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The growing divide between California and President Trump erupted this week, over marijuana, immigration, taxes and the environment.
Nearly a year after the president took office, the world is still figuring out whether to take his fiery words as policy pronouncements, or to simply ignore them.
“Three Billboards” and “Lady Bird” won the top movie awards at the Golden Globes. But it was the #MeToo movement, and Oprah Winfrey’s rousing speech, that defined the moment.
An Israeli insurance company’s previously undisclosed $30 million investment in Jared Kushner’s family company could fuel the perception of conflicts of interest.
Stephen K. Bannon, who is quoted in a new book calling Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with Russians in 2016 “treasonous,” said that Mr. Trump was “both a patriot and a good man.”
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 3, 2018, covering January 7, 2018.
Eminem
Taylor Swift
G-Eazy
Ed Sheeran
Pentatonix
2018Jim Anderton, Former New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister (born 1938)[†]
James Patrick Anderton was a New Zealand politician who led a succession of left-wing parties after leaving the Labour Party in 1989.
2018France Gall, French singer (born 1947)[†]
Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne Gall, known professionally as France Gall, was a French yé-yé singer. In 1965, at the age of 17, she won the tenth edition of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Poupée de cire, poupée de son", representing Luxembourg. Later in her career, she worked with singer-songwriter Michel Berger, whom she married in 1976. Her most successful singles include "Résiste", "Ella, elle l'a" and "Évidemment".
In 2018, the world population was approximately 7,729,902,781 people[†]