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With Mr. Gillum’s upset victory, the governor’s race will feature two young, hard-charging politicians who represent the beating heart of their parties.
The legislation comes on top of an earlier move requiring the state to generate 50 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò wrote a 7,000-word letter that called for the resignation of Pope Francis, accusing him of covering up sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church.
China’s Navy is now the world’s largest. It has altered the military balance in Asia in ways the U.S. is only beginning to digest.
Egg-freezing clinics are aggressively courting a new generation. Younger millennials are heeding the call.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 29, 2018, covering August 29, 2018.
Ariana Grande
Travis Scott
Nicki Minaj
Drake
Post Malone
2018James Mirrlees, Scottish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1936)[†]
Sir James Alexander Mirrlees was a British economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was knighted in the 1997 Birthday Honours.
2018Paul Taylor, American choreographer (born 1930)[†]
Paul Belville Taylor Jr. was an American dancer and choreographer. He was one of the last living members of the third generation of America's modern dance artists. He founded the Paul Taylor Dance Company in 1954 in New York City.
In 2018, the world population was approximately 7,729,902,781 people[†]