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Google began its effort to comply with a European court ruling that said it must help people clean up their online reputations.
For decades, residents of Inwood have gathered around Dyckman Street for an unsanctioned fireworks competition.
Ms. Loomis, 85, is retiring from Fortune magazine to a world of bridge playing and — you guessed it — continuing to edit her old friend’s writing.
Busloads of immigrants who roll into Murrieta, Calif., for processing at a Border Patrol center have been met by protesters brandishing American flags and screaming, “Go home!”
A growing wing of addiction treatment rejects the Alcoholics Anonymous model of strict abstinence as the sole form of recovery for alcohol and drug users.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 2, 2014, covering July 4, 2014.
Lana Del Rey
Sam Smith
Linkin Park
Soundtrack
Willie Nelson
2014Giorgio Faletti, Italian author, screenwriter, and actor (born 1950)[†]
Giorgio Faletti was an Italian writer, musician, actor and comedian. Born in Asti, Piedmont, he lived on Elba Island. His books have been translated into 25 languages and published with great success in Europe, South America, China, Japan, Russia and the United States.
2014C. J. Henderson, American author and critic (born 1951)[†]
Chris "C. J." Henderson was an American writer of horror, hardboiled crime fiction and comic books, known for such works as the Piers Knight and Teddy London series. His comics work includes books for Marvel Comics and Valiant Comics.
2014Earl Robinson, American baseball player (born 1936)[†]
Earl John Robinson was an American professional baseball outfielder and third baseman who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Baltimore Orioles. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he played both baseball and basketball, helping Cal to three straight conference titles in basketball from 1956 to 1958. Born in New Orleans, Robinson attended Berkeley High School in the San Francisco Bay Area before matriculating at Cal.
2014Richard Mellon Scaife, American businessman (born 1932)[†]
Richard Mellon Scaife was an American billionaire, a principal heir to the Mellon banking, oil, and aluminum fortune, and the owner and publisher of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. In 2005, Scaife was number 238 on the Forbes 400, with a personal fortune of $1.2 billion. By 2013, Scaife had dropped to number 371 on the listing, with a personal fortune of $1.4 billion.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]