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The president’s ouster, after months of turmoil over a corruption scandal, is expected to shift the country’s politics to the opposition on the left.
The director Sam Gold and his cast, led by an intrepid Sally Field, have deconstructed the Tennessee Williams classic. But don’t expect the pieces to be reassembled.
Education reform often skips over one of the best solutions for helping students. Chicago shows how it can be done.
The Republican health care bill sets income parameters that may — or may not — look like a useful benchmark, depending on your perspective.
The economy added 235,000 jobs and unemployment fell to 4.7 percent in the first full month of President Trump’s term, continuing an upturn in the labor market.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 8, 2017, covering March 10, 2017.
Future
Bruno Mars
Soundtrack
The Weeknd
Migos
2017The impeachment of President Park Geun-hye of South Korea in response to a major political scandal is unanimously upheld by the country's Constitutional Court, ending her presidency.[†]
On 9 December 2016, Park Geun-hye, the president of South Korea, was impeached as the culmination of a political scandal involving interventions to the presidency from her aide, Choi Soon-sil. 234 members of the 300-member National Assembly voted to impeach and temporarily suspend Park's presidential powers and duties. This exceeded the required two-thirds threshold in the National Assembly and, although the vote was by secret ballot, the results indicated that more than half of the 128 lawmakers in Park's party Saenuri had supported her impeachment. Thus, Hwang Kyo-ahn, then Prime Minister of South Korea, became acting president while the Constitutional Court of Korea was due to determine whether to accept the impeachment. The court upheld the impeachment in a unanimous 8–0 decision on 10 March 2017, removing Park from office. The regularly scheduled presidential election was advanced to 9 May 2017, and Moon Jae-in, former leader of the Democratic Party, who Park had narrowly defeated in the 2012 presidential election, was elected as Park's permanent successor.
In 2017, the world population was approximately 7,645,617,954 people[†]