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Recent polls show a close race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump - is Clinton's continued primary slog taking a toll?

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When you think of artificial intelligence these days, it's easy to think of the chat bots that the tech industry seems obsessed with.

And chat bots as they exist today are pretty underwhelming.

But Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says that AI is way bigger than that, and is really the next big thing after mobile and social changed the tech world over the past five years.

Smart computers that can think, talk, reason, and predict will be able to do more... Читать дальше...

You know the paranoia about a communist revival in Indonesia has jumped the shark when the nation's netizens start parodying it on social media.

Sanders’ campaign chief describes ongoing problem with Wasserman Schultz

Drake is again the top musical act in the United States, holding at No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart (dated May 28). Meanwhile, Radiohead and...

Answer me this: Why wouldn’t you just move over one seat?

When you hear the words "the worst" and "Dunder Mifflin," you probably think of Toby Flenderson:

(That's who Michael would like us to think of, anyway.)

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Or you might think of poor, stick-up-his-butt Gabe:

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...the freakin' Benihana couple in the Season 3 episode "A Benihana Christmas."

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Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton in Loving.

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Ruth Negga's going to get a Best Actress nomination for this. It's a thought that crossed my mind every time Loving settled in for a closeup of Negga's strikingly expressive face, capturing its quiet happiness, or fear, or growing resolve.

Awards potential is an incredibly annoying rubric by which we judge artistic worth, but it's unavoidable when something is as rife with overt Oscar-y signals as Loving. The... Читать дальше...

Tyler Dahl and three young women exchanged parenting anecdotes and discussed the importance of community service during a brief meeting Wednesday at the Family and Children’s Center in La Crosse.

The House and the Senate have whipsawed between ensuring access to narcotic painkillers and addressing the addiction epidemic linked to those drugs.

Gold Coast centre says stopping Bryce Cartwright is main challenge.

Kylie Jenner looks chic in a red dress during a photo shoot for Forever 21 on Tuesday afternoon (May 17) on El Pescador beach in Malibu, Calif. While on set, the 18-year-old reality star was visited by her dad Caitlyn Jenner, who stopped by to see how the shoot was going. PHOTOS: Check out the [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — More than 4 million U.S. workers will become newly eligible for overtime pay under rules issued Wednesday by the Obama administration.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — More than 4 million U.S. workers will become newly eligible for overtime pay under rules issued Wednesday by the Obama administration. In the fast-food and retail industries in particular, many employees are deemed managers, work long hours but are paid a flat salary that barely exceeds the income of the hourly workers they supervise who receive overtime pay. Business groups, however, argued that the changes will increase paperwork and scheduling burdens for small companies... Читать дальше...

The Spaniard was slammed for his display in Basel - and one Liverpool fan clearly reckons the defender officially returned to his former club for one night only

Because of a game conflict at Skagit Valley College, Kelso’s 3A regional baseball game against Arlington Saturday has been moved to Sherman Anderson Field, located at 1501 Cleveland Ave. in Mount Vernon.

Other Republicans have backed the choice.

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On Monday, it was announced that the world’s most successful investor had bought a US$1.1 billion stake in technology company Apple. Investors in Warren Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway, should hope for better results from Apple than from Buffett’s worst investment ever – in oil producer ConocoPhillips.

There’s a lot to learn from the mistakes of others – especially those who are otherwise extremely successful (like Carl Icahn, whom we wrote about here.)

The Saints revealed the name at the team's annual World’s Largest Game of Catch on Wednesday. The name was selected out of a record 4,000 entries.

A renewed belief after half time was the most crucial element of the Spaniards' victory according to their coach, who told his men to treat the match as if it was a home encounter

An eruption of anger at the Democrats' Nevada state convention is being used to demand Bernie Sanders get out of Hillary Clinton's way and free her to go after Trump.

Presidential hopeful Donald Trump, is "not Hitler", nor is he "a groper", two of the women closest to him have reassured the American public in the last two days.