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The Postal Service approved nearly 50,000 requests last year from law enforcement agencies to secretly track the mail of ordinary Americans for use in criminal and national security investigations.
Health workers in Liberia and elsewhere in West Africa are finding they have to ration care, operating under constraints they often find frustrating.
The Picasso Museum in Paris has reopened at more than twice its previous size, but the vast collection is arranged in a choppy, idiosyncratic way.
The results of the European Central Bank’s examination of banks show that regulators did a fairly competent job of bolstering Europe’s financial footing, analysts say.
A comment by the presumptive 2016 presidential candidate that corporations don’t create jobs causes unease among some of Mrs. Clinton’s business allies.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 22, 2014, covering October 28, 2014.
Jason Aldean
Hozier
Barbra Streisand
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
Weezer
2014Galway Kinnell, American poet and academic (born 1927)[†]
Galway Mills Kinnell was an American poet. His dark poetry emphasized scenes and experiences in threatening, ego-less natural environments. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1982 collection, Selected Poems and split the National Book Award for Poetry with Charles Wright. From 1989 to 1993, he was poet laureate for the state of Vermont.
2014Michael Sata, Zambian police officer and politician, 5th President of Zambia (born 1937)[†]
Michael Charles Chilufya Sata was a Zambian politician who served as the fifth president of Zambia from 2011 until his death in 2014. A social democrat, he led the Patriotic Front (PF), a major political party in Zambia. Under President Frederick Chiluba, Sata was a minister during the 1990s as part of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) government. He went into opposition in 2001, forming the PF.
2014A rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Wallops Island, Virginia.[†]
Orbital-3, also known as Orb-3, was an attempted flight of Cygnus, an automated cargo spacecraft developed by United States–based company Orbital Sciences, on 28 October 2014. The mission was intended to launch at 22:22:38 UTC that evening. This flight, which would have been its fourth to the International Space Station and the fifth of an Antares launch vehicle, resulted in the Antares rocket exploding seconds after liftoff.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]