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The 2020 race for the White House is already unfolding in the Capitol, with no fewer than six Democratic senators angling for their party’s nomination.
For the White House, the budding détente scrambles its strategy of pressuring the North, with sanctions and threats of military action, to give up its nuclear arsenal.
Officials hoped it would help solve the mystery of the deaths of C.I.A. informants. Five years later, an arrest has been made but the mystery remains.
Ben Sinclair is nothing like the freewheeling dealer he portrays in “High Maintenance.” Except he smokes pot, drives an R.V. and parted ways with his wife (who co-created the show).
A group of large hospital systems plans to create a nonprofit generic drug company to battle shortages and high prices.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 17, 2018, covering January 18, 2018.
Soundtrack
Ed Sheeran
G-Eazy
Bruno Mars
Post Malone
2018A bus catches fire on the Samara–Shymkent road in Yrgyz District, Aktobe, Kazakhstan. The fire kills 52 passengers, with three passengers and two drivers escaping.[†]
Samara, formerly known as Kuybyshev (1935–1991), is the largest city and administrative centre of Samara Oblast in Russia. The city is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Samara rivers, with a population of over 1.14 million residents, up to 1.22 million residents in the urban agglomeration, not including Novokuybyshevsk, which is not conurbated. The city covers an area of 541.4 square kilometers (209.0 sq mi), and is the eighth-largest city in Russia and tenth agglomeration, the third-most populous city on the Volga, as well as the Volga Federal District.
In 2018, the world population was approximately 7,729,902,781 people[†]