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The scant condemnation of the president’s remarks on four Democratic congresswomen reflected his tightening stranglehold on lawmakers of his party, and a collective eye on 2020.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s yearslong involvement with Mr. Epstein, who faces charges of sex trafficking and abuse, has raised questions about what she may have known.
She’s run the I.M.F. She’s a lawyer. She’s not an economist. Does that matter as she prepares to lead the European Central Bank?
How one scientist and his inaccurate chart led to unwarranted fears of wireless technology.
As social media expands its cultural dominance, the people who can steer the online conversation will have an upper hand.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 10, 2019, covering July 16, 2019.
Chris Brown
Lil Nas X
Billie Eilish
The Black Keys
Chance the Rapper
2019John Paul Stevens, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (born 1920)[†]
John Paul Stevens was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1975 to 2010. At the time of his retirement, he was the second-oldest justice in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court and the third-longest-serving justice. At the time of his death in 2019 at age 99, he was the longest-lived Supreme Court justice ever. His long tenure saw him write for the Court on most issues of American law, including civil liberties, the death penalty, government action, and intellectual property. Despite being a registered Republican who throughout his life identified as a conservative, Stevens was considered to have been on the liberal side of the Court at the time of his retirement.
2019A 100-year-old building in Mumbai, India, collapses, killing at least 10 people and leaving many others trapped.[†]
Mumbai, also known as Bombay, is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial capital and the most populous city proper of India with an estimated population of 12.5 million (1.25 crore). Mumbai is the centre of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, which is among the most populous metropolitan areas in the world with a population of over 23 million. Mumbai lies on the Konkan coast on the west coast of India and has a deep natural harbour. In 2008, Mumbai was named an alpha world city. Mumbai has the highest number of billionaires out of any city in Asia.
In 2019, the world population was approximately 7,811,293,698 people[†]