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Walmart is expanding its efforts to offer “drone deliveries at scale” through a new partnership with Google parent company Alphabet.

Angry consumers are now threatening to boycott Walmart - in addition to Target, The North Face and Bud Light - for its promotion of Pride Month and LGBTQ clothing, books and products.

It raised the minimum gun purchasing age to 21. it also requires background checks and no longer sells toys that resembles assault rifles. now the company is facing hundreds of calls on social media to stop selling guns altogether. actress alyssa milano called for walmart to take action saying it would be a true leadership position. venture capitalist had a different response on twitter as well. now, for now walmarts policies could remain the same saying in a statement their focus is supporting ...

On all three major indices ahead of its key earnings report due out after the close today. cnbcs carolyn ross joins us live from london. what is wall street watching for in apples earnings? >> well, first of all, the expectations were pretty high after a number of very strong tech reports coming out last week from the likes of amazon, microsoft, alphabet, the new google parent for example. so its very uncertain whether apple can actually match those expectations. second of all, and this is ver...

Expensive if this bill goes through. >> of course theres two sides to every story, what is walmart saying about why it doesnt want to pay $13 an hour. >> first let me say -- workers -- this amounts to an increase in their salary of more than $4 an hour. some in the city council say a raise this size would make a huge difference to those on the lower end of the pay scale. they say given more buying power, it helps the dc economy. its 8.3%. d.c. could use these jobs, the extra money as well. they ...