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Hobbled by a slowing economy, the Chinese government has opted for a measured response to the arrest of a Huawei executive.
The agency that oversees Voice of America and other government broadcasting has endured a series of recent scandals. Soon, a Trump appointee will take over.
Carlos Ghosn’s arrest leaves the Franco-Japanese car alliance that revolved around him in limbo. There is no clear plan to fill the power vacuum.
Ynon Kreiz, the toy giant’s fourth leader in five years, has a strategy for reversing its fortunes. And it starts with putting one of America’s best-known dolls on the big screen.
To combat online misinformation and radicalization, one of the world’s largest national internet literacy efforts is teaching students how to spot junk information.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 12, 2018, covering December 13, 2018.
Meek Mill
Lil Baby
6ix9ine
The 1975
Michael Buble
2018Noah Klieger, Holocaust survivor who became an award-winning Israeli journalist (born 1926)[†]
Noah Klieger was an Israeli journalist and sports administrator. Klieger, a survivor of the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz, Mittelbau-Dora and Ravensbruck, covered trials of Nazi criminals after the end of World War II, besides working as a sports journalist in Israel. He also was the president of the basketball club Maccabi Tel Aviv and chairman of the FIBA's media council. In 2010 he was awarded the FIBA Order of Merit, and in 2012 became a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur. In 2015, Klieger was inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame for his contributions.
In 2018, the world population was approximately 7,729,902,781 people[†]