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Before he was captured, Joaquín Guzmán Loera met with the actor in his jungle hide-out for seven hours in October and spoke about his empire, Donald Trump and the movie business for Rolling Stone.
A growing Republican-led movement is pushing the federal government to hand the states millions of acres of Western public lands — as well as their rich stores of coal, timber and grazing grass.
Mr. Cruz’s success in consolidating evangelical Christian voters in Iowa reflects how he has methodically pursued the state’s Christian right.
Faced with the failure of her efforts to reignite growth at Yahoo, Marissa Mayer is now turning to the opposite strategy: cutting jobs.
Ms. del Castillo, a Mexican television star, is believed to have brokered the meeting between the drug lord, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, and Mr. Penn last year.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 6, 2016, covering January 10, 2016.
Adele
Justin Bieber
Chris Brown
Pentatonix
Soundtrack
2016David Bowie, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (born 1947)[†]
David Robert Jones, known as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter and actor. Regarded as among the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Bowie received particular acclaim for his work in the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, and his music and stagecraft have had a great impact on popular music.
2016Bård Breivik, Norwegian sculptor and art instructor (born 1948)[†]
Bård Breivik was a Norwegian sculptor and art instructor.
2016George Jonas, Hungarian-Canadian journalist, author, and poet (born 1935)[†]
George Jonas, CM was a Hungarian-born Canadian writer, poet, and journalist. A self-described classical liberal, he authored 16 books, including the bestseller Vengeance (1984), the story of an Israeli operation to kill the terrorists responsible for the 1972 Munich massacre. The book has been adapted for film twice, first as Sword of Gideon (1986) and as Munich (2005).
In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]