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The fight over President Trump’s vulgar comment is exposing divisions in both parties, raising the risk of a government shutdown with unknown political consequences.
The Trump administration says its actions show the price of employing workers illegally, a message being felt keenly among the workers themselves.
The Supreme Court will decide whether Larry English violated his client’s constitutional rights by telling the jury the man killed three people.
The Senate is poised to approve significant changes to the post-crisis financial law. Some moderate Democrats are supporting the effort, even as their progressive colleagues warn that it’s too risky.
GAC Motor said it planned to bring an S.U.V. to the United States in 2019. It may use Fiat Chrysler dealerships hungry for new models.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 10, 2018, covering January 16, 2018.
Soundtrack
Ed Sheeran
Taylor Swift
G-Eazy
Kendrick Lamar
2018Ed Doolan, British radio presenter (born 1941)[†]
Edwin Myer Doolan MBE was an Australian born naturalised British radio presenter who was a veteran of Birmingham's first commercial radio station BRMB, and subsequently the BBC. At the BBC he presented a weekly show trawling through his broadcast archives from noon until 1 pm on BBC Radio WM on Sunday lunchtime. He was honoured by the British Radio Academy, earning a place in the Radio Hall of Fame. He was presented with Honorary Doctorates from Birmingham's three universities and was the first person to have ever achieved that honour.
2018Oliver Ivanović, Kosovo Serb politician (born 1953)[†]
Oliver Ivanović was a Kosovo Serb politician.
2018Myanmar police open fire on a group of ethnic Rakhine protesters, killing seven and wounding twelve.[†]
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also referred to as Burma, is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by India and Bangladesh to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest. The country's capital city is Naypyidaw, and its largest city is Yangon.
In 2018, the world population was approximately 7,729,902,781 people[†]