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• Beto O'Rourke drops out of race to become Democrats' 2020 presidential contender

  01-11-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Beto O'Rourke has announced that he is dropping out of the race to become the Democrats' 2020 presidential contender.  Mr O'Rourke, a 47-year-old former congressman representing Texas, said it had become clear his campaign did not have the resources to continue to seek the party's nomination. "My service to the country will not be as a candidate or as the nominee," he wrote on Twitter. "Acknowledging this now is in the best interests of those in the campaign; it is in the best int
  
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• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2 confirmed with 2022 release date

  01-11-2019 23:22 via gamesradar.com
  Get ready for a new dimension-spanning trip on April 8, 2022
  
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• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2 confirmed and it's coming in 2022

  01-11-2019 23:22 via gamesradar.com
  Get ready for a new dimension-spanning trip on April 8, 2022
  
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• Brazil police arrest man said to be one of world's most prolific human traffickers

  01-11-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Brazilian federal police said they have arrested Saifullah Al-Mamun, born in Bangladesh and considered by authorities one of the world's most prolific human traffickers.In an operation conducted on Thursday after collaboration with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Brazilian police arrested members of a group allegedly implicated in a large scheme of smuggling people into the United States.Several arrests were made in Sao Paulo, where Al-Mamun was living, and in three other Brazili
  
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• World of Warcraft: Shadowlands expansion is confirmed and coming next year

  01-11-2019 23:21 via gamesradar.com
  Sylvanas has killed the Lich King and we're headed to the afterlife
  
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• New execution date set for Georgia inmate

  01-11-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Georgia officials set a new execution date Friday for a death row inmate two days after he was granted a temporary reprieve because of a legal technicality.Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, is scheduled to die by lethal injection Nov. 13 at the state prison in Jackson.Georgia Corrections Commissioner Timothy Ward set the execution for the first date of a seven-day window ordered Friday by a Superior Court judge in Thomas County.
  
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• Ant-Man 3 confirmed and will be directed by Peyton Reed

  01-11-2019 23:00 via gamesradar.com
  Reed also directed Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp
  
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• O'Rourke drops out of 2020 presidential race

  01-11-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The former representative from Texas calls it quits on his 2020 presidential bid.
  
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• Ex-officer gets 12 years in naked man's fatal shooting

  01-11-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A former Georgia police officer who was convicted of aggravated assault and other crimes in the fatal shooting of an unarmed, naked man was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison.Robert "Chip" Olsen was responding to a call of a naked man behaving erratically outside an Atlanta-area apartment complex in March 2015 when he fatally shot 26-year-old Anthony Hill, an Air Force veteran who had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and PTSD.Olsen is white and Hill was black.
  
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• What do 2020 Democrats say about California fires? Not much.

  01-11-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  California Democrats hoped they would finally bask in the attention of presidential candidates when they moved their primary to the front of the calendar.In a field of nearly 20 candidates, no one has traveled to California to visit residents displaced from their homes or commend first responders who have worked around the clock.California is the nation's most populous state and its biggest economic powerhouse.
  
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• Activist Greta Thunberg joins L.A. protest of oil drilling

  01-11-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish girl who accused international leaders of standing idly by as global warming threatens to destroy the planet in a speech shared around the world, is joining young activists in Los Angeles for a protest aimed at getting California out of the oil-drilling business.
  
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• Overwatch 2 will have new heroes, including Sojourn

  01-11-2019 22:28 via gamesradar.com
  Plus a new way to play with existing heroes
  
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• Hideo Kojima's already teasing ideas for his next project, and it could be a fusion of movies and games

  01-11-2019 22:27 via gamesradar.com
  "I'm happy to think that I could work on it"
  
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• Venezuela kept afloat thanks to $315 million in cash sent from Russia, customs records suggest

  01-11-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuela is being kept afloat by hundreds of millions of dollars shipped from Russia, reports suggest, as it struggles to survive crippling US sanctions. A total of $315 million (£245 million) in dollar and euro notes were sent in six separate shipments from Moscow to Caracas from May 2018 to April 2019, according to data from ImportGenius, which compiled Russian customs records obtained through private sources. The data was reviewed by Bloomberg. The cash came from lenders run by th
  
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• Court ruling could throw impeachment timeline into disarray

  01-11-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Even as House Democrats on Thursday ratified an impeachment resolution against President Trump, a federal judge has potentially slowed the brisk pace of the inquiry by declining to rule on whether a key witness needed to testify before the House of Representatives.
  
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• Oklahoma parole board OKs largest-ever US mass commutation

  01-11-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Oklahoma will release more than 400 inmates after a state panel on Friday approved what officials say is the largest single-day mass commutation in U.S. history.The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board unanimously approved the commutations, and Gov. Kevin Stitt said his office would process the recommendations for final approval.The board considered 814 cases and recommended 527 inmates for commutation.
  
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• Report: Embattled real estate startup WeWork mulling esports investment

  01-11-2019 22:14
  Earlier this week the team at Bloomberg reported that We Co., parent of contentious real estate startup WeWork, has made a number of moves towards a potential investment in the eSports business....
  
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• 23 Years of Diablo: An IGN Retrospective

  01-11-2019 22:11
  
  Editor's Note: In light of the recent announcement of Diablo IV, we've updated our Diablo retrospective. Get stuck into the past, present, and future of Diablo while you wait.
  “Growing up I remember playing Diablo and it being this incredible, amazing experience. One that I played with my brothers. We had so much fun together. And when Diablo II came out, it was mind-blowing. Playing through it felt like a discovery, and I lost an entire summer where I was constantly playing.” That&r
  
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• Trump impeachment: White House lawyer 'told top security official not to discuss Ukraine call' after expressing concerns

  01-11-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  A decorated Army officer who was on Donald Trump's infamous July phone call with the leader of Ukraine says he was instructed by a White House lawyer not to tell anyone about that call, days after he brought forward his concerns about that conversation.Lt Col Alexander Vindman, a decorated Army officer who was previously the National Security Council director for Ukraine, told Congress during closed-door testimony this week that he had originally gone to White House lawyer John Eisenberg to expr
  
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• ‘Shut Up About Politics’ Singer John Rich Shows Up on Fox News to Talk About Politics

  01-11-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Months after teaming up with the hosts of Fox News midday gabfest The Five to record an extremely lame hit song titled “Shut Up About Politics,” country artist John Rich appeared on Fox News to—without a shred of irony—talk about politics.Sitting down Friday with The Daily Briefing host Dana Perino—a Five host featured on the song—Rich was immediately asked to weigh in on former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s recent appearance on The D
  
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• The Magical Thinking Behind Warren’s Medicare for All Plan

  01-11-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSSen. Elizabeth Warren Friday fulfilled her pledge to propose a specific plan to finance Medicare-For-All. She deserves enormous credit for abandoning her earlier dismissals of the $30 trillion financing question and producing a plan that spells out the required new taxes. However, promising to shield middle-class families from new taxes forces Warren to propose an unrealistic level of health-care savings, as well as new taxes on businesses and investors that are nearly unprecedented in th
  
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• Video: Inside BioWare's embedded QA process

  01-11-2019 21:48
  In this 2017 GDC session, BioWare's Barbara Klimek explains why BioWare QA has invested in its internal QA analysts, embedding them directly in the teams they support. ...
  
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• Shenmue III Will Not Be The End of Series, Director Says

  01-11-2019 21:46
  Shenmue III won't be the end of the game series, according to director Yu Suzuki.
  Speaking with PlayStation.Blog, Suzuki revealed he wants to continue Ryo's story in more games, as it would feel too rushed to finish his journey in the upcoming third installment.
  "The series will not end with Shenmue III," Suzuki said. "Rushing to tie up the plot here would have made for a flat game. And I hope to continue the series as long as people are interested."
  The news might come as a bit of a surprise to
  
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• Georgia ex-policeman sentenced to 12 years in prison in shooting of unarmed black man

  01-11-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Robert "Chip" Olsen, a 57-year-old white man, was convicted last month of aggravated assault and violating his oath of office but found not guilty of murder in the killing of 26-year-old Anthony Hill.Before the sentencing, members of Hill's family urged Dekalb County Superior Court Judge LaTisha Dear Jackson to sentence Olsen to the maximum penalty of 30 years behind bars."Because he chose to use deadly force, that is the reason we are here.
  
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• Anti-immigrant rhetoric may put health of U.S. Latinos at risk

  01-11-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  In a survey of patients who showed up at three urban California emergency departments, researchers found that half of Latino citizens and legal residents as well as three quarters of undocumented immigrants feel unsafe because of comments made by the administration.One quarter of undocumented immigrants said they were so frightened they delayed going to the emergency room for days, according to the report published in PLoS ONE."Statements coming from the administration and the President really d
  
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• The Latest: Italy will let rescue ship with 88 migrants dock

  01-11-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Italy has assigned a port where 88 migrants stranded for days on a rescue ship can disembark, following a deal to share them out among several European countries.The Italian interior ministry said Friday night the Alan Kurdi, operated by the Germany's Sea-Eye humanitarian group, will dock in Taranto, southern Italy.Sea-Eye rescued the migrants a week earlier and pressed Italy for days to let it disembark the passengers.
  
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• Brazil authorities zero in on ship suspected of oil spill

  01-11-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  After oil mysteriously washed ashore on some 2,100 kilometers (1,300 miles) of Brazil's coastline for two months, authorities on Friday identified a suspect: a Greek-flagged ship belonging to Delta Tankers Ltd.Brazil's government has been striving to investigate the cause of the spill that has hit 286 beaches along the northeast coast and hurt fishing and tourism.The specific source of the oil has remained unclear since it began appearing in early September.
  
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• Everything Announced at Blizzcon 2019

  01-11-2019 21:31
  Blizzard opened its BlizzCon 2019 ceremony not with an announcement but with Blizzard Entertainment's J. Allen Brack speaking in light of the recent controversy that has struck up following Blizzard's actions in banning a Hearthstone player who spoke out in support of Hong Kong.
  But after a brief moment of solemn discussion, the company dove right into debuting some of its new slate of games and updates to existing ones. Read on for every major announcement during the BlizzCon 201
  
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• At least 42 killed in Haiti protest violence: UN

  01-11-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Port-au-Prince (AFP) - At least 42 people have been killed and dozens injured during anti-government protests in Haiti since mid-September, the UN's human rights body said Friday, adding it was "deeply concerned" by the crisis.The poorest country in the Americas has been roiled for two months by protests, which were triggered by fuel shortages but have turned violent and morphed into a broader campaign against President Jovenel Moise."We are deeply concerned about the protracted crisis in Haiti,
  
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• Distressing photos show glaciers that are disappearing or on the brink of collapse around the world

  01-11-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The future of glaciers around the world is shaky. Here are photos showing some of the glaciers that might not be around for much longer.
  
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• Texas woman says mother's gynecologist used his sperm to conceive her after submitting DNA to Ancestry.com

  01-11-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman in Texas has filed a lawsuit against a Colorado gynecologist accusing him of using his own sperm to artificially inseminate women without their consent.
  
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• UAW union leaders recommend approval of Ford labor deal

  01-11-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  United Auto Workers leaders from Ford Motor Co's U.S. plants on Friday recommended approval of a tentative labor agreement that would allow the No. 2 U.S. automaker to avoid a strike like the one that cost its larger rival General Motors Co about $3 billion.The union turned to Ford to negotiate a new four-year agreement after ratifying a contract last week with GM following a 40-day U.S. strike that shut down almost all of that company's North American operations.Ford and the UAW quickly reached
  
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• The WoW Classic Honor System is coming on November 12

  01-11-2019 21:21 via gamesradar.com
  Get ready to rack up some Honor Kills
  
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• Democrats' decision to televise Trump impeachment hearings could prove politically perilous

  01-11-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats in the U.S. Congress took a major step toward impeaching President Donald Trump this week when they agreed on the rules for publicly televised hearings after weeks oftestimony behind closed doors.Leaders of the Democratic-run U.S. House of Representatives believe that putting the main witnesses on TV will convince independent voters and other doubters that Trump was wrong in asking the Ukrainian government to dig up dirt on a political rival, Democrat Joe Biden, who hopes to be the can
  
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• Kentucky Supreme Court Tosses Suit against Designer that Refused to Print Gay Pride T-Shirts

  01-11-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Kentucky's Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a lawsuit against a print shop owner who refused to make an LGBT Pride T-shirt because doing so would violate his conscience.The high court ruled that the plaintiff, Lexington’s Gay and Lesbian Services Organization, lacked standing in the case since the city's gay rights law is meant to protect individuals rather than activist groups.“While this result is no doubt disappointing to many interested in this case and its potential outcome,
  
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• Don't Miss: David Brevik's tale of designing the original Diablo

  01-11-2019 21:02
  With Diablo IV recently confirmed, take a moment to refresh yourself on where the series started with this report from designer David Brevik's GDC 2016 postmortem of the original Diablo....
  
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• Overwatch 2 is officially happening, will be a "shared multiplayer environment" with original game

  01-11-2019 21:01 via gamesradar.com
  New maps, new heroes, and new modes are all coming to the sequel
  
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• The Republican Party must choose between Donald Trump and the party's fundamental values

  01-11-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump aims to discredit and delegitimize the impeachment process by turning it into a circus. But circuses need clowns. Is the GOP up for that?
  
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• Warren Derides Biden as Running in ‘Wrong Presidential Primary’

  01-11-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Elizabeth Warren swatted back at Joe Biden’s criticism of her $21 trillion Medicare-for-All plan Friday, accusing him of “running in the wrong presidential primary.”“Democrats are not going to win by repeating Republican talking points,” the Massachusetts senator said in Des Moines, Iowa. “So, if Biden doesn’t like that, I’m just not sure where he’s going.”Warren’s unusually direct attack on her campaign rival came
  
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• Exxon, Chevron Begin Pushing Back Against Warren’s Fracking Ban

  01-11-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- America’s two biggest oil companies are starting to push back against the fracking ban touted by the leading candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination, which may become one of the most consequential flashpoints for energy markets during the election campaign.Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp. executives spoke out publicly against the proposals for the first time on Friday, saying they would shift profits from crude production from the U.S. to other countries, an
  
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• ZeniMax to grant Fallout 76 refunds under pressure from Australian commission

  01-11-2019 20:52
  Bethesda parent company ZeniMax has admitted it was "likely to have misled" Australian Fallout 76 purchasers about their consumer rights after initially denying several refund requests....
  
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• The Latest: Shifting winds fan Southern California wildfire

  01-11-2019 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Shifting winds are causing problems for firefighters trying to contain a Southern California wildfire.Ventura County Fire Chief Mark Lorenzen says the Maria Fire about 50 miles (80 kilometers) northwest of Los Angeles has grown to just under 14 square miles (36 square kilometers) as of midday Friday.County Sheriff Bill Ayub says the fire is threatening 2,300 structures and about 8,000 people are under evacuation orders.
  
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• World of Warcraft Enters The Afterlife With Shadowlands Expansion

  01-11-2019 20:30
  Click here to watch embedded media Publisher: Blizzard EntertainmentDeveloper: Blizzard EntertainmentRelease:While celebrating the 15-year anniversary of World of Warcraft today at BlizzCon 2019, the company also unveiled World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, an expansion coming in 2020 (the game can be pre-purchased now).Dead souls are no longer going to their appropriate resting place in the Shadowlands, but are instead being fed into The Maw thanks to Sylvanas Windrunner, who has breached the veil
  
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• Teachers strike taught Chicago's new mayor tough lessons: analysts

  01-11-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot made strategic errors in the first major fight of her tenure, an 11-day teachers' strike, but may have learned lessons that will prove useful as she confrontsimmense city budget challenges, political observers said.Lightfoot, 57, was elected in convincing fashion to become Chicago's first black woman mayor in April, when she vaulted to victory on promises to dismantle the city's corrupt political machine and reform the city's school district.
  
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• Blizzard announces Overwatch sequel at BlizzCon

  01-11-2019 20:27
  Blizzard debuted a new Overwatch that remixes the game's multiplayer design and introduces a new focus on co-op, story driven gameplay. ...
  
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• Hearthstone Battlegrounds is Blizzard's card-based take on auto chess

  01-11-2019 20:25
  Blizzard is getting into the 'auto chess' business with a new mode for Hearthstone that appears to pit 8 players against each other in combat akin to DotA Auto Chess and other 'auto chess' games. ...
  
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• Can Trump Avoid Taxes by Moving to Florida? It's Not So Simple.

  01-11-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Like a long line of other wealthy New Yorkers, President Donald Trump has decided to establish his legal residence in Florida, apparently at least in part to save money on taxes.But changing one's legal home is not so simple.New York state has a platoon of state auditors who zealously examine whether people are trying to skirt paying its state and local taxes by improperly claiming that they live elsewhere.Those officials regularly face off against an industry of accountants and lawyers who spec
  
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• For Vietnam's 'Box People,' a Treacherous Journey

  01-11-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  LONDON -- Vietnamese smugglers call it the "CO2" route: a poorly ventilated, oxygen-deficient trip across the English Channel in shipping containers or trailers piled high with pallets of merchandise, the last leg of a perilous, 6,000-mile trek across Asia and into Western Europe.Compared to the other path -- the "VIP route," with its brief hotel stay and seat in a truck driver's cab -- the trip in a stuffy container can be brutal for what some Vietnamese refer to as "box people," successors to
  
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• Did Meghan Markle breach royal protocol with newspaper interview?

  01-11-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Meghan Markle has given an interview to the right-wing, Brexit-loving, fiercely traditional British newspaper The Daily Telegraph, in which she talks about the importance of vulnerability and speaks a great deal of therapy language that is unlikely to endear her to that newspaper’s natural readership.
  
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• World of Warcraft Classic Gets World Bosses and PvP Honor System This Month

  01-11-2019 20:16
  Blizzard has announced that World of Warcraft Classic will be getting world bosses and the PvP Honor System at some point during the week of November 12, 2019.
  Currently in World of Warcraft Classic, players can participate in PvP in certain cases, but nothing is gained besides the joy of victory. The PvP Honor system will reward players with with a point for each skill and and will build your rank as you play.
  World Bosses Azuregos and Kazzak will appear in WoW Classic and The Dire Maul is curr
  
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