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The Trump administration is preparing to redirect resources of the civil rights division toward investigating and suing universities deemed to have discriminated against whites, a document says.
Wall Street hit a new threshold as money continued to flow into stocks and exchange-traded funds. But the dollar’s fall has been a near-mirror image.
Corey Lewandowski, the president’s first campaign manager, enjoys frequent access to the Trump White House and is building a roster of clients with major interests before it.
As the Trump administration tightens immigration, governments around the world are stepping up their efforts to lure talent and capital away from the United States.
For the author, an amusement-park trip as a young girl led to a ride on the Spook-a-Rama and later to a prized Diane Arbus photo of the same ride.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 2, 2017, covering August 2, 2017.
Jay-Z
Kendrick Lamar
French Montana
DJ Khaled
21 Savage
2017Judith Jones, American literary and cookbook editor (born 1924)[†]
Judith Jones was an American writer and editor, initially known for having rescued The Diary of Anne Frank from the reject pile. Jones is also known as the editor who championed Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. She retired as senior editor and vice president at Alfred A. Knopf in 2011 and fully retired in 2013 after more than 60 years at the company.
In 2017, the world population was approximately 7,645,617,954 people[†]