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Top prosecutor in high-profile Virginia office resigning
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - Dana Boente, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, announced his resignation Friday, but said he plans to stay on...
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Judge dismayed by Flint's failure to follow water order
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DETROIT (AP) - A judge on Friday said the Flint City Council again has failed to come up with a long-term water source and may be pushing the troubled...

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WhatsApp rolls out the ability to delete sent messages, but you'll have to be quick about it
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It looks like WhatsApp has finished testing the ability to unsend messages that you feeling are inappropriate and wish you could take back. Yes, you will finally be able to delete WhatsApp messages that you sent to a contact, but you'll have to be quick about it.

Although WhatsApp did not yet announce anything related to the new feature, the FAQ page of the application has been recently updated to reflect the addition of the new functionality. The new feature is called “Delete for everyone” and will be available for Android, iOS and Windows Phone users.

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Arsenal vs Swansea: Team news, odds, KO time and stats
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Get the latest team news and stats ahead of the Premier League clash between Arsenal and Swansea City at the Emirates Stadium.

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Vassunda och Avesta Brovallen delade på poängen efter 20-20
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TouchArcade iOS Gaming Roundup: Animal Crossing Pocket Camp, Stranger Things in Minecraft, and More
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This week seems like it was totally dominated by all things Animal Crossing Pocket Camp. The story of this game first kicked off over a year ago when Nintendo teased both Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem.

They were originally slated for a fall 2016 release, and, well, we have since seen how that turned out. In late January, Nintendo announced that Animal Crossing had been delayed until its next fiscal year. We suspected it'd make an appearance at the Apple keynote in September, but everything was quiet in the world of Animal Crossing until the Nintendo presentation this week which concluded with the soft launch only a few hours later.

The above video is me playing the first "session" of the game, which goes through the entirety of the game's tutorial as well as getting pretty close to running out of things to do for the day. That took a little under two hours of playing, so at least on the surface it seems like Pocket Camp gives quite a bit of content away for free. We published a more in depth first impressions / review but the basic gist is Pocket Camp is exactly what you'd expect: A slimmed down version of Animal Crossing that runs on your iPhone.

Stranger Things season two is now on Netflix, giving everyone something to absolutely binge out on this weekend... And it seems that for whatever reason, Minecraft is also hopping onboard the Stranger Things hype train. (Or is it the other way around?) Either way, there's a new Stranger Things skin pack in Minecraft which potentially contains spoilers as there are skins for both season one and season two characters. It's pretty impressive how much these skin packs change the feel of the game, so, if that's a thing you're into... add Stranger Things skins to your collection right now.

If you haven't heard of Paladins: Champions of the Realm, it should probably be on your radar. Basically, it's a free to play Overwatch-like title that has system requirements which are shockingly low for a modern game. It's been a hit in the PC world, and Hi-Rez just soft launched Paladins Strike, which is a mobile MOBA that uses Paladins characters and the universe to create an experience that's way more fitting on touch devices. With Arena of Valor on the horizon, and many other good mobile MOBAS already out, I'm curious to see where this one will find a home on the App Store when it's finally released.

In the world of Blizzard, next week is Blizzcon and you can download the Blizzcon app right now. It's how you access all the virtual ticket content if you're watching from home, and it does even more cool stuff if you're actually at the event. If you're even remotely interested in Blizzard stuff, the virtual ticket is worth picking up as you'll see every event and presentation streamed in real time. If that's what you're into, watching the streams is a surprisingly great experience. Also, this week's tavern brawl in Hearthstone is an amazing Halloween-themed event that you really shouldn't miss. Definitely fire up Hearthstone and give it a go.

MOBAs seem to be the cool new thing on the App Store, and being one of the oldest, Vainglory isn't about to let these new kids on the block get any headway in the market. They just announced a new 5v5 mode that you can pre-register for, and as part of that, they're also updating the game to take advantage of the 120hz screen of the iPad Pro. I'm not sure how 5v5 will turn out, but Vainglory at 120fps sounds absolutely amazing-- Provided you've got a new iPad to play it on.

Last, but not least, is an upcoming game from Annapurna Interactive titled Florence. There aren't a whole lot of details just yet, but the tagline is "an interactive story about love and life." It's being made by Mountains, which is a new indie studio that has Monument Valley alum Ken Wong as the creative director. Annapurna releases awesome things and Ken is an ultra-talented guy, so we're expecting big things. There's no release date yet beyond 2018, so hopefully it comes earlier in the year instead of later in the year.

That's it for this week's big stories in the world of iOS gaming, and as always, if you're into these sorts of things and want an absolute overflow of information in the mobile gaming scene be sure to visit TouchArcade.

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Bournemouth vs Chelsea: Team news, odds and stats
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Get the latest team news and stats ahead of the Premier League clash between Bournemouth and Chelsea at the Vitality Stadium.

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Dubbelt Henrik i GP-kvalets topp
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Den enda som kunde slå Henrik von Eckermann i GP-kvalet på Elmia Scandinavian Horse Show var Henrik von Eckermann själv. Han firade hemvändar-fredag med en riktig show och 125 000 kronor i belöning.

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Confronting White Womanhood at the Women’s Convention
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DETROIT—The Facebook invite for a Women’s March had barely made it onto the internet last November before the conversation turned to race. It was the day after 53 percent of white women voted for Trump, and the name of the march was a casual rip-off of both a 1997 march for black women and a 1995 march for black men. People of color wanted to know why a bunch of white organizers were selling their protest with the intellectual property of black people. White people wanted to know why everyone couldn’t just put their differences aside and unite against Donald Trump.

In short order, three veteran organizers of color stepped in to help take the march from a hastily-created Facebook page to the largest global protest the world had ever seen, with a progressive platform that demanded, among other things, the demilitarization of American law-enforcement bodies and the end of mass incarceration. Some black activists still boycotted the march for its apparent roots in white feminist thought. Some white women boycotted the march, too, because they didn’t think issues of race and racism belonged next to issues like equal pay and reproductive rights.

The clash in perspectives had little to do with the Women’s March itself. But the march served as an illuminating microcosm of progressive American society in general, and the feminist movement in particular, which has only just begun to account for how the white supremacy of its past still affects its present. For white feminists unacquainted with contemporary discussions of intersectionality, it was an abrupt introduction to the topic.

On Friday, hundreds of white women lined up to discuss the issue, as part of the Women's Convention in Detroit, where thousands of activists — women and otherwise — convened in an attempt to carry forward the momentum of the march. Only a small fraction were able to make it into the panel discussion, titled “Confronting White Womanhood," making it the most popular event I’ve seen that didn’t boast a big-name headliner.

Billed as a space for white women to “unpack the ways white women uphold and benefit from white supremacy,” the panel began with a clarification. “This is not a safe space, because the world is not equally safe for all people,” one of the facilitators said. Instead, she termed it a “brave space,” where participants would be encouraged to speak honestly and suspend knee-jerk judgments against others in the group. After a brief welcome, facilitator, Sophie Ellman-Golan, who heads up social media for the Women’s March team, got right down to business: “I’m going to start things out with Emmett Till.”

What followed was a capsule history of how white women have been used (and have used themselves) to justify violence against black men. In addition to Till, a 14-year-old black boy who was killed in 1955 after a white woman falsely accused him of whistling at her, there was Dylan Rooff, who murdered nine black churchgoers in Charleston while accusing them of raping white women. There was also Terence Crutcher, whose killer is a female police officer, Betty Shelby, who is back on duty after she convinced a jury that she was scared for her life in Crutcher’s unarmed presence.

“When white women say we’re frightened of scary black men, really bad things happen,” said Ellman-Golan. She encouraged the women in the room to reconsider their perceptions of safety, especially when what makes them feel safe may compromise the safety of others around them. Acknowledging that what she was about to say was provocative, she offered a suggestion: “Don’t call the police. Don’t do it. How dare we choose as the enforcer of safety an institution that has demonstrated how deeply unsafe it is?”

After a primer on "white savior-ism" from artist Heather Marie Scholl, the attendees split into groups of 15 to discuss how they’ve propagated white supremacy and how they might help build an anti-racist future. Sinead O’Donnell, a white 40-year-old from Denver, told her group that the panel was part of a personal reckoning that was prompted in part by the Women’s March. O’Donnell was active in Hillary Clinton’s campaign and booked her flight to D.C. for the March on November 9, shocked and appalled by Trump’s election. The day of the march was “the first positive thing I had felt since the election,” she told me. Still, the long lineup of speakers focused on racism, immigrant rights, and religious persecution had her feeling “a little excluded” by the end of the day. “At the same time, I was uncomfortable feeling that way. I didn’t want to feel that way,” she said.

O’Donnell returned to Colorado after the march and formed a “huddle” of women in her own community, at the suggestion of the Women’s March organizers. They’re mostly white women, and while they’ve learned about local political issues and intend to get involved in the upcoming gubernatorial race, a lot of their time has been spent learning about social issues like racism. O’Donnell calls it “taking a good hard look at ourselves,” as opposed to, say, blaming everything on Trump. When she first saw the Confronting White Womanhood panel on the Women’s Convention schedule, she immediately ruled it out as something that would be far too uncomfortable. “But then I thought, no, I need to feel that discomfort,” she said. “It’s been a journey this year, and even in this session, trying to address my own biases that I didn’t know existed.”

The panel was an encouraging sign that organizers and participants might be making good on the great promise of the women's march — its big-tent approach to the concept of “women’s issues." With such a gigantic outpouring of activist energy from women who’d never before been compelled to carry a protest sign, the march had the potential to force participants in homogenous feminist circles to confront the diversity of women’s experiences.

The 200-or-so white women who sat in circles this afternoon discussing white supremacy may have been a self-selected group; a woman invested in the narrow-mindedness of white feminism would not have spent 90 minutes unpacking her own privilege when she could have been attending a seminar on self-care. But various women in the session described the talk as “difficult” and “eye-opening,” indicating that perhaps they still had space to nudge their woke-ometers up a few notches. At the end of the session, a latecomer noted that dozens of women down the hall were milling around for substitute panels, sad they couldn’t get in to confront their own white womanhood. The organizers promised they would look into holding the session again tomorrow.

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NSW motorcyclist dies after hitting feral pig
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Police say the 57-year-old was riding on Neilrex Road at Coolah, 100 kilometres north of Mudgee, on Friday night when the large black pig ran in front of the bike.
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Canada's Burnaby, B.C., hits back at Kinder Morgan in pipeline dispute
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Oct 27 (Reuters) - The city of Burnaby, British Columbia, accused Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd of disrespecting municipal regulations on Friday, after the...
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Trump to shrink Utah national monuments in bid to boost drilling, mining
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By Emily FlitterNEW YORK, Oct 27 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will shrink the size of two national monuments in Utah, Senator Orrin Hatch of...
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S&P, Fitch leave UK credit rating on hold but warn on Brexit
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By Andy BruceLONDON, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Standard and Poor's and Fitch held their credit ratings for Britain unchanged on Friday, but both remained gloomy...

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One world lounge Kuala Lumpur
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Hej, nån som har bra koll på lounger i KL airport?

Reser med Qatar airways i business, har platinum med dem (one world emerald) aldrig flugit från KL ut med one world innan.

Nån med tips/erfarenheter?

Tack på förhand

23:55
Oi creditors offer more capital for restructuring -sources
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By Tatiana Bautzer and Gram SlatterySAO PAULO, Oct 27 (Reuters) - The two largest groups of Oi SA bondholders have agreed to inject more cash into a ...

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Mexican Grand Prix 2017: What time does it start, what TV channel is it on and what odds of a Lewis Hamilton win?
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Cannibal, Harlequin ladybirds with an STI invading the UK
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England's native ladybirds have been decimated by the Harlequin ladybird, which can carry a STI called Laboulbeniales - a fungus which lives off the exoskeletons of insects and cause yellow growths.
23:53
Prokhorov to sell 49 percent of Nets to Alibaba co-founder - reports
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Joseph Tsai, one of the founders of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, is set to buy 49 percent of the NBA's Brooklyn Nets, US media reported Friday.ESPN and...
23:53
Joe Cokanasiga: The 17st wing who’s only 19!
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Meet Ratu Josateki Tuivanuavou Waqanivalu Cokanasiga – most people call him Big Joe. His name translate as: Chief Joe, King of the new place, the warship with spears of the sun.

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Ten Thoughts on Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo’s Appearance as the “One Lucky Guy” on Fox News’ Outnumbered
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1. “One Lucky Guy?” More like “one lucky audience!” Outnumbered, which airs at noon each weekday on Fox News, features four regular female panelists and one rotating male panelist, a fellow who sits in the middle of the show’s big semicircular couch and is dubbed “#oneluckyguy” by host Harris Faulkner. The guy is usually a standard-issue Fox nincompoop like Newt Gingrich or Sebastian Gorka or Jason Chaffetz. Compared to these dull fellows, Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo is a special treat. Sorbo may well be a nincompoop, but at least he’s a novelty!

2. Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo wore the wrong shirt. It is generally best to wear solid colors when you appear on television. “Don’t wear crazy patterns or vertical stripes. The patterns are hard for the cameras to pick up,” says Every Television Producer Who Ever Lived. “But what about my lucky black-and-white vertical-striped shirt?” you will protest. “Under no circumstances should you wear that shirt,” Every Television Producer Who Ever Lived will respond. Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo does not care about your wardrobe advice, Every Television Producer! Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo certainly does not care that his black-and-white vertical-striped shirt makes him look horrible in close-ups. Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo, who has spent a fair part of his career performing shirtless—he played the part of Hercules in the TV show Hercules: The Legendary Journeys—will wear whatever shirt he wants, and he will wear it unbuttoned to his chest, because that’s just the kind of guy he is.

3. Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo is either very polite or very tired. The male panelists generally dominate the discussion on Outnumbered, which is such a male panelist thing to do. They talk a whole lot, and assume their insights are definitive. I remember cringing a couple weeks back when, after former State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf made a relevant point about foreign policy, Newt Gingrich responded by patting her on the knee. That is not a Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo move. Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo is less talkative than any other #oneluckyguy I have ever seen on this show. He sat quietly for the show’s first nine minutes and waited for Harris Faulker to invite him into the discussion. “Last word to you,” said Faulkner to Sorbo, as the first segment was concluding. “Last word to me? I know nothing, I see nothing,” said Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo. Which might be true, but still, that never stopped Newt Gingrich.

4. Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo is an economical filmmaker. Correction: Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo did actually chime in with one point during the show’s first segment, when the other panelists referenced the amount of money the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign allegedly spent on commissioning some of the research behind the infamous Steele dossier. “You mentioned $9 million. I could have made three movies with really good messages for $9 million,” said Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo. I think we can all agree that that would have been a better use of the money, especially considering that each of these theoretical films would have probably starred Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo.

5. Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo just wants to talk about his movie. Why was Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo on Outnumbered today? Glad you asked: He was there to promote a movie called Let There Be Light. Sean Hannity was one of the film’s producers. I know this because Hannity has been plugging the film relentlessly on his program for the past two weeks. “I’ve always felt— Hollywood, I’ve never liked their values. I’ve always thought they had contempt for conservatives, their movies, so formulaic,” Hannity said recently, explaining why he decided to back this film, which, again, was directed by and stars Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo.

6. His movie looks bad. Let There Be Light “is an emotional story of the world's greatest atheist who finds his purpose after a near death experience.” It opens today. I was going to go see it tonight and write it up for the blog, but it isn’t playing anywhere in New York City. The closest theater that’s showing it is in New Jersey, and I am not going to New Jersey to see a Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo movie. Sorry, fans!

7. Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo still looks great, despite wearing the wrong shirt. Way to go, Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo.

8. Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo has some dumb thoughts about the Mueller investigation. “Once again,” he said midway through the show, “let me go back to [the issue of the federal government wasting] taxpayers’ money. It’s just a waste of time. I mean, really, enough is enough. It's time to move on with this thing. I say clean out the people who started this whole witch hunt to begin with. They tried to paint Trump red, when they really just got red on themselves, and that’s what’s going on with this witch hunt that’s been going on.” That’s the sort of hot take I would expect to hear from Jason “Hot Take” Chaffetz, not from Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo.

9. Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo does not care for the trend of taking down Confederate statues. “[Next] they’re going to come after George Washington and Jefferson and all those people as well. You’re going to have to get rid of everybody,” said Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo, a man I liked much better when he was sitting quietly in an extremely nontelegenic shirt.

10. Oh, no! Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo may have actually reached out and patted Marie Harf on the knee after she responded to his bad point about the statues! I can’t tell whether or not his hand made contact with her knee, but it definitely came very close. And he did this not once, but twice. He also leaned over and encroached on Harf’s personal space in a way that made me cringe. “I love how the left calls presidents like Trump a ‘Nazi’ … and that means ‘National Socialist.’ That would be the Democrat party,” he informed Harf. I take back all the nice things I have ever said about Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo.

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Tingsryds tredje raka: "Släppt på all press"
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Tredje raka segern och upp på slutspelsplats.
Tingsryd presterar, levererar och pucken glider smålänningarnas väg i hockeyallsvenskan.
– Vi har släppt på all press som låg på oss, säger målvakten Niklas Rubin till Smålandsposten efter 4-1 mot Vita Hästen.

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US STOCKS-Wall St powered higher by tech, Amazon results
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By Chuck MikolajczakNEW YORK, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Wall Street climbed on Friday as a surge in the tech sector and a rally in Amazon shares helped push the...
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S&P unexpectedly raises Italy´s sovereign credit rating to BBB
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By Crispian BalmerROME, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's unexpectedly raised its sovereign rating for Italy to BBB on Friday,...
23:50
McDonald's sets new welfare standards for chickens
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By Tom PolansekCHICAGO, Oct 27 (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp will require suppliers to follow new standards for raising and slaughtering chickens served in...
23:49
England coach hatches plot to train with rivals Wales
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CHRIS FOY - EXCLUSIVE: England and Wales are to form a historic alliance next month when the cross-border rivals train together during the build-up to their opening autumn Tests.
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Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers won't stop Scotland players
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Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers was coy on Scott Brown's Scotland future but remains keen for his players to represent their country.
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Burnley boss Sean Dyche criticises FA´s stance on diving
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Dyche´s Burnley felt aggrieved last weekend when Manchester City´s Bernardo Silva won a penalty.
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Leeds 1-2 Sheffield United: David Brooks fires Blades top
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RICHARD GIBSON AT ELLAND ROAD: The 20-year-old recent Wales call-up strode through to slot the winner nine minutes from time as the rise of Chris Wilder’s team continues unabated.

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'Stranger Things' Season 2 is full of references to one classic arcade game
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Ahead of the release of Stranger Things Season 2, the titles of the first six episodes were revealed, giving the world an extremely vague tease of what's to come. One of those episode titles is a reference to an arcade game from the '80s, and now we know why.

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Warning: Stranger Things Season 2 spoilers ahead

The fifth episode, titled "Dig Dug," is named after the classic video game of the same name, and reveals something sinister lurking just beneath the town of Hawkins, Indiana: Tunnels.

Not just regular old tunnels though, Upside Down tunnels that play host to the horrible denizens of the Upside Down including weird tentacle things and abscesses that spit at passers by. Read more...
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Apple calls on developers to update apps for iPhone X
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Hours after Apple initiated preorders for iPhone X, the company on Friday called on developers to submit updated apps built to take advantage of the new flagship's advanced capabilities -- and unique design.

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Dolphins' Gase again considering lineup shakeup on offense
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DAVIE, Fla. (AP) - Coach Adam Gase says the Miami Dolphins flunked their latest test because of lousy study habits.Jay Cutler will start at quarterback next...
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INTERVIEW-Cricket-Pakistan welcomes end of isolation from internationals
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By Saad SayeedLAHORE, Pakistan, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Even Pakistan's prime minister did not believe it could happen but when Sri Lanka visit the eastern city...
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Fired Mexico prosecutor drops bid to fight dismissal
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MEXICO CITY, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Mexico's top prosecutor for electoral crimes on Friday said he would no longer fight his dismissal by the acting attorney...
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BC-SOC--Spanish Results
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MADRID (AP) - Results from Spanish football:Numancia 2, Malaga 1FC Cartagena 0, Sevilla 3Getafe 0, Alaves 1Zaragoza 0, Valencia 2Cadiz 1, Betis 2Real Murcia...
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BC-SOC--Spanish Standings
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Alaves vs. Valencia 1100 GMTAtletico vs. Villarreal 1630 GMTAthletic Bilbao vs. Barcelona 1845 GMTSevilla vs. Leganes 2030 GMTGetafe vs. Sociedad 1100...
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US Treasury's inspector general clears plane trip
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Treasury Department's office of the inspector general says a trip that a top Treasury official took on a plane owned by a wealthy hedge...
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Barbie's world shaken by Toys R Us bankruptcy
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NEW YORK (AP) - There's trouble in toyland, and companies are blaming Toys R Us.Mattel, the maker of Barbie dolls and Hot Wheels cars, reported disappointing...

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Livspusslet får unga människor klara själva
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Robot ants are here to terrify and impress you
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‘BionicANTs’ by Festo are cooperative robotic ants that work together under set rules.

The ants have a 3D stereo camera in their heads to identify nearby objects and contextualize the environment.

The opto-electrical sensor in their abdomen can also recognize floor structure and its movement in relation to the ground.

Festo claims the ants demonstrate how autonomous components can work together to solve complex tasks. Read more...
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Taylor Swift hits back at critics who 'had so much to say'
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She released the futuristic music video for her song ...Ready For It?' And Taylor Swift is speaking out after viewers criticized her choice in wardrobe for the video.

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Apple Encourages Developers to Update Their Apps for iPhone X
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Apple this afternoon reminded developers about the imminent launch of the iPhone X and encouraged them to submit apps that are optimized for the new device.

Developers can download Xcode 9.0.1 to test apps using the iPhone X simulator before submitting their updated apps to iTunes Connect.
The future is almost here. iPhone X will be available November 3. This stunning device features the all-new Super Retina display for more immersive experiences and Face ID, a secure new way to unlock, authenticate, and pay. The TrueDepth camera works with ARKit, and the A11 Bionic chip is designed for Core ML and Metal 2. Download Xcode 9.0.1, test your apps in the iPhone X simulator, and capture screenshots. Then submit your updated apps and metadata in iTunes Connect today.
There are specific Human Interface Guidelines developers are encouraged to follow when updating their apps for the iPhone X.

Developers need to take into account the iPhone X's rounded corners, sensor "notch" at the top of the device, and the indicator area for accessing the Home screen to prevent clipping. Developers are discouraged from attempting to mask or call special attention to features like the rounded corners and the sensor housing at the top of the device.

Apps that support Apple Pay or Touch ID will need to make sure Face ID, not Touch ID is referenced within apps on the iPhone X. Apps that use Touch ID will be able to incorporate Face ID as a replacement automatically.

The iPhone X will be in the hands of customers starting on Friday, November 3, the official launch date for the device.

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Mystery space object may be first confirmed interstellar visitor
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Mystery space object may be first confirmed interstellar visitor
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Mystery space object may be first confirmed interstellar visitor
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Netflix has a new ‘Stranger Things’ aftershow, but you shouldn’t watch it just yet
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If you've already started watching the second season of Stranger Things, you might be interested to know that the breakout hit show of 2016 now has a new after-show series dubbed Beyond Stranger Things. Similar to how Talking Dead provides fans of The Walking Dead with a nice little recap and interviews with show producers and stars, Beyond Stranger Things aims to give fans a lot more insight into a given episode along with behind the scenes stories and more. Originally brought to light by The Hollywood Reporter, Beyond Stranger Things is already live and you'll definitely want to check out each and every episode if you can't get enough of the 80s inspired sci-fi universe created by the Duffer brothers. It is worth noting, though, that people are being cautioned not to check out the after show until they've seen the entire second season, lest they encounter some major show spoilers.
Beyond Stranger Things marks the streaming service's first foray into aftershow programming on its platform and is being considered a Netflix original series. It's produced by Embassy Row, the production company behind one of the more successful aftershows on the air, Talking Dead, along with several other unscripted post-show series.
As you might expect, the Stranger Things aftershow will be chock-full of notable guests, including the series creators and series stars such as Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven). Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin), and others. All told, rolling out an aftershow for an immensely popular show like Stranger Things is a brilliant move and will only serve to keep subscribers more engaged and glued to their screens.

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Vann nästan tre miljoner på kupong inlämnad Kungsör
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En lycklig vinnare som lämnade sin eurojackpotkupong på Carinas Kiosk & Spel prickade in fem rätt på lottokupongen.

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BRIAN BLESSED on the orphan orangutan who broke his heart
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The voice at the other end of the line belonged to wildlife expert Eddie Orbell, then head of big cats at Chessington Zoo. He had an unusual request.

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BRIAN BLESSED on the orphan orangutan who broke his heart
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The voice at the other end of the line belonged to wildlife expert Eddie Orbell, then head of big cats at Chessington Zoo. He had an unusual request.

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Asllanis nya kritik mot Fifa: ”Deras svar är ett skämt”
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Soccer-Ligue 1 top scorers
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Oct 27 (Gracenote) - Top scorers of the Ligue 1 on Friday 13 Radamel Falcao (Monaco) 11 Edinson Cavani (Paris St Germain) 8 ...
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Soccer-Ligue 1 summaries
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Oct 27 (Gracenote) - Summaries from the Ligue 1 matches on Friday Paris St Germain 3 Edinson Cavani 3,31, Bonfim Dante 52og Nice 0 ...
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Soccer-Bundesliga summaries
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Oct 27 (Gracenote) - Summaries from the Bundesliga matches on Friday Mainz 1 Suat Serdar 71 Eintracht Frankfurt 1 Stefan Bell 37og ...
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Supreme Court delays argument in Ohio voter purge case
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is delaying its early November argument over Ohio's effort to purge its voter rolls because one of the lawyers for the...
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Hiker missing for days found alive by Oregon's Mount Hood
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Nathan Mitchell, 34, has been found alive after he went missing for almost five days during a day-long hiking trip near Oregon's Mount Hood. He was found just 400 feet from the trail.
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Rhian Brewster's dad praise son ahead of World Cup final
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EXCLUSIVE BY KIERAN GILL: It rubbed the 17-year-old up the wrong way. Waiting to walk out in front of 60,000 spectators in Kolkata, he urged his team-mates to have the last laugh.

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Scott Lloyd Must Be Stopped
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If Scott Lloyd didn’t break the law, he came perilously close to doing so. Since his appointment in March as director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement at the Department of Health and Human Services, Lloyd has prohibited undocumented minors in federal custody from obtaining abortions. He has instructed subordinates to prevent these minors from meeting with attorneys and from going to court to request permission to terminate their pregnancies. He has personally met with multiple minors to coerce them to carry their unwanted pregnancies to term.

A federal court ruled on Tuesday that Lloyd violated the Constitution when he refused to let an undocumented minor known as Jane Doe obtain an abortion. This ruling casts serious doubt on the constitutionality of ORR’s broader policy, which bars federally funded shelters from taking “any action that facilitates” abortion without approval from Lloyd (which he will never provide). The Jane Doe case also raised questions about the broader legality of Lloyd’s actions. An ethics watchdog group and two congressional representatives are now looking into whether Lloyd should be charged with abuse of public office.

Lloyd was selected to run ORR precisely because of his culture warrior bona fides. He vigorously opposes abortion and has argued that pregnant women should be legally required to receive consent from their partners before terminating a pregnancy. Lloyd also opposes contraception which, he claims, has an extremely high failure rate. (The science does not back up this allegation.) He helped Terri Schiavo’s parents fight to keep their daughter on artificial life support and co-founded an anti-abortion law firm called LegalWorks Apostolate. This work experience made Lloyd an obvious candidate for the Trump administration, although his specific placement was initially puzzling: As ORR director, Lloyd is tasked with helping new refugees though he has no real experience in refugee resettlement.

It is now quite clear why Lloyd was selected for this position: to halt the Obama administration’s practice of allowing undocumented, unaccompanied minors to obtain abortions upon request. Emails obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union show that Lloyd immediately imposed an absolute bar on abortion services and began monitoring pregnant minors at federally funded shelters. Via email, he directed shelters not to let these women meet with attorneys regarding termination—or to go before judges to receive judicial bypasses, as required under Texas law. Instead, he provided them with a list of approved “crisis pregnancy centers” to which minors could be brought for anti-abortion “counseling.”

Lloyd also repeatedly met with pregnant minors to urge them not to terminate and called their parents—without their consent—to inform them that their daughters were pregnant. He prioritized placing these teenagers with sponsors who opposed abortion. And although Lloyd took keen interest in these minors’ fetuses, his emails reflect a blasé attitude toward the women themselves. In one email, he noted that a pregnant minor denied abortion access had “mentioned suicide”; in response, he urged more anti-abortion counseling. In another email, he advised that a shelter staffer should “keep a close eye” on a pregnant teen in case she began to demand an abortion, which “these girls” often “regret.”

Does Lloyd have the authority to micromanage these minors’ medical decisions and deprive them of legal representation? He does not, argues the Campaign for Accountability, which has called on the Virginia State Bar to investigate whether Lloyd’s actions violated rules of professional conduct. (Lloyd is a member of the Virginia bar.) CFA alleges Lloyd may have engaged in interference with the administration of justice by preventing minors from attending court hearings. Moreover, he may have “misused his position” by “personally visiting unaccompanied immigrant minors, pressuring them regarding personal healthcare decisions, and providing individualized, detailed, and at times illegal direction to grantee shelters regarding their care.” Lloyd is not authorized to perform any of these tasks under federal law.

In a letter to the HHS inspector general, CFA also claims Lloyd may have committed contempt of court by violating state confidentiality rules regarding judicial bypass. Under Texas law, court records of bypass proceedings are confidential, and the court is authorized to enforce this confidentiality. Lloyd plainly violated those rules by calling at least one minor’s parents following her bypass hearing and divulging information regarding her pregnancy.

Perhaps most damningly, Lloyd may have flouted the terms of a long-standing federal settlement agreement—behavior that could put him in contempt of federal court. In 1997, the federal government entered a settlement in the long-running Flores v. Reno lawsuit, which involved the rights of undocumented, unaccompanied minors. Under the agreement, the government is legally obligated to provide these minors with emergency health care, family planning services, “a reasonable right to privacy,” and “legal services.” As CFA explains:

Mr. Lloyd appears to have violated the Flores settlement in a number of ways. He withheld family planning services from [Jane Doe], who was blocked from obtaining an abortion for weeks as Mr. Lloyd directed the grantee shelter to refuse to let her leave for her scheduled appointments. He has blocked at least one unaccompanied immigrant minor from seeking and receiving legal assistance. He has suggested circumventing the placement priorities of the Flores agreement in an apparent attempt to prioritize ideological opposition to abortion over the goal of placing unaccompanied immigrant minors with their family members. He has also potentially deprived unaccompanied immigrant minors of their reasonable right to privacy by notifying their parents or sponsors of their pregnancies, and has forced them to undergo “counseling” at crisis pregnancy centers.

On Oct. 16, Reps. Beto O’Rourke and Zoe Lofgren sent a letter to Acting HHS Secretary Eric Hargan expressing concern about many of these issues. O’Rourke and Lofgren asked Hargan to clarify HHS policy regarding its compliance with Flores as well as Lloyd’s possible abuse of office. The letter requested a “prompt response to this urgent matter.” As of Friday afternoon, HHS has not responded. O’Rourke’s office informed me that the congressman has sent a follow-up note “communicating the urgency of their expected response.”

CFA’s complaints to the Virginia State Bar and the HHS inspector general are not likely to spur immediate repercussions for Lloyd. If the bar does move to sanction Lloyd—which is no sure thing, as state bars are hesitant to punish powerful members for their official actions—those proceedings will take quite a while. And while HHS Inspector General Daniel R. Levinson is fairly independent, his office typically focuses on combating fraud and waste of federal funds. Lloyd’s behavior does technically fall under Levinson’s purview, but he may view it as a fundamentally political matter. And even if Levinson does launch an investigation, it could drag on for months or even years. In the meantime, Lloyd can continue to impose his unlawful policies on thousands of undocumented minors.

Lloyd should face consequences for his misconduct. He probably won’t. Like so many Trump administration officials, Lloyd behaves as though he is above the law—an attitude that obviously starts at the top. He has imposed his beliefs on those in his care with little regard for their own well-being. He has exceeded the authority of his office and disregarded both state and federal law. He has, in other words, acted exactly as we have come to expect a Trump appointee to act. Lloyd’s ethical breaches should be a scandal. But in this administration, they’re just business as usual.
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The Angle: Photo Op Edition
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Me, too: Christina Baker Kline heard stories about former President George H.W. Bush groping women during photo ops and decided to speak up. (Also: Why do so many of these assaults happen when the camera clicks?)

Oh, good plan: Trump wants to bring back the widely discredited “Just Say No” approach to fix the opioid crisis. Torie Bosch has some reality TV he should watch. (Hey! Trump likes TV! Could work.)

Lowercase: Post Malone’s song “Rockstar” (which actually starts with a little r, Slate copy-editors aside) is a dirge of a sad-sack rap, Chris Molanphy writes. It’s a self-aware and draggy little bit of appropriation.

For fun: Who gets up earlier to whine: Trump or an actual baby?

For more fun: This experiment with men in the workplace has got to stop.

They had their chance,

Rebecca

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Trump calls on Colombian leader for help in drugs war
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US President Donald Trump said he is concerned about the "extraordinary" increase in drug crops in Colombia, in a letter to his Colombian counterpart Juan...

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Another teaser shows the bezel-less display of the HTC U11+
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HTC is expected to unveil a new smartphone on November 2. It remains to be seen whether or not the Taiwanese company will unleash another flagship or just a mid-ranger.

What we do know is that the forthcoming device will feature a single lens camera, a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor, and a bezel-less display. The latter appears in a brand new teaser tweeted by HTC earlier today.

Although we're only offered a glimpse of what's to come, it pretty obvious that HTC has decided to slim down the dimensions of the bezels and make its upcoming device more pleasant ...

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NY police try to exhume mob victim, but can't find remains
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The decomposed body was found decades ago in a rural area where several victims of mob hits were dumped. The man's remains were buried in a cemetery in the 1970s, still unidentified.

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Femåriga underbarnet tokhyllas över världen
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Bill O’Reilly files $5 million defamation lawsuit over #MeToo Facebook post
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A detailed #MeToo Facebook post about former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly had led to a $5 million lawsuit.

Michael Panter, a former New Jersey state legislator, posted on Tuesday about his ex's experience while working at Fox News with host Bill O'Reilly. Not only was she a victim of O'Reilly's harassment, Panter alleges, but O'Reilly once asked her to give him dirt on another woman accusing him of inappropriate behavior.

SEE ALSO: Megyn Kelly explains why she's speaking out about Bill O'Reilly and Fox News

O'Reilly responded Friday with a New York Supreme Court summons that sought $5 million in damages for the "publicly-available social media post." Read more...
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Mikhail Prokhorov sells 49 percent of Nets to Joseph Tsai
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Brooklyn Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov has reportedly agreed to sell a 49 percent stake in the franchise to Joseph Tsai, the co-founder of Chinese e-commerce goliath Alibaba.
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Uber hires Pepsi's Tony West as new chief legal officer
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By Heather SomervilleSAN FRANCISCO, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc said on Friday it hired a new general counsel to help guide the company...
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England too good in World Cup semi final, says Brazil boss
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JOHN HELM: If all goes to plan in Kolkata the answer will be Steve Cooper, a 37-year-old whose modest achievements as a player stretched to stints with The New Saints, Rhyl and Bangor City.

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Best Buy says charging people $100 more to buy an iPhone X is actually a good thing
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If you were preordering an iPhone X from Best Buy today, you might have noticed that the popular electronics retailer is charging an extra $100 on top of the already expensive $999 and $1,149 prices that Apple charges for the phones.

Danielle Schumann, a spokesperson for Best Buy, tried to explain the fact that the company is overcharging for the iPhone X in a statement to Bloomberg, which is included in full below for the sheer ridiculousness of it.

“Our prices reflect the fact that no matter a customer’s desired plan or carrier, or whether a customer is on a business or personal plan, they are able to get a phone the way they want at Best Buy. Our customers have told us they want this flexibility and sometimes that has a cost.”

So,...

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Best Buy says charging people $100 more to buy an iPhone X is actually a good thing
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If you were preordering an iPhone X from Best Buy today, you might have noticed that the popular electronics retailer is charging an extra $100 on top of the already expensive $999 and $1,149 prices that Apple charges for the phones.

Danielle Schumann, a spokesperson for Best Buy, tried to explain the fact that the company is overcharging for the iPhone X in a statement to Bloomberg, which is included in full below for the sheer ridiculousness of it.

“Our prices reflect the fact that no matter a customer’s desired plan or carrier, or whether a customer is on a business or personal plan, they are able to get a phone the way they want at Best Buy. Our customers have told us they want this flexibility and sometimes that has a cost.”

So, apparently Best Buy is under the impression that its customers would like to pay more to buy phones from it, as opposed to the cheaper retail cost offered everywhere else the iPhone X is sold.

It’s worth pointing out that the extra fee is only if you buy the iPhone X from Best Buy upfront; if you purchase the iPhone in installments from Best Buy, the price works out to the usual $999 and $1,149. You’ll only see the $1,099 and $1,249 prices if you pay for the phone in full. It’s a similar strategy to push customers toward an installment plan as the company’s $100 discount on the Pixel 2, but instead of giving customers a discount on the installment plan, its giving everyone who doesn’t use the monthly option a more expensive price.

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Everton boss Unsworth insists big buys are not untouchable
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The Toffees invested heavily in their squad during the summer as former boss Ronald Koeman — sacked on Monday — splashed out £140million on new recruits.

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Factory operations manager Polymer spins out from Dandelion Chocolate
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Not every startup journey starts as sweetly as the road co-founders Ishita Prasad and Maya Balakrishnan took to launching their new company, Polymer — but then again, not every startup takes its inspiration from a chocolate factory. Read More

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Microsoft is selling the IntelliMouse Explorer again, but screws up the sensor choice
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Few computer peripherals are as venerable as Microsoft’s IntelliMouse Explorer, an old series of office mice so well-rounded they were once one of the most popular choices for professional gamers. Now Microsoft has brought it back to life with the new IntelliMouse Classic, making my nerdy heart skip a beat. It’s available from the Microsoft Store now for $40 bucks. Too bad it seems the company didn’t give it any gaming chops at all. The mouse is basically a modernized version of the IntelliMouse 3.0 – except now in a sleek gunmetal and black look – with a similar shape and…

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Lewis Hamilton spins out as Daniel Ricciardo leads the way in Mexican Grand Prix practice
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Honda's cutesy robot cooler keeps drinks within reach
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Honda didn't just unveil a slick-looking EV coupe concept at the Tokyo Motor Show. It also had a robot... though it's definitely not the kind of robot you'd expect from the company. Its RoboCas Concept is a super-cute cargo bot that can follow you...

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Dynasty's Catherine Oxenberg: Free my daughter from cult
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Dynasty star Catherine Oxenberg is speaking out about the cult she accuses of brainwashing her 26-year-old daughter.
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Hundreds of secret papers on JFK assassination released but Trump blocks others
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The documents capture the frantic days after the assassination on November 22 1963.

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