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Gerry Ramogida, a prominent chiropractor who has treated Olympic athletes, is cooperating with Canadian antidoping officials after an Al Jazeera report said that his former business associates were involved in professional athletes’ doping.
Derek F. Foran, a commercial litigator in San Francisco, had never worked on an abortion-related lawsuit, and his involvement has turned into a full-time job.
The Zika epidemic has spread much faster than science’s understanding of it.
Deven Black and Anthony White ended up in the same room of an East Harlem shelter on Monday. By Wednesday night, Mr. Black was dead, his throat slashed, and Mr. White was on the run.
Odds are good that when you search Google for someone to help you get into your home or car, results will include poorly trained subcontractors who will squeeze you for cash.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 27, 2016, covering January 30, 2016.
David Bowie
Adele
Justin Bieber
David Bowie
Twenty One Pilots
2016Frank Finlay, English actor (born 1926)[†]
Francis Finlay, was an English actor. He earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance as Iago in Othello (1965). His first leading television role came in 1971 in Casanova. This led to appearances on The Morecambe and Wise Show. Finlay starred alongside famous Italian actress Stefania Sandrelli in Tinto Brass' The Key, the most successful Italian film of the 1983-1984 season. He also appeared in the drama Bouquet of Barbed Wire.
2016Francisco Flores Pérez, Salvadorian politician, President of El Salvador (born 1959)[†]
Francisco Guillermo Flores Pérez was a Salvadoran politician who served as President of El Salvador from 1 June 1999 to 1 June 2004 as a member of the conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA). He previously served as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly from 1994 to 1999, having been president of the Assembly from 1997 to 1999.
2016Georgia Davis Powers, American activist and politician (born 1923)[†]
Georgia Davis Powers was an American politician who served for 21 years as a state senator in the Kentucky Senate. In 1967, she was the first person of color elected to the senate. During her term, she was "regarded as the leading advocate for blacks, women, children, the poor, and the handicapped," and was the chair of the Health and Welfare committee from 1970 to 1976 and the Labor and Industry committee from 1978 to 1988.
2016Gaston Mialaret, French pedagogist and professor (born 1918)[†]
Gaston Mialaret was a French educator, pedagogist and professor at the University of Caen. He contributed to the establishment of educational sciences at the university from 1967.
In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]