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Prosecutors in Manhattan demanded documents about the committee’s donors, including whether it received illegal foreign donations.
As lawmakers negotiate a deal, Republicans are warning the president that declaring an emergency to build a wall could rupture his party and prompt a vote to overrule him.
Don’t plan to visit MoMA this summer. It’s closing for renovations that will put a new focus on work by women and artists of color. The results will shake up every gallery.
Given new veto power over the tax breaks the state lavishes on industry, local officials are starting to say their budget needs come first. Business leaders are aghast.
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Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 30, 2019, covering February 5, 2019.
Future
Maggie Rogers
A Boogie wit da Hoodie
Soundtrack
21 Savage
2019Pope Francis becomes the first Pope in history to visit and perform papal mass in the Arabian Peninsula during his visit to Abu Dhabi.[†]
Pope Francis was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 13 March 2013 until his death in 2025. He was the first Jesuit pope, the first Latin American, and the first born or raised outside Europe since the 8th-century Syrian pope Gregory III.
In 2019, the world population was approximately 7,811,293,698 people[†]