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Based on initial results from the primaries and caucuses across 11 states, Mrs. Clinton was strongly positioned to contain Bernie Sanders to liberal strongholds like his home state, Vermont.
Filings in a case against Bayer and Johnson & Johnson over the blood-thinning drug Xarelto said the companies helped mislead editors at The New England Journal of Medicine.
The Justice Department said it had charged the Oklahoma wildcatter with conspiring to suppress prices paid for oil and natural gas leases.
Mr. Trump won sweeping victories across the South and in Massachusetts in Tuesday’s Republican primaries, underscoring the breadth of his appeal.
Even as he accumulated commanding victories in seven states on Tuesday, Mr. Trump confronted a loud and persistent refusal to rally around him.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 2, 2016, covering March 2, 2016.
Adele
Justin Bieber
Rihanna
Joey + Rory
Chris Stapleton
2016Prince Oscar, Duke of Skåne[†]
Prince Oscar of Sweden, Duke of Skåne is the younger child and only son of Crown Princess Victoria and her husband, Prince Daniel. He is a grandson of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia and is third in the line of succession to the Swedish throne, after his mother and his sister, Princess Estelle.
2016Benoît Lacroix, Canadian priest, historian, and philosopher (born 1915)[†]
Benoît Lacroix was a Quebec theologian, philosopher, Dominican priest, professor in medieval studies and historian of the Medieval period, and author of almost 50 works and a great number of articles.
2016Aubrey McClendon, American businessman (born 1959)[†]
Aubrey Kerr McClendon was an American businessman primarily engaged in natural gas exploration. He was the co-founder, CEO and chairman of Chesapeake Energy, and, after being forced from the company due to a possible conflict of interest, he was the founder and chief executive officer of American Energy Partners, LP. He was an outspoken advocate for natural gas as an alternative to oil and coal fuels, and a pioneer in employing hydraulic fracturing.
In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]