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Anderson Cooper’s CNN show at 8 p.m. beat Bill O’Reilly’s highly rated show on Fox News three nights last week in the coveted audience aged 18 to 54. That was a first for CNN.
New Jersey is the latest state to bar Tesla’s stores for its electric vehicles under laws that favor independent dealerships.
More than a quarter of a trillion dollars has flowed into the coffers of Russia Inc., part of a broad push by yield-hungry investors into emerging markets.
At the start of the fourth year since Syrians rose up in a peaceful movement that turned to arms, a snapshot of the country presents the harsh truth that Syria’s descent is only accelerating.
A stark new report seeks to cut through confusion and awaken the public to the urgency of the dangers of global warming.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 12, 2014, covering March 18, 2014.
ScHoolboy Q
Soundtrack
Beck
Kid Cudi
Romeo Santos
2014Catherine Obianuju Acholonu, Nigerian author, playwright, and academic (born 1951)[†]
Catherine Obianuju Acholonu was a Nigerian author, researcher and political activist. She served as the Senior Special Adviser (SSA) to President Olusegun Obasanjo on Arts and Culture and was a founder-member of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA).
2014Kaiser Kalambo, Zambian footballer, coach, and manager (born 1953)[†]
Kaiser Kalambo was a Zambian coach and former footballer. He represented Zambia in three African Cup of Nations tournaments and was named Zambian captain in 1980, the same year in which he was voted Zambian footballer of the year. He later coached several club sides in Zambia and Botswana.
2014Lucius Shepard, American author and critic (born 1943)[†]
Lucius Shepard was an American writer. Classified as a science fiction and fantasy writer, he often leaned into other genres, such as magical realism.
2014The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.[†]
Crimea is a peninsula in Eastern Europe, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov. The Isthmus of Perekop connects the peninsula to Kherson Oblast in mainland Ukraine. To the east, the Crimean Bridge, constructed in 2018, spans the Strait of Kerch, linking the peninsula with Krasnodar Krai in Russia. The Arabat Spit, located to the northeast, is a narrow strip of land that separates the Syvash lagoons from the Sea of Azov. Across the Black Sea to the west lies Romania and to the south is Turkey. The population is 2.4 million, and the largest city is Sevastopol. The region, internationally recognized as part of Ukraine, has been under Russian occupation since 2014.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]