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People fled inland or barricaded themselves in their homes on Thursday to escape what could be dangerous flooding, blackouts and 140-mile-per-hour winds.
Harold T. Martin III, described by his ex-wife as a hoarder, broke rules by taking home top-secret material, officials said, but they struggled to connect him to leaked documents.
An old chestnut, tweaked for the stage, resurrects Bing Crosby and company in an Irving Berlin musical.
After years of failing to generate economic growth by cutting government spending, Europe is reassessing austerity.
Jessica White died shielding her children from gunfire on a Bronx playground in June. Few witnesses have emerged, frustrating overworked detectives, and her killer eluded the police.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 5, 2016, covering October 7, 2016.
Drake
Mac Miller
Soundtrack
Aaron Lewis
Usher
2016Ross Higgins, Australian actor, comedian (born 1930)[†]
Ross Higgins was an Australian vaudevillian, character actor, television host, comedian, singer and voice actor. He was best known for his role as Ted Bullpitt in the 1980s television situation comedy series Kingswood Country and brief revival Bullpitt!. He was also a commercial advertiser who provided the voice of animated character "Louie the Fly" in the television ad campaign for Mortein, over a 50-year period as well as Mr. Pound, when decimal currency was first introduced in Australia.
2016In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, the death toll rises to over 800.[†]
Hurricane Matthew was a powerful tropical cyclone which caused catastrophic damage and a humanitarian crisis in Haiti, as well as widespread devastation in the southeastern United States. The deadliest Atlantic hurricane since Hurricane Stan in 2005, and the first Category 5 Atlantic hurricane since Felix in 2007, Matthew was the thirteenth named storm, fifth hurricane and second major hurricane of the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season. It caused extensive damage to landmasses in the Greater Antilles, and severe damage in several islands of the Bahamas which were still recovering from Joaquin, which had pounded the archipelago nearly a year earlier. Matthew also approached the southeastern United States, but stayed just offshore, paralleling the Florida coastline.
In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]