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Economic anxiety amid a dwindling oil and gas industry is raising difficult questions about the future. It is also shaping a Senate race in which a Democrat is seeking re-election in a state long dominated by Republicans.
With an microchip-embedded ID card, residents gain access to thousands of public and private services, including banking, medical records and even fishing licenses.
The possible success of a referendum to ban the gas-extraction process called hydraulic fracturing in Denton, Tex., has alarmed oil and gas companies.
An obscure Chinese company, Anbang Insurance, is buying the landmark hotel with plans to restore the 83-year-old Art Deco building to its original splendor.
Federal health officials will require temperature checks for the first time at five major American airports for people arriving from the three West African countries hardest hit by the deadly Ebola virus.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 8, 2014, covering October 9, 2014.
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
Kenny Chesney
Barbra Streisand
Alt-J
Pentatonix
2014Boris Buzančić, Croatian actor and politician, 47th Mayor of Zagreb (born 1929)[†]
Boris Buzančić was a Croatian actor and politician who served as the 47th Mayor of Zagreb between 1990 and 1993.
2014Jan Hooks, American actress and comedienne (born 1957)[†]
Janet Vivian Hooks was an American actress and comedian. She was best known for her tenure on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, where she was a repertory player from 1986 to 1991. After leaving SNL, she continued to make cameo appearances until 1994. Her subsequent work included a regular role on the last two seasons of Designing Women, a recurring role on 3rd Rock from the Sun, and a number of other film and television roles, including on 30 Rock and The Simpsons.
2014Carolyn Kizer, American poet and academic (born 1925)[†]
Carolyn Ashley Kizer was an American poet of the Pacific Northwest whose works reflect her feminism. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.
2014Peter A. Peyser, American soldier and politician (born 1921)[†]
Peter A. Peyser was a United States representative from New York, serving from 1971 to 1977 as a Republican and from 1979 to 1983 as a Democrat.
2014Rita Shane, American soprano and educator (born 1936)[†]
Rita Shane was an American coloratura soprano.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]