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The president ordered an investigation into steel imports, scoring a victory for his administration’s nationalists in a debate that remains far from settled.
Activists who pressured advertisers to pull out of “The O’Reilly Factor” are claiming victory after the Fox News star was dismissed from the network.
Critics of “The Ottoman Lieutenant” say it was aimed at undercutting another film, “The Promise,” by falsely painting the Armenian genocide as two-sided.
In this rose-colored revival of the 1964 war horse “Hello, Dolly!,” Bette Midler provides a dazzling lesson in star power.
In this love letter to the Bard’s “swag-bellied omnivorous cornucopia of appetites,” Harold Bloom argues for Falstaff as one of literature’s vital forces.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 19, 2017, covering April 21, 2017.
Drake
Ed Sheeran
Kodak Black
Bruno Mars
Soundtrack
2017Ugo Ehiogu, English footballer (born 1972)[†]
Ugochukwu Ehiogu was an English professional football coach and player who played as a centre-back from 1989 to 2009. After retiring, he became a record executive, jointly founding the successful record label, Dirty Hit. Ehiogu was the head coach of the Tottenham Hotspur under-23 team until his death in 2017.
In 2017, the world population was approximately 7,645,617,954 people[†]