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Law enforcement is often powerless when it comes to keeping firearms out of the hands of people who are mentally ill, an unresolved issue in the debate over the Second Amendment.
Former President Bill Clinton, who has always nurtured his ties with his home state, is diving into the 2014 campaign in support of former aides and protégés, testing how much Arkansas still loves him.
Despite the economic recovery from the recession, staffs at many school districts remain substantially reduced, leading to unwieldy class sizes and a lack of specialists to help students.
Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, a former billionaire and a critic of President Vladimir V. Putin’s who was imprisoned for a decade, said in Berlin that he would work to help other political prisoners.
Giorgio Vasari’s “The Last Supper,” a work from 1546 that was all but ruined in a 1966 flood, is slowly coming back to life in Florence.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 18, 2013, covering December 22, 2013.
Garth Brooks
One Direction
Kelly Clarkson
Britney Spears
The Robertsons
2013Diomedes Díaz, Colombian singer-songwriter (born 1956)[†]
Diomedes Díaz Maestre was a Colombian vallenato singer, songwriter, and composer. He has been named the "King of Vallenato" and is nicknamed El Cacique de La Junta, which was given to him by another vallenato singer, Rafael Orozco Maestre, in honor of Díaz's birthplace.
2013Hans Hækkerup, Danish lawyer and politician (born 1945)[†]
Hans Hækkerup was a Danish politician who has served as a member of parliament (Folketing) for the Social Democratic party and as the Minister of Defence from 1993 to 2000 under Poul Nyrup Rasmussen.
2013Oscar Peer, Swiss author, playwright, and philologist (born 1928)[†]
Oscar Peer was a Swiss novelist, playwright and philologist. His works were written in Romansch and German, and comprised epic novels, short stories, and drama. He was also well known for his Ladin-German dictionary.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]