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For students of color who have long had to justify their presence on campus, the federal fraud case was a reminder of deep inequalities in admissions.
Calling out collaborators and copycats! Will success spoil a fashion watchdog account?
The Treasury Secretary is pressing China to give American movies greater access, raising conflict of interest concerns given his financial ties to the film industry.
“Shrill,” available Friday on Hulu, stars Aidy Bryant as a woman trying to break out of the “mind prison” she’s starting to recognize and reject.
White-collar workers face job cuts and shrinking paychecks even in go-go industries like technology, suggesting the economic pain is broader than official figures show.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 13, 2019, covering March 14, 2019.
Hozier
Ariana Grande
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
2 Chainz
Lil Skies
2019Jake Phelps, American skateboarder and Thrasher editor-in-chief (born 1962)[†]
James Kendall "Jake" Phelps was an American skateboarder and magazine editor. Phelps led the magazine Thrasher as editor-in-chief for 27 years.
2019Charlie Whiting, British motorsport director (born 1952)[†]
Charles Whiting was Chief Mechanic for the Brabham F1 team and latterly the Formula One race director. He served as the FIA Formula One Race Director, Safety Delegate, Permanent Starter and head of the F1 Technical Department, in which capacities he managed the logistics of each F1 Grand Prix, inspected cars in parc fermé before a race, enforced FIA rules, and controlled the lights that start each race.
2019Haig Young, Canadian politician (born 1928)[†]
Douglas Haig Young was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Harbour Grace in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1972 to 1989. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador. He was a former Minister of Public Works of Newfoundland and Labrador. Born in Upper Island Cove, he was a funeral director and had two children.
2019Cyclone Idai makes landfall near Beira, Mozambique, causing devastating floods and over 1,000 deaths.[†]
Intense Tropical Cyclone Idai was one of the worst tropical cyclones on record to affect Africa and the Southern Hemisphere. The long-lived storm caused catastrophic damage, and a humanitarian crisis in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi, leaving more than 1,500 people dead and many more missing. Idai is the deadliest tropical cyclone recorded in the South-West Indian Ocean basin. In the Southern Hemisphere, which includes the Australian, South Pacific, and South Atlantic basins, Idai ranks as the second-deadliest tropical cyclone on record. The only system with a higher death toll is the 1973 Flores cyclone that killed 1,650 off the coast of Indonesia. Idai is also the second costliest tropical cyclone in the South-West Indian Ocean basin, behind Cyclone Chido of 2024.
In 2019, the world population was approximately 7,811,293,698 people[†]