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In a strongly worded complaint, the lawyers contend that the “new G.M.” that emerged from bankruptcy in 2009 so valued cost-cutting that it “produced an inordinate number of vehicles with serious safety defects.”
A report by Eric T. Schneiderman, the New York attorney general, found nearly three-quarters of all Airbnb rentals in New York City were illegal.
The demand in Kentucky for appearances by Hillary Rodham Clinton underscores the racial and class divisions she would need to bridge if she runs for president again in 2016.
With the announcement that a second nurse in Dallas had been infected, scrutiny of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital intensified as officials sought to calm workers and patients.
Hackers may have infiltrated the JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge as a test before the breach of the bank’s internal systems.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 15, 2014, covering October 16, 2014.
Blake Shelton
Lady Antebellum
Barbra Streisand
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
Prince
2014Ioannis Charalambopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (born 1919)[†]
Ioannis Charalambopoulos was a Greek Army officer and socialist politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of National Defence of Greece.
2014Allen Forte, American musicologist and theorist (born 1926)[†]
Allen Forte was an American music theorist and musicologist. He was Battell Professor Emeritus of the Theory of Music at Yale University and specialized in 20th-century atonal music and music analysis.
2014Seppo Kuusela, Finnish basketball player and coach (born 1934)[†]
Seppo Kuusela was a Finnish basketball player, basketball coach, and handball player. At 182 cm tall, he played at the point guard and shooting guard positions, as a basketball player. He was twice voted the Finnish Basketball Player of the Year, in 1959 and 1960, by Finnish sports journalists.
2014John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, English businessman (born 1926)[†]
John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, was a British peer. He was the elder son of the 10th Duke of Marlborough and his wife, the Hon. Alexandra Mary Hilda Cadogan. He was known as "Sunny" after his courtesy title of Earl of Sunderland.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]