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President Donald Trump is bankrupting the Secret Service.

In an exclusive interview with USA Today, Secret Service Director Randolph "Tex" Alles said that more than 1,000 agents have already hit the federally mandated caps for salary and overtime allowances that were meant to last the entire year. That depletion of Secret Service funds is due to the high cost of protecting a family the size of Trump's and the number of trips they've taken, Alles told the publication.

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When the voice actor of the Overwatch character Lúcio received a body pillow of the Overwatch character D.Va, he reacted in the best way possible. 

Rise of the Tomb Raider is shaping up to be a centerpiece of the young Xbox One X's library of "enhanced" games. Not surprising, given how amazing the game looks on a tricked out gaming PC.

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Facebook's Safety Check feature is getting a permanent presence on the social network.

It's easy to kick Nazis off your platform. 

"People send you nice notes when you do," said Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare. "But I really worry about the long term." 

Prince's company was one of many that took action in the wake of the recent (and in one case, fatal) violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, spurred by far right groups.

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Of all the times for Taylor Swift to come out of the woods she's naturally chosen one of the most action-packed days of 2017: Eclipse Day.

Oops, he did it again. 

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After thanking an entrepreneur who turned out to be a bot, it seems that Donald Trump has just retweeted another fake fan account — either an advanced bot or linked to a bot network. 

On Monday morning, the US president thanked @Aroliso for slamming the #FakeNews media. "You never falter, you always stand strong," Aroliso tweeted as part of a thread. This is what Trump posted:

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Fame and fortune can't shelter you from getting schooled by technology, apparently. 

If you've amassed a fortune in Bitcoin and don't know how to spend it, here's an idea: Go to Las Vegas and squander it all on booze and lap dances. 

He’s been up. He’s been down. At least, that’s what you’d expect.  

Late last month—for six short but glorious hours—Jeff Bezos was officially crowned the world’s richest person. Then, during last Wednesday’s premarket session premarket session, Amazon’s stock dropped by nearly a full percent in the wake of a Tweet from President Trump:   

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So far, neither Bezos nor Amazon has responded. Why?  

The reason could be perspective. 

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The penultimate episode of Game of Thrones Season 7 was chock full of dragon power, potential betrayal, and even some light banter north of the wall to distract from almost-certain death. Even a leak didn't tarnish the massive online response...but between those battle sequences and sibling fights, how closely did you watch?

Call me old-fashioned, but there's nothing like a shared love of memes to really get sparks flying. 

Once a spider has entered your home, there's no sleeping until it's gone. Even if it takes days to get the spider out, we'd rather stay awake for 48 hours than have it crawl into our ear while we're sleeping.

Maps have a way of distorting our perception of the world. But AuthaGraph is trying to bring us back to reality with a new map that accurately depicts the size of continents in comparison to each other.

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ICYMI, space scientists really don't want us staring up at the sun for today's solar eclipse without wearing the right eye protection.

The Sonic the Hedgehog series is all about going fast, so it's no surprise that 1992's Sonic 2 has fostered such an intense speedrunning community.

Just like almost everyone else in the United States, Google is amped about the total solar eclipse sweeping the nation on Monday. 

A camel has literally stopped traffic in Ireland. 

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Killian Burns was on his way to Dublin to watch the Kerry versus Mayo Gaelic football match on Saturday when he hit a wall of traffic. A camel of all things was munching away at grass with its body smack in the middle of on-coming traffic.

Yep, just chilling in the middle of the road completely unconcerned with the long line of cars piling up behind it.

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While many Game of Thrones fans mourned the loss of Ygritte in Season 4, there was always another wildling kissed by fire set to steal our hearts. In Game of Thrones Season 7, episode 6, Tormund Giantsbane proved more than ever that he's one of the only people worth loving in the ghastly scheme of Westeros — and that's why he's this week's Game of Thrones MVP.

The latest Game of Thrones battle happens to be a Photoshop battle.

May the best photo editor win.

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Game of Thrones actor Carice Van Houten who plays Melisandre tweeted a photo yesterday to celebrate the premiere of Episode 6. The team of Northerners and Northern allies posed with the most serious of expressions in this amazing cast photo.

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The Overwatch fan community always finds a way to outdo itself. Wow, this video.

Steve Bannon is back to Breitbart News but that didn't prevent the far-right website from making a spectacular blunder. 

How does a drug smuggler avoid border patrol on the ground? One man figured he'd fly his 13-pound (5.9 kg) haul of meth over the border from Mexico to San Diego by drone.