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With a congressional seat in the balance, sworn testimony this week has illuminated the inner workings of an amateurish operation that paid workers to collect absentee ballots.
Addressing 190 bishops and Roman Catholic Church leaders from around the world, Francis said the faithful were owed “concrete and effective measures.”
The mayor went from Amazon booster to critic when the company scuttled plans for a Queens campus; the shift may please progressives if he runs for president.
Vanity Fair has ruled the roost, but its guest list is bloated by corporate sponsorships. And now there’s competition from Jay-Z.
How to navigate a fractious, scandal-plagued year at the movies.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 20, 2019, covering February 21, 2019.
Ariana Grande
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Queen
A Boogie wit da Hoodie
Post Malone
2019Stanley Donen, American film director (born 1924)[†]
Stanley Donen was an American film director and choreographer. He received the Honorary Academy Award in 1998, and the Career Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2004. Four of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress.
2019Peter Tork, American musician and actor (born 1942)[†]
Peter Halsten Thorkelson, better known by his stage name Peter Tork, was an American musician and actor. He was best known as the bass guitarist and keyboardist of the Monkees and co-star of the NBC television series of the same name (1966–68).
In 2019, the world population was approximately 7,811,293,698 people[†]