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Mr. Buck finally faced consequences this week as prosecutors charged him with operating a drug house and accused him of being a predator who targeted vulnerable men.
The verdict makes it likely that no one will be held criminally responsible for the 2011 meltdown in Japan, which caused damage that could linger for generations.
Activists are trying to influence labor unions in New York City. Accusations of spying, subterfuge and “red-baiting” followed.
A painting set to be offered at Sotheby’s appears altered in some obvious ways. But the online catalog didn’t mention that.
Brian Flores, one of the few N.F.L. coaches from New York City, is trying to revive the sinking Miami Dolphins. It’s not going well.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 18, 2019, covering September 19, 2019.
Post Malone
Taylor Swift
Melanie Martinez
Young Thug
Lil Tecca
2019Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisian soldier, politician, 2nd President of Tunisia (born 1936)[†]
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, commonly known as Ben Ali or Ezzine, was a Tunisian politician, military officer and dictator who served as the second President of Tunisia from 1987 to 2011. In that year, during the Tunisian revolution, he was overthrown and fled to Saudi Arabia.
2019A drone strike by the United States kills 30 civilian farmers in Afghanistan.[†]
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south, Iran to the west, Turkmenistan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, Tajikistan to the northeast, and China to the northeast and east. Occupying 652,864 square kilometers (252,072 sq mi) of land, the country is predominantly mountainous with plains in the north and the southwest, which are separated by the Hindu Kush mountain range. Kabul is the country's capital and largest city. Afghanistan's population is estimated to be between 36 and 50 million.
In 2019, the world population was approximately 7,811,293,698 people[†]