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The president-elect is said to be considering turning over his company to his two adult sons, but planning to resist calls to divest.
This play at the Public Theater, based on Cheryl Strayed’s book, is a handkerchief-soaking meditation on pain, loss, hope and forgiveness.
Countries that have been binging on cheap dollar debt for more than a decade now face a spike in debt servicing costs and elevated debt burdens.
After becoming an efficient industry with deep links to the Continent, it must grapple with the impact of the country’s vote to leave the European Union.
Next year we are all going green, according to the Pantone Color Institute. Here’s why.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 7, 2016, covering December 8, 2016.
Metallica
Bruno Mars
Miranda Lambert
Pentatonix
A Tribe Called Quest
2016John Glenn, American astronaut and senator, first American to go into orbit (born 1921)[†]
John Herschel Glenn Jr. was an American Marine Corps aviator, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the third American in space and the first to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. Following his retirement from NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a U.S. Senator from Ohio; in 1998, he flew into space again at the age of 77.
In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]