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27 minutes ago · The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) / ˌ s iː. aɪ ˈ eɪ /, known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting ...
1 day ago · Larry Bird Bird during the 1985 NBA Playoffs Indiana Pacers Position Consultant League NBA Personal information Born (1956-12-07) December 7, 1956 (age 67) West Baden Springs, Indiana, U.S. Listed height 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) Listed weight 220 lb (100 kg) Career information High school Springs Valley (French Lick, Indiana) College Indiana State (1976–1979) NBA draft 1978: 1st round, 6th overall ...
1 day ago · The mayor said some 500 people from the town have been evacuated since the attack began, but he said the town’s population was 3,000, with many more yet to leave. Evacuation operations are set ...
1 day ago · The US National Institute on Drug Abuse has found that overdose deaths in the US have almost tripled among male and females from 2002 to 2017, with 72,306 overdose deaths reported in 2017 in the US. [298] 2020 marked the year with highest number of overdose deaths over a 12-month period, with 81,000 overdose deaths, exceeding the records set in ...
1 day ago · Early life, family, and education Chrétien was born on January 11, 1934, in Shawinigan Falls, Quebec, as the 18th of 19 children (10 of whom did not survive infancy), of Marie (née Boisvert, 1892–1954) and Wellie Chrétien (1887–1980). His younger brother is the neuroendocrinology researcher Michel Chrétien. The working-class Chrétien family was poor, and Chrétien had to wear clothing ...
