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Although the economy has improved since the financial crisis, waves from the recession continue to upend job seekers and now a new study shows long-term unemployment has risen among women.
The blog OnSmash was among music sites shut down in 2010, accused of copyright infringement and selling counterfeit goods.
The New York senator’s long political career has taken a new turn as Republicans make him their villain of choice — a role he hasn’t exactly rejected.
McCaffrey, the Heisman runner-up, amassed 368 yards by every conceivable means — rushes, receptions and punt and kick returns.
The execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, an outspoken campaigner for Shiite rights, is likely to exacerbate sectarian tensions across the Middle East.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 30, 2015, covering January 2, 2016.
Adele
Justin Bieber
Pentatonix
One Direction
The Weeknd
2016Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan, Indian lawyer and politician (born 1924)[†]
Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan was a trade union leader and the former general secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI), one of the oldest political parties in India.
2016Frances Cress Welsing, American psychiatrist and author (born 1935)[†]
Frances Luella Cress Welsing was an American psychiatrist and well-known proponent of the pseudo-scientific melanin theory. Her 1970 essay, The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism , offered her interpretation of what she described as the origins of white supremacy culture. She was the author of The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors (1991).
2016Nimr al-Nimr, Saudi Arabian religious leader (born 1959)[†]
Ayatollah Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr, commonly referred to as Sheikh Nimr, was a Saudi Shia sheikh from Al-Awamiyah in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province. His arrest and execution were widely condemned by various governments and human rights organizations.
2016Gisela Mota Ocampo, mayor of Temixco, Morelos, Mexico, assassinated (born 1982)[†]
Gisela Raquel Mota Ocampo was the assassinated first female mayor of Temixco, in the Mexican state of Morelos. Affiliated with the PRD, she won the mayoral elections in June 2015. She took office on 1 January 2016 but was killed the following day. Mota Ocampo had also served as plurinominal deputy in the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress, representing Morelos.
In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]