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The National Security Agency’s dominant role as the nation’s spy warehouse has prompted turf fights with other federal agencies that want to use its surveillance tools for their own investigations.
Staff Sgt. Alonzo M. Lunsford Jr., who was shot seven times by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan during an attack at the Fort Hood Army base in 2009, will confront his attacker during his testimony.
Unions say the company has imported American-style business practices that stand at odds with European norms.
The lack of daily oral care in nursing facilities is almost universally overlooked, experts say, and studies suggest that it may contribute to pneumonia, a leading killer of institutionalized older people.
Time Warner Cable and CBS battle over retransmission fees like divorcing parents, leaving viewers like traumatized children.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 31, 2013, covering August 4, 2013.
Jay-Z
Sara Bareilles
Kidz Bop Kids
Ace Hood
Florida Georgia Line
2013Keith H. Basso, American anthropologist and academic (born 1940)[†]
Keith Hamilton Basso was a cultural and linguistic anthropologist noted for his study of the Western Apaches, specifically those from the community of Cibecue, Arizona. Basso was professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of New Mexico and earlier taught at the University of Arizona and Yale University.
2013Art Donovan, American football player and radio host (born 1925)[†]
Arthur James "Fatso" Donovan Jr., was an American professional football player who was a defensive tackle for three National Football League (NFL) teams, primarily the Baltimore Colts. He played college football for the Boston College Eagles. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1968.
2013Olavi J. Mattila, Finnish engineer and politician, Finnish Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1918)[†]
Olavi Johannes Mattila was a Finnish politician who served twice as the Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs, and also held several other ministerial positions in a number of cabinets in the 1960s and 1970s. He was also the CEO of state owned Valmet. He was considered as a close associate of Urho Kekkonen.
2013Renato Ruggiero, Italian lawyer and politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1930)[†]
Renato Ruggiero was an Italian diplomat and politician. He was Director-General of the World Trade Organization from 1995 to 1999 and briefly served as Italy's Foreign Minister in 2001.
2013Tony Snell, English lieutenant and pilot (born 1922)[†]
Flight Lieutenant Anthony Noel Snell, was a British RAF pilot during the Second World War. He flew in the North African campaign in 1942 and was shot down during the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943. Initially captured by the Germans he escaped from a firing squad but was recaptured. He again escaped German captivity whilst in Italy and became one of the very few men to be awarded the DSO exclusively for escaping from the enemy.
2013Sandy Woodward, English admiral (born 1932)[†]
Admiral Sir John Forster "Sandy" Woodward, was a senior Royal Navy officer who commanded the Task Force of the Falklands War.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]