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• Target CEO Brian Cornell alluded to Walmart's work with robots and virtual reality as "nice little experiments that distract the organization."
• He made the comment during a panel discussion at Business Insider's IGNITION conference in New York on Thursday.
• Cornell said Target focuses its innovation research on ideas that can be rolled out to stores and online within a three-to-five-year time frame.

Target CEO Brian Cornell took a shot at Walmart's innovation team on Thursday... Читать дальше...

The Justice Department said that the alleged Russian hacker Roman Seleznev would be allowed to serve his time concurrently with a previous jail sentence.

A volcanic “super-eruption” capable of wiping out human civilization will come much sooner than thought, scientists have warned. Cataclysmic blasts powerful enough to send humanity back to the Stone Age are part of the planet’s normal cycle — happening tens of thousands of years apart. But new research suggests the average time between the events...

The Los Angeles Chargers are the least likely team in the NFL to be overconfident or under motivated when they face the Cleveland Browns

The city of Medellin, Colombia, served as the backdrop for the new music video by Tramar Dillard, better known as Flo Rida, that is being exclusively revealed today by People en Español and PEOPLE CHICA.

Ever wonder which are smarter, cats or dogs? You can teach dogs to sit, roll over, play dead, etc, which cats don't do on command. But hey, my cats can knock over water glasses and steal food off a plate when no one is looking – that oughta count for some kinds of smarts. Maybe they're just too "stubborn" to learn tricks because they're too clever to take orders from humans.

Le ministre des Finances du Canada, Bill Morneau, est toujours sur la sellette au sujet de la vente de centaines de milliers d'actions de l'entreprise familiale Morneau Sheppell, une semaine avant un changement fiscal qui aurait fait chuter la valeur de son titre. Cette fois, l'opposition souligne que le père de M. Morneau a vendu 200 000 actions quelques jours avant la modification législative.

Le ministre des Finances du Canada, Bill Morneau, fait face à de nouvelles questions au sujet de la vente de centaines de milliers d'actions de l'entreprise familiale Morneau Sheppell une semaine avant un changement fiscal qui a fait chuter la valeur de son titre. Cette fois, l'opposition souligne que le père de M. Morneau a vendu 200 000 actions quelques jours avant la modification législative.

Seth Rogen says slowing down and focusing on 'The Disaster Artist' helped James Franco make one of the best films of his career.

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The Dow had its best day since March on Thursday.

It jumped above 24,000 for the first time as the Senate continued to progress towards passing its tax bill. Tech stocks also joined the party after a sell-off on Wednesday. 

Here's the scoreboard: 

• Dow: 24,272.35, +331.67, (1.39%)
• S&P 500: 2,647.58, +21.51, (0.82%)
• Nasdaq: 6,873.97, +49.58, (0.73%)

1. CVS is very close to buying Aetna, according to The Wall Street Journal. Читать дальше...

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson enjoys his job as Washington's top diplomat and intends to stay on, his spokeswoman said Thursday, after reports President Donald Trump plans to force him out.

Amidst all the weird things that happened on Wednesday, one of the low-key weirdest was Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback popping up on Capitol Hill to help lobby for the GOP tax bill, arguing that Republican senators should see it as an effort to replicate the ideas he's implemented at the state level because, after all, "What we did actually worked."

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