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The office of the United States attorney for the Southern District, which is overseeing the Michael Cohen investigation, is known for nonpartisanship.
Lynn Nottage’s beautiful, reverberating portrait of a murder and its consequences follows the global path of illicitly obtained ivory.
Female-only audiences, no social media — but as one observer said, “Women here have been waiting for years for a time to shine.”
Since apartheid ended, African National Congress leaders have siphoned off tens of billions of dollars. Will South Africa’s new government confront such epic graft?
The Mets starter Jacob deGrom strikes a contrast in physique and habits with his fellow starter, the muscular and health-conscious Noah Syndergaard, known as Thor.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 11, 2018, covering April 16, 2018.
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Rich The Kid
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Kacey Musgraves
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2018Harry Anderson, American actor and magician (born 1952)[†]
Harry Laverne Anderson was an American actor, comedian and magician. He is best known for his role as Judge Harry Stone on the NBC sitcom Night Court (1984–1992). He later played Dave Barry on the CBS sitcom Dave's World (1993–1997).
2018The New York Times and the New Yorker win the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for breaking news of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse scandal.[†]
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. The New York Times covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the Times serves as one of the country's newspapers of record. As of August 2025, The New York Times had 11.88 million total and 11.3 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 580,000 print subscribers. The New York Times is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publisher is A. G. Sulzberger. The Times is headquartered at The New York Times Building in Midtown Manhattan.
In 2018, the world population was approximately 7,729,902,781 people[†]