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Heavy rainfall from Tropical Storm Harvey has paralyzed the nation’s fourth-largest city. Five are dead; officials fear more trouble with more rain.
Zverev, 20, the product of a tennis-playing family, is one of the top four seeds for the United States Open.
In “Notes on a Foreign Country,” Suzy Hansen argues that “Americans were in active denial of their empire even as they laid its foundations.”
Houston’s world-renowned health care infrastructure found itself battered by Hurricane Harvey, testing whether officials had done enough to prepare.
For the first time in her career, Ms. Caldwell will perform as an openly transgender woman, in a part that tracks closely with her own life.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 23, 2017, covering August 28, 2017.
Kendrick Lamar
Brett Eldredge
DJ Khaled
Meek Mill
Various Artists
2017Mireille Darc, French actress and model (born 1938)[†]
Mireille Darc was a French actress, director, photographer, singer and model. She appeared as a lead character in Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film Weekend. Darc was a Knight of the Legion of Honour and Commander of the National Order of Merit. Alain Delon was her longtime co-star and companion.
2017China–India border standoff: China and India both pull their troops out of Doklam, putting an end to a two-month-long stalemate over China's construction of a road in disputed territory.[†]
The 2017 China–India border standoff or Doklam standoff was a military border standoff between the Indian Armed Forces and the People's Liberation Army of China over Chinese construction of a road in Doklam, near a trijunction border area known in Chinese as Donglang, or Donglang Caochang . On 16 June 2017 Chinese troops with construction vehicles and road-building equipment began extending an existing road southward in Doklam, a territory that is claimed by both China and India's ally Bhutan.
In 2017, the world population was approximately 7,645,617,954 people[†]