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Investigators in Manhattan seized the mosaic from the home of a collector, asserting that it had been looted from Italy decades ago.
A month after Hurricane Maria knocked out power, 80 percent of Puerto Rico remains without electricity. And progress is slow.
Portraying mother and son in a fierce revival of Harvey Fierstein’s comedy, Mercedes Ruehl and Michael Urie are in peak form.
A gruesome crime in Guyana has threatened a tightly knit immigrant community in Queens, pitting Hindu against Muslim, rich against poor, and cousin against cousin.
New bipartisan bills are aimed at forcing colleges to clear up a murky, confusing system so that prospective students understand the options.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 18, 2017, covering October 20, 2017.
Shania Twain
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Demi Lovato
A Boogie wit da Hoodie
Miley Cyrus
2017Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) declare victory in the Raqqa campaign.[†]
The Syrian civil war began with the Syrian revolution in March 2011, when popular discontent with the Ba'athist regime ruled by Bashar al-Assad triggered large-scale protests and pro-democracy rallies across Syria, as part of the wider Arab Spring. The Assad regime responded to the protests with lethal force, sparking a civil war. The Syrian revolution lasted almost 14 years and culminated in the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024. Many sources regard this as the end of the civil war.
In 2017, the world population was approximately 7,645,617,954 people[†]