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President Trumpâs threat was the latest volley in a dizzying trade dispute that has pitted the worldâs two largest economies against each other.
Jeff Sessions and Stephen Miller once shouted from the sidelines. Now theyâre the driving force behind the policy separating immigrant children from parents.
Rafael Marquez is at his fifth World Cup. But Treasury Department sanctions over what it says are ties to a drug trafficker have scared off sponsors and made for some careful planning.
In communities across the country, the billionaire conservatives are waging a sophisticated fight against new rail projects and bus routes.
President Trumpâs new policy requiring criminal prosecutions of migrants who illegally cross the border is flooding the court system with a new kind of defendant.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 13, 2018, covering June 19, 2018.
Kanye West
Post Malone
Ghost
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2018Koko, western lowland gorilla and user of American Sign Language (born 1971)[â ]
Hanabiko, nicknamed "Koko" was a female western lowland gorilla born in the San Francisco Zoo and cross-fostered by Francine Patterson for use in ape language experiments. Koko gained public attention as the subject of two National Geographic cover stories and, in 1985, the best-selling children's picture book, Koko's Kitten. Koko became the world's most famous representative of her critically endangered species.
2018The 10,000,000th United States Patent is issued.[â ]
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention. In most countries, patent rights fall under private law and the patent holder must sue someone infringing the patent in order to enforce their rights.
2018Antwon Rose II is fatally shot in East Pittsburgh by East Pittsburgh Police Officer Michael Rosfeld after being involved in a near-fatal drive-by shooting.[â ]
Antwon Rose II was a 17-year-old African-American who was fatally shot in East Pittsburgh on June 19, 2018, by police officer Michael Rosfeld after being suspected of attempted murder by participating in a drive-by shooting. According to the police report, Rose had an empty handgun magazine in his pocket and gunshot residue on his hand. Allegheny County Medical Examiner Daniel Wolfe said the residue was likely the result of Rose firing a gun. He was transported to UPMC where he was later declared deceased.
In 2018, the world population was approximately 7,729,902,781 people[â ]