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Business groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are pouring money into a special House primary runoff that is seen as a test case for the fight over the Republican Party’s future.
What began as a public relations predicament for American technology companies has evolved into a moral crisis that threatens the foundation of their businesses.
Insurance companies are canceling millions of health insurance plans that fail to meet minimum standards, and a look at the stories of three people with such plans tells a complex tale.
Democrats say that the law’s woes are cutting into the momentum they gained after the government shutdown, and that the troubles could cost them in the 2014 midterm races.
Amanda Peet turns playwright, with “The Commons of Pensacola,” starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Blythe Danner.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 30, 2013, covering November 1, 2013.
Pearl Jam
Miley Cyrus
Paul McCartney
Drake
The Avett Brothers
2013John Y. McCollister, American lieutenant and politician (born 1921)[†]
John Yetter McCollister was an American Republican politician.
2013Piet Rietveld, Dutch economist and academic (born 1952)[†]
Pieter (Piet) Rietveld was a Dutch economist and Professor in Transport Economics at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, and a fellow at the Tinbergen Institute. He was among the top researchers in economic geography according to IDEAS/RePEc.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]