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Widespread power losses and localized flooding caused by the hurricane threatened to bedevil the state for days, if not weeks, to come.
Eliminating price controls can increase the available supply of essential goods, the argument goes, and help prevent a black market.
The Florida Keys, which took some of Hurricane Irma’s hardest blows Sunday and Monday, were a random mix of buildings unscathed and others battered or ruined.
Mike Cagney, a co-founder of Social Finance, is stepping down as chief executive and chairman after sexual harassment claims at the start-up.
Clinton’s account of the 2016 election is part post-mortem, part feminist manifesto and part score-settling jubilee.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 6, 2017, covering September 12, 2017.
Brand New
Kodak Black
Kendrick Lamar
Neck Deep
Kesha
2017Allan MacEachen, Canadian economist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (born 1921)[†]
Allan Joseph MacEachen was a Canadian politician and statesman who served as a senator and several times as a Cabinet minister. He was the first deputy prime minister of Canada and served from 1977 to 1979 and 1980 to 1984.
2017Edith Windsor, American LGBT rights activist and technology manager at IBM (born 1929)[†]
Edith Windsor was an American LGBT rights activist and a technology manager at IBM. She was the lead plaintiff in the 2013 Supreme Court of the United States case United States v. Windsor, which overturned Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act and was considered a landmark legal victory for the same-sex marriage movement in the United States. The Obama administration and federal agencies extended rights, privileges and benefits to married same-sex couples because of the decision.
In 2017, the world population was approximately 7,645,617,954 people[†]