Photo Quentin Tarantino in January. The Oscar-winning writer and director is in the early stages of a new and as-yet-untitled project about the Manson family murders. Credit Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images Quentin Tarantino, known for his graphic and violent films, is reportedly tackling a real-life crime for his next project: a …

Mark Kauzlarich | Bloomberg | Getty Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp Microsoft is putting its artificial intelligence technology to work to help the visually impaired. The company said on Wednesday that it’s releasing an iOS app called Seeing AI that uses an iPhone’s camera to tell people …

Source: Market Track Ahead of this week’s Prime Day, which ended early Wednesday, neither Wal-Mart nor Jet.com had announced any official plans to compete with Amazon directly this year. In 2016, Wal-Mart offered a free 30-day trial for ShippingPass, its competitor at the time to Amazon Prime, around the event. …

Photo Conan O’Brien pointed out that Donald Trump Jr. just hired a lawyer with a history of representing defendants accused of high-level organized crime. Credit TBS Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. What do you …

Aaron P. Bernstein | Reuters Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, accompanied by Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) and Sen. John Thune (R-SD), speaks to the media about plans to repeal and replace Obamacare on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 27, 2017. U.S. Senate Republicans said Tuesday they will seek to bring …

Jewel Samad | AFP | Getty Images Donald Trump (R) stands with his son Donald Trump Jr. after the first presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York on September 26, 2016. U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended Donald Trump Jr. as “innocent” following revelations in emails that …

Mr. Nolan’s film is about the astounding rescue of 338,000 Allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk, France, in 1940. Hemmed in by German forces, the Allies were trapped as German aircraft strafed and bombed the sands, with the only way out across the English Channel. Shallow waters prevented British …

You snooze, you lose. Retailers that are choosing to wait until later in the summer to roll out their back-to-school deals could be missing out on a greater portion of the summer sales, according to a new survey from consulting firm Deloitte. Sixty percent of U.S. shoppers visiting stores prior …

Andrew Caballero-Reynolds Tourists walk in front of the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C. “The big U.S. banks will get bigger,” David Coker, lecturer in accounting, finance and governance at Westminster Business School, told CNBC via email. Coker, who is also a former vice president of global risk management at Deutsche …

Photo Bobby Rush, right, in “I Am the Blues.” Credit Film Movement In “I Am the Blues,” the documentarian Daniel Cross spends part of three years driving the cracked back roads of Louisiana and Mississippi to some of the last enclaves of the Delta blues, finding the heart of this …