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After teases from insiders who hinted at an upcoming Casino update after 6 years of waiting, it seems it’s official that we are now getting a Casino update for GTA Online.

Rockstar Games has begun teasing the upcoming major update with all new changes to the Casino which include some construction work and a removal of some signs.

Overtime, the Casino will be getting more and more construction until the update eventually releases.

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https://rockstarintel.com/the-next-major-gta-online-update-is-the-casino-update

US scientists who studied the performance of myriad athletes – including adventurous souls who spent 5 long months running across the United States – have come up with an estimate of the absolute physiological boundary of human endurance.

The conclusions are pretty technical but the study published Wednesday, June 5, in the journal Science Advances highlights one feature in particular that makes people unique among primates: their physical endurance is indeed extraordinary.

It is probably something we inherited from hunter-gatherers over the course of two million years, the researchers say. In a nutshell, when it comes to pushing one's body to the limit, humans run circles around monkeys.

The limit to human endurance is measured in multiples of something called basal metabolism, which is the minimum energy, counted in calories, that is expended by the body to keep itself going for one minute.

And the limit to human endurance is about 2.5 times this basal metabolism, says the team, led by Herman Pontzer, a professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University.

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https://www.rappler.com/science-nature/life-health/232542-scientists-seek-out-limit-human-endurance

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg suggested Friday that there will be sharp divisions among her colleagues as they finish their term, with decisions in high-profile cases about the census and the drawing of electoral maps expected before the end of the month.

The justice was speaking at a conference for judges in New York. According to prepared remarks made available by the Supreme Court, the justice noted that of the 43 cases the justices have announced decisions in since hearing arguments beginning in October, just over a quarter were decided by a 5-4 or 5-3 vote. Those are rulings that tend to split the court’s five more conservative justices from its four liberal members including Ginsburg.

“Given the number of most watched cases still unannounced, I cannot predict that the relatively low sharp divisions ratio will hold,” said Ginsburg, who knows the votes in the some two dozen cases remaining at this point, though the public does not. The court’s term runs from October through June.

In her remarks, Ginsburg drew a parallel between two cases involving the Trump administration: this year’s case involving the census and a case last year in which the court’s conservatives upheld President Donald Trump’s ban on travel from several mostly Muslim countries over the dissent of their liberal colleagues.

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https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/07/ginsburg-hints-sharp-divides-supreme-court-term-nears-end/39556849/

On Thursday, Juan Guaido woke up and doused himself with a bucket of water.

It was his shower. Like millions of Venezuelans, the man who dozens of countries recognize as the legitimate leader of his broken country can’t rely on the taps to run. “It’s one of the things I hate most,” the 35-year-old lawmaker said in an interview. “It’s a symbol of poverty, and during much of my life I had to do it.”

And yet, he was for the most part characteristically upbeat, exuding that can-do spirit that his followers love and his detractors find naive, as he talked about how Venezuela would have to tolerate much more suffering in order to topple Nicolas Maduro’s autocratic regime. Despite the pain, he said, the U.S. shouldn’t ease up on the sanctions that are deepening the worst economic crisis in the country’s history.

“It’s going to get worse” before things turn, he warned.

Ultimately, he insisted, the opposition movement, rekindled after he became leader of the National Assembly in January, would succeed. New elections could be held in six or nine months because the pressure simply won’t let up on Maduro’s closest collaborators to break ranks, he said.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-07/forced-to-bathe-with-bucket-water-juan-guaido-soldiers-on

Not so long ago, most people in the West thought the world would end on Judgement Day after the dead rose from their graves and joined Jesus on a journey into heaven.

Now, of course, that seems unlikely because we are absolutely sure doomsday will come when climate change melts the ice caps and rising seas swallow our civilization.

And if that doesn’t happen, a killer computer will wipe us off the planet – as long as we manage to survive the inevitable nuclear war, alien invasion or global pandemic.

Of course, we don’t know whether any of these disasters will come to pass because we’re not much closer to accurately predicting the end of all things than we were in the days when early Christians penned the apocalyptic Book of Revelation.

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https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/07/age-apocalypse-anxiety-will-never-stop-worrying-doomsday-9853553/

Michael Gove last night admitted taking cocaine on ‘several social occasions’.

The Tory leadership candidate said he used the banned substance when he was younger and deeply regrets it.

He told the Daily Mail: ‘I took drugs on several occasions at social events more than 20 years ago. At the time I was a young journalist. It was a mistake. I look back and I think, I wish I hadn’t done that.’

Mr Gove, 51, insisted his past mistakes should not be held against him as he battles to replace Theresa May as prime minister. She stepped down as Tory leader yesterday.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7117477/Michael-Goves-cocaine-confession-Leading-contender-race-PM-reveals-deep-regret.html

With the popularity ratings of Angela Merkel's favoured successor plunging and the centre-left SPD in disarray, speculation is growing that Germany's next chancellor might hail from the Greens.

The environmental group recorded rocketing support in European elections in late May, boosted by the youth-led Fridays for Futures school strikes urging action against global warming.

With an all-time high 20.5 percent of votes in Germany, the Greens overtook Merkel's junior coalition partner, the Social Democratic Party, coming in second place in the May 26 EU vote.

Since then, several surveys have put it neck and neck with Merkel's centre-right CDU-CSU alliance, with one even giving it a one percentage point lead for the first time.

With the numbers suggesting that Germany's highest office may be within reach for the Greens, the buzz is not whether the party could fill the seat at the chancellery but which of its two co-chiefs – Annalena Baerbock or Robert Habeck – could seize the top job.

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https://news.yahoo.com/could-germanys-next-chancellor-green-015332923.html

The Democratic presidential contenders are descending in force on Iowa this weekend to persuade voters and party activists that they have the message and organization to win the first-in-the-nation nominating contest.

As campaigning accelerates leading up to the first debates later this month, 19 of the 23 Democrats actively running to challenge President Donald Trump will be in the state, the biggest assembly of 2020 candidates to date.

The marquee event is the Iowa Democratic Party Hall of Fame dinner on Sunday, where they’ll be making five-minute pitches to influential local party officials. Missing from the group is Joe Biden, the current front-runner who is waiting until Tuesday to campaign in Iowa.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democratic-candidates-swarm-iowa-for-biggest-face-off-to-date/ar-AACzhaK

MONROEVILLE, PA. (KDKA) – Up until now, the only information available from the Monroeville Mall shooting was from police statements and reactions from witnesses. But now, authorities are giving the first glimpse at the actual evidence from surveillance cameras.

The images show men from two rival groups entering the mall, cameras capturing punches thrown during the physical fights, then finally a gunman opening fire. Shoppers are also seen ducking and running for cover both outside and inside the mall.

The shooter, police say, is 21-year-old Brandon Noel. At a preliminary hearing Monday, a judge ordered him to stand trial in the crime.

https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/06/03/monroeville-mall-shooting-video/

PITTSBURGH, Pa. (KDKA)-Pittsburgh ranks in the top 20 among bed bug infested cities. Terminix released the list of cities with the worst bed bug problems and Pittsburgh came in at 16, worse than its number 22 ranking last year.

https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/06/03/pittsburgh-makes-the-top-20-list-for-bed-bugs/

Calling the surprising May surge in illegal immigrant arrests on the border the “worst case scenario,” a top immigration analyst has boosted the expected level of crossings 10%, to over 1 million.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Wednesday revealed that May apprehensions topped 144,000. This year has seen 676,315 apprehensions so far, up 99% over this time last year.

That shocked immigration officials who had hoped it would drop in part due to the Trump administration’s get tough efforts on the border and the potentially deadly heat migrants encounter traveling through northern Mexico.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/new-border-surge-prompts-10-jump-in-2019-prediction-to-1-072-000-illegal-immigrants