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The Jets stayed within 3 points of the Carolina Panthers for three quarters, before falling, 30-20, and needing a Baltimore loss on Monday to keep their playoff chances alive.
Bloomberg administration officials are determined to finish public reviews for a number of “legacy projects” before Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg leaves office.
The pop star bypassed the standard practice of relentless promotion when she released her album last week, and the impressive response may have blazed a new trail for the music industry.
The resistance of sheriffs in Colorado to enforcing certain gun laws is raising questions about whether tougher rules passed since Newtown have a muted effect in parts of the nation where gun ownership is common.
Republican candidates who benefited from the Tea Party in 2010, but lost two years later, hope to rebound next year by focusing on the health care law.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 11, 2013, covering December 16, 2013.
One Direction
Eminem
Garth Brooks
The Robertsons
Katy Perry
2013James Flint, English commander (born 1913)[†]
Wing Commander James Flint, was a British businessman and decorated Royal Air Force officer. During active service in World War II, he gained the unique distinction of receiving two gallantry awards for separate actions during the same operation.
2013Ray Price, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1926)[†]
Noble Ray Price was an American country music singer, songwriter, and guitarist. His wide-ranging baritone is regarded as among the best male voices of country music, and his innovations, such as propelling the country beat from 2/4 to 4/4, known as the "Ray Price beat", helped make country music more popular.
2013Marta Russell, American journalist, author, and activist (born 1951)[†]
Marta Russell was an American writer and disability rights activist. Her book, Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract published in 1998 by Common Courage Press analyzes the relationship between disability, social Darwinism, and economic austerity under capitalism. Her political views, which she described as "left, not liberal," informed her writing on topics such as healthcare, the prison-industrial complex, physician-assisted suicide, poverty, ableism, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
2013A bus falls from an elevated highway in the Philippines capital Manila killing at least 18 people with 20 injured.[†]
The 2013 Manila Skyway bus accident occurred on December 16, 2013, between Bicutan and Sucat Exits of South Luzon Expressway in Parañaque, Metro Manila, Philippines, after a bus fell off the Skyway, crushing a delivery van and fatally wounding the van's driver. 19 people died and 19 others were injured. The Highway Patrol Group-National Capital Region-South Luzon Expressway described the incident as the worst to have happened along the Skyway.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]