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The president’s recent statements suggest he now believes that demonstrating his toughness with China and walking away from a deal might well put him in a better position politically than signing one.
Companies are seeking more personal data from faithful customers in exchange for points, miles and other perks. But protections for loyalty accounts have not kept pace.
Economic geography is proving more significant than historical alliances.
“The British Are Coming” is a vivid, down-to-earth rendering of a conflict too often seen through rose-colored glasses.
Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been locked away in filthy prisons where thousands were tortured to death — and the pace of arrests and executions is accelerating.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 8, 2019, covering May 11, 2019.
P!nk
Hillsong United
ScHoolboy Q
Billie Eilish
Khalid
2019Peggy Lipton, American actress, model, and singer (born 1946)[†]
Margaret Ann Lipton was an American model, actress, and singer. She made appearances in many of the most popular television shows of the 1960s before she landed her defining role as flower child Julie Barnes in the crime drama The Mod Squad (1968–1973), for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama in 1970.
2019Thomas Silverstein, American murderer (born 1952)[†]
Thomas Edward Silverstein was an American criminal who spent the last 42 years of his life in prison after being convicted of four separate murders and suspected of a fifth while imprisoned for armed robbery, one of which was overturned. Silverstein spent the last 36 years of his life in solitary confinement for killing corrections officer Merle Clutts at the Marion Penitentiary in Illinois. Prison authorities described him as a brutal killer and a former leader of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang. Silverstein maintained that the dehumanizing conditions inside the prison system contributed to the three murders he committed. He was the longest-held prisoner in solitary confinement within the Bureau of Prisons at the time of his death. Correctional officers refused to talk to Silverstein out of respect for Clutts.
In 2019, the world population was approximately 7,811,293,698 people[†]