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• South Philadelphia homeowner could face charges after shooting intruder

  26-09-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Police arrived at the home along the 2200 block of South Darien Street to find a man in the living room area near the staircase bleeding heavily from his head and body.
  
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• Bungie clarifies Destiny 2: New Light content: three campaigns, Year 1 raids, Annual Pass activities, and more

  26-09-2019 23:47 via gamesradar.com
  Players will be able to access a lot of Destiny 2 for free
  
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• President Trump challenges Joe Biden over Ukraine connection

  26-09-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden faces new questions over Hunter Biden's $50,000 monthly salary from a Ukrainian gas company; reaction and analysis on 'The Five.'
  
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• Iranian woman convicted of US sanctions violation released

  26-09-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  An Iranian woman sentenced in the United States for violating sanctions against Tehran was released and has returned home, her lawyer told AFP Thursday, following her country's unsuccessful attempt at a prisoner swap.A judge in Minneapolis sentenced Negar Ghodskani to 27 months in prison on Tuesday, but determined the time she had already spent in custody in Australia and the United States was enough to fulfill her punishment.Ghodskani "is now free in Iran with her family," her lawyer Robert Ric
  
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• Members of disbanded EPA air quality panel form independent group

  26-09-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The 20 experts were to review the science on particulate matter pollution and health beginning with a two-day meeting in Virginia on Thursday.Dubbed the Independent Particulate Matter Review Panel, the group plans to issue a report on whether the current federal particulate matter standard is adequate, members said.Members of the independent group previously served on the EPA's Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) Particulate Matter Review Panel, which was disbanded last October by EP
  
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• Get a job: Level Ex is hiring a UI Artist

  26-09-2019 23:07
  Level Ex is looking for a versatile UI Artist to help it make games for NASA....
  
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• Saudi Arabia opens to tourists with investment appeal and no abaya rule

  26-09-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Saudi Arabia threw open its doors to foreign tourists on Friday, launching a new visa regime for 49 countries and appealing to foreign companies to invest in a sector it hopes will contribute 10% of gross domestic product by 2030.Tourism chief Ahmed al-Khateeb told Reuters in an interview ahead of the official announcement that abayas will not be mandatory for women tourists but modest dress is, including at public beaches.Access to the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina is restricted.
  
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• Saudi Arabia opens to foreign holidaymakers, chases tourism investment

  26-09-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Saudi Arabia threw open its doors to foreign tourists on Friday, launching a new visa regime for 49 countries and appealing to foreign companies to invest in a sector it hopes will contribute 10% of gross domestic product by 2030.Tourism chief Ahmed al-Khateeb told Reuters in an interview ahead of the official announcement that abayas will not be mandatory but modest dress covering shoulders and knees is, including at public beaches.
  
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• Video: Practical tips for designing memorable characters

  26-09-2019 23:02
  In this 2017 GDC talk, concept artists Simon Stafsnes Andersen, Laurel Austin, Claire Hummel, Richard Lyons and Justin Thavirat share their ideas on how to create compelling characters....
  
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• 220 Members of the House of Representatives Support an Impeachment Inquiry Into President Donald Trump

  26-09-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  In order to pass articles of impeachment, Pelosi needs a majority of the body: 218 votes.
  
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• Audio: Trump seeks identity of person who leaked information to whistleblower

  26-09-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump likened the person who leaked information to a federal whistleblower to a spy.
  
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• El Salvador president calls on Trump to keep protected status program for migrants

  26-09-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele on Thursday said the United States should promote legal migration as part of its crackdown on illegal immigration, calling on President Donald Trump to continue a program shielding some migrants from deportation."If the U.S. government is serious about fighting irregular migration, it should support and encourage legal migration," he told reporters after giving a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, where the 38-year-old leader took a selfie on the
  
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• Capybara Games co-founder Nathan Vella is leaving the studio after 16 years

  26-09-2019 22:46
  Nathan Vella, one of the founding devs behind Below developer Capybara Games, is departing the Canadian studio he helped found back in 2003. ...
  
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• Why Mitch McConnell Could Be Key in the Trump Impeachment Battle

  26-09-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Don’t look for Mitch McConnell himself to join the sprint to impeaching President Donald Trump, Republicans inside and without his orbit said
  
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• Shep, Judge Nap, Tucker and the Fox News Civil War Over Impeachment

  26-09-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  As an impeachment inquiry looms over President Donald Trump, some Fox News anchors and right-wing commentators have begun openly insulting one another over the president asking Ukrainian President Zelensky, via a July phone call, to investigate Joe Biden.“It is a crime for the president to solicit aid for his campaign from a foreign government,” Judge Andrew Napolitano, a Fox News senior judicial analyst, said Tuesday on consummate newsman Shepard Smith’s daytime broadcast.That
  
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• The Latest: Man convicted of killing ex-wife's Texas family

  26-09-2019 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  A young woman who was the lone survivor of a 2014 deadly shooting that claimed the lives of her parents and four siblings wiped away tears as a jury convicted her uncle of capital murder in their killings.Cassidy Stay later smiled and took deep breaths as she hugged prosecutors in the Houston courtroom Thursday.Haskell's lawyers had argued for him to be found not guilty by reason of insanity.
  
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• Enormous shark fin spotted off Florida coast revealed to be a hoax

  26-09-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Beachgoers can rest easy after wildlife officials have reviewed several reported “shark sightings” and deemed them fake.
  
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• Boeing, FAA should fix 737 Max's automated systems so they don't confuse pilots, NTSB says

  26-09-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The NTSB says the FAA should require Boeing to redesign its system in a way that is more intuitive, so pilots can take corrective action quickly.
  
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• Carmack: Lessons from the Gear VR paved the way for Oculus' current mobile VR

  26-09-2019 22:13
  Oculus CTO John Carmack discusses some of the Gear VR's shortcomings and how lessons from the phone-powered VR headset led to improvements in other portable VR products. ...
  
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• Watch the latest Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order story trailer from Force Friday

  26-09-2019 22:12 via gamesradar.com
  Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order fights evil and a giant bat thing
  
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• 'Bring on the bathroom humor': United passenger got stuck in the bathroom mid-flight

  26-09-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Visiting the bathroom mid-flight is hardly a pleasant experience — but getting stuck in there is a whole other kind of ordeal.
  
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• Extreme Minimalists: Everything in this woman's life is reusable, including her period supplies

  26-09-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  While most turn to the zero waste lifestyle because of their passion for the environment, Kathryn Kellog joined the movement following a health scare.
  
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• Pelosi, taking on a president, meets feminists' desire for a superhero

  26-09-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Women who study women agree that this week marks a moment.
  
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• Support for impeachment jumps in new poll

  26-09-2019 22:00 via politico.com
  Among Democratic voters, support for impeachment proceedings has increased 13 points.
  
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• Adam Schiff says White House ‘hijacked’ House Russia probe transcripts

  26-09-2019 21:54 via politico.com
  "Negotiations now, after 10 months, are at an impasse and our patience has been exhausted," Schiff says.
  
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• The US is sending more firepower to the Middle East to check Iran — here are the weapons the US has sent that way

  26-09-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The US has sent a carrier strike group, bombers, fighters, and ground troops to counter Iran, and just announced it's sending more forces.
  
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• Here's all the The Last of Us 2 content you can enjoy for Outbreak Day 2019

  26-09-2019 21:47 via gamesradar.com
  Celebrating the cordyceps brain infection in style
  
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• Caught in the act: a black hole rips apart an unfortunate star

  26-09-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Scientists have captured a view of a colossal black hole violently ripping apart a doomed star, illustrating a extraordinary and chaotic cosmic event from beginning to end for the first time using NASA's planet-hunting telescope. The U.S. space agency's orbiting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, better known as TESS, revealed the detailed timeline of a star 375 million light-years away warping and spiralling into the unrelenting gravitational pull of a supermassive black hole, researchers s
  
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• California Man Found Guilty of ‘Cold-Blooded Execution’ of Ex-Wife’s Family

  26-09-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERS/Brett Coomer/PoolA California man accused of driving across the country to kill six of his ex-wife’s family members in a “cold-blooded execution” fueled by revenge was found guilty of capital murder in a Texas court on Thursday.Ronald Lee Haskell, 39, now faces the death penalty for the July 2014 massacre of Katie Stay, 34, her 39-year-old husband, Stephen, and four of their five children inside their suburban Houston home. The only survivor of the bloodbath, 19-year-ol
  
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• Correction: Liberty University-Falwell story

  26-09-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  In a story Sept. 25 about Liberty University, The Associated Press, relying on information from the school's accreditor, reported erroneously that the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges sent a letter asking for more information about recent news reports about Jerry Falwell Jr. A spokeswoman for the commission says that no letter has been sent but that the news reports are under review.RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The accrediting body that oversees Liberty Universit
  
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• New Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Trailer Ignites

  26-09-2019 21:25
  Click here to watch embedded media Publisher: Electronic ArtsDeveloper: Respawn EntertainmentRelease: November 15, 2019 Platform: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC Electronic Arts and developer Respawn Entertainment have released a new trailer for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order in conjunction with other announcements for the Triple Force Friday merchandise blitz on October 4 (Fallen Order itself hits stores on November 15 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One).The trailer shows Cal's companions, Jedi
  
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• Ex-Mexican prosecutor sentenced to 20 years in US drug case

  26-09-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  A former state attorney general from Mexico was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison in a U.S. drug-trafficking case accusing him of using wiretaps and other law enforcement tools to protect the turf of a violent drug cartel.Edgar Veytia told a judge in federal court in Brooklyn that he made a "mistake" by taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from the cartel while he was chief law enforcement officer in the Pacific coast state of Nayarit.Veytia - a dual U.S.-Mexico citizen who h
  
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• Bashing Democrats but not defending Trump: Moments that mattered as impeachment heats up

  26-09-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  House Republicans bashed Democrats but mostly didn't defend Trump's alleged conduct; that's one of several moments that mattered at a crucial hearing.
  
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• How Trump’s obsession with Clinton’s emails could come back to bite him now he has his own server issues

  26-09-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has made sure that nobody who even remotely follows his actions has been able to forget the scandal of Hillary Clinton using a private server to store emails.The president has repeatedly abused the former secretary of state since facing Clinton during the 2016 election campaign, with Trump supporters still chanting “lock her up” at rallies held by Trump close to three years into his presidency.
  
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• Georgia sheriff's office employee fired after racist rant at McDonald's

  26-09-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  A Georgia sheriff's office employee has been fired after he was caught on video telling a teenager to "speak English" at a local McDonald's.
  
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• Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker and Mandalorian Lego Sets Revealed

  26-09-2019 21:00
  Eight new Star Wars-themed Lego sets were revealed today during a Star Wars Force Friday kick-off event, including new sets from The Rise of Skywalker and The Mandalorian.
  Also included are two "Classic" Star Wars sets, one of which is a 16" tall, $100 Yoda set with 1771 pieces. Here's a full list of the sets, prices, and piece counts:Death Star Cannon Set - Classic ($19.99, 159 pieces) Kylo Ren's Shuttle Set - Rise of Skywalker ($119.99, 1005 pieces)
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• Free-to-play Monster Hunter-like Dauntless is officially out today and dropping a big update

  26-09-2019 21:00 via gamesradar.com
  A new weapon, new beasts, and a new Hunt Pass all roll out today
  
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• Castro says 'it will be the end of my campaign' without more money to help make November debate

  26-09-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Julián Castro's email comes less than a week after Sen. Cory Booker's presidential campaign asked for more donations so he won't have to end his campaign.
  
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• Don't Miss: Behind the colorful music wheel of Wandersong

  26-09-2019 20:59
  Wandersong's Greg Lobanov digs into the game's intriguing color wheel of song, why he crafted an aesthetic around a 'rainbow of sound', and how he designed puzzles solvable by singing....
  
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• Nintendo's Mobile Game Ventures Never Amounted To Much

  26-09-2019 20:51
  In 2015, the late Nintendo president and CEO Satoru Iwata took to a Japanese stage to make an announcement that could conceivably turn the tide of the company’s history. In one of the last major deals that Iwata made before his passing a few months later, the executive announced that Nintendo would be developing software for mobile devices. Nintendo was acquiescing to angry shareholders upset that the Japanese developer was not leveraging their properties in the high-revenue mobile market
  
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• Melting ice is slowing down the Atlantic ocean's circulation system. Yes, that's similar to what happens in 'The Day After Tomorrow.'

  26-09-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  A new UN report found global oceans could rise 3 feet by 2100 due in part to melting ice. That melt could also slow the Atlantic ocean current system.
  
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• Preorder Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order for $51 (PS4, Xbox One, PC)

  26-09-2019 20:30
  
  Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is heading to PS4, Xbox One, and PC on November 15. It's a narrative-driven, third-person action game that's set shortly after the events of Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith, during the dark era when the Jedi are being eradicated. You play as a young Padawan who must train in the ways of the Force and learn how to use a Lightsaber while on the run from the Empire's Inquisitors.
  If you're ready to go all-in on Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, you can preorder it now. Here'
  
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• Experts criticize White House use of sensitive computer system to store Trump transcripts

  26-09-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The decision to move records of President Trump’s calls with foreign officials to a highly sensitive and protected computer system was highly unusual and likely inappropriate, experts say.
  
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• Iconic Star Wars Villain Teased in New Jedi: Fallen Order Trailer

  26-09-2019 20:27
  Respawn released a new trailer for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and there may be a very sneaky cameo from an iconic Star Wars villain: Darth Vader.
  To be clear, you can’t actually see Darth Vader in the new Jedi: Fallen Order trailer. Instead, you can hear a distinct breath at the 0:48 second mark of the new trailer, which can be seen below. Right as the new protagonist Cal Kestis opens a mysterious door to an ancient temple, you can hear the familiar hiss of Darth Vader breathing.
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• Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Gets An Awesome New Trailer

  26-09-2019 20:24
  During Star Wars: Triple Force Friday, a brand new Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order trailer was revealed that showed more of Cal Kestis' journey and the characters and aliens he will meet and have to fight along the way.
  The trailer, which you can watch above, shows more of Kestis' trusty droid BD-1, the mysterious Jedi Knight Cere, the Second Sister and Ninth Sister from the Empire's Inquisitorial Squad, a glimpse of various planets that players will journey to, a battle with a new alien bat called
  
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• Woman who rescued kitten on busy road surprised to learn it is not a kitten at all

  26-09-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  A Tennessee woman who believed she was rescuing a lost kitten was surprised when she found out the creature was actually a baby bobcat.
  
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• Man who kissed reporter on live TV charged with harassment in Kentucky

  26-09-2019 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Reporter Sara Rivest was doing a live shot outside the Bourbon & Beyond music festival in Kentucky when a man kissed and pretended to spank her.
  
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• Tekashi 6ix9ine can still enter witness protection despite the giant '69' tattoo on his face

  26-09-2019 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Last week, rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine testified against one of the most dangerous gangs in the country. Now prosecutors are indicating he could enter the witness protection program, even with a giant "69" tattoo on his face.
  
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• Tropical Storm Karen halts search for missing American woman in the Virgin Islands

  26-09-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  The Virgin Islands National Park announced that the Kentucky woman, Lucy Schuhmann, 48, has been missing in St. John since Sept. 19.
  
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• Ex-casino employee to seek parole chance in Vegas killing

  26-09-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  A former Las Vegas Strip casino card dealer intends to seek a chance at parole when he's sentenced for killing a resort executive and wounding a co-worker at a company picnic in 2018, a defense lawyer said Thursday.Anthony Wrobel decided it was in his best interest to plead guilty before trial to murder in the shooting death of Venetian casino executive Mia Banks and attempted murder for wounding co-worker Hector Rodriguez, court-appointed defense attorney Joseph Abood said.The plea agreement by
  
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