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President Trump and Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat harshly critical of Wall Street, may both favor separating retail and investment banking.
Advertisers are in the cross hairs of populist activists, aided by social media, who are demanding that brands quickly take positions on issues.
The escalating feud between the chief White House strategist and the president’s son-in-law reflects a larger struggle to guide the direction of the Trump presidency.
Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole find the human factor in a repetitive musical about battling cosmetics magnates.
Some New Yorkers earn enough as hosts to quit their day jobs and plan for retirement.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 5, 2017, covering April 7, 2017.
Drake
Ed Sheeran
Rick Ross
Soundtrack
Depeche Mode
2017Nicolae Șerban Tanașoca, Romanian historian and philologist (born 1941)[†]
Nicolae Șerban Tanașoca was a Romanian historian and philologist. An ethnic Aromanian, he specialized in the study of classical philology, Byzantine and Ottoman studies and cultures of the Balkans, including the Aromanians.
2017A man deliberately drives a hijacked truck into a crowd of people in Stockholm, Sweden, killing five people and injuring fifteen others.[†]
On 7 April 2017, a vehicle-ramming terrorist attack took place in central Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. A hijacked truck was deliberately driven into crowds along Drottninggatan before being crashed into an Åhléns department store. Five people were killed and 14 others were seriously injured.
2017U.S. President Donald Trump orders the 2017 Shayrat missile strike against Syria in retaliation for the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack.[†]
Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021.
In 2017, the world population was approximately 7,645,617,954 people[†]