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A two-touchdown, 180-yard performance from Bo Scarbrough, a relatively unheralded running back, left the Crimson Tide one win from a second straight championship.
The attack on Sunday, which killed at least 39 people, targeted a symbol of a cosmopolitan Istanbul that is increasingly under threat.
The most powerful and ambitious Republican-led Congress in 20 years plans quick action on several priorities — most notably to clear a path for the repeal of President Obama’s health care law.
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The New Year attack reinforces a sense that this nightmare is Turkey’s new reality.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 28, 2016, covering January 1, 2017.
J. Cole
Pentatonix
The Weeknd
Bruno Mars
Pentatonix
2017Tony Atkinson, British economist (born 1944)[†]
Sir Anthony Barnes Atkinson was a British economist, Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, and senior research fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.
2017Yvon Dupuis, Canadian politician (born 1926)[†]
Yvon Dupuis, was a Canadian politician.
2017An attack on a nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey, during New Year's celebrations, kills 39 people and injures 79 others.[†]
The Istanbul nightclub shooting was a mass shooting incident on 1 January 2017 around 01:15 local time, in which a terrorist shot and killed 39 people and wounded 79 others at the Reina nightclub in the Ortaköy neighbourhood of Istanbul, Turkey, where hundreds had been celebrating New Year's Day. Uzbekistan-born Abdulkadir Masharipov was arrested in Istanbul on 17 January 2017. Islamic State claimed credit for his actions. The first hearing in the trial of Masharipov and 51 accused accomplices was held on 11 December 2017, and the next hearing was held on 26 March 2018.
In 2017, the world population was approximately 7,645,617,954 people[†]