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Jimmy Kimmel Leads the Late-Night Attacks on Harvey Weinstein

Photo Jimmy Kimmel responded to a tweet from Donald Trump Jr., the president’s son, on the air Monday. Credit ABC Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. What do you think of it? What else are …

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Nvidia unveils computer to drive ‘fully autonomous robotaxis’

Jacob Kepler | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive officer and co-founder of Nvidia, speaks at an International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Nvidia on Tuesday unveiled what it says is the world’s first artificial intelligence computer system designed to drive fully autonomous robotaxis, and said it …

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The average American household owns more than two Apple products

Brendan McDermid | Reuters One of the first customers celebrates his purchase of the new iPhone 8 at the 5th Avenue Apple store in New York City, U.S., September 22, 2017. Data now supports changing the phrase to just “as American as Apple.” You can hold the pie. The CNBC …

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Russian central bank plans to ban websites that offer bitcoins

Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg | Getty Images A national flag flies above the headquarters of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation in Moscow. Russia will block access to the websites of exchanges that offer crypto-currencies such as Bitcoin, Russian Central Bank First Deputy Governor Sergei Shvetsov said on Tuesday. …

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Review: A ‘Show-Off’ Who Doesn’t Know When to Shut Up

Photo Annette O’Toole, far left, with Emma Orelove and Ian Gould in “The Show-Off.” Credit Jeremy Daniel The title character of George Kelly’s 1924 play “The Show-Off” is a boasting buffoon named Aubrey Piper — a vain, dissembling blowhard with an obvious toupee and galloping delusions of grandeur. Spencer Tracy …

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Thailand to hold election in November 2018: Prime minister

Taylor Weidman | Bloomberg | Getty Images Prayuth Chan-ocha, Thailand’s prime minister, speaks during the ‘Thailand’s Big Strategic Move’ forum in Bangkok, Thailand, on June 22, 2017. Thailand will hold a general election in November 2018, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Tuesday, the most precise date he has given …

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Luxembourg could appeal against the EC’s $294 million Amazon tax bill, says finance minister

Eric Piermont | AFP | Getty Images A picture taken on June 9, 2016 shows Amazon warehouse in Paris, part of the new service ‘Prime Now’. Following the European Commission’s (EC) decision, Luxembourg said it “refers to a period going back to 2006. Over time, both the international and the …

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‘The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick’ Gives Off a Bright Light

It’s a mistake to boil a writer down to her best lines. No one is the sum of her entries in Bartlett’s or the Goodreads.com quotation vaults. But a critic who can’t mint an original phrase is rarely worth heeding. To move one’s way through Hardwick’s essays is to bump …

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Will an ‘easy money guy’ be the next Fed chair?

Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen speaks during a press conference after the Federal Open Market Committee meetings in Washington, DC, on September 20, 2017. As we head into the fourth quarter of the year, some big decisions are coming up for President Donald …

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In Jerusalem, Looking for Peace in Backgammon and Music

Still, after years of impasse in the peace process, a growing number of Israelis and Palestinians seem to be searching for creative ways to bypass politics, reaching across the divide to find professional peers, new resources and receptive audiences. And a number of recent events have sought to provide a …

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