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This could be the first season in major league history to feature more strikeouts than hits, a slowdown that worries many league officials.
Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader, is confronting threats from different corners of her party, and attacks from Republicans, in a test of her grip on her caucus.
Yoking her formidable vocal powers to a brilliant sense of self-presentation, Ms. Franklin made herself a model of empowerment and pride.
In pop culture, witchcraft has emerged as a free-spirited expression of feminism and self-affirmation. But itâs also a religion to dozens of covens around New York.
About 1,400 of the internet companyâs employees have signed a letter demanding transparency, saying censored search results raise âurgent moral and ethical issues.â
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 15, 2018, covering August 16, 2018.
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2018Aretha Franklin, American singer-songwriter (born 1942)[â ]
Aretha Louise Franklin was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Honored as the "Queen of Soul", she was twice named by Rolling Stone magazine as the greatest singer of all time.
2018Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Indian poet and 12th Prime Minister of India (born 1924)[â ]
Atal Bihari Vajpayee was an Indian poet, writer and statesman who served as the prime minister of India, first for a term of 13Â days in 1996, then for a period of 13Â months from 1998 to 1999, followed by a full term from 1999 to 2004. He was the first non-Congress prime minister to serve a full term in the office. Vajpayee was one of the co-founders and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a far-right Hindu nationalist paramilitary volunteer organisation. He was also a Hindi poet and a writer.
2018Wakako Yamauchi, American-Japanese writer (born 1924)[â ]
Wakako Yamauchi was a Japanese American playwright and short story writer. Her plays are considered pioneering works in Asian-American theater.
In 2018, the world population was approximately 7,729,902,781 people[â ]