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Conditions at the largest housing project for low-income seniors on the hurricane-ravaged island illustrate a health crisis for the most vulnerable.
Manning started at quarterback and the game was tied after three quarters, but Dallas exposed the injury-riddled Giants’ flaws and inexperience.
Artificial intelligence may make half of today’s jobs obsolete in 20 years. What careers will be left when our children grow up?
Manohla Dargis reviews two new books that examine the aesthetics and the business of comics, from Superman to R. Crumb.
Cullen Murphy recounts his coming-of-age among the elites of American illustration.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 6, 2017, covering December 11, 2017.
Taylor Swift
Tim McGraw & Faith Hill
Sam Smith
Garth Brooks
Pentatonix
2017Keith Chegwin, British TV presenter (born 1957)[†]
Keith Chegwin, also known by the nickname Cheggers, was an English television presenter and actor, appearing in several children's entertainment shows in the 1970s and 1980s, including Multi-Coloured Swap Shop and Cheggers Plays Pop.
2017New York City Subway bombing: A pipe bomb partially detonates in the New York City Subway, in the Times Square–42nd Street/Port Authority Bus Terminal. Four people are injured, including the perpetrator.[†]
On December 11, 2017, a pipe bomb partially detonated in a corridor between the Times Square–42nd Street and 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal subway stations adjoining the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, injuring four people including the bomber. Mayor Bill de Blasio described the incident as "an attempted terrorist attack". The bomber was identified by police as 27-year-old Akayed Ullah, a Salafi Muslim immigrant from Bangladesh; he was convicted in 2018 and sentenced to life in prison in 2021.
In 2017, the world population was approximately 7,645,617,954 people[†]