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At “Woodstock for Capitalists,” Mr. Buffett cautioned against killing “the golden goose,” saying instead that we “need to make more eggs.”
Declan Walsh provides an on-the-ground report from Syria’s capital, where residents, spared the worst of the violence, respond to a seemingly interminable war with skepticism and dark humor.
The Justice Department said Monday that with few alternatives available, thousands of people were held unnecessarily in highly restrictive group homes.
Mr. Trump appears poised for a victory there that would put him on track to seal the Republican nomination as polls give him a clear advantage.
A $48 million grant for Isle de Jean Charles, La., is the first allocation of federal tax dollars to move an entire community struggling with the effects of climate change.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 27, 2016, covering May 3, 2016.
The Lumineers
Deftones
Chris Stapleton
Kanye West
Rihanna
2016Ian Deans, Canadian politician (born 1937)[†]
Ian Deans was a Scottish-Canadian politician. He was a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1967 to 1979 and was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1980 to 1986.
2016Jadranka Stojaković, Yugoslav singer-songwriter (born 1950)[†]
Jadranka Stojaković was a Bosnian singer-songwriter popular in the former Yugoslavia, known for her unique voice. Her best known hits are "Sve smo mogli mi", "Što te nema", and "Bistre vode Bosnom teku".
2016Eighty-eight thousand people are evacuated from their homes in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada as a wildfire rips through the community, destroying approximately 2,400 homes and buildings.[†]
Fort McMurray is an urban service area in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in Alberta, Canada. It is located in northeast Alberta, in the middle of the Athabasca oil sands, surrounded by boreal forest. It has played a significant role in the development of the national petroleum industry. The 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire led to the evacuation of its residents and caused widespread damage.
In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]