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While other tech companies rise and fall with consumer tastes, Google’s parent has been consistent in generating huge earnings.
The White House is drafting a presidential directive seeking an aggressive plan that could include American artillery and attack helicopters in action in Syria.
The cancellation of his trip to the United States ended months of diplomacy for a leader caught between his people and an unpredictable, and at times hostile, American president.
Pierre Corneille’s 1644 comedy follows the misadventures of a pathological teller of falsehoods, and his compulsively honest servant.
For African-American strivers, hypertension and other health problems may be linked to racism, not race.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 25, 2017, covering January 27, 2017.
The Weeknd
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Bruno Mars
J. Cole
2017Emmanuelle Riva, French actress (born 1927)[†]
Emmanuelle Riva was a French actress, best known for her roles in the films Hiroshima mon amour (1959) and Amour (2012).
2017Arthur H. Rosenfeld, American physicist (born 1926)[†]
Arthur Hinton Rosenfeld was a University of California, Berkeley physicist and California energy commissioner, dubbed the "Godfather of Energy Efficiency", for developing new standards which helped improve energy efficiency in California and subsequently worldwide.
2017A naming ceremony for the chemical element tennessine takes place in the United States.[†]
Tennessine is a synthetic element; it has symbol Ts and atomic number 117. It has the second-highest atomic number, the joint-highest atomic mass of all known elements, and is the penultimate element of the 7th period of the periodic table. It is named after the U.S. state of Tennessee, where key research institutions involved in its discovery are located.
In 2017, the world population was approximately 7,645,617,954 people[†]