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In 2018, the world population was approximately 7,729,902,781 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 27, 2017, covering January 1, 2018.
Luke Bryan
Taylor Swift
Ed Sheeran
Pentatonix
Various Artists
Big Sean & Metro Boomin
Chris Stapleton
Sam Smith
Michael Buble
Post Malone
2018Robert Mann, American violinist (born 1920)[†]
Robert Nathaniel Mann was a violinist, composer, conductor, and founding member of the Juilliard String Quartet, as well as a faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music. Mann, the first violinist at Juilliard, served on the school's string quartet for over fifty years until his retirement in 1997.
2018Jon Paul Steuer, American actor (born 1984)[†]
Jon Paul Steuer was an American actor and musician, best known for being the first actor to play Alexander Rozhenko in Star Trek: The Next Generation and for being the first actor to regularly portray Quentin Kelly on the ABC show Grace Under Fire. He was also well known for playing Johnny "Viper" Vennaro in the 1994 children's comedy film Little Giants. After spending several years as a musician, Steuer entered the culinary industry and owned his own restaurant in Portland, Oregon.
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Families have turned the side of a warehouse facing a federal jail in Brooklyn into a message board for their imprisoned relatives.
At Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center, doctors and nurses said, hospital administrators reject high-risk patients in pursuit of a higher score.
Suddenly trendy again, astrology checks several boxes for viral-happy content: It provides an easy framework for personalized material, speaks to young women and accesses ’90s nostalgia.
In a wilderness of frozen desert, China and Kazakhstan are reviving a Silk Road land bridge between Asia and Europe, reshaping trade and geopolitics.
Shonda Rhimes and Reese Witherspoon are among the 300 actresses and insiders behind Time’s Up, an initiative for legal protections for workers nationwide.
North Korea’s surprising call for dialogue with the South may undercut the Trump administration’s tough approach.
The stakes were high and the cancellations many. What the Met delivered was fine singing in a traditional-looking, scrupulously inoffensive production.
The rallies are the biggest in years, and are breaking out in areas once reliably loyal to the government.
Rupert Murdoch’s decision to sell most of 21st Century Fox has many wondering what the future holds for him and the two sons who seemed on the cusp of taking over his vast empire.
Experts in the study of fungi are playing a bigger role in improving laundry detergents and, by extension, leading efforts to cut energy use.
Government officials warn that software from Kaspersky Lab could be subverted by Russian intelligence. A security researcher shows how it could be done.
The administration’s campaign to reduce regulation has improved the mood of business executives. They may be spending more money as a result.