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If the president did not originally inspire the gunman, he has brought into the mainstream polarizing ideas and people once consigned to the fringes of American society.
El Paso has always been an international city. The worst anti-Latino attack in U.S. history left many feeling perplexed, and angry.
Russians with little experience with debt are relying on easy credit and payday lenders. Now the central bank is trying to cool the lending market.
The government announced an end to decades of autonomy in the disputed region, raising tensions in the restive territory and roiling relations with Pakistan.
Nike made an ad. Visa demanded new contract terms. Secret donated more than $500,000. Will more sponsors join the fight, and will their contributions be decisive?
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 31, 2019, covering August 5, 2019.
Ed Sheeran
Beyonce & Various Artists
Billie Eilish
Lil Nas X
Various Artists
2019Toni Morrison, American author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and Nobel laureate (born 1931).[â ]
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison, known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist and editor. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987).
2019The revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir (state) occurred and the state was bifurcated into two union territories (Jammu and Kashmir (union territory) and Ladakh).[â ]
On 5 August 2019, the government of India revoked the special status, or autonomy, granted under Article 370 of the Indian constitution to Jammu and Kashmirâa region administered by India as a state which consists of the larger part of Kashmir which has been the subject of dispute among India, Pakistan, and China since 1947.
In 2019, the world population was approximately 7,811,293,698 people[â ]