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With no end in sight to the shutdown, 800,000 federal workers had been sent home or were working without pay.
The industry sold more than 17 million vehicles for the fourth straight year. But it is relying more on fleet sales, and economic winds are not favorable.
By absenting himself, the Senate majority leader had hoped to push the blame for a prolonged shutdown onto Democrats while protecting Republicans running for re-election next year â including himself.
Market watchers are divided on whether the current slump will be prolonged or a blip, and history doesnât offer a clear answer. Expect turbulence.
A December gain of 312,000 jobs sent stocks up more than 3 percent, and the Federal Reserve chairman offered soothing words on the central bankâs plans.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 2, 2019, covering January 4, 2019.
21 Savage
A Boogie wit da Hoodie
Michael Buble
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Soundtrack
2019Harold Brown, 14th United States Secretary of Defense (born 1927)[â ]
Harold Brown was an American nuclear physicist who served as United States Secretary of Defense from 1977 to 1981, under President Jimmy Carter. Previously, in the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administrations, he held the posts of Director of Defense Research and Engineering (1961â1965) and United States Secretary of the Air Force (1965â1969).
2019A fire in an escape room in Koszalin, Poland, kills five teenagers through carbon monoxide poisoning.[â ]
A fire in the ToNiePokĂłj escape room in Koszalin, Poland, on 4 January 2019, killed five teenage customers and injured an adult employee. The deceased, all 15-year-old girls, were celebrating one of the girls' birthdays when a fire, fueled by leaking gas cylinders, broke out in the escape room's waiting area. Since the girls were in a room with no door handle and the windows were obstructed by "makeshift walls", they were trapped and died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
In 2019, the world population was approximately 7,811,293,698 people[â ]