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Conservative groups financed by anonymous donors are running ads against Chuck Hagel, the nominee for secretary of defense, reflecting the continuing effects of the Citizens United decision.
Even with their full complement of talented, confident and expensive pieces at their disposal, the Knicks were unable to slow down the 76ers and Jrue Holiday, who scored 35 points.
Long-term declining participation in shooting sports has prompted gun makers and sellers to pour millions into a campaign to get firearms into the hands of children.
For three officers, the ban on women in combat was not so much a glass ceiling as a seemingly bulletproof one that limited their career options within the military.
Novak Djokovic won a grueling final 6-7, 7-6, 6-3, 6-2 match over Andy Murray to win his third consecutive Australian Open title.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 23, 2013, covering January 27, 2013.
Chris Tomlin
Hollywood Undead
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Taylor Swift
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2013Ivan Bodiul, Ukrainian-Russian politician (born 1918)[†]
Ivan Ivanovich Bodiul was a Soviet and Moldovan politician prominent in the Moldavian SSR, particularly during the Brezhnev era.
2013Stanley Karnow, American journalist and historian (born 1925)[†]
Stanley Abram Karnow was an American journalist and historian. He is best known for his writings on East Asia and the Vietnam War.
2013Two hundred and forty-two people die in a nightclub fire in the Brazilian city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul.[†]
242 people were killed and at least 630 others injured in a fire in the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on 27 January 2013. The fire started between 2:00 and 2:30 a.m. (BRST) because outdoor fireworks were used indoors, causing the acoustic foam on the ceiling to catch fire. The premises having only one exit contributed to the high death toll as well as the electricity going out, making it impossible to find the exit with the layout the way it was. The only light in the building was coming from the bathroom where people flocked, only to be trapped with no way out as they believed it was an exit. It is the second deadliest fire in Brazilian history, surpassed only by the Niterói circus fire of 1961.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]