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The president has repeatedly called allies, reassuring them that he will not yield on his wall demands. But he has not reached out to Democrats, whose votes he needs for a deal.
For the third time in four seasons, the two schools will meet in college football’s championship game. And the one time they didn’t, they met in the semifinal.
In final week of the regular season, there was also good news for the Chiefs, Patriots and Rams, but the Vikings and Steelers had their seasons end.
The Democratic sweep in Orange County is the latest sign of a huge political and cultural shift in a former Republican stronghold.
The fighters hold the line in the war’s toughest spots, but officials say their brutal tactics are terrorizing the public and undermining the U.S. mission.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 26, 2018, covering December 31, 2018.
Kodak Black
Meek Mill
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Michael Buble
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2018Kader Khan, Indian actor (born 1937)[†]
Kader Khan was an Indian actor, screenwriter and film producer. As an actor, he appeared in over 300 Bollywood films after his acting debut in the film Daag in 1973, starring Rajesh Khanna, as a prosecuting attorney. He was a prolific actor and screenwriter in Hindi cinema, from the late 1970s to the late 1990s and wrote dialogues for 200 films. Born in Afghanistan, Khan graduated from Ismail Yusuf College affiliated to Bombay University. Before entering the film industry in 1971, he was a professor of civil engineering in M. H. Saboo Siddik College of Engineering, Mumbai.
2018Thirty-nine people are killed after a ten-story building collapses in the industrial city of Magnitogorsk, Russia.[†]
On 31 December 2018, at approximately 6:02 a.m. local time, an apartment block in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, partially collapsed. The collapse killed 39 people and injured 17 more. The cause of the collapse is believed to have been a gas explosion.
In 2018, the world population was approximately 7,729,902,781 people[†]