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If Walmart, Loweâs and other companies win their property tax appeals, homeowners and small businesses will have to pay more or live with smaller town budgets.
American factories complain that President Trumpâs tariffs are hurting profits in the industrial heartland.
Frustrated by their husbandsâ inability to earn a living, and in a society where basic views on relationships have changed, women are asserting more control over their marriages.
John R. Bolton, the national security adviser, said troops would remain until the Islamic State was completely defeated and Turkey guaranteed it would not strike Kurdish forces.
In the early 2000s, it was easier to mock the singer than wrestle with his alleged crimes. The documentary âSurviving R. Kellyâ makes that difficult now.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 2, 2019, covering January 6, 2019.
21 Savage
A Boogie wit da Hoodie
Michael Buble
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Soundtrack
2019JosĂ© RamĂłn FernĂĄndez, Cuban revolution leader (born 1923)[â ]
JosĂ© RamĂłn FernĂĄndez Ălvarez was a Cuban Communist leader who was a vice-president of the Council of Ministers.
2019Lamin Sanneh, Gambian-born American professor (born 1942)[â ]
Lamin Sanneh was a Gambian American scholar who was the D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity at Yale Divinity School and Professor of History at Yale University.
2019W. Morgan Sheppard, British actor (born 1932)[â ]
William Morgan Sheppard, also credited by his full name or as Morgan Sheppard, was an English actor who appeared in over 100 films and television programmes, in a career that spanned over 50 years.
2019Paul Streeten, Austrian-born British economics professor (born 1917)[â ]
Paul Patrick Streeten was an Austrian-born British economics professor. He was a professor at Boston University, US until his retirement. He has been a distinguished academic working on development economics since the 1950s.
2019Forty people are killed in a gold mine collapse in Badakhshan province, in northern Afghanistan.[â ]
Mining in Afghanistan is controlled by the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum in Kabul, which has offices in different parts of the country. Afghanistan has over 1,400 mineral fields, containing barite, chromite, coal, copper, gold, iron ore, lead, natural gas, petroleum, precious and semi-precious stones, salt, sulfur, lithium, talc, and zinc, among many other minerals. Gemstones include high-quality emeralds, lapis lazuli, red garnet and ruby. According to a joint study by The Pentagon and the United States Geological Survey, Afghanistan has an estimated US$1 trillion of untapped minerals.
2019Muhammad V of Kelantan resigns as the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, becoming the first monarch to do so.[â ]
Sultan Muhammad V has been the 29th Sultan of Kelantan since ascending to the throne in 2010. He previously reigned as the King of Malaysia from 2016 until his abdication in 2019.
In 2019, the world population was approximately 7,811,293,698 people[â ]