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Preview: ‘XDefiant’ blends ‘Call of Duty’ action with elements of ‘Overwatch’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:06:33 GMT

For a long time, Activision has dominated the online shooter space with “Call of Duty.” It’s consistently among the top-selling games, and it’s synonymous with a certain style of combat. Players run around enclosed arenas, fragging each other, trying to win a match and improve their KDR.With “Call of Duty” sucking so much oxygen in the genre, is there room for another fast-paced military shooter? Ubisoft think so and it’s taking a different tack for the project by creating a high-quality, free-to-play first-person shooter.“XDefiant” has the run-and-gun feel of comparable shooters. Movement feels responsive and clean without being too complex. The guns have a distinct feel and roles. AR-15-style rifles dominate at medium ranges while shotguns are great up close and in narrow hallways. But the element that separates Ubisoft’s upcoming online shooter from others is its Faction system.It’s not as complicated as it sounds....

Man offers $100 to attack man who witnessed shoplifting at a Family Dollar; 2 people take offer

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:06:33 GMT

AKRON, Ohio (WEWS) — What started out as a simple shoplifting case in Akron escalated into an attack against a crime witness. A man inside a store offered $100 to encourage the assault, police said.The incident happened around 11 a.m. Monday at Family Dollar located at 19 N. Arlington Street.Police said the bizarre incident started after a shoplifter loaded up a garbage can with soap and beauty products and ran out of the store.A concerned customer, who witnessed the theft, followed the thief briefly.“The customer saw him run out. The customer started running out too, following the guy and saw two addresses that he went to,” said Paige Perryman, the store’s manager.A short time later, the customer returned to the store to give workers the possible location of the crook so that police would know where to look.However, just moments later, things turned really strange and violent.Officers said another man inside Family Dollar held up a $100 bill, waved it around and offered the cash to...

Review: 18th-century ‘Triumph’ revived onstage in Berkeley

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:06:33 GMT

“The Triumph of Love” is a comedy as cruel as it is clever.Now enjoying a revival by Berkeley’s Shotgun Players, the 1732 French comedy by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux centers on the schemes of the princess Léonide.Although she’s still called princess, Léonide has risen to the throne originally usurped by her uncle as part of a complicated revenge plot. But she has discovered that the previous king has an heir, born in a dungeon and whisked away to safety.Having fallen in love with this prince in exile at first sight, she wants to marry him and give him the throne, but she knows he’s been raised by the philosopher Hermocrate to hate the princess. So she decides to dress up as a man and infiltrate the philosopher’s home to woo prince Agis in disguise. In order to be allowed to stick around long enough to do that, however, she plans to make both the philosopher and his sister fall in love with her as well. All that comes out in exposition in the very first scene.Using the sa...

What we know about the alleged killer of Cash App founder Bob Lee

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:06:33 GMT

(KRON) -- The San Francisco Police Department made an arrest Thursday morning in the stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee. Records for the San Francisco County Jail confirmed the suspect arrested is Nima Momeni, a fellow tech executive who Lee reportedly knew.Initial reports named Momeni as the suspect in the killing and jail records confirm a 38-year-old Emeryville resident of the same name was booked on a single count of murder Thursday morning. Inmate record shows Momeni is currently in custody with no bail. According to a LinkedIn profile, Momeni is the owner of tech consulting firm Expand IT based in Emeryville and has been since 2010. Before that, Momeni worked in IT for several years at various companies. Momeni attended UC Berkeley, according to his LinkedIn profile.Mission Local first reported Momeni's arrest, reporting that the two were driving together through Downtown San Francisco before getting into an argument in the car leading up to Momeni stabbing Lee several...

Turkey, Egypt to reappoint ambassadors as ties improve

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:06:33 GMT

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey and Egypt will soon announce the reappointment of ambassadors, their foreign ministers said in Ankara Thursday, as the two regional powers put years of tensions behind them and mend frayed ties.Speaking to reporters in the Turkish capital, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and his Turkish counterpart also said the sides were working toward a possible meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt.Egypt and Turkey withdrew ambassadors as tension between them flared following the Egyptian military’s 2013 ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi amid mass protest against his divisive one year of rule. Morsi hailed from the Muslim Brotherhood group, which Turkey supported. Egypt has designated the group a terrorist organization.Turkey however, recently abandoned its critical approach toward the Egyptian leader, and Erdogan and el-Sissi were photographed shaking hands in November during the soccer ...

Court rejects Oklahoma inmate’s claim father killed woman

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:06:33 GMT

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminals on Thursday rejected a death row inmate’s claim that his father was the actual killer of a University of Oklahoma dance student in 1996.The court’s decision paves the way for Anthony Sanchez, 44, to be executed by lethal injection on Sept. 21. Attorneys for Sanchez said in a court filing that his late father, Thomas Sanchez, was the actual killer. A former girlfriend of Thomas Sanchez, who died by suicide last year, has said he confessed to killing 21-year-old Juli Busken, but that she was too afraid to come forward until after he died.But the court determined the allegations were hearsay and not enough to overcome “compelling evidence” of Anthony Sanchez’s guilt. Sanchez’s attorney did not immediately comment on the ruling.Busken, from Benton, Arkansas, had just completed her last semester at OU when she was abducted on Dec. 20, 1996, from her apartment complex in Norman. Her body was found that evening in southeast Oklahom...

Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 pm

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:06:33 GMT

Here’s a look at how AP’s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP’s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.orgQuestions about coverage plans are welcome and should be directed to 919-510-8937, 202-641-9660, 410-837-8315, 804-643-6646 or [email protected]. Mid-South Assistant News Director Jonathan Drew can be reached at 919-510-8937 or [email protected] access to AP Newsroom and other technical issues, contact AP Customer Support at [email protected] or 877-836-9477.This information is not for publication or broadcast, and these coverage plans are subject to change. Expected stories may not develop, or late-breaking and more newsworthy events may take precedence. Coverage Plan will keep you up to date. All times are Eastern unless specified otherwise.NORTH CAROLINAIN BRIEF: SHOOTING-GOLDSBORO — Police in North Carolina s...

Pitcher criticizes MLB teams for extending alcohol sales

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:06:33 GMT

CINCINATTI (AP) — A pitcher with the Philadelphia Phillies is criticizing some Major League Baseball teams for extending alcohol sales with games running around 30 minutes shorter due to the sport’s new pitch clock.Matt Strahm said Thursday on the Baseball Isn’t Boring podcast that teams should be moving the cutoff for beer sales up to the sixth inning, rather than stretching to the eighth or later, since fans will have less time to sober up and drive home.At least five teams — the Houston Astros, Arizona Diamondbacks, Texas Rangers, Minnesota Twins and Milwaukee Brewers — have extended alcohol sales past the traditional seventh-inning cutoff. The Baltimore Orioles had already allowed sales into the eighth.Other teams haven’t ruled out changes.“The reason we stopped it in the seventh before was to give our fans time to sober up and drive home safe, correct?” Strahm said. “So now with a faster pace game, and me just being a man of common sense, if the game is ...

2 Indianapolis police officers indicted in Black man’s death

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:06:33 GMT

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two Indianapolis police officers have been indicted by a grand jury in the death of a Black man who died last year after being taken into police custody at his parents’ home, prosecutors said Thursday.The indictment of officers Adam Ahmad and Steven Sanchez comes nearly a year after Herman Whitfield III’s death. His family sued the city of Indianapolis and six police officers in June over the 39-year-old pianist’s death.Sanchez was indicted on two counts of involuntary manslaughter, while Ahmad was indicted on one count, Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears said in a news release. Both were also indicted on charges of reckless homicide, battery resulting in serious bodily injury and battery resulting in moderate injury — all felony charges — and on a misdemeanor battery charge. Online court records did not list an attorney for either Ahmad or Sanchez.Five officers with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and a recruit trainee were called to...

Drake Bell, cantante y actor de “Drake & Josh”, está “desaparecido y en peligro”, según considera la Policía en Florida

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:06:33 GMT

(CNN) — El actor y cantante Drake Bell, de 36 años, más conocido por su papel de Drake en la comedia de Nickelodeon “Drake & Josh”, se encuentra desaparecido, según el Departamento de Policía de Daytona Beach (DBPD, por sus siglas en inglés).En una publicación de Facebook, el DBPD declaró que Bell fue visto por última vez en un BMW gris 2022 cerca de Mainland High School este miércoles por la noche.“Se le considera desaparecido y en peligro”, de acuerdo con el DBPD.Se alienta a cualquier persona con información a comunicarse con el DBPD al (386) 671-5207.El nombre legal de la estrella es Jared Drake Bell.CNN se puso en contacto con representantes del Departamento de Policía y con Bell para obtener más información.Las cuentas de redes sociales del actor de 36 años no se han actualizado desde el 3 de abril, cuando su cuenta verificada de Twitter tenía un post de su entrevista con YouTuber Roberto Mtz.En Instagram, sus publicaciones más recientes inclu...