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Three years after taking over for Larry King, Piers Morgan has seen the ratings for “Piers Morgan Live” hit some new lows. He and the network are in talks about him remaining at CNN in a different role.
The takedown of the world’s most wanted man — Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the head of a sophisticated narcotics enterprise — upended assumptions about the impunity of Mexican mobsters.
No matter how few minutes he gets, count on the Nets’ Jason Collins to embrace his role as the first openly gay and active athlete in one of the four major American professional sports leagues.
The Federal Reserve pumped hundreds of billions of dollars to nations to bolster global banks when dollars were scarce, newly released transcripts of 2008 Fed policy committee meetings reveal.
Between the signing ceremony for a peace deal and a break to congratulate Ukraine’s Olympic team, President Viktor F. Yanukovych’s prospects took a dramatic turn for the worse.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 19, 2014, covering February 24, 2014.
Various Artists
Soundtrack
Bruno Mars
Toni Braxton & Babyface
Broken Bells
2014Franny Beecher, American guitarist (born 1921)[†]
Francis Eugene Beecher was the lead guitarist for Bill Haley & His Comets from 1954 to 1962, and is best remembered for his innovative guitar solos that incorporated elements of jazz. He composed the classics "Blue Comet Blues", "Goofin' Around", "Week End", "The Catwalk", and "Shaky" when he was the lead guitarist for Bill Haley and the Comets. He continued to perform with surviving members of the Comets into 2006. In 2012, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Beecher as a member of the Comets by a special committee, aimed at correcting the previous mistake of not inducting the Comets with Bill Haley.
2014Alexis Hunter, New Zealand-English painter and photographer (born 1948)[†]
Alexis Jan Atthill Hunter was a New Zealand painter and photographer, who used feminist theory in her work. She lived and worked in London UK, and Beaurainville France. Hunter was also a member of the Stuckism collective. Her archive and artistic legacy is now administered by the Alexis Hunter Trust.
2014Carlos Páez Vilaró, Uruguayan painter and sculptor (born 1923)[†]
Carlos Páez Vilaró was a Uruguayan abstract artist, painter, potter, sculptor, muralist, writer, composer and constructor. He took an active role in the search for survivors of the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andes, as his son Carlos Páez Rodríguez was a passenger.
2014Harold Ramis, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1944)[†]
Harold Allen Ramis was an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. His film acting roles include Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989), and as Russell Ziskey in Stripes (1981); he also co-wrote those films. As a director, his films include the comedies Caddyshack (1980), National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), Groundhog Day (1993), Analyze This (1999) and Analyze That (2002). Ramis was the original head writer of the television series SCTV, on which he also performed, as well as a co-writer of Groundhog Day and National Lampoon's Animal House (1978). The final film that he wrote, produced, directed, and acted in was Year One (2009).
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]