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A long list of administrators at the prestigious boarding school kept sexual abuse under wraps and did not report accusations as the law required.
Speaking to local reporters he had avoided since September, Jackson, the team’s president for three seasons, said the Knicks were still several years away from being a contender.
Bill O’Reilly’s response to complaints about sexual harassment at Fox News prompted Ms. Kelly, a rising star at the network, to send an angry email to top executives. She later jumped to NBC.
The profound reordering of New York’s shopping scene reflects a broad restructuring in the American retail industry.
A mountain of evidence has been compiled against Syrian officials for war crimes from torture to summary killings. But there is no clear path to justice.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 12, 2017, covering April 15, 2017.
Drake
Ed Sheeran
Trey Songz
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Metallica
2017Clifton James, American actor (born 1920)[†]
George Clifton James was an American actor known for roles as a prison floorwalker in Cool Hand Luke (1967), Sheriff J.W. Pepper alongside Roger Moore in the James Bond films Live and Let Die (1973) and The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), the sheriff in Silver Streak (1976), a Texas tycoon in The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977), and the owner of the scandalous 1919 Chicago White Sox baseball team in Eight Men Out (1988).
2017Emma Morano, Italian supercentenarian, last person verified born in the 1800s (born 1899)[†]
Emma Martina Luigia Morano was an Italian supercentenarian. She was the world's oldest living person from 13 May 2016 until her death on 15 April 2017, aged 117 years and 137 days. She was also the last living person verified to have been born in the 1800s. She remains the oldest Italian person ever to be documented and the fourth-oldest European ever.
In 2017, the world population was approximately 7,645,617,954 people[†]