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Mr. Trump, his advisers and many supporters are seizing on emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign that WikiLeaks has been publishing.
Jonathan Lethem’s “A Gambler’s Anatomy” features high-stakes backgammon, murky conspiracies, and a not-quite-hard-boiled hero and the shady women he finds irresistible.
The swift decline of one of the nation’s busiest commuter railroads is a story of failures and mismanagement, and ominous for mass transit systems across the country.
The demand for people who are practiced in dessert-making is increasing, but the wages of pastry chefs have not kept pace. Restaurants are hiring dessert makers they can train.
Low crude prices and the war in Yemen have sent a shock through the kingdom’s budget and forced it to revise its social contract even as it seeks to diversify its businesses.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 12, 2016, covering October 13, 2016.
Shawn Mendes
Drake
Soundtrack
Luke Bryan
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
2016Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX), King of Thailand (born 1927)[†]
Bhumibol Adulyadej, titled Rama IX, was King of Thailand from 1946 until his death in 2016. His reign of 70 years and 126 days is the longest of any Thai monarch, the longest on record of any independent Asian sovereign, and the third-longest of any sovereign state.
2016Dario Fo, Italian playwright, actor, director, and composer Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)[†]
Dario Luigi Angelo Fo was an Italian playwright, actor, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, political campaigner for the Italian left wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. In his time he was "arguably the most widely performed contemporary playwright in world theatre". Much of his dramatic work depends on improvisation and comprises the recovery of "illegitimate" forms of theatre, such as those performed by giullari and, more famously, the ancient Italian style of commedia dell'arte.
2016Jim Prentice, Canadian lawyer and politician, 16th Premier of Alberta (born 1956)[†]
Peter Eric James Prentice was a Canadian politician who served as the 16th premier of Alberta from 2014 to 2015. In the 2004 federal election he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a candidate of the Conservative Party of Canada. He was re-elected in the 2006 federal election and appointed to the cabinet as Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians. Prentice was appointed Minister of Industry on August 14, 2007, and after the 2008 election became Minister of Environment on October 30, 2008. On November 4, 2010, Prentice announced his resignation from cabinet and as MP for Calgary Centre-North. After retiring from federal politics he entered the private sector as vice-chairman of CIBC.
2016The Maldives announces its decision to withdraw from the Commonwealth of Nations.[†]
The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is an archipelagic country in South Asia located in the Indian Ocean. The Maldives is southwest of Sri Lanka and India, about 750 kilometres from the Asian continent's mainland. The Maldives' chain of 26 atolls stretches across the equator from Ihavandhippolhu Atoll in the north to Addu Atoll in the south.
In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]