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A 21-year-old gunman rampaged through a store in El Paso crowded with thousands of customers. At least 26 others were injured.
The authorities are studying a manifesto railing against immigrants that was posted online minutes before the mass shooting in El Paso.
Drug-resistant infections from food are growing. But powerful industry interests are blocking scientists and investigators from getting information they need to combat the problem.
Hidden debt, asset swaps, corporate raids: Financial journalists and a playwright well versed in the Enron scandal watch over the showâs arcane scenarios to make sure theyâre plausible.
During the curtain call for âThe Prom,â a show that celebrates inclusivity, a lesbian couple exchanged their marriage vows.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 31, 2019, covering August 4, 2019.
Ed Sheeran
Beyonce & Various Artists
Billie Eilish
Lil Nas X
Various Artists
2019Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician and theorist for the Khmer Rouge (born 1926)[â ]
Nuon Chea, also known as Long Bunruot or Rungloet Laodi, was a Cambodian communist politician and revolutionary who was the chief ideologist of the Khmer Rouge. He also briefly served as acting Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea. He was commonly known as "Brother Number Two", as he was second-in-command to Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, General Secretary of the Party, during the Cambodian genocide of 1975â1979. In 2014, Nuon Chea received a life sentence for crimes against humanity, alongside another top-tier Khmer Rouge leader, Khieu Samphan, and a further trial convicted him of genocide in 2018. These life sentences were merged into a single life sentence by the Trial Chamber on 16 November 2018. He died while serving his sentence in 2019.
2019Nine people are killed and 26 injured in a shooting in Dayton, Ohio. This comes only 13 hours after another mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, where 23 people were killed.[â ]
On August 4, 2019, 24-year-old Connor Betts shot and killed nine people, including his brother, and wounded 17 others near the entrance of the Ned Peppers Bar in the Oregon District of Dayton, Ohio, United States. Betts was fatally shot by responding police officers 32 seconds after the first shots were fired. A total of 27 people were taken to area hospitals. It is the deadliest mass shooting to occur in Ohio since the 1975 Easter Sunday Massacre.
In 2019, the world population was approximately 7,811,293,698 people[â ]