a spider can

  18-07-2019 23:16
  Insomniac Games' Ryan Smith talks to Gamasutra about the game design foundations of Marvel's Spider-Man (and how far back in Insomniac Games history they go). ...
  
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• Rand Paul Fires Back at Jon Stewart on Fox News: He’s ‘Not Using His Brain’

  18-07-2019 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  A day after former Daily Show host Jon Stewart and 9/11 responder John Feal came on Fox News and eviscerated him and fellow GOP Sen. Mike Lee for blocking the reauthorization of the 9/11 victims' compensation fund in the Senate, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) appeared on Fox to return fire.And not only did the Kentucky lawmaker toss a lot of insults Stewart’s way, but Paul also claimed he should be lauded as a hero for holding up additional funding for 9/11 victims.“I know Jon Stewart,”
  
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• Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 Expansion Pass and Free DLC Detailed - Comic Con 2019

  18-07-2019 23:00
  Marvel Game Studios announced the first DLC characters coming to Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3. The add-on characters include a mix of unlockable, free, and paid DLC characters such as Loki, Cyclops, Colossus; as well as the Marvel Knights roster which includes: Blade, Moon Knight, Punisher, and Morbius.
  Attendees in the Marvel Games Panel in Hall H today at San Diego Comic Con got the first look at the new characters coming to Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 after launch. The first character that shown
  
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• The U.S. Marines Might Be Souring on Amphibious Assault Ships. Here's Why.

  18-07-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  The incoming commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps is backing away from the service’s longstanding requirement for 38 dedicated amphibious assault ships.The move could signal the beginning of a new approach to amphibious warfare for the world’s leading marine force.New commandant Gen. David Berger is “willing to shed some key tenets of the Marines’ amphibious force-planning in recent years – including the demand for 38 amphibious warships to support a two Marine Exped
  
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• Lawyer: El Chapo was whisked away within hours of sentencing

  18-07-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Only hours after receiving a life sentence, convicted Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was forced to make a sudden departure to the highest-security prison in the U.S. to serve the term, his lawyer said Thursday.A government helicopter whisked the narco, notorious for his daring jailbreaks, out of New York City on Wednesday after the sentencing in federal court in Brooklyn, said defense attorney Jeffrey Lichtman.For most defendants, there's a lag between sentencing and a decision by t
  
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• Top Gun: Maverick's first trailer has Tom Cruise, aerial acrobatics, and a funeral

  18-07-2019 22:46 via gamesradar.com
  Maverick takes the stage at SDCC
  
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• Closer to War: U.S. Troops Aboard Amphibious Assault Ship Force Down Iranian Drone

  18-07-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. troops aboard an amphibious assault ship on July 18, 2019 forced down an Iranian drone over the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. president Donald Trump announced.The downing comes just a few weeks after Iranian forces downed an American drone in the same area. The mutual shoot-downs could escalate the already tense situation in the Persian Gulf region.Trump said the unmanned aerial vehicle threatened USS Boxer.Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman told The New York Times that Boxer was in international
  
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• Microsoft sees dip in quarterly Xbox revenue as hardware sales slow

  18-07-2019 22:35
  Microsoft has closed out the fourth quarter of its 2019 fiscal year with year-over-year decreases in both its game and Xbox businesses, though full-year game revenue is on the rise....
  
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• Iran makes 'substantial' nuclear offer in return for US lifting sanctions

  18-07-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  * Plan would allow enhanced, permanent nuclear inspections * Foreign minister: ‘It’s not about photo ops. We want substance’Mohammad Javad Zarif at the UN on Thursday. He said: ‘If they [the Trump administration] are putting their money where their mouth is, they are going to do it.’ Photograph: Richard Drew/APIran has offered a deal with the US in which it would formally and permanently accept enhanced inspections of its nuclear programme, in return for the permane
  
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• California: 'resistance' state has donated more to Trump than to most Democrats in 2020 race

  18-07-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  President has raised $3.2m in California this year, analysis finds – more than Joe Biden and Bernie SandersDonald Trump takes a selfie with a local member of the press as he tours the border wall between the United States and Mexico in Calexico, California, in April. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty ImagesResidents of California, the self-fashioned “resistance” state that has sued the Trump administration more than 50 times, has donated more money to the Trump 2020 campaign than
  
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• Pokemon Masters shows off online co-op battles in a new trailer

  18-07-2019 22:32 via gamesradar.com
  Pokemon Masters' second trailer introduces online multiplayer
  
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• Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin Were Supposed to Nap After Landing on the Moon, But They Couldn't Wait to Walk

  18-07-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  And other highlights from TIME's original 1969 coverage of the Apollo 11 moon landing
  
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• The Latest: Arkansas state police ID sheriff's deputy killed

  18-07-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Arkansas State Police have identified a sheriff's deputy killed in a shooting in northern Arkansas as Sergeant Mike Stephen.State Police spokesman Bill Sadler said Stephen responded to a domestic welfare check at a house in Leslie, about 77 miles (124 kilometers) from Little Rock, around 8:40 Thursday morning.Stephen was killed at the scene.
  
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• Grab an Xbox One S for just $180 to gear up for fall's major gaming releases

  18-07-2019 22:26 via gamesradar.com
  Get your own Xbox One for one of the lowest prices the system has ever been
  
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• Hearthstone: Reno Jackson Is Back! See the New Card!

  18-07-2019 22:20
  
  One of the most iconic characters in Hearthstone history: the famed explorer and artifact collector, Reno Jackson, is returning to Hearthstone in the game’s next set of cards – Saviors of Uldum, and Blizzard has just revealed the card itself – Reno the Relicologist – during a panel at San Diego Comic Con.
  As expected, Reno the Relicologist continues the tradition of Reno being associated with “no duplicates” decks in which you restrict your deck to only one co
  
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• 'A kennel for dogs': Lawmakers hammer acting DHS chief Kevin McAleenan over migrant detention facilities

  18-07-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Acting DHS chief Kevin McAleenan faces questions on the separation of migrant families and conditions at overcrowded detention centers.
  
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• Bungie shares new areas from the "completely remastered" Moon in Destiny 2: Shadowkeep

  18-07-2019 22:18 via gamesradar.com
  Plus more ghosts, and not those kinds of Ghosts
  
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• Witcher Netflix series showrunner on why Superman will make the perfect Geralt

  18-07-2019 22:14 via gamesradar.com
  "He embodies Geralt in a way that I don’t think anybody else could"
  
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• ‘I am disgusted’: New Yorkers react to Trump telling congresswomen to ‘go back’ to their countries

  18-07-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  New Yorkers, like much of the country, have some strong opinions about the latest controversy engulfing President Trump.“I am disgusted at the Republicans,” said Randi, of Manhattan. “I can’t believe no one stands up to him. I thought of myself as independent, and I’m forced into being a Democrat.”
  
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• Iran's Foreign Minister Zarif: We Can't "Discount" Possibility of War

  18-07-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  On Thursday, National Interest Editor Jacob Heilbrunn interviewed Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif in New York at the Ambassador’s residence on the current state of U.S.-Iran relations. The transcript has been lightly edited for readability.Jacob Heilbrunn: With the American shooting down of an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz today, are we on a path of escalation?Mohammed Javad Zarif: I checked with Tehran, and we do not have any information about having lost a drone tod
  
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• California city set to ban gendered words like 'manhole' and 'manpower'

  18-07-2019 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  The City Council in Berkeley, Calif., votes to remove gender-specific words from its municipal code.
  
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• Philadelphia moves to fire 13 officers over Facebook posts

  18-07-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The Philadelphia Police Department is suspending 13 officers with intent to fire them following an investigation into offensive and sometimes threatening Facebook posts, the police commissioner announced on Thursday. The department had placed 72 officers on administrative leave in June after a nonprofit group published the results of a two-year review of personal Facebook posts or comments from officers in Philadelphia and seven other U.S. police departments. The team of researchers found office
  
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• Zynga is growing its presence in India with a studio expansion

  18-07-2019 21:52
  Zynga is moving into a new space in Bengaluru, noting that the city has become a game development hub in India. ...
  
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• Pakistan lost $50 million from airspace restrictions: minister

  18-07-2019 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Pakistan's aviation minister on Thursday said that his country suffered loses of over eight billion rupees ($50 million) from airspace restrictions imposed since February which affected hundreds of commercial and cargo flights.Pakistan closed its airspace after an attack by a Pakistan-based militant group in Indian-controlled Kashmir led to clashes between the nuclear-armed powers, adding flight time for passengers and fuel costs for airlines.“Over eight billion rupees worth of losses have
  
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• Trump Says U.S. Warship Shot Down Iranian Drone over Strait of Hormuz

  18-07-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump announced Thursday that a U.S. warship has downed an Iranian drone flying in the Strait of Hormuz.“The Boxer took defensive action against an Iranian drone, which had closed into a near distance, approximately 1000 yards, ignoring multiple calls to stand down, threatening [the] safety of [the] ship and ship’s crew,” Trump told reporters during a White House press conference.The drone was “immediately destroyed,” according to the president.The confron
  
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• Ex-University of Illinois PhD Candidate Sentenced to Life in Prison for Murder of Visiting Chinese Scholar

  18-07-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal jury sentenced the former University of Illinois physics doctoral student who kidnapped and murdered a visiting Chinese scholar to life in prison on Thursday.Brendt Christensen, 29, was found guilty last month during his trial at the U.S. District Court in Peoria, after his own defense team admitted that he was responsible for 26-year-old Yingying Zhang’s death.Though Illinois no longer has capital punishment in state cases, Christensen could have been sentenced to death because
  
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• From the 'Central Park Five' to 'the squad': A dozen times Donald Trump has stoked racial tensions

  18-07-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has stirred controversy for years with incendiary rhetoric directed at people of color, from the "Central Park Five" to 'The Squad."
  
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• Dominican Republic to enhance food and drink inspections after tourist deaths

  18-07-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The Dominican Republic is amping up safety measures, including enhancing food and rink inspections, after a spate of tourist deaths.
  
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• Get a job: Disruptor Beam is hiring a Senior Game Designer

  18-07-2019 21:20
  As a Senior Game Designer, you will work with a team of producers, designers, engineers, product managers and marketers to lead the creation of world-class free-to-play mobile games....
  
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• LAPD officer pleads not guilty to multiple rape charges after 'cold hit' DNA match

  18-07-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  A Los Angeles Police Department officer arrested on multiple sexual assault charges has pleaded not guilty, prosecutors announced Thursday.
  
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• Sky is the next game from the creators of Journey and it's out on iOS right now

  18-07-2019 21:16 via gamesradar.com
  Sky: Children of Light is coming to Android, PC, and consoles "soon"
  
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• Video: Letting Go - The Florence postmortem

  18-07-2019 21:07
  In this 2019 GDC session, Mountains' Ken Wong discusses the journey of designing the studio's hit debut game Florence, a poignant look at the ups and downs of relationships....
  
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• Poll: 38 Percent of Democrats Say American Dream Is Unattainable for Them

  18-07-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  38 percent of Democrats say they do not believe they will achieve the American dream in their lifetimes, compared to just 11 percent of Republicans, according to a new Gallup poll.Two-thirds of independents said they see the dream as attainable, compared to 31 percent who said they do not. Overall, about 70 percent of Americans feel that American dream could be grasped, the poll reported, while 29 percent disagree.The 38 percent of Democrats who said they did not believe they could achieve the A
  
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• How Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 Aims for Accessibility and Challenge

  18-07-2019 20:46
  Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 comes on the heels of Avengers: Endgame, the 2nd biggest film of all time worldwide. And so, understandably, there might be quite a few Marvel fans planning to dive into the series for the first time. Marvel Games and developer Team Ninja have worked to ensure the adventure remains accessible to them, while also delivering plenty of challenge for veteran players.
  IGN spoke to members of Team Ninja and Marvel Games at E3 — you can read our previous coverage about
  
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• Crowd at Trump rally yells 'Send her back' amid continuing attacks on Democratic congresswomen

  18-07-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump played to voters' grievances, drawing a chant from the crowd of "Send her back! Send her back!"
  
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• The Lion King has been recreated in Far Cry 5 by a world-building genius

  18-07-2019 20:28 via gamesradar.com
  The Office, Labyrinth, and Toy Story too
  
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• White House says Trump didn't let the 'send her back' chant go on very long, will try to stop it in the future

  18-07-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  The problem with the progressive Democrat 'Squad' is that the four congresswomen continually run down America with problematic and dangerous language, says White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley.
  
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• Satellite images ‘show US military buildup in Saudi Arabia’ amid Iran tensions

  18-07-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States is preparing to send hundreds of troops to Saudi Arabia where satellite images appear to show a build up of American forces on the ground. Up to 500 soldiers are to be sent to the Prince Sultan Airbase in the desert to the east of the capital Riyadh, two officials told CNN, speaking on condition of anonymity. Preparations are also reportedly underway for a large missile installation from which Patriot surface-to-air missiles can be launched to protect the base from incoming thr
  
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• From Russia, No Love for EU's New Chief and her Hawkish Stance

  18-07-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Ursula von der Leyen won’t be getting a bear hug from the Kremlin.Russia’s top diplomat was asked during a visit to Germany about the incoming president of the European Commission and her “strict” view of his country. His frosty response was that the decision by the European Union’s leaders and Parliament was one “we simply acknowledge.”“Show me anyone who isn’t critical of Russia nowadays,” Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
  
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• Argentina acts against Hezbollah, blamed for terror attacks

  18-07-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Argentina's government on Thursday branded Hezbollah a terrorist organization and froze its assets, 25 years to the day after a bombing blamed on the Lebanese-based group destroyed a Jewish community center in Argentina's capital, killing 85 people.The nation's Financial Information Unit took the action a day after President Mauricio Macri's government created a list of terrorist organizations to help coordinate actions with other nations and as the nation held memorial services for victims of t
  
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