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A class action brought by Amazon warehouse workers asserts that their employer should pay them for the time they spent waiting to undergo security checks.
Companies like Allergan, Valeant, Salix, Actavis and Medtronic are riding a wave of cheap debt and pent-up demand in a slew of recent acquisitions or attempted acquisitions.
As the breadth and potential source of the attack on JPMorgan Chase became clearer, Washington officials urgently expressed concern about the potential for more serious attacks in the future.
Rachel Noerdlinger is at the center of a controversy that has rattled City Hall and raised concerns about the vetting of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s most senior aides.
Clayton Kershaw came apart in the seventh inning, blowing a five-run lead, as the Cardinals rallied to beat the Dodgers in the wild opener of their division series.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 1, 2014, covering October 4, 2014.
Barbra Streisand
Chris Brown
Tim McGraw
George Strait
Train
2014Konrad Boehmer, German-Dutch composer and educator (born 1941)[†]
Konrad Boehmer was a German-Dutch composer, educator, and writer.
2014Hugo Carvana, Brazilian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1937)[†]
Hugo Carvana de Hollanda was a Brazilian actor and film director. He appeared in more than 110 films and television shows between 1954 and 2014.
2014Fyodor Cherenkov, Russian footballer and manager (born 1959)[†]
Fyodor Fyodorovich Cherenkov was a Soviet and Russian football midfielder who played for Spartak Moscow and Red Star Football Club (1990–91).
2014Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian politician, 41st President of Haiti (born 1951)[†]
Jean-Claude Duvalier, nicknamed "Baby Doc", was a Haitian dictator who held the presidency of Haiti from 1971 until he was overthrown by a popular uprising in February 1986. He succeeded his father François "Papa Doc" Duvalier as the ruler of Haiti after his death in 1971. After assuming power, he introduced cosmetic changes to his father's regime and delegated much authority to his advisors. Thousands of Haitians were tortured and killed, and hundreds of thousands fled the country during his presidency. He maintained a notoriously lavish lifestyle while poverty among his people remained the most widespread of any country in the Western Hemisphere.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]