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• Walmart is testing a new dress code that allows employees to wear blue denim and shirts of any solid color. 
• Employees were previously banned from wearing blue denim, and shirt colors were restricted to blue and white.
• "I personally love the new dress code — especially that we can wear any color," Angel Hernandez, an employee of a Walmart store in Springdale, Arkansas, told Business Insider.
• The company faced backlash four years ago when it enforced a new dress code. Читать дальше...

Last summer, when Vickie Harper fatally shot her 53-year-old ex-boyfriend, she told police it was in self-defense following a vicious, hours-long sexual assault.

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• Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson reportedly believed President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, stoked rumors of his impending ouster. 
• "I know who it is. I know who it is. And they know I know," Tillerson told The New Yorker before he was fired last month. 
• Tillerson repeatedly butted heads with Kushner, who oversees US policy in the Middle East.

Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson knew who wanted him out even before he was fired. Читать дальше...

Alice Ollstein reports from Ohio that Democrats are running strategically in the 2018 midterms. They know recapturing the state legislature may...

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• Researchers in Singapore have programmed robots to assemble an Ikea chair.
• The autonomous machines can complete the chair assembly in around 20 minutes.

A pair of robots have mastered a task that many humans despise: assembling Ikea furniture.

A team of scientists from Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have programmed the bots to build Ikea’s $25 Stefan chair in around 20 minutes. See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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The defense in Bill Cosby's sex-assault retrial resumed on Day 9, after another defense motion for a mistrial failed.

LINCOLN COUNTY, Okla. – Authorities in Lincoln County are still searching for a couple accused of stealing a truck. On Wednesday night, deputies with the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office initiated a manhunt for a couple accused of stealing vehicles near Prague. Investigators say they are accused of stealing one truck and abandoning it before stealing another. So far, deputies have been able to recover both vehicles. Officials were searching for the pair near County Rd. 1010 and County Rd. 3510 […]

Premier League clubs posted record profits last season thanks to strong broadcast revenues and Financial Fair Play rules keeping wage

ESPN's Mark Ogden and Jonathan Smith discuss whether Pep Guardiola can break even more league records after Manchester City won the Premier League. Premier League clubs posted record profits last season thanks to strong broadcast revenues and Financial Fair Play rules keeping wage inflation under control, Deloitte has announced. According to analysis of the clubs' accounts for the 2016-17 season by Deloitte's Sports Business Group, the Premier League made a collective pre-tax profit of £500 million... Читать дальше...

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ST. LOUIS – The Missouri Baptist University Athletics Department formally announced on Wednesday that it has entered a five-year partnership with Nike & BSN SPORTS to become the official apparel, footwear and equipment provider for the Spartans. The multi-year agreement will commence on July 1, 2018 and is part of the BSN SPORTS Collegiate Select Program, which aims to make BSN SPORTS a one-stop shop for all collegiate athletic... Читать дальше...

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Allowing employees to work from home is an increasingly popular — and beneficial — option for a growing number of companies and their employees.

According to Global Workplace Analytics’ 2017 State of Telecommuting in the US report, 40% more US employers offered flexible workplace options compared to five years ago. And the number of daily telecommuters grew 115% in the past decade, nearly 10 times faster than the rest of the workforce. According to the report, companies reap the benefits of employee telecommuting... Читать дальше...

Tribeca Film Festival

The Tribeca Film Festival has been the premier curator of cutting-edge interactive storytelling for more than a decade. On April 24, Business Insider's founder Henry Blodget will be at Tribeca to discuss the State of the Art: How AR, VR, and AI are Transforming Media with Jaunt VR's CEO George Kliavkoff, Michael Ludden of IBM's Watson Developer Labs; AR/VR Labs.

Kliavkoff and Ludden have spent their careers working on emerging tech platforms at companies including Google... Читать дальше...

GALT, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say thieves made off with 8,000 Disneyland tickets when they stole a box trailer from a youth agricultural education organization. The California Highway Patrol says the trailer is owned by Future Farmers of America and was stolen Wednesday from the group's office in the city of Galt, south of Sacramento. Officials say security footage shows a dark pickup truck backing up to the trailer and driving it away. The trailer was also loaded with audio and visual equipment... Читать дальше...

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• Delane Parnell, a 25-year-old Detroit native, is bringing a competitive video gaming (or eSports) league to high schools across America.
• His startup PlayVS is teaming up with the country's leading governing body for high school sports to build infrastructure for an eSports-focused league.
• Student athletes will form eSports teams at their schools, compete with players from other schools, and battle for titles at state championships.

Growing up... Читать дальше...

Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino believes Jose Mourinho deserves more credit for his work this season, but does not think his Manchester United counterpart needs to prove his credentials as one of the world's best. Pre-season hopes that United could challenge for the Premier League failed to come to fruition, while the Red Devils were dumped out of the Champions League by Sevilla in the last 16. Put to Pochettino that Mourinho has not enjoyed the kind of plaudits he, Manchester City's Pep Guardiola... Читать дальше...

Crewe Alexandra Morecambe 2:00 PM UTC Game Details Live football odds with bet365. Bet Now » GameCast Lineups and Stats Crewe have close to a fully-fit squad available for their Sky Bet League Two clash with Morecambe.On-loan striker Harry McKirdy is back in contention after missing last week's trip to Luton with a knock.

Russia's state aid agency is urging students studying abroad to return home, citing growing anti-Russian sentiment in Europe. Russian students in England say such concerns are nonsense.

That is EXTREMELY teal. We’ve already seen what look like reliable leaks for Tottenham Hotspur’s 2018-19 home and away kits, but while we’ve gotten color hints for the thirds, we haven’t really seen what they will look like. Until now. A mock-up of the expected third kits leaked today on Twitter and they are, well, a color I’ve never seen on a Spurs shirt before. Third kit pic.twitter.com/qD2thsVrFP— Sander Lind (@SanderStoltz) April 19, 2018 That is... very teal. So, we all expected this... Читать дальше...

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• Computer keyboards can be some of the dirtiest surfaces we touch every day.
• Hospital workers suggest washing your hands after using any shared keyboard.
• For a home or office keyboard, a wipe down every few days or at least once a week is best.

Your computer keyboard is probably dirtier than a toilet seat.

In fact, an Australian study found that the typical desk has 400 times the amount of bacteria found on a toilet... Читать дальше...

The audio version of an in depth article from The Conversation, which explores how antisemitism today is carved from and sustained by powerful precedents and inherited stereotypes.

The Penguins push the Flyers to the brink, beating their cross-State rivals 5 – 0, taking a 3 – 1 lead in the series. It is said that success has a thousand fathers but defeat is an orphan. Passing kudos around the Penguins’ locker room may take some time so let’s start with the big pats on the back;

A third former Christ’s Hospital School teacher has been convicted for a series of historic sexual offences, Sussex Police said.

In record voting, readers are pushing for ABC's 'Designated Survivor' and a pair of NBC shows, 'Timeless' and 'The Blacklist' to be renewed for next season.