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A move by several New York district attorneys to dismiss years-old summonses was the latest effort in the city to reduce the number of people tried for nonviolent crimes.
A bitter party leadership fight in the bluest of blue states signals the challenges Democrats face as they debate how to seize back power nationally.
Plans announced by the worldâs largest media company to start two Netflix-style services instantly reverberated through the entertainment industry.
A luxury menâs wear brand favored by oligarchs and oil scions is taking its $2,000 crocodile-skin baseball caps to new stores in Miami and Las Vegas.
The director admits to âshooting my mouth off,â but he was genuinely fed up with prestige filmmaking. The caper âLogan Luckyâ is his bid for a new way forward.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 9, 2017, covering August 10, 2017.
Lana Del Rey
Tyler| the Creator
Meek Mill
Linkin Park
Kendrick Lamar
2017Ruth Pfau, German-Pakistani doctor and nun (born 1929)[â ]
Ruth Katherina Martha Pfau, FCM was a GermanâPakistani Catholic Christian religious sister and physician who was a member of the "Society of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary". She emigrated from Germany in 1961 and devoted more than 55 years of her life to fighting leprosy in Pakistan. Pfau was honoured with Hilal-e-Pakistan, Hilal-i-Imtiaz, Nishan-i-Quaid-i-Azam, and the Sitara-i-Quaid-i-Azam awards.
In 2017, the world population was approximately 7,645,617,954 people[â ]