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Blake Martinez is making his way back to the NFL only one year after becoming involved in a Pokémon trading card scandal that ruined his retirement plans.

Swift fans raised over $100,000 in just one day for the family of a fan killed heading home from a concert by a suspected drunk driver.

A Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG) tournament booted a teenager from the competition after he laughed at a pronoun question from a judge. 

Former New York Giants linebacker Blake Martinez earned over $5 million in Pokémon cards sales after retiring from the NFL at age 28. 

Two LAPD officers reportedly ignored a call to respond to a robbery at a local Macy’s to spend time hunting down a Pokémon in the popular mobile game Pokémon Go. Both men were fired from the police department, a decision upheld by an appeals court. According to transcripts from their police cruiser, the duo did capture the popular “Snorlax” character they were chasing at the time of the robbery call.

Target has confirmed that it will no longer be selling Pokemon cards or sports cards for the MLB, NFL, and NBA throughout the United States starting this week. The company says the move is for the “safety of our guests and team members.”

Retail giant Target is halting the sales of sports collector cards after fights broke out at several locations due to skyrocketing prices.

“Pikachu Illustrator,” a rare Pokemon card that features Pikachu holding a paintbrush, has sold for a record amount of $54,970 to a collector in Hong Kong.

Saudi Arabia’s Council of Senior Religious Scholars denied that it had issued a new fatwa against the Nintendo game Pokemon Go on Thursday, though a fatwa dating back to the early 2000s against the Japanese game is still in effect.

Leading Russian political and religious figures are calling for the nation to ban Pokemon Go even before it reaches Moscow, with some suggesting it is an American intelligence-gathering project and other attributing it to Satan himself.

Not everyone is obsessed with Pokémon Go. A new Hello Kitty café has popped up in Irvine, California inside a shipping container. And already, the beloved Japanese kitten is attracting droves of die-hard fans from across Southern California.

The most prestigious religious institution in Islam has reaffirmed a 2001 fatwa against the Japanese cartoon Pokemon, with its clerics calling the new game Pokemon Go a “harmful mania… that makes people look like drunkards in the streets.”

A Marine veteran who was playing Pokémon Go into the wee hours of the morning on Wednesday had to fight for his life after being attacked by an armed robber in a Lakewood, California park.

Two men fell off a cliff in Encinitas, near San Diego, on Thursday while playing the wildly popular new mobile game, Pokémon Go.

Rio de Janeiro is fighting a crime wave, a Zika epidemic, growing jihadi plots, and pollution so dangerous Olympians are getting sick from minor contact with seawater. Mayor Eduardo Paes desperately needs a reason to get people to come to August’s Summer Olympic Games, and he believes he has found one: Pokemon.

Two U.S. Marines helped authorities arrest a man suspected of attempted murder on Tuesday while they were playing Pokémon Go in Fullerton.

The newly released Pokemon Go app is a huge hit so far. The game allows users to virtually hunt and capture Pokemon from their phones. The popular game has already been linked to robberies and the discovery of a dead body.

The mobile phone-based game Pokemon Go has become a hit in the more affluent regions of the Arab world despite a long-standing fatwa on the Japanese game series accusing the monsters of inspiring deviance and promoting “Zionism.” The game, in

Watch the Super Bowl 50 TV spot celebrating 20 years of Pokémon.

The classic Pokemon titles from the original Game Boy are coming to the Nintendo 3DS to download through the Nintendo eShop.