| Duterte snubs White House invite. What was Trump thinking? Posted: 01 May 2017 06:30 PM PDT  Now it's the Philippines turn. In another spontaneous foreign policy initiative, Trump used a Saturday phone call to invite the country's controversial president, Rodrigo Duterte, for an official White House visit.
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| Hillary Clinton: I’m ‘part of the resistance’ Posted: 02 May 2017 12:15 PM PDT  Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she is now "part of the resistance" during the Women for Women International 2017 annual luncheon.
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| Police officers who shot dead Alton Sterling 'will not be charged' Posted: 02 May 2017 02:28 PM PDT  Alton Sterling - in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, according to reports. Police said they were were responding to a call that someone who fit the description of Mr Sterling was illegally selling CDs and threatening people with a gun outside of a convenience store in July 2016. Bystanders' video from the scene appeared to show two white officers on top of Mr Sterling arresting him.
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| Nigeria's Buhari absent again from cabinet meeting Posted: 03 May 2017 04:29 AM PDT  Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari failed to show up for a weekly cabinet meeting on Wednesday, despite assurances from his wife that his health was not a cause for concern. Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo chaired the meeting in the absence of the 74-year-old Buhari, who has now missed the last three gatherings of senior ministers and advisors. Buhari has been under growing pressure to disclose his state of health since he returned from the British capital in early March after nearly two months away.
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| Good Samaritans Jump Into Action to Save Family From Rising Floodwaters in Pulse-Pounding Video Posted: 01 May 2017 01:15 PM PDT  Both a baby and a toddler in the overturned car were not breathing when they were pulled from the vehicle.
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| President Trump Makes Major Changes To Nutritional Standards In School Lunch Programs Posted: 02 May 2017 12:43 PM PDT  The USDA wants to make lunches "appealing" again.
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| Trump doubles down on dubious Civil War claim Posted: 02 May 2017 06:33 AM PDT  "President Andrew Jackson, who died 16 years before the Civil War started, saw it coming and was angry. Would never have let it happen!"
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| White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's daily briefing on May 2, 2017 Posted: 02 May 2017 11:45 AM PDT  On Tuesday, May 2, 2017, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer holds the daily briefing with the White House pres corp.
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| Paul Ryan tries to rebrand new health care plan as more Republicans defect Posted: 02 May 2017 10:07 AM PDT  House Speaker Paul Ryan and his deputies attempted to rebrand the party's troubled health care plan as providing "layers of protection" for people with preexisting conditions, even as members of their caucus continued to defect from backing the legislation. Ryan told reporters Tuesday morning. Republic Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the majority whip, read aloud a letter from a constituent with a preexisting condition who said Obamacare did not help him.
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| The Latest: Dallas shooting began as neighbor dispute Posted: 01 May 2017 03:53 PM PDT  DALLAS (AP) — The Latest on the Dallas shooting that left a paramedic critically injured (all times local):
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| US tests nuclear-capable missile with the range to strike North Korea Posted: 03 May 2017 04:36 AM PDT  The US has test-fired a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile from a site in California, the second such launch in a week, amid rising tensions with North Korea. The unarmed Minuteman 3 missile has a range of around 8,000 miles, putting it within striking distance of Pyongyang. It blasted off just after midnight from Vandenberg Air Force Base, 150 miles northwest of Los Angeles, and delivered a single projectile to a target approximately 4,200 miles away at Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, US Air Force Global Strike Command said.
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| This is the stupidest thing on Microsoft’s new laptop Posted: 02 May 2017 12:01 PM PDT 
Microsoft has a new laptop. It's called the Surface Laptop, and it appears to do many things well. It's basically a spiritual successor to the MacBook Air, but more quirky, because it comes in various colors and has fabric on the keyboard. Unfortunately, Microsoft took its rather good-looking laptop out behind the woodshed and murdered it with one particularly dumb choice: there's no USB-C port.
Microsoft chose to go with its proprietary magnetic charger, a USB-A port, a miniDisplayPort, and a headphone jack. Apple was lambasted (and rightly so) for the lack of ports on its new MacBook, but at least it had an explanation: USB-C is the future, therefore we're just going to stick only USB-C ports on our futuristic laptop. Microsoft's approach seems to just be to give a stiff middle finger to common sense. USB-C is the future. It's not the only port you need right now -- chances are you still have a whole bunch of things that use USB-A -- but it is a fantastic standard for the future. The port is tiny, you can connect it both ways, and it's incredibly powerful. You can use it to charge device, you can use it to hook up a laptop to a monitor and charge it with just one cable. You can use the same cable that you use to charge your phone to charge your laptop. Even better, using USB-C for charging gives people choice over chargers. I've been using a tiny USB-C charger for my laptop for months now, and it really does feel like the future. Remember when cellphones used to have proprietary chargers, and then everyone switched to microUSB and the world became a better place? That's what's about to happen with laptops, but Microsoft apparently doesn't want to be a part of it. During the education-focused event, Microsoft said that the Surface Laptop would be "just as good on graduation day as day one." As USB-C infiltrates portable hard drives, projector hookups, flash drives and phone cables, Surface Laptop-toting students are going to be left behind. That's the opposite of what Microsoft wants, and I just don't understand.
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| More than 50 miners trapped in explosion in Iran, some feared dead Posted: 03 May 2017 05:13 AM PDT  (Reuters) - More than 50 miners were trapped after a huge explosion in a coal mine in northern Iran on Wednesday, and some were feared to have died, state media reported. The reports said more than a dozen injured people had been transferred to hospital after the blast at 12:45 p.m. local time in the Zemestanyurt coal mine in Golestan province. State news agency IRNA quoted a local official as saying some of the trapped miners may have died in the explosion.
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| Historians react to Trump’s Civil War comments: ‘That’s entirely wrong in every respect’ Posted: 01 May 2017 11:13 AM PDT Historians Monday valiantly tried, and mostly failed, to understand and interpret President Trump's remarks about President Andrew Jackson. Among other comments, Trump seemed to assert that Jackson, who died in 1845, could have prevented the Civil War, which began in 1861, and that the causes of the bloodiest conflict in the nation's history have not been addressed or discussed. "I mean, had Andrew Jackson been a little later, you wouldn't have had the Civil War," said Trump in an interview with the Washington Examiner's Salena Zito.
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| Barack Obama tweets at Jimmy Kimmel after his moving speech about the ACA Posted: 02 May 2017 11:21 AM PDT  Well this is touching. After his incredibly moving opening monologue last night about his newborn son's open heart surgery and his support for the Affordable Care Act, late night host Jimmy Kimmel got a tweet from the man who made it happen, former President Barack Obama. SEE ALSO: That awkward moment when Republicans failed to kill Obamacare but they bought boastful TV ads anyway and now they're airing, LOL In case you haven't seen the monologue (and truly, it's a must-watch), Kimmel reveals that his son was born with a heart defect that required emergency open heart surgery. After thanking the wonderful doctors and nurses who saved his son's life, Kimmel talked to his audience about the incredible importance of the ACA. "If your baby is going to die and it doesn't have to - it shouldn't matter how much money you make," the tearful host said. "I think that's something that whether you're a Republican or Democrat or something else, we all agree on that." "No parent should ever have to decide if they can afford to save their child's life...it just shouldn't happen," he pleaded. Obama, seeing Kimmel's impassioned speech (which, again is a must-watch), responded in a tweet Tuesday afternoon. Well said, Jimmy. That's exactly why we fought so hard for the ACA, and why we need to protect it for kids like Billy. And congratulations! https://t.co/77F8rZrD3P — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 2, 2017 Like Kimmel said, let's take care of each other. WATCH: Trump thought being president would be easier than being a reality star businessman
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| More rain in the forecast adds to woes in flooded Midwest Posted: 03 May 2017 08:10 AM PDT  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Flooded areas of the Midwest are bracing for another round of heavy rain Wednesday, the last thing they need with rivers in several places at or near record levels.
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| US cop who killed unarmed black man guilty of rights charge Posted: 02 May 2017 07:06 PM PDT  A South Carolina policeman who was filmed shooting an unarmed black man in the back after a traffic stop pleaded guilty Tuesday to unlawful killing while performing official duties, which could bring up to life in prison. The Justice Department said that former North Charleston, South Carolina, police officer Michael Slager, 35, agreed to the single federal charge five months after a jury failed to convict him of murder in the case. "The Department of Justice will hold accountable any law enforcement officer who violates the civil rights of our citizens by using excessive force," said Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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| Trump says he would be 'honored' to meet with Kim Jong-un Posted: 02 May 2017 10:19 AM PDT  "The View" co-hosts discuss the president's seemingly changing policy with North Korea.
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| Al-Qaeda claims it is ‘fighting alongside’ US-backed coalition forces in Yemen Posted: 02 May 2017 05:16 AM PDT  The leader of al-Qaeda's forces in Yemen has said his fighters have worked with government-allied factions in the civil war towards their common goal of ousting Houthi rebels. Qasim al-Rimi, who has led the branch of the global jihadist movement known as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (Aqap) since his predecessor was killed in 2015, told the group's media arm al-Malahem on Sunday that his followers were de facto aligned with an array of forces in the complex conflict. While al-Rimi did not elaborate on what he meant by "alongside", many Sunni tribal militias, as well as the pan-Arab Muslim Brotherhood movement and conservative Salafis, are allied to the exiled Yemeni government fighting against Shia rebels known as Houthis who seized control of the capital Sanaa in 2014.
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| World's 'oldest person' dies in Indonesia at 146: relatives Posted: 02 May 2017 07:48 AM PDT  An Indonesian man reported to be the world's oldest person died at the age of 146 this week, family members said on Tuesday. Sodimejo, who was known locally as Mbah Gotho, was born in December 1870, according to a government-issued ID card that media reports said had been verified by local officials in the Central Java town of Sragen. Indonesian media reported that Sodimejo was the world's oldest person, citing his identity papers.
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| Students protest racism at liberal arts college in Minnesota Posted: 01 May 2017 03:37 PM PDT  NORTHFIELD, Minn. (AP) — Hundreds of students boycotted classes at St. Olaf College in southern Minnesota on Monday and instead packed an administration building to protest a rash of racist and threatening messages left around campus at the liberal arts college.
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| Toddler accidentally locks himself in car, has a great time getting rescued Posted: 02 May 2017 02:40 PM PDT  Fourteen-month-old Brandon Emery unwittingly locked himself in the car last week during a shopping trip with his mom. Don't worry, though — he made it out just fine. And he seems to have had an extremely fun experience. According to CBS News, the toddler climbed from the backseat into the front of his mother's unlocked car while she unloaded groceries at a store in Bude, United Kingdom. After she closed the trunk, but before she got back into the car, Brandon pushed the "lock" button. Whoops. SEE ALSO: People are sharing the weird little things that really annoy their mums Luckily, firefighters arrived quickly to save the day. And when Brandon decided to put a coin in his mouth, they swiftly broke the car window and pulled him to safety — making what could have been a terrifying experience a pretty funny one instead. Brandon, for his part, looked thrilled the whole time. "He was clearly traumatised by the whole ordeal," his mom joked on Facebook. And he got some early driving practice! Nice. WATCH: This night light goes inside your toilet bowl because why not
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| Detroit officer critical after shooting; suspect killed Posted: 01 May 2017 03:00 PM PDT  DETROIT (AP) — A man who critically wounded a Detroit police officer responding to a domestic dispute was caught on video surveillance chambering a round into a handgun as officers knocked on the door to his apartment building, the city's police chief said Monday.
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| Demonstrations against Venezuela's President Maduro's government in Caracas Posted: 02 May 2017 11:25 AM PDT ![Demonstrations against Venezuela's President Maduro's government in Caracas]( "Demonstrations against Venezuela's President Maduro's government in Caracas") Venezuela's opposition blocked streets in Caracas on Tuesday to denounce a decision by unpopular leftist President Nicolas Maduro to create a new super-body known as a "constituent assembly," a move critics say is a veiled attempt to cling to power by avoiding elections.
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| Video Shows Cops Confronting Pool Party Gunman 'With a Beer in One Hand and a Gun in the Other' Posted: 01 May 2017 01:39 PM PDT  Seven people were shot in the chaos, one fatally.
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| Iranians must give Rouhani second term to make good on nuclear deal: vice president Posted: 03 May 2017 07:17 AM PDT  By Alissa de Carbonnel TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's president must get a second term to secure the economic benefits that he promised would result from a diplomatic thaw with the West, Vice President Masoumeh Ebtekar said ahead of a May 19 election. Hassan Rouhani's hardline challengers for the presidency, some of whom are close to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, say he traded away too much in a 2015 deal with world powers that limited Iran's nuclear work but failed to deliver sufficient rewards. In a rare interview with a trio of foreign reporters at an EU-Iran business forum on Sunday, Ebtekar, one of Iran's 12 vice presidents, said voters should not give up on Rouhani.
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| IS attack kills dozens at Syria camp Posted: 02 May 2017 05:46 PM PDT  A jihadist assault led by suicide bombers killed dozens at a camp for the displaced near Syria's border with Iraq, as pressure grows on the Islamic State group in both countries. The violence left at least 46 people dead and came as another surprise IS attack on Tuesday killed 10 soldiers in Iraq, to the south along the border. As the tolls mounted, US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed steps to ease the Syrian civil war, which has pitched Moscow and Washington into rival camps.
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| 10 paid iPhone apps on sale for free right now Posted: 02 May 2017 09:02 AM PDT 
Microsoft's big May event has now come and gone, and there's plenty of interesting news out there for Windows fans who were wondering when Microsoft might respond to Google's attack on the education market with Chrome OS. Now that Microsoft fans have been taken care of, it's time to offer a little something to all the Apple fans out there. You'll find 10 paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free in this post. Grab them while you can, since these sales could end at any moment. These are paid iPhone and iPad apps that have been made available for free for a limited time by their developers. There is no way to tell how long they will be free. These sales could end an hour from now or a week from now — obviously, the only thing we can guarantee is that they were free at the time this post was written. If you click on a link and see a price listed next to an app instead of the word "get," it is no longer free. The sale has ended. If you download the app, you will be charged. FairRide+ 
Normally $2.99. FairRide+ compares fares between Uber and Lyft's product lines allowing you to quickly get the ride you need at the lowest cost right from Notification Center Widgets.
FairRide+ averages costs and automatically factors Surge and Prime Time surcharges so you never have to! Features:
- Directly compares prices by product type
- Open rideshare apps directly to quickly book your ride
- Averages price ranges for quick comparisons
- Displays time to pickup
- Displays ETA to destination
- Automatically factors Surge / Prime Time surcharges
- Saves favorite locations
Download FairRide+ Offliner 
Normally $0.99. Offliner is a web browser which allows users to save the pages so that they can read without internet connection.
Offliner has a minimalistic design which makes the user experience very simple and pleasant.
•This app can be used for reading articles and blog posts, when flying on a plane, traveling by tube, or in any other place without an internet connection.
•To save articles within this app, use the browser to find your articles and press the save button from the right top cornet of the app.
•This app does not require any login or password.
•Available for all of your iOS devices
Download Offliner Zip—Zap 
Normally $1.99. Touch to contract.
Release to let go.
Bring the clumsy mechanical beings home. · · ·
over 100 levels
no ads
no in-app-purchases »brilliantly designed« – gamezebo
»a lot of heart« – pocketgamer
»clever« – toucharcade
»excellent« – macstories
»absolute joy to play« – platformalist
Download Zip—Zap Flight Tracker 
Normally $1.99. Turn your iPhone, iPad into an air traffic radar and see planes around the world move in real-time on a detailed map. Or point your device at a plane in the sky to find out where it's going and more. Features that have helped make our application - Flight Tracker the best app in 115 countries include:
* Watch planes move in real-time on detailed map
* Identify planes flying overhead by simply pointing your device at the sky (requires GPS equipped device)
* Experience what the pilot of a an aircraft sees in real-time and in 3D (requires iPhone 4S, iPad 2, iPod Touch 5th gen., and above + iOS 6.0 or higher)
* Tap on a plane for comprehensive flight and aircraft information such as route, estimated time of arrival, actual time of departure, aircraft type, speed, altitude, and high-resolution picture
* Tap on an airport icon for current delay stats and weather conditions
* Easy to search for individual flights using flight number, airport, or airline
* Easy to filter by airline, aircraft, altitude, speed, and more
* Easy to set bookmarks to enable quick navigation to areas of interest
* Get a detailed list of all flights in the air in your area on your device
* Realistic aircraft symbols
Download Flight Tracker Weby 
Normally $1.99. Most simple and easy to use app that lets you make videos of your web browser from within the app including your voice. This is ideal for someone who is teaching or explaining something while browsing the web. NOTE: You have to launch this app and record your web experience within this app + Record web based HTML5 online games
+ Record web based online tutorials
+ Download once and use on all Apple devices HOW TO MAKE IT WORK:
• Launch app and browse to your favorite webpage within the app
• Once there click on the "camera" button within the app below
• Movie recording will start
• Now click away and say anything you want out loud.
• Both your webpage clicks and sounds will be recorded
• Once you are done then click on the camera button again
• Your webpage experience along with your sound will be saved as a movie to your camera roll.
• That's it you are done! Now share your recording anyway you like on facebook, twitter, youtube etc.
Download Weby Air Contacts Pro 
Normally $2.99. Air Contacts is the only Today Widget Contacts Launcher you will ever need, with ability to Call and Text your favorite contacts directly from the Widgets screen! This is an app with a powerful widget that will dramatically improve everyday use of your iPhone. While currently contacting your friends can be an annoyingly long process because you must open apps and search through contact after contact, with Magic Contact just swipe right from the lock screen, home screen, or pull down the widgets screen from within any app and get immediate access to your favorites. You can also organize contacts in groups (e.g. Family, Friends, Work) and access them directly from the widget. This Widget support calling, message, WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, Email and FaceTime. Features:
- Call & Text from the Notification Center
- Call & Message
- WhatsApp
- Email
- FaceTime
- Skype
- Messenger
- Unlimited Contacts & Groups
- 3D Touch in the widget for quick call
- Full support for iOS 9 & 10
Download Air Contacts Pro Week Calendar 
Normally $1.99. ***** BEST CALENDAR APP WORLDWIDE *****
Whether you use iCloud, Exchange or Google calendar, Week Calendar is the most user friendly and the all-round calendar app worldwide for everyone that needs to get the most out of their calendar app. Does your ordinary iPhone or iPad calendar give you insufficient insight and options? Then Week Calendar is the solution for you. CALENDAR CLARITY
Week Calendar provides a clear and detailed overview based on day, week, (mini)month or year level. Week Calendar breaks through the limitations of the standard calendar and adds functionality to improve your calendar usage. PACKED WITH USEFUL FUNCTIONS
Move your appointments by simply dragging, copying and pasting. Clear up a busy schedule by assigning different colors to various appointments and events. Powerful reminder functions make sure you'll always remember your events. Customizable week numbers or repetitive options and many other functions suited to your own personal needs. FAST AND EASY TO USE
Adding, repeating and moving events is much easier with Week Calendar. With a magnificent user interface and intuitive usability, Week Calendar is a pleasure for both regular as well as power users. SUBSCRIBE TO HOLIDAYS, SPORTS AND OTHER EVENTS
Add additional subscriptions to sports games, national holidays and more to your calendar from the Calendar Store. INTEGRATED GROUP EVENT PLANNER BY CALLY
Easily create group events and invite participants using Cally integrated group event planner. In just a few simple steps you create an event, suggest locations and dates and invite the participants. MOST IMPORTANT FEATURES
● Apple Watch app (iPhone)
● Magnificent overview of your appointments and events
● Viewing all your events for the week at one glance
● Calendar overview by day, week, month and year
● Simply relocate events using drag and drop
● Quickly add events on the right time using tap-and-hold
● Completely adaptable and customizable Tools menu to quickly change appointments and events
● Integrated group event planner by Cally
● Invite participants / share appointments and events by e-mail, Messages, WhatsApp
● Local calendar invite, enabling you to send invitations using a local calendar too.
● Works without setup for all calendar services supported by iOS (iCloud, iCal, Google, Exchange, Outlook, CalDAV, Birthdays, Subscriptions)
● Attachments
● Pinch to zoom
● Various icons for different events
● Link contacts to events
● Rotates with screen
● Event templates
● Easy-to-read widget
● Advanced recurrence rules
● Customizable display
● Time Zone Support
● Navigate with: Apple & Google Maps, Citymapper, Garmin, Here, iGo, Maps.me, Moovit, MotionX, Navigon, Sygic, TomTom, TransitApp, Waze, Yandex, 高德地图
● Alternate Calendars (Chinese, Hebrew, Indian, Islamitic & Persian)
● Batch operations
● Full customization of events
● Adaptable week numbers
● Available in many languages
Download Week Calendar WatchSocial 
Normally $0.99. WatchSocial now you can keep in touch with friends by updating your status on Facebook through your precious Apple Watch. With this app you can: • Dictate or Scribble for update your status Facebook
• View your profile on your Apple Watch (Photo, Name, Date of Birth, Notes, Bio)
• Access speed functionality through 3D Touch: Post to Facebook, Privacy Policy, Credits
• View the details of Apple Watch and your iPhone (battery monitor, version of iOS, available space, used space)
• Add the pre-built post that you can share on Facebook with your Apple Watch
• Send a hint to developers so they can improve the user experience and feature requests For proper operation of this app, you must have an Apple Watch and make sure it is always connected and synchronized your iPhone. Spread this app with the functionality "Tell your friends", each month will be guaranteed many new features for recreate on their Apple Watch the Facebook user experience. NOTE: The app needs the login via your Facebook account, and remember that this app is not affiliated with Facebook Inc.
Download WatchSocial Planet Switch 
Normally $0.99. Planet Switch is the new game from SALTANDPAPPER! This game is a big challenge that you and your friends brings to incandescence.
The Perfect Game to kill time or just to chill.
Your reflexes and your concentration are in demand - you'll be challenged to always change the matching planets color.
The goal is to save the planet by simply tapping fingers.
The principle sounds simple but can you make it up to the pressure to keep if your friends score more points than you? Challenge your friends - Challenge the whole world!
Easy to play, difficult to master.
Download Planet Switch Gangster Granny 3 
Normally $0.99. Some time had passed since Gangster Granny went on her ferocious trip to rob a bank. Those days seemed to be left behind as she now held an icecream instead of a gun, peacefully walking on the calm, sunny streets of a small village. Little did she know it was all about to change...
An evil corporation was now ruling the world, and seemed quite interested in Gangster Granny. But why? Who is behind all this?
Looks like it's time to break in, again. ----------------------------------- Gangster Granny 3 brings back the adventure genre from original Gangster Granny game, and offers even more variety to objectives, enemies and gunplay.
Download Gangster Granny 3
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| Woman critical after shark attack on California beach Posted: 01 May 2017 04:52 PM PDT  CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) — A woman who lost part of her right leg in a shark attack while wading at a popular Southern California beach was listed in critical condition Monday at a hospital.
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| White House says 'Let Girls Learn' initiative has not been changed despite internal documents Posted: 01 May 2017 12:11 PM PDT  The White House says there have been no changes to the "Let Girls Learn" initiative. "There have been no changes to the program," Kelly Love, a White House spokeswoman, told CNN, hours after the network reported on internal documents which stated that the stand-alone program would be shut down immediately. Statements from the Peace Corps and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to CNN and The Independent, respectively, indicated that the program would stop operating at full capacity, effective Monday.
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| Workmen mining sulfur from a live volcano Posted: 03 May 2017 08:27 AM PDT ![Workmen mining sulfur from a live volcano]( "Workmen mining sulfur from a live volcano") Jobs do not get too much more dangerous than pulling sulfur straight out of an active volcano — and all for $5 a day. Photographer Troyce Hoffman, 30, accidentally stumbled upon the sulfur mine on Kawah Ijen, on the Indonesian island of Java, when checking out the active volcano.
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| Fasting Vs. Traditional Diet: Which Is Better for Weight Loss? Posted: 02 May 2017 05:04 PM PDT  Fasting diets are trendy these days, but they may be no better for weight loss than traditional diets, according to a new study. Researchers looked at a weight-loss method called "alternate-day fasting," in which people drastically reduce their calorie intake every other day, but eat more than usual on nonfasting days. The researchers randomly assigned 100 obese adults to one of three groups: an alternate-day fasting group, a traditional diet group and a group that did not diet at all.
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| New Hamas program softens language, but some goals remain Posted: 01 May 2017 12:28 PM PDT  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Islamic militant Hamas on Monday unveiled what had been billed as a new, seemingly more pragmatic political program aimed at ending the group's international isolation.
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| Dad Allegedly Drowns Newly Adopted 10-Year-Old Son: 'You're Going to Die Tonight' Posted: 02 May 2017 04:57 PM PDT  A father killed a 10-year-old boy he'd just adopted, police said.
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| Maybe Tim Cook should blame the iPhone 7’s three-year-old design for declining sales Posted: 03 May 2017 06:18 AM PDT 
Apple on Tuesday afternoon reported fiscal second-quarter earnings that were largely in line with expectations. Revenue climbed to $52.9 billion from $50.2 billion in the year-ago quarter, and net profit came in at $11 billion. Second-quarter guidance that missed analysts' consensus estimate was largely responsible for driving Apple shares down in after-hours trading, but another troubling line item offered some cause for concern: Sales of the iPhone, Apple's chief moneymaker, dropped to 50.76 million units from 51.2 million units in the same quarter last year. Chief executive Tim Cook was quick to blame the rumor mill for the continued slow-down in iPhone sales. Of course, there is no question that rumors of a completely redesigned iPhone 8 played a role in convincing some people to hold off on upgrading old iPhones. But there's also no question that something else is responsible in part for slowing iPhone sales, and we all know that something else is the iPhone 7. A narrative formed on gadget blogs ahead of Apple's iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus unveiling last September. Because the new iPhones featured a design that looked just like the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s, many bloggers labeled the phones "boring." Once the new phones were released, anyone who actually picked up a new iPhone 7 or 7 Plus and used it instantly knew it wasn't boring at all. But there's little question that people continued to judge these books by their covers following their launch. Apple took a chance when it decided to recycle the same iPhone design for a second year. Since the launch of the iPhone 3GS in 2009, Apple has trained its user base to expect a fresh new iPhone design every other year. Since 2015 was an "S" year, 2016's iPhone 7 should have offered users a new look and feel in addition to all the new features and upgrades. Instead, we got the same iPhone for a third consecutive year, but with a fresh coat of paint. Well, it turns out that a fresh coat of paint wasn't enough for some customers. "In general, what we are seeing, we're seeing what we believe to be a pause in purchases on iPhone, which we believe are due to the earlier and much more frequent reports about future iPhones," Cook said on Tuesday's earnings call. "And so that part is clearly going on and it could be what's behind the data. I don't know but we are seeing that in full transparency." Again, there is absolutely no question that the rumor mill shares the blame for the continued decline in Apple's iPhone business. The same can be said each and every year. The iPhone is the most beloved consumer electronics device in the world, and people want to know what's coming next. Details begin to leak more than a year before each new iPhone launches, and the iPhone 8 was no different. This time around, however, the details that have leaked so far paint a picture of an exciting new iPhone design made of glass and stainless steel with an OLED display, ultra-thin bezels, and a Touch ID fingerprint scanner embedded in the screen itself. Meanwhile, the latest iPhones sitting on store shelves look just like the iPhones from 2015, which look just like the iPhones from 2014. 50.76 million iPhones is a whole lot of iPhones. Apple earned $11 billion in profit last quarter. The company's cash stockpile grew to $256.8 billion — that's more than a quarter of a trillion dollars. It was a massive, massive quarter. But if you're going to attempt to explain away the continued slide in iPhone sales, not mentioning Apple's three-year-old iPhone 7 design is oblivious at best and disingenuous at worst.
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| The Latest: Video records man with gun before officer shot Posted: 01 May 2017 03:02 PM PDT  DETROIT (AP) — The Latest on the critical wounding of a Detroit police officer (all times local):
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| Key Trump priorities left out of US spending deal Posted: 01 May 2017 04:08 PM PDT  US President Donald Trump is "pleased" with a bipartisan deal to fund government through September, the White House said Monday, even though several of his top priorities were left out of the agreement. The newly-unveiled congressional deal includes Trump's call for increased military spending, but rejects his demand to fund a border wall and maintains spending levels for key government operations including the State Department that he had proposed gutting. The agreement was struck late Sunday after weeks of tense negotiations fueled the threat of a government shutdown just as Trump was marking his 100th day in office.
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| US army releases images taken by combat photographer of mortar explosion that killed her Posted: 02 May 2017 07:58 AM PDT  The US Army has released images captured by a combat photographer of the explosion that killed her. Specialist Hilda Clayton, 22, died when a mortar tube blew up in front of her during a training exercise in Afghanistan. A total of five people died in the blast, which also marked the first death of an Army combat documentation and production specialist in Afghanistan, according to the Army Times.
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| Score a First Look at McDonald's New Gourmet Burgers Posted: 02 May 2017 05:38 AM PDT  Eat This, Not That! got an inside look at the new McDonald's menu items, made with "all-natural" ingredients. McDonald's is trying to shake up Shake Shack...and Five Guys, and Burger King, and Wendy's, and Red Robin, and the whole burger world. Today, the fast food chain will begin selling a new series of premium burgers they call Signature Crafted.
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| 2018 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Spied Inching Closer to Production Posted: 02 May 2017 03:12 PM PDT  We catch Ford's most powerful Mustang roaming the streets of Dearborn.
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