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A sweeping challenge to the Trump administration’s “America First” policies could add to tensions already frayed by Nafta negotiations.
President Trump’s suggestion that Congress revive the old practice of salting spending bills with lawmaker pet projects has revived a simmering debate.
The most immediate fear: A sharp falloff in bond prices would rattle equity markets that are now trading at record highs.
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants are watching anxiously as judges and lawmakers jockey over policy.
Mark Wahlberg received $1.5 million for reshoots of the kidnapping drama after it cut out the disgraced Spacey. Michelle Williams got just a small per diem.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 10, 2018, covering January 11, 2018.
Soundtrack
Ed Sheeran
Taylor Swift
G-Eazy
Kendrick Lamar
2018Edgar Ray Killen, American murderer (born 1925)[†]
Edgar Ray Killen was an American Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights activists participating in the Freedom Summer of 1964. He was found guilty in state court of three counts of manslaughter on June 21, 2005, the forty-first anniversary of the crime, and sentenced to 60 years in prison. He appealed the verdict, but the sentence was upheld on April 12, 2007, by the Supreme Court of Mississippi. He died in prison on January 11, 2018, at age 93.
In 2018, the world population was approximately 7,729,902,781 people[†]