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Rite Aid and CVS are not accepting Apple Pay because they belong to a consortium of retailers planning to release their own mobile payment system next year.
After 40 years, the way has been cleared to complete Mr. Welles’s unfinished final opus, “The Other Side of the Wind.”
Liberia has far fewer people being treated for Ebola than anticipated, but health officials are hesitant to declare victory.
Suzan-Lori Parks’s new play reimagines a turbulent turning point in American history through a cockeyed contemporary lens.
Attorneys general have become the object of pursuit by lobbyists who use campaign contributions, personal appeals and other means to sway investigations or negotiate favorable deals, an investigation by The New York Times has found.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 29, 2014, covering October 29, 2014.
Florida Georgia Line
Jason Aldean
Bob Seger
You+Me
Barbra Streisand
2014Roger Freeman, American lawyer and politician (born 1965)[†]
Roger D. Freeman was an American lawyer and politician of the Democratic Party. He was a member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 30th Legislative District. He died in office of colon cancer, but was subsequently re-elected posthumously. Freeman was African-American.
2014Klas Ingesson, Swedish footballer and manager (born 1968)[†]
Klas Inge "Klabbe" Ingesson was a Swedish professional footballer and manager. He spent most of his career as a midfielder in Sweden, Belgium, Netherlands, England, Italy and France. Ingesson represented the Sweden national team on 57 occasions, including the 1990 and 1994 FIFA World Cups, as well as the 1992 European Championship. He was the manager of IF Elfsborg from 2013 until his death in October 2014.
2014H. Gary Morse, American businessman (born 1936)[†]
Harold Gary Morse was an American billionaire and the developer, along with his father Harold Schwartz, of the active adult retirement community The Villages, Florida.
2014A mud slide; the 2014 Badulla landslide, in south-central Sri Lanka, kills at least 16 people, and leaves hundreds of people missing.[†]
At 7:30 am on 29 October 2014, a landslide struck the Sri Lanka district of Badulla, killing at least 16 people and leaving an estimated 200 missing. The landslide was triggered by monsoon rains, and occurred at about 7:30 AM local time.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]