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• Tlaib Denies Endorsing Bernie, Contradicting Omar’s Earlier Announcement

  16-10-2019 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Representative Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) on Wednesday afternoon contradicted earlier reports that she was set to join fellow members of “The Squad” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) and Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) in endorsing Senator Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination.“I have not made any endorsement at this time. It is critically important to me to involve my residents and my district in every major decision I make, because staying rooted in our community
  
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• Actress Felicity Huffman won't serve her full 14-day prison sentence

  16-10-2019 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The former "Desperate Housewives" star, who reported for her 14-day prison sentence on Oct. 15, will reportedly serve only 13 days behind bars. People magazine cited the Federal Bureau of Prisons' inmate locator when reporting the news. She'll be released on Oct. 27.
  
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• Fat Pikachu Is Back for Pokemon Sword and Shield and We're Ecstatic

  16-10-2019 23:45
  
  A beloved Pikachu design is making its way into Pokemon Sword and Shield through a Gigantamax transformation, a special kind form that gives certain Pokemon a unique design and move. Sure, Gigantamax forms for Charizard, Eevee, and Meowth were also revealed, but we're just here for Pikachu. Why? Because it's fat Pikachu.
  Watch the new Pokemon Sword and Shield trailer below; the chonkster Pikachu appears at the 00:23 mark:
  This wonderfully nostalgic design for Gigantamax Pikachu is far closer to
  
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• Trump says longtime allies the Kurds are 'not angels,' says Turkey's invasion of Syria 'not our problem'

  16-10-2019 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump said U.S.-allied Kurds are "not angels" in response to global condemnation over the Turkey-Syria conflict.
  
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• Americans Now Need at Least $500,000 a Year to Enter Top 1%

  16-10-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- One definition of rich is getting into the top 1%. If that’s your goal, it’s becoming harder to reach.The income needed to exit the bottom 99% of U.S. taxpayers hit $515,371 in 2017, according to Internal Revenue Service data released this week. That’s up 7.2% from a year earlier, even after adjusting for inflation.Since 2011, when Occupy Wall Street protesters rallied under the slogan “We are the 99%,” the income threshold for the top 1% is up an inf
  
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• Mormon church opposes Utah LGBTQ 'conversion therapy' ban

  16-10-2019 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  A proposed ban on so-called conversion therapy in Utah is in danger of being derailed after the influential Church of Jesus of Christ of Latter-day Saints came out Tuesday night in opposition, just months after it said it wouldn't stand in the way of a similar measure under consideration.State regulators crafted the rule at the request of Republican Gov. Gary Herbert, a member of the church, who in June asked for a set of rules after a similar bill died in the Legislature despite the church not
  
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• Lady Gaga Replies to Ninja Perfectly

  16-10-2019 23:30
  
  Update 10/16:
  After getting over 860k likes on her Twitter post that simply asks "What's fortnight," Lady Gaga is at it again, now asking ". @Ninja who are you" - because it's 2019, and the internet is an increasingly strange place.Ninja, of course, is a highly-popular Fortnite streamer and internet personality, who happened to have the most popular comment on Gaga's initial post. Mother Monster is either having some fun with the internet, or was genuinely curious who this Ninja guy was. Re
  
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• College Hearthstone team hit with 6-month ban after showing 'Free Hong Kong' sign

  16-10-2019 23:04
  One week after the original infraction took place, Blizzard has issued bans to the members of the American University Hearthstone team that held up a 'Free Hong Kong' sign during an event stream. ...
  
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• McConnell gives Senate GOP lesson on impeachment trial rules

  16-10-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Senate Republicans got a civics lesson Wednesday on their roles in an impeachment trial.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell led the lesson Wednesday as the chamber's top Republican and as one of a handful of Republicans remaining in the Senate from the 1999 impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton.
  
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• UPDATE 3-Pelosi, Trump exchange 'meltdown' barbs over meeting on U.S. policy in Syria

  16-10-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Democratic leaders cut short a meeting with Republican President Donald Trump after he had a "meltdown" over a House of Representatives vote condemning his Syria withdrawal and showed no signs of having a plan to deal with a crisis there.Trump called Pelosi a "third-rate politician" and the meeting in the White House deteriorated into a diatribe, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told reporters.
  
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• Blizzard Bans Three Student Gamers Over ‘Free Hong Kong’ Sign

  16-10-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  PATRIK STOLLARZ/AFP/Getty ImagesActivision Blizzard has suspended three collegiate gamers for expressing support for the Hong Kong protests and advocating for a boycott of the company. The three players—American University students identified by Vice as Casey Chambers, Corwin Dark, and one only by his handle TJammer—held up a sign that read “Free Hong Kong, boycott Blizz” during an official Blizzard broadcast of a tournament for the strategy card game Hearthstone. No
  
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• The Latest: Leader: Senators can't talk at impeachment trial

  16-10-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Senate Republicans got a civics lesson on their roles in an impeachment trial.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell led the lesson Wednesday as the chamber's top Republican and one of a handful of Republicans remaining in the Senate from the 1999 impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton.
  
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• How Can This Be? The Mid-Engine Corvette's Forward Visibility is Actually Worse Than the Front-Engine C7's

  16-10-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  And our test data proves that it's not just a perception.
  
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• Boston pension votes to fire money manager Fisher, withdrawals surge toward $1 billion

  16-10-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  The City of Boston's retirement board on Wednesday voted unanimously to end its relationship with money manager Kenneth Fisher, whose firm has lost almost $1 billion in assets after allegations he made disparaging remarks about women last week.In addition, on Wednesday evening an official of the Los Angeles pension system for police and firefighters said it will review the roughly $500 million it has invested with Fisher's firm."As with other pension funds, we are very concerned with the inappro
  
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• Here's exactly when you can start playing The Outer Worlds

  16-10-2019 21:46 via gamesradar.com
  The Outer Worlds launch times broken down by time zone and platform
  
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• US weather: 'Bomb cyclone' expected to lash northeast with fierce winds and rain

  16-10-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  A potential bomb cyclone is expected to hit the Northeast of the US Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service in Boston.New York City, Boston, and Maine will be affected, among other New England locations. It follows last week’s storm in the same area, which brought strong winds to beach’s along the East Coast.
  
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• Mystery as plane carrying Russian arms smugglers crashes in Congo

  16-10-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The Democratic Republic of Congo has one of the world’s worst aviation safety records, so reports that an aircraft had tumbled into a remote forest last week caused few international ripples. Since then, however, a deepening mystery over the nature of the cargo and the identity of those on board has left the Congolese government facing awkward questions. The fate of the stricken plane, a mysterious Antonov-72 so far only identified by its former registration number, EK-72903, may also prov
  
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• Amazon fish wears nature's 'bullet-proof vest' to thwart piranhas

  16-10-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  One of the world's largest freshwater fish is protected by the natural equivalent of a "bullet-proof vest," helping it thrive in the dangerous waters of the Amazon River basin with flexible armor-like scales able to withstand ferocious piranha attacks.Researchers from the University of California, San Diego and University of California, Berkeley on Wednesday described the unique structure and impressive properties of the dermal armor of the fish, called Arapaima gigas.
  
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• U.S. tells Chinese diplomats to give notice of meetings

  16-10-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Chinese diplomats in the United States must now give advance notice of any meetings with state, local and municipal officials, as well as at educational and research institutions, senior State Department officials said on Wednesday.The officials told reporters the move was an effort to "add reciprocity" to the way U.S. diplomats are treated in China."This action is a response to what the PRC (Peoples Republic of China) government does to limit the interaction our diplomats can have in China with
  
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• An Equestrian Was Shot by Her Olympic Trainer, Then Pummeled Online

  16-10-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  LONG VALLEY, N.J. -- The gunshots rang out from the back porch of the farmhouse, a little ways off from the stables and Olympic-level dressage arena, the improbable sound rising over the 53-acre estate. A woman had been shot twice in the chest by a man well known not merely to her but also to just about everyone in the rarefied dressage community: Michael Barisone, an Olympic rider, the owner of the farm and the woman's trainer. The shooting was the shocking culmination of a landlord-tenant disp
  
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• ‘Barbaric’: DLA Piper Partner Who Said Boss Assaulted Her Four Times Has Been Put on Leave

  16-10-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photos HandoutThe junior partner at top-grossing law firm DLA Piper who claimed she was sexually assaulted four times by her boss in 2018 has been placed on paid administrative leave.Vanina Guerrero, who works out of the multinational firm’s Silicon Valley corporate practice, filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission earlier this month, claiming that the $2.84-billion firm discriminated against her and retaliated when sh
  
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• Trump says PKK is worse than ISIS, and that Graham would stay in Middle East for ‘the next thousand years’

  16-10-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  At a press conference with the president of Italy, President Trump said that the Kurdish group PKK is worse than ISIS, and that Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., would keep the U.S. in the Middle East for “the next thousand years with thousands of soldiers fighting other people’s wars.”
  
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• U.S. Supreme Court wrestles over 'D.C. Sniper' life sentence appeal

  16-10-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday questioned whether a lower court sufficiently considered that a man convicted in the deadly 2002 "D.C. Sniper" shooting spree in the Washington area was a minor at the time of the crimes when he was sentenced to life in prison.The nine justices heard arguments in an appeal by the state of Virginia objecting to the lower court's decision ordering that Lee Boyd Malvo's sentence of life in prison without parole be thrown out.The most likely contender based o
  
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• Alan Dershowitz Gets Rival Lawyer Booted From Epstein Victim’s Case

  16-10-2019 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERS/Andrew InnerarityAlan Dershowitz may have lost his battle to dismiss a defamation lawsuit brought by Virginia Roberts Giuffre—who claims Jeffrey Epstein kept her as his “sex slave” and forced her to have sex with Dershowitz. But the Harvard Law professor scored his own victory: persuading a federal judge to disqualify Giuffre’s attorney, David Boies, and his firm, from her case.In an opinion filed Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska said she would d
  
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• Teenage Briton's retraction in Cyprus gang rape case was 'dictated by police' and written in poor English

  16-10-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  A British teenager who says she was gang raped by Israeli tourists in a beach resort in Cyprus told a court today that she was forced to sign a retraction by Cypriot police after they wrote it for her. During a three-hour cross-examination, the 19-year-old said the statement was in such broken English that “there is not one sentence that an English person would write. It does not make grammatical sense.” “It isn’t in proper English, it’s in Greek English. I'm a very
  
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• Blizzard Bans College Hearthstone Team Who Supported Hong Kong For Six Months

  16-10-2019 20:27
  Update:
  IGN reached out to Blizzard for further clarification on American University’s ban. We asked why it took a week for Blizzard to announce a punishment for the college team for breaking a rule, whereas Blitzchung was punished almost immediately afterward.
  While Blizzard didn’t directly address this question, a spokesperson sent over the following response:
  "Thanks for reaching out. We strongly encourage everyone in our community to share their viewpoints in the many places avai
  
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• Five killed in Indian Kashmir as violence spikes

  16-10-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Two non-Kashmiris were shot dead by suspected militants and three alleged rebels were killed by security forces, police said Wednesday, the deadliest day in the Indian-administered Kashmir valley since New Delhi revoked its autonomy.Ahead of the autonomy decision, the head of Kashmir's largest militant group Hizbul Mujahideen, Riyaz Naikoo, had warned that Indians in the territory would become legitimate targets if the valley's status were changed.In a separate shooting earlier Wednesday, suspec
  
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• PUBG season 5: Throwing frying pans, Miramar updates, and more changes to look out for

  16-10-2019 20:17 via gamesradar.com
  PUBG season 5 starts within the next two weeks
  
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• Hubble Telescope zooms in on interstellar visitor

  16-10-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best pictures yet of our newest interstellar visitor.This comet from outside our solar system is zooming by us at a blistering 110,000 mph (177,000 kph).Hubble caught some glam shots over the weekend from a distance of 260 million miles (420 million kilometers).
  
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• Trump defends his Syria retreat as 'strategically brilliant,' saying the Kurds are 'not angels' and have 'a lot of sand that they can play with'

  16-10-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump's Syria retreat opened the door for a Turkish invasion of Syria that began last Wednesday and targets the Kurds.
  
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• Woman charged in London with planning to bomb St Paul's cathedral

  16-10-2019 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman appeared in court on Wednesday charged with terrorism offences including scoping out St Paul's cathedral as a possible bomb target.Safiyya Amira Shaikh, 36, was remanded in custody at Westminster Magistrates' Court to appear again at the Old Bailey court on Nov. 1, police said.Shaikh, of Hayes, west London, was charged with preparing terrorist acts between August and October this year including making contact with someone she believed could help her make explosives.
  
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• Powerful coastal storm known as a 'bomb cyclone' will blast the Northeast from New York to Maine

  16-10-2019 19:36 via news.yahoo.com
  A powerful storm – created by a bombogenesis – will unleash rain and winds from the mid-Atlantic to New England at the end of the week
  
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• Trump repeats debunked Ukraine conspiracy theory in Oval Office

  16-10-2019 19:34 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump on Wednesday sought to advance the Ukraine conspiracy theory that his aides had warned him repeatedly was “completely debunked.”
  
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• Can a console be sexy? Ask this hipster homage to the Nintendo Game Boy

  16-10-2019 19:24 via gamesradar.com
  Dust off your Pokemon Red cartridges
  
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• Three US diplomats held near Russian test site where mystery blast killed five

  16-10-2019 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  * US embassy says trio had proper paperwork to travel* August explosion causes radiation levels to surgeA Russian navy official works on the Akula nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine at the Severodvinsk site in July. The August explosion there killed at least five people. Photograph: Sergei Bobylev/TassThree American diplomats were briefly detained in Russia near the military test site where a mysterious explosion released radiation in August, several Russia state news agencies have repo
  
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• Mexican Asylum Seekers Are Facing Long Waits at the U.S. Border. Advocates Say That's Illegal

  16-10-2019 19:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A new 'metering' practice is particularly dangerous for Mexican asylum seekers
  
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• GM and union reach tentative deal

  16-10-2019 19:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Bargainers for General Motors and the United Auto Workers reached a tentative contract deal on Wednesday that could end a monthlong strike that brought the company's U.S. factories to a standstill.
  
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• Paris zoo unveils the "blob", an organism with no brain but 720 sexes

  16-10-2019 19:05 via news.yahoo.com
  A Paris zoo showcased a mysterious new organism on Wednesday, dubbed the "blob", a yellowish unicellular small living being which looks like a fungus but acts like an animal.This newest exhibit of the Paris Zoological Park, which goes on display to the public on Saturday, has no mouth, no stomach, no eyes, yet it can detect food and digest it."The blob is a living being which belongs to one of nature's mysteries", said Bruno David, director of the Paris Museum of Natural History, of which the Zo
  
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• GM, UAW strike deal: Automaker, union reach tentative agreement on new contract

  16-10-2019 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  General Motors and the United Auto Workers reached a proposed tentative agreement on a new contract Wednesday, the 31st day of a nationwide strike.
  
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• Pakistan says talks with Riyadh, Tehran 'encouraging'

  16-10-2019 18:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Pakistan's foreign minister said Tuesday that Prime Minister Imran Khan's talks with Tehran and Riyadh had been "encouraging" after visits to try to defuse rising tensions in the Gulf.Khan travelled to Iran and Saudi Arabia as a "facilitator" between the arch-rivals, following a series of attacks on oil infrastructure and tankers in recent months that have raised fears of war."Our talks have been encouraging and the response that we got in the two countries was beyond our expectation," Foreign M
  
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• One dead in strong 6.4-magnitude Philippines quake: mayor

  16-10-2019 18:45 via news.yahoo.com
  A child was killed in a strong 6.4-magnitude quake that hit the southern Philippines on Wednesday, a local mayor said, as houses collapsed, power was knocked out and a shopping mall burst into flames.Residents evacuated homes and buildings across the Mindanao region including a mall that caught fire in the city of General Santos shortly after the quake struck in the evening, officials said.The child died in a house collapse in the town of Datu Paglas, while four residents of nearby Tulunan town
  
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• Joe Biden, Bleeding Cash, Spent Nearly $1 Million on Private Jets

  16-10-2019 18:34 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSJoe Biden’s presidential campaign is bleeding cash. And a big reason why appears to be an antiquated, higher-end approach to electoral politics that the former vice president has adopted. Biden’s team spent more than $923,000 on private jets during the third quarter of 2019, according to recently filed Federal Election Commission data. The expenses, all made to the company EJCR, LLC Dba Advanced Aviation Team, represented a major chunk of change—accounting for rough
  
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• Destiny 2's new $20 Power boost is a bad deal

  16-10-2019 18:30 via gamesradar.com
  You can now spend $20 to hit 900 Power on alts
  
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• Ancient Cambodian city found using aerial mapping

  16-10-2019 17:55 via news.yahoo.com
  An ancient settlement, known has the ‘lost city’ of Cambodia, has been rediscovered by scientists using aerial mapping after remaining hidden in dense jungle for centuries.  Mahendraparvata, believed to have been the first capital of the Khmer Empire, a powerful Southeast Asian state that existed during the Angkor period from the 9th to 15th centuries, had long-eluded archeologists, who knew of its existence but were unable to map it out because of the difficult terrain.  S
  
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• Trudeau Has a Head Start, But Many Races Are Too Close to Call

  16-10-2019 17:51 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s party leads his top rival in safe districts ahead of Canada’s election next week, but is bleeding support to smaller parties while many races remain too close to call, polling shows.Seat projections by Nanos Research, unveiled Wednesday at Bloomberg’s Canadian Fixed Income Conference in New York, showed Trudeau’s Liberals are on pace to win at least 127 of the parliament’s 338 seats, with the Conservatives next with at
  
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• I Ran the VA Under President Trump Until He Fired Me. Our First Trump Tower Meeting Was a Job Interview Unlike Any Other

  16-10-2019 17:50 via news.yahoo.com
  David Shulkin reflects on his chaotic start in the Trump administration
  
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• Warren Deletes Infamous DNA Test Tweet One Year After Reveal

  16-10-2019 17:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) deleted from her Twitter and YouTube accounts a now-infamous video announcing the results of her DNA test on Wednesday, one year after its initial unveiling was met with heavy bipartisan criticism.A story titled “Happy Anniversary to Elizabeth Warren’s DNA Test!” by Jim Treacher, a columnist at PJ Media, revisited the reveal by Warren on Tuesday, a year to the day after the initial video was posted. Treacher then later went to look for the t
  
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• Fortnite Chapter 2: Every New Named Map Location

  16-10-2019 17:40
  Fortnite Chapter 2 has brought along a brand new map, which means a whole new set of map learning to do.
  That said, you might recognise a few of the places scattered in there, with some returning favourites making it through the game's black hole.
  Here's every named location on the Fortnite Chapter 2 - Season 1 map, and a little description of what you'll find there. We'll start with the returning favourites:
  Fortnite Chapter 2 Returning Locations
  Retail Row - Now clean of zombies, Retail R
  
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• Trump official: Birthright citizenship can end without amending Constitution

  16-10-2019 17:39 via news.yahoo.com
  At a Monitor Breakfast, acting USCIS Director Ken Cuccinelli said, 'The question is, do you need congressional action or can the executive act on their own?'
  
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• Destiny 2 Iron Banner quest glitch: How to fix the Conviction quest step

  16-10-2019 17:37 via gamesradar.com
  The Conviction step of Scour the Rust is bugged, but you can easily work around it
  
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