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African-Americans around the country say they are counting down the last 10 months of President Obama’s term with pride, sadness and a looming despair.
In an election year, the only real “October surprise” from Hollywood would be a complete political blackout. But don’t worry. It won’t happen.
The drug maker, which made big profits by raising the price of old drugs, is now talking about investing in research and paying down debt as its stock price slumps.
The challenge is to forge consensus among Federal Reserve officials about when to resume the march begun in December, when the central bank raised rates for the first time since the financial crisis.
As Mr. Cosby faces lawsuits from women, he has turned to his insurer, American International Group, which has challenged his claims.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 9, 2016, covering March 13, 2016.
Adele
Rihanna
Justin Bieber
Yo Gotti
Chris Stapleton
2016Hilary Putnam, American philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist (born 1926)[†]
Hilary Whitehall Putnam was an American philosopher, mathematician, computer scientist, and figure in analytic philosophy in the second half of the 20th century. He contributed to the studies of philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of science. Outside philosophy, Putnam contributed to mathematics and computer science. Together with Martin Davis he developed the Davis–Putnam algorithm for the Boolean satisfiability problem and he helped demonstrate the unsolvability of Hilbert's tenth problem.
2016Three gunmen attack two hotels in the Ivory Coast town of Grand-Bassam, killing at least 19 people.[†]
On 13 March 2016, three Islamist gunmen opened fire at a beach resort in Grand-Bassam, Ivory Coast, killing at least 19 people and injuring 33 others.
In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]