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In North Carolina’s high-profile Republican primary for Senate, the divisions gripping the party nationally are playing out loudly and expensively.
Jordan Spieth, a Masters rookie, posted his second consecutive 70 to move into a tie for first with Watson, the 2012 champion.
As a baby, Christina Rivera survived a massacre in Brooklyn whose 10 victims included her mother. Police Officer Joanne Jaffe cared for her that night, the first link in a bond that led Ms. Jaffe to adopt Christina.
The countries of the world have dragged their feet so long on global warming that only an intensive push in the next 15 years can stave off potential disaster, United Nations-appointed experts said.
The Ukrainian government on Sunday for the first time sent in its security services to confront armed pro-Russian militants who took over a police station in the country’s east, Ukrainian officials said.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 9, 2014, covering April 13, 2014.
Soundtrack
Shakira
Johnny Cash
Memphis May Fire
Pharrell Williams
2014Ernesto Laclau, Argentinian-Spanish philosopher and theorist (born 1935)[†]
Ernesto Laclau was an Argentine political theorist and philosopher. He is often described as an 'inventor' of post-Marxist political theory. He is well known for his collaborations with his long-term partner, Chantal Mouffe.
2014Michael Ruppert, American journalist and author (born 1951)[†]
Michael Craig Ruppert was an American writer and musician, Los Angeles Police Department officer, investigative journalist, political activist, and peak oil awareness advocate known for his 2004 book Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil.
2014Three people are killed in a shooting in Overland Park, Kansas.[†]
Two Overland Park shootings occurred on April 13, 2014, at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and Village Shalom, a Jewish retirement community, both located in Overland Park, Kansas in the United States. A total of three people were killed in the shootings, two of whom were shot at the community center and one shot at the retirement community. The gunman, 73-year-old Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. of Aurora, Missouri, originally from North Carolina, was arrested during the attack and was subsequently tried, convicted of murder and other crimes, and sentenced to death. Miller, a former Klansman, neo-Nazi and former political candidate, died in prison in 2021 while awaiting execution.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]