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Macyâs and Sears have recently announced numerous closings, reflecting a climate in which online and discount retailers have outmaneuvered them.
Data suggests many of the nationâs economic fundamentals are solid, and economists say the president-electâs agenda wonât alter the more worrisome trend lines.
This soprano discusses how she prepared for the role of the doomed protagonist in what was âprobably the most rigorous routineâ of her professional life.
The âmom in chiefâ charmed late-night hosts and hula-hooped with kids, but she wasnât her full self in public.
Average hourly earnings rose by 2.9 percent last year, the best performance since the recession, even as job growth tapered off in December.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 4, 2017, covering January 6, 2017.
Pentatonix
Bruno Mars
The Weeknd
J. Cole
Pentatonix
2017Octavio Lepage, Venezuelan politician, President of Venezuela (born 1923)[â ]
Octavio Lepage Barreto was a Venezuelan politician who served as the acting president of Venezuela from 21 May 1993 to 5 June 1993.
2017Om Puri, Indian actor (born 1950)[â ]
Om Prakash Puri, was an Indian actor who appeared in mainstream commercial Hindi films as well as Urdu, Malayalam, Bengali, Kannada, English, Punjabi, Gujarati, Telugu, and Marathi films, as well as independent and art films and also starred in several international cinema. He is widely regarded as one of the finest actors in world cinema. He won two National Film Awards for Best Actor, two Filmfare Awards and India's fourth highest civilian award Padma Shri in 1990. In 2004, he was made an honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
2017Five people are killed and six others injured in a mass shooting at Fort LauderdaleâHollywood International Airport in Broward County, Florida.[â ]
On January 6, 2017, a mass shooting occurred at Fort LauderdaleâHollywood International Airport in Broward County, Florida, United States, near the baggage claim in Terminal 2. Five people were killed while six others were injured in the shooting. About 36 people sustained injuries in the ensuing panic. Esteban Santiago-Ruiz, who flew in to the airport from Alaska and committed the shooting with a Walther PPS 9mm semi-automatic pistol, was taken into custody by a Broward County Sheriff's Office (BSO) deputy within 85 seconds after he started shooting. The shooting from start to finish lasted 70â80 seconds. Santiago was later diagnosed with schizophrenia and pleaded guilty to avoid possible execution. On August 17, 2018, Santiago was sentenced to five consecutive life sentences plus 120 years in prison.
In 2017, the world population was approximately 7,645,617,954 people[â ]