On this day
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Buoyed by the success of car- and bike-sharing companies and fueled with cash, Chinese start-ups are entering what some see as a sharing bubble.
It is unclear how Jared Kushner’s high-profile woes will affect his hard-won partnership with his father-in-law, perhaps the most stable in an often unstable White House.
Freelance agitators promote Russia’s agenda abroad, getting their backing from tycoons and others, not the state itself.
The North has recently test-fired missiles based on a technology that would give the United States little warning of an attack. And they seem to work.
Nello Ferrara was being groomed to take the reins of a famed confectioner, but chose to cobble together a decade-long career with 19 minor league teams.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 24, 2017, covering May 29, 2017.
Logic
Chris Stapleton
Kendrick Lamar
Soundtrack
Drake
2017Manuel Noriega, Panamanian general and politician, Military Leader of Panama (born 1934)[†]
Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno was a Panamanian dictator and military officer who was the de facto ruler of Panama from 1983 to 1989. He never officially served as president of Panama, instead ruling as an unelected military dictator through puppet presidents. Amassing a personal fortune through drug trafficking operations by the Panamanian military, Noriega had longstanding ties with American intelligence agencies before the U.S. invasion of Panama removed him from power.
2017Mordechai Tzipori, Israeli Lieutenant General and minister (born 1924)[†]
Mordechai Tzipori was an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Communications from 1981 until 1984.
2017Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Greek politician and prime minister (born 1918)[†]
Konstantinos Mitsotakis was a Greek politician who was Prime Minister of Greece from 1990 to 1993. He graduated in law and economics from the University of Athens. His son, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, was elected as the Prime Minister of Greece following the 2019 Greek legislative election.
In 2017, the world population was approximately 7,645,617,954 people[†]