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Date: 09 August 2016
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Get recommendations from New York Times reporters and editors, highlighting great stories from around the web. Today, great reads from Fernanda Santos, Steven Erlanger and others.
The August 9, 2016 was a Tuesday under the star sign of ♌. It was the 221 day of the year. President of the United States was Barack Obama.
If you were born on this day, you are 9 years old. Your last birthday was on the Saturday, August 9, 2025, 297 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, August 9, 2026, in 67 days. You have lived for 3,584 days, or about 86,027 hours, or about 5,161,663 minutes, or about 309,699,780 seconds.
Date: 09 August 2016
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Get recommendations from New York Times reporters and editors, highlighting great stories from around the web. Today, great reads from Fernanda Santos, Steven Erlanger and others.
Date: 09 August 2016
By JOHN KOBLIN
John KOBLIN
Date: 10 August 2016
By DAVID MCCRAW
David MCCRAW
Date: 09 August 2016
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Date: 10 August 2016
By REUTERS
Date: 09 August 2016
By DAVID E. SANGER and MAGGIE HABERMAN
David SANGER
Fifty of nation's current and former Republican national security officials and foreign policy elites sign letter stating that Donald J Trump is security risk and warns that he 'would be most reckless president in American history'; letter underscores continuing rupture in Republican Party and raises question of whom Trump will turn to for institutional memory if he is elected.
Date: 09 August 2016
By KATHERINE SCHULTEN
Katherine SCHULTEN
The nine weeks since our last News Quiz have produced many dramatic headlines. Here are 40 questions to test what you remember and help you learn more.