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The 49ers’ win over New Orleans gave them the conference’s best record. They will have to defend their case as the N.F.C.’s best team while playing a brutal end-of-season schedule.
Rudy Giuliani didn’t get the job he expected. But as unpaid personal counsel to the president and for-profit peddler of access and advice, he got the spotlight.
The F.B.I. said it was conducting a terrorism investigation into the shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola, as new information emerged about the gunman’s training at the facility.
The CBS drama, which ended its six-season run on Sunday, was a one of the squarest shows on television. That was a big part of its charm.
A new report documents the concentration of cutting-edge industries in a few coastal areas and why lawmakers ought to be alarmed.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 4, 2019, covering December 9, 2019.
Trippie Redd
Jason Aldean
Soundtrack
Post Malone
Billie Eilish
2019A volcano on Whakaari / White Island, New Zealand, kills 22 people after it erupts.[†]
Whakaari / White Island, also known as White Island or Whakaari, is an active andesite stratovolcano situated 48 km (30 mi) from the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand, in the Bay of Plenty. The island covers an area of approximately 325 ha, which is just the peak of a much larger submarine volcano.
In 2019, the world population was approximately 7,811,293,698 people[†]