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The S&P 500 recorded its worst week this year as investors were rattled by renewed trade tensions that threatened to undermine the global economy.
The percentage of women who work in Japan is higher than ever, yet cultural norms have not caught up. More and more, women are rejecting the double standard.
Democratic leaders say African-Americans are deeply engaged in this election, but President Trump is also targeting them with Facebook ads. How they react may well determine his future.
A cold case revived — and a life’s arc considered.
Wild dogs have returned to the famed Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique. The first puppy litters were not far behind.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 31, 2019, covering August 3, 2019.
Ed Sheeran
Beyonce & Various Artists
Billie Eilish
Lil Nas X
Various Artists
2019Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in Moscow, Russia.[†]
Lyubov Eduardovna Sobol is a Russian opposition politician, lawyer and a member of the Russian Opposition Coordination Council (2012–2013). She produces the YouTube channel "Navalny Live" of Alexei Navalny. Sobol was a lawyer of the Anti-Corruption Foundation until its closure in 2021.
2019Twenty-three people are killed and 22 injured in a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.[†]
On August 3, 2019, a mass shooting occurred at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, United States. The gunman, 21-year-old Patrick Wood Crusius, shot 45 people, killing 23 and injuring 22 others. The Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated the shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime. The shooting has been described as the deadliest attack on Latinos in modern American history.
In 2019, the world population was approximately 7,811,293,698 people[†]