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The storied weekly spent less than a year as part of the Iowa-based Meredith Corporation. Its new owners, Mr. Benioff and his wife, are buying it for $190 million.
Elon Musk says short-sellers are conspiring to bring his company down. Some seasoned investors say it’s just a matter of fundamentals.
This year, 621 people have ended up on the rails or struck by a train. Officials say they are struggling to curb the problem.
In this daringly imagined story, an enslaved boy and his master’s brother flee a plantation in a flying contraption and forge an unlikely bond.
Pollen frozen in ice in the Alps traces Europe’s calamities, since the time Macbeth ruled Scotland.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 12, 2018, covering September 17, 2018.
Eminem
Travis Scott
Drake
Troye Sivan
Ariana Grande
2018A Russian reconnaissance aircraft carrying 15 people on board is brought down by a Syrian surface-to-air missile over the Mediterranean Sea.[†]
On 17 September 2018, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) conducted missile strikes against multiple targets in government-controlled western Syria. Syrian air defences responded to the Israeli fighter jets, accidentally shooting a Russian military Il-20, killing 15 crew aboard. Russia blamed Israel for the loss of its plane, accusing the IAF of "hiding behind the Russian aircraft", thereby putting it in the line of fire. The Israel Defense Forces acknowledged striking a Syrian weapons facility, and expressed sorrow for the loss of lives due to Syrian fire. The strikes occurred a few hours after a Russo-Turkish agreement to create a demilitarized zone around Idlib Governorate was achieved, which postponed an imminent offensive operation by Syria's forces and its allies.
In 2018, the world population was approximately 7,729,902,781 people[†]