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Four decades ago, a Senate committeeâs revelations about abuses committed by the intelligence community led to major alterations at the C.I.A. But times have changed.
Even executives at the wireless phone companies say their industry has created a confounding abundance of competing plans.
The ill-fated introduction in Britain of an app to detect predictors of suicide shows what may happen when social media posts are scrutinized for cues about a personâs mental health.
Proof that hockey has taken root in Arizona exists in Auston Matthews, a 17-year-old prodigy who was born in Scottsdale.
As the United States and Cuba enter a period of unprecedented dialogue, many dissidents who stood with American officials in condemning the Castros contend that President Obama gave away too much.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 24, 2014, covering December 27, 2014.
J. Cole
Taylor Swift
Pentatonix
Carrie Underwood
AC/DC
2014Ben Ammi Ben-Israel, American-Israeli religious leader, founded the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem (born 1939)[â ]
Ben Ammi Ben-Israel was an American spiritual leader. Inspired by the Black Hebrew Israelites in the United States, he founded the African Hebrew Israelite Nation of Jerusalem, which claims that African Americans originate from the Land of Israel. The community's initial members claimed Israelite descent and undertook a major initiative to immigrate to the State of Israel during and after the 1960s. Ben Ammi stated that Black people were descended from the Twelve Tribes of Israel and thus were the "true inheritors" of Israel, and created a new religious movement that he claimed was authentically Hebrew or Israelite in theology and practice. Though he was born a Baptist Christian, he denounced Judaism and Christianity as false religions, but maintained that the Jewish Bible was still divine.
2014Ulises Estrella, Ecuadorian poet and academic (born 1939)[â ]
Ulises Estrella Moya was an Ecuadorian poet and the co-founder of Tzantzismo, a literary movement of the 1960s, Ecuador. He was also a devoted film researcher and programmer, who headed the film cinematheque of the House of Ecuadorian Culture for over 30 years.
2014Ronald Li, Hong Kong accountant and businessman (born 1929)[â ]
Ronald Li Fook-shiu was the founder and former chairman of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong and died of cancer.
2014Karel Poma, Belgian bacteriologist and politician (born 1920)[â ]
Karel Emiel Hubert, Baron Poma was a Belgian liberal and politician for the PVV.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[â ]