Black Friday online sales are currently on track to reach $7.4 billion, while Thanksgiving Day sales already beat records by surpassing $4 billion for the first time, according to Adobe Analytics. An increasing percentage of these sales are coming from online shopping, with a significant uptick in purchases made on mobile devices. Adobe Analytics found that…
Details were unclear. The declaration came on an unannounced trip as the president seeks to highlight a record of achievement while he campaigns for re-election.President Trump met with Afghanistan’s president, Ashraf Ghani, during the visit.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York TimesNov. 28, 2019Updated 5:29 p.m. ETBAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — President Trump paid an unannounced Thanksgiving visit…
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Best Buy is among the retailers staying open for Thanksgiving. Getty/Sandy Huffaker Macy's, JCPenney, Best Buy, and others are being criticized for opening their doors on Thanksgiving.Angry shoppers have complained on Twitter over the past few days. "Thanksgiving is a day of giving thanks, not a day for corporate capitalism," one person wrote this week.At…
What’s it like to celebrate the holiday in a conflict zone? We asked those who were deployed as part of the global war on terror. By C.J. Chivers November 18, 2019 Chief Warrant Officer Matt Cole was seething. He did not want to eat. Sitting in the left-side seat of a Black Hawk helicopter on…
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The interior of the new Toys R Us in Paramus, New Jersey. Shoshy Ciment/Business Insider Toys R Us is back from the dead with a new store in New Jersey after the toy retailer closed all its US locations in the summer of 2018.Tru Kids was created to resurrect the brand this year and is in…
8 Spectacular Pies That Taste as Good as They Look Recipes by Erin Jeanne McDowell Tap to Start Vibrant fillings, bold finishes — Erin Jeanne McDowell, the author of the cookbook “The Fearless Baker,” has created brilliant new pies to make for Thanksgiving. Apple Ombré Thinly sliced red, pink, green and yellow apples are arranged to create…
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An anonymous Microsoft engineer has claimed that managers working on a major oil-extraction project called Tengizchevroil, or TCO, proposed using tech to spy on staff working in their oil fields.Writing in Logic Magazine, the engineer recounted how TCO managers wanted to use artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data from GPS trackers to analyze CCTV video…
