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While the public is increasingly wary of the government recording their behavior, there has been little introspection about routinely monitoring people, pets or handymen.
JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay $20 billion the last year to settle legal cases filed by the government, an amount that doesn’t seem to have strained the bank much at all.
A 560-page biography about Roger Ailes being published this month aims to be an exhaustive look at the television executive’s life and monumental career.
A 33-year-old woman’s family is battling a Fort Worth hospital because the medical staff refuses to follow their instructions (and the woman’s) to take her off life support, because she is pregnant.
The Saudis are bent on ousting Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, and his patron, Iran. But their only real means of fighting them is through a proxy war using fighters over whom they have almost no control.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 8, 2014, covering January 8, 2014.
Beyonce
One Direction
Eminem
Soundtrack
Katy Perry
2014Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher, Dutch-Australian swimmer (born 1925)[†]
Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher was a freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands who won two medals at the Summer Olympics. After having claimed the bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay in London (1948), she won the silver medal four years later in Helsinki, Finland, in the same event. Individually, she was sixth in the 100 m freestyle at both games. She also won two gold and two silver medals at the 1947 and 1950 European Championships.
2014Antonino P. Roman, Filipino lawyer and politician (born 1939)[†]
Antonino Pascual Roman was a Filipino politician from Bataan. A member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, he represented the 1st District of Bataan from 1998 until 2007, when his wife, Herminia Roman, took over the seat. Roman was an assemblyman from 1978 to 1986. He was also a Finance Deputy Minister under Finance Minister Cesar Virata, and Presidential Legislative Liaison Office (PLLO) Secretary from 2010 to 2012 under President Benigno Aquino III.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]