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When The Voice folded after more than 60 years, the city lost a contrarian, muckraking spirit that can never be replaced. Here, a few of its greatest hits.
Designing a home with personal touches will make it your own — but it could also make it harder to find buyers when you decide to move on.
A former vice detective is at the center of one of the New York Police Department’s worst scandals in recent years. Here is his story, as uncovered by a team of Times reporters.
Danish soldiers, scientists and two very sturdy dogs are the only residents of Station Nord in Greenland. Like any remote outpost, there are quirky rules and rituals.
With an unproven Lakers lineup around him, James faces a tough uphill climb to the playoffs in Los Angeles.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 19, 2018, covering September 21, 2018.
Paul McCartney
Eminem
Lauren Daigle
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Drake
2018Trần Đại Quang, President of Vietnam (born 1956)[†]
Trần Đại Quang was a Vietnamese politician and former police general who served as the ninth president of Vietnam from 2016 until his death in 2018. After serving for five years as the Minister of Public Security from 2011 to 2016, Quang was nominated by his predecessor Trương Tấn Sang to the presidency and was elected to the post by the National Assembly of Vietnam on 2 April 2016. He was one of the country's top leaders and ranked second in the Politburo behind Nguyễn Phú Trọng, the General Secretary of the Communist Party.
2018Vitaliy Masol, Ukrainian Former Prime Minister (born 1928)[†]
Vitaliy Andriyovych Masol was a Soviet-Ukrainian politician who served as leader of the Ukrainian government on two occasions. He held various posts in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, most notably the Head of the Council of Ministers, which is the equivalent of today's Prime Minister, from 1987 until late 1990, when he was forced to resign. He was later Prime Minister of Ukraine, confirmed in that post on 16 June 1994. He resigned from that post on 1 March 1995.
2018LGBT rights activist Zak Kostopoulos is beaten to death on a busy street in Athens[†]
Zacharias "Zak" Kostopoulos was a Greek-American activist, defending the rights of LGBT people, HIV-positive people, sex workers, and refugees. He worked as a drag performer under the stage name Zackie Oh. He was killed on a busy street near Omonoia Square, Athens in broad daylight on 21 September 2018. First beaten by civilians and later by the police, he died while on the way to the hospital. Two men were found guilty of his murder.
In 2018, the world population was approximately 7,729,902,781 people[†]