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Susan Molinari, a brassy, well-connected New York Republican who served seven years in the House, now works to broaden Google’s support beyond Silicon Valley Democrats.
The network experienced a ratings decline in the last two months, as viewers turned away from Washington and toward disaster coverage.
For many Turks, the development of urban spaces is not so much progress as a reflection of growing autocratic ambitions by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The growing presence of women senators is most pronounced on the Armed Services Committee, where they have forced the long-simmering issue of sexual assault in the military to the forefront.
Many of the world’s top players are now as committed to fitness as pros in other sports. As drivers and putters have grown fatter, the golfers themselves have grown leaner.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 29, 2013, covering June 3, 2013.
Vampire Weekend
George Strait
Demi Lovato
Soundtrack
Lady Antebellum
2013Atul Chitnis, German-Indian technologist and journalist (born 1962)[†]
Atul Chitnis was an Indo-German consulting technologist. He was one of the organizers of FOSS.IN, which was one of Asia's free and open source software (FOSS) conferences.
2013Józef Czyrek, Polish economist and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1928)[†]
Józef Czyrek was a Polish politician who served as the minister of foreign affairs of the People's Republic of Poland from 1980 to 1982.
2013Frank Lautenberg, American soldier and politician (born 1924)[†]
Frank Raleigh Lautenberg was an American businessman and Democratic Party politician who served as United States Senator from New Jersey from 1982 to 2001, and again from 2003 until his death in 2013. He was originally from Paterson, New Jersey.
2013The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, Maryland.[†]
United States v. Manning was the court-martial of former United States Army Private First Class, Chelsea Manning.
2013At least 119 people are killed in a fire at a poultry farm in Jilin Province in northeastern China.[†]
On 3 June 2013, a fire at the Jilin Baoyuanfeng (吉林宝源丰) poultry processing plant in Mishazi (米沙子镇), a town about 35 km (22 mi) from Changchun, in Jilin province, People's Republic of China, killed at least 120 people. More than 60 others were hospitalised with injuries.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]