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Manulife is exploring either an IPO or spinoff for its John Hancock Financial Services unit.

CBS News forms an editorial partnership with BBC. For CBS, the deal replaces a previous arrangement it had with Sky while for the BBC, it replaces a previous deal it had with ABC.

China’s jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo dies from cancer.

Nevada issues first marijuana delivery license.

Pendo closes $25 million Series C from Meritech to scale its customer understanding platform.

“Saturday Night Live” and “Westworld” lead the 2017 Emmy Awards nominations with 22 nods each.

Drone racers will compete in abandoned malls and stadiums for $100,000 prize.

Beam me up? Scientists teleport first object ever from Earth into space.

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