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• Don't Miss: The art of the tutorial

  24-07-2019 23:50
  Experienced devs from across the industry share their perspective on the best way to make people feel comfortable the first time they play your game. ...
  
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• DOJ won't charge William Barr, Wilbur Ross after contempt vote

  24-07-2019 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Lawmakers never expected the Justice Department to prosecute its own leader.
  
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• Mueller testimony: Five crucial takeaways from special counsel hearings

  24-07-2019 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump said Robert Mueller’s testimony on Capitol Hill was “one of the worst performances in the history of our country”. Meanwhile, for at least one Democratic congressman, it underscored the need to open impeachment hearings.Over the course of more than five hours of quiet, rather than dramatic testimony on Capitol Hill, Mr Mueller defended the work of team of investigators and the report that was made public in April.It is not clear whether the appearance of Mr Mueller
  
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• Treasury's Mnuchin says Amazon 'destroyed' U.S. retail sector

  24-07-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Mnuchin said he looked forward to hearing the results of a Justice Department probe, announced on Tuesday, into whether big U.S. technology firms engage in anticompetitive practices, the strongest sign yet that the Trump administration is stepping up its scrutiny of Big Tech. "If you look at Amazon, although they're certain benefits to it, they've destroyed the retail industry across the United States," Mnuchin told CNBC.
  
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• Trump wants restraining order to keep his New York tax returns away from Democrats

  24-07-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  It’s another volley in the tug-of-war between Trump and Democrats who are bent on getting ahold of his tax returns.
  
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• Border Patrol boss joined Facebook page to read staff posts

  24-07-2019 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  The head of the U.S. Border Patrol said Wednesday that she joined a Facebook group whose members mocked migrants and lawmakers so she could read what her personnel thought about her, and said she knew little about the group. Chief Carla Provost said during a congressional subcommittee hearing in Washington that she logged on to Facebook very rarely and that she immediately reported her membership in the group to an oversight division of U.S. Customs and Border Protection after she realized she w
  
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• Report: Truck crossed highway line in crash that killed 8

  24-07-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  A crash that killed eight people in Mississippi last month happened after a box truck crossed the center line of a two-lane rural highway and struck a van, according to a federal report issued Wednesday.The National Transportation Safety Board's preliminary report confirms what the van driver, Alejandro Estrejo Resendiz, told The Associated Press hours after the June 3 wreck near Scooba — that he swerved but the truck hit the van.The van was owned by Sharp Forestry in Columbus, Mississippi
  
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• Justice Department will not pursue criminal contempt charges in Census dispute with Congress

  24-07-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Justice Department will not pursue criminal charges against Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, after Democrats in the House of Representatives voted to hold them in contempt in a dispute over documents concerning whether to include a citizenship question on the 2020 Census. "Accordingly, the department will not bring the congressional contempt citations before a grand jury or take any other action to prosecute the Attorney General or the Secretary," he add
  
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• Police: Beaten Chicago teen may have been sexually assaulted

  24-07-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A 15-year-old "special needs" Chicago girl who was beaten by a group of people in a video posted online may also have been sexually assaulted off camera at some other point in time, police said Wednesday.Detectives are trying to piece together basic facts about the "sick and disgusting crimes" committed against the teen, including where and when the beating took place and who was involved, Officer Jose Jara, a police spokesman, said at a news conference.
  
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• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy TV Series Reportedly Coming to Hulu

  24-07-2019 23:02
  Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is reportedly being turned into a television show for the streaming service Hulu.
  Deadline is reporting that a television adaptation of the sci-fi comedy series is coming to the streaming service. Carlton Cuse (Lost, Locke & Key) is attached as showrunner and Jason Fuchs (Wonder Woman) is a writer on the series.
  We reached out to Hulu for verification, but the company declined to comment.
  The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Gala
  
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• Will China send in troops to stamp out protests in Hong Kong?

  24-07-2019 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Fears are growing in the city that the military could be called in to quell unrest.
  
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• New San Francisco campaign aims to house 1,100 homeless

  24-07-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Homelessness and a housing crunch have come to define San Francisco as much as the Golden Gate Bridge or Alcatraz.Now a new public engagement campaign is urging residents to put aside their political differences and support finding homes for more than 1,000 homeless people.Philanthropist Daniel Lurie, founder of the anti-poverty nonprofit behind "All In," says he wants to inspire people in a city known for its liberal politics to tackle a problem mired in negativity, despair and political fighti
  
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• Mueller: Trump's answers were 'generally' untruthful

  24-07-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Former special counsel Robert Mueller told lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Wednesday that President Trump’s written answers to his questions were not only incomplete — they were “generally” untruthful.
  
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• America’s New B-21 Stealth Bomber Is Just Two Years Away

  24-07-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Air Force’s new B-21 stealth bomber could fly as early as December 2021, Air Force vice chief of staff Gen. Stephen Wilson said at an event in Washington, D.C. on July 24, 2019.Air Force magazine broke the news.Wilson told the audience he in recent weeks visited Northrop Grumman’s facilities in Melbourne, Florida, where he was “looking at the B-21.” Northrop is “moving out on that pretty fast.” Wilson said, adding he has an app on his phone “cou
  
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• Harry Potter: Wizards Unite dragons are coming first to Fan Fest, then the world

  24-07-2019 22:30 via gamesradar.com
  Harry Potter: Wizards Unite dragons are coming first to Fan Fest, then the world
  
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• Jon Stewart: Rand Paul is 'a scalawag and a ragamuffin'

  24-07-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  This week Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., voted against a bill that replenishes funding for the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund. And on Wednesday, Jon Stewart reacted in a now ongoing feud between the comedian and the GOP senator.
  
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• A note left in a Domino's Pizza box led to rescue of a kidnapped woman, police say

  24-07-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman who was allegedly bound, gagged and beaten was rescued after leaving a note asking for help at a Domino's Pizza in Anthony, Texas.
  
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• Titanic explorer to search for Amelia Earhart's plane

  24-07-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Robert Ballard, the underwater explorer who found the Titanic, has a new quest -- searching for the plane of famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart, who disappeared over the Pacific in 1937.National Geographic said Ballard plans to leave from Samoa on August 7 to carry out the hunt with his state-of-the-art research vessel E/V Nautilus.National Geographic said it plans to film the expedition and air a documentary about it on its television channel on October 20.
  
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• Newborn found on doorstep at apartment complex where another baby was left 2 years ago

  24-07-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Orlando Police found a 1-day-old infant wrapped only in a T-shirt on front doorstep.
  
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• A Little Help From My Friends

  24-07-2019 22:15
  Publisher: Bethesda SoftworksDeveloper: Machine GamesRelease: July 26, 2019 Platform: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC
  We're just a day out from the PC release of Wolfenstein: Youngblood and two days out from the console releases, which means it's launch trailer time. The new trailer consists mostly of co-op gameplay between the two sisters, but has a few cutscenes in there for people eager to absorb more of the game's story before release.Check out the Wolfenstein: Youngblood launch trailer below.Cl
  
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• Wolfenstein's Story Explained

  24-07-2019 22:00
  
  With Wolfenstein Youngblood on the horizon, what better time than now to take a look back at the story of BJ Blazkowicz, and see how Terror Billy earned his nickname and reputation as a Nazi Killing badass, and how we’ve gotten to where we are today.
  Here's a breakdown of the plot in Machine Games' two mainline Wolfenstein games, The New Order and The New Colossus.An Alternate Reality World War 2
  The year is 1946, World War 2 is in full effect, and the tide of the war is starting to shift
  
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• Pokemon Masters’ Microtransactions Don’t Seem Too Intrusive

  24-07-2019 21:43
  
  Pokemon Masters is a collaboration between DeNA (Fire Emblem Heroes, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp), Game Freak, and The Pokemon Company that seems to be working surprisingly well. As Pokemon Masters is a free-to-play game, I expected to see a potentially annoying gacha system paired with even more annoying currencies that moderate progression, but was instead met with a cool way to get to better know characters from across the Pokemon universe all in one place ⁠— of course, while als
  
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• Wind moves huge wildfire away from nuke facilities in Idaho

  24-07-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The largest wildfire at the nation's primary nuclear research facility in recent history had been burning close to buildings containing nuclear fuel and other radioactive material but a change in wind direction Wednesday was pushing the flames into open range at the sprawling site in Idaho, officials said.The lightning-caused fire at the Idaho National Laboratory is one of several across the U.S. West.Before the wind shifted, the Idaho blaze got close to several lab facilities, including one whe
  
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• Governor acknowledges Native Hawaiian plight on Mauna Kea

  24-07-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  After a week of tension and dozens of arrests, Hawaii's governor is vowing to find a peaceful resolution to the ongoing stalemate with Native Hawaiian activists who are trying to prevent the construction of another telescope atop a Big Island volcano.Gov. David Ige visited the protest site Tuesday evening after acknowledging that their grievances were not just about the new observatory but also the treatment of Native Hawaiians going back more than a century.Activists welcomed Ige with a nose-to
  
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• Mom arrested after bringing dead daughter to hospital claiming her neck was injured in wreck

  24-07-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Police arrested the mother of a 5-year-old girl who her brought to an Alexandria hospital said the girl's neck was injured in an auto accident.
  
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• Trump administration's own study shows food stamp move may hurt poor

  24-07-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  A Trump administration proposal to tighten eligibility for food stamps could undercut access to basic nutrition for millions of Americans and hurt some low-cost retailers, according to an analysis conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which runs the program. The study clashes with the administration's defense of the proposed rule change, unveiled on Tuesday, which it said would end widespread abuse of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by Americans with suffic
  
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• Analysis: The Robert Mueller hearings are nasty reruns and depressing TV

  24-07-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  USA TODAY Network media critic Bill Goodykoontz writes that the Robert Mueller hearing before the House Judiciary Committee was nasty, bad TV.
  
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• EA Access is finally on PS4 but its list of games is quite a bit shorter

  24-07-2019 21:17 via gamesradar.com
  EA Access is missing 32 games on PS4 and there's good reason
  
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• Mueller: A president can be charged with obstruction of justice after leaving office

  24-07-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Robert Mueller did not make a recommendation for or against obstruction charges for Trump, and instead discussed the Justice Department policy.
  
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• Democrats ask Mueller if Trump could avoid criminal charges if he serves a 2nd term

  24-07-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  After testifying that the president could be charged with obstruction of justice after he leaves office, former special counsel Robert Mueller is asked about the statute of limitations.
  
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• Charlottesville statue of Robert E. Lee vandalized with anti-Trump graffiti

  24-07-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  A statue of Robert E. Lee that was at the center of violent protests in 2017 at a Charlottesville, Virginia, park, was vandalized early Wednesday.
  
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• Fire Emblem: Three Houses Will Get A Harder Difficulty Mode Shortly After Launch

  24-07-2019 20:30
  Publisher: Nintendo Release: July 26, 2019 Platform: Switch
  With Fire Emblem: Three Houses just a few days away now, fans of the series might be looking to maximize their experience with the game from the get-go. If you are looking to play Fire Emblem at its absolute hardest difficulty, long known as "Lunatic" mode, you will have to wait until after the game releases, as it's coming in a post-launch patch.Genki Yokota, the director of the game, revealed this in an interview with Japanese gaming
  
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• Destiny 2 Solstice of Heroes 2019 event is bringing Shadowkeep-ready armor and the new European Aerial Zone

  24-07-2019 20:19 via gamesradar.com
  The event will be live through August 27
  
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• Toddler injured after jumping on baggage belt, falling in luggage room at Atlanta airport

  24-07-2019 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  A 2-year-old boy was hurt after jumping on a baggage conveyor belt at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. He landed in a luggage room.
  
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• Temperature records broke in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands today

  24-07-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  It's back. After a June heat wave smashed national temperature records in France and broke historic June records across Europe, a mass of hot air has returned to the continent. On Wednesday, the Netherlands Meteorological Institute reported that the nation's all-time temperature record, which stood for the last 75 years, fell as temperatures hit 101.8 degrees Fahrenheit (38.8 C).Belgium broke its national heat record too, as temperatures reached 103.8 F (39.9 C), reported David Dehenau
  
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• Schiff: Mueller investigation showed Trump's 'disloyalty to country'

  24-07-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  The House Intelligence Committee chairman said it doesn’t matter whether Trump's or his campaign’s conduct during the 2016 election and ensuing FBI investigation amounted to crimes. To Schiff, they amounted to something worse.
  
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• Sudan's army chief among several arrested in new coup plot

  24-07-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Sudan's army chief was among several people arrested in a coup plot, the country's military said Wednesday, shortly after reports emerged of at least a dozen high-ranking army officers and Islamists being taken into custody in the conspiracy.This was the second coup plot reported this month in Sudan, where talks between the military and the country's pro-democracy movement have dragged out over the final and crucial part of a power-sharing deal for the nation's transitional period.Earlier in Jul
  
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• Mueller Resists Democratic Push to Reveal More From Trump Probe

  24-07-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Robert Mueller made his reluctant, long-awaited appearance before Congress Wednesday, resisting pressure from Democrats who had hoped he’d reveal additional information about his investigation of President Donald Trump.“We decided we would not make a decision on whether the president committed a crime,” Mueller said in his opening statement before the House Judiciary Committee. Under questioning, though, Mueller acknowledged it’s possible Trump could be pro
  
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• Europe's heatwave: Eurostar trains breaks down as records tumble in Belgium, Netherlands and Germany

  24-07-2019 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Eurostar trains broke down, tigers in zoos were fed chicken ice cubes, and France warned that Notre-Dame was at the risk of collapse on Wednesday, as Europe sweltered under a record-breaking heatwave. For the second time in a month, a high pressure system drew scorching air from the Sahara desert, breaking heat records for Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, while France risked doing the same. In the Netherlands, the temperature reached 39.1C, breaking the previous record of 38.6C set in Augus
  
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• The Best Couples in Video Games

  24-07-2019 19:52
  
  A few years ago, we wrote about all of our absolute favorite couples in video games, but in a span of five years, a lot of things can change. So we've updated our list to include more of our favorite couples, from casual games to more serious RPGs, and to celebrate the growing representation of interractial and LGBTQ+ representation. Flip through our gallery below to check out all the couples we love, or keep scrolling to read.
  Alexios or Kassanda, and literally everyone - Assassin's Creed Odyss
  
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• Home Depot Employee Dies After Dry Wall Falls on Him

  24-07-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A 60-year-old man died overnight following an accident at the Missouri Home Depot where he worked.
  
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• Syrian father scrambles to reach his children after airstrike in Idlib

  24-07-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Intense bombing in the Syrian province of Idlib left a father scrambling to rescue his children while his baby daughter dangled off the edge of a destroyed building.  The widely circulated photograph showed the aftermath of a Russian or Assad regime strike on the town of Ariha in western Idlib, the last rebel-held bastion in Syria.  The man, Amjad al-Abdullah, looks on in horror as he tries to reach his children. His infant daughter, Rawan, is held up by a scrap of clothing while two o
  
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• How does the Mueller testimony impact Trump’s chances of being impeached?

  24-07-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Special counsel Robert Mueller has finally testified on Capitol Hill, something long-sought by Democrats seeking to impeach Donald Trump, who has opposed the proceedings.In testimony to two committees of the House of Representatives – the judiciary committee and the intelligence committee – the 74-year-old stuck largely to details already contained in the 448-page report that was released by the department of justice in April.He did confirm that the president had asked his special co
  
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• 'Free from this nightmare': Prisoner released after rape victim's startling revelation

  24-07-2019 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  James Clay had begun serving a 25 - 50 year prison sentence for rape based on DNA. He was released following a Free Press investigation into his case.
  
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• Mueller's testimony on Trump and Russia: the biggest takeaways

  24-07-2019 19:25 via news.yahoo.com
  The former special counsel explained Trump was not exonerated and warned of continuing election interference by Russia* Mueller testifies at hearings – live updatesIn highly anticipated testimony before the US Congress, the former special counsel Robert Mueller submitted to seven hours of questioning in back-to-back appearances before the House judiciary and intelligence committees.His testimony comes four months after he concluded the two-year investigation into Russian interference in th
  
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• Abandoned Siberian factory could cause Chernobyl-style disaster, warns official

  24-07-2019 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  A Russian state official warned on Wednesday that an abandoned chemicals factory in Siberia could cause an environmental disaster akin to the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident unless urgent action is taken to tackle it.The Usolyekhimprom plant, which produced chlorine and other chemicals in the Irkutsk region, was abandoned due to bankruptcy in 2017, according to Russian news agencies.The official, Svetlana Radionova, said she had recently visited the facility and, among other things, discovered w
  
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• Embattled Puerto Rico governor poised to resign: report

  24-07-2019 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Puerto Rico's embattled governor was reportedly preparing to resign Wednesday, yielding to huge street protests in the US territory triggered by the release of a chat exchange in which he and others mocked gays, women and hurricane victims.Governor Ricardo Rossello has recorded a video to be released sometime during the day in which he announces his resignation, the newspaper El Nuevo Dia reported.The government denied that Rossello had already resigned and also shot down reports that he has lef
  
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• Florida girl, 9, attacked by bison at Yellowstone National Park

  24-07-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A nine-year-old girl was thrown into the air by a bison at YellowstoneNational Park on Monday
  
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• Onward To Mars: What Our Journey To the Red Planet Might Look Like

  24-07-2019 18:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The moon landing was a historic achievement, but landing on Mars will be an even greater challenge.
  
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• Lightning storm kills 39 in eastern India

  24-07-2019 18:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Lightning has killed at least 39 people during thunderstorms and heavy rains lashing eastern India where thousands of people are stranded on high ground, an official said Wednesday.Disaster Management official Amod Kumar Sharan said the deaths occurred on Tuesday, raising the overall death toll in Bihar state to 123 from lightning and flooding since the monsoon season started in June.As rain stopped in some areas on Wednesday, helicopters dropped food packets for the villagers.
  
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