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The bombings shattered the relative calm of the once war-ravaged island nation amid a rise of religious extremism in South Asia.
Public schools in Kansas rolled out a web-based learning platform backed by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. Now students have staged walkouts and sit-ins. Their parents have organized.
The president’s longtime fixer had, for months, sought “a little loving and respect.” Confidential emails and texts chronicle their momentous falling out.
Most candidates feel no pressure to demand President Trump’s impeachment because they do not hear a clamoring for it on the campaign trail.
Suranne Jones is a force of nature in a rollicking HBO period piece, created by Sally Wainwright.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 17, 2019, covering April 21, 2019.
Khalid
Billie Eilish
Nipsey Hussle
Ariana Grande
Juice WRLD
2019Polly Higgins, Scottish barrister, author and environmental lobbyist (born 1968)[†]
Pauline Hélène "Polly" Higgins was a Scottish barrister, author, and environmental lobbyist, described by Jonathan Watts in her obituary in The Guardian as, "one of the most inspiring figures in the green movement". She left her career as a lawyer to focus on environmental advocacy, and unsuccessfully lobbied the United Nations Law Commission to recognise ecocide as an international crime. Higgins wrote three books, including Eradicating Ecocide, and started the Earth Protectors group to raise funds to support the cause.
2019Eight bombs explode at churches, hotels, and other locations in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, killing at least 269.[†]
On 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday, three churches in Sri Lanka and three luxury hotels in the commercial capital, Colombo, were targeted in a series of coordinated ISIS-related terrorist suicide bombings. Later that day, two smaller explosions occurred at a housing complex in Dematagoda and a guest house in Dehiwala. A total of 270 people were killed, including at least 45 foreign nationals, three police officers, and eight suicide bombers. An additional 500 were injured. The church bombings were carried out during Easter services in Negombo, Batticaloa and Colombo; the hotels bombed included the Shangri-La, Cinnamon Grand, Kingsbury and Tropical Inn. According to the State Intelligence Service, a second wave of attacks was planned, but was prevented due to government raids.
In 2019, the world population was approximately 7,811,293,698 people[†]