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The government is said to be poised to announce the indictment of SAC Capital, the hedge fund led by the billionaire Steven A. Cohen, which could lead to the fund’s demise.
Boarding schools that are part of a “tough love” network based in Utah are coming under fire for accusations that the troubled youth in their care were routinely abused.
As President Obama prepares to lay out his economic plans, Republicans are proposing the biggest cuts since 1995, delivering blow after blow to programs he will promote as vital.
A legal battle over an obscure investment trust lays bare the private world of Barry Portnoy, who oversees a $25 billion real estate empire stretching from Boston to Honolulu.
Hiding in plain sight for five seasons, Walter White, the protagonist of “Breaking Bad,” is television’s ultimate dark entrepreneur.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 24, 2013, covering July 24, 2013.
Jay-Z
Ciara
J. Cole
Florida Georgia Line
Imagine Dragons
2013Garry Davis, American pilot and activist, created the World Passport (born 1921)[†]
Sol Gareth "Garry" Davis was an international peace activist best known for renouncing his American citizenship and interrupting the United Nations in 1948 to advocate for world government as a way to end nationalistic wars.
2013Fred Dretske, American philosopher and academic (born 1932)[†]
Frederick Irwin "Fred" Dretske was an American philosopher noted for his contributions to epistemology and the philosophy of mind.
2013Virginia E. Johnson, American psychologist and sexologist (born 1925)[†]
Virginia E. Johnson was an American sexologist and a member of the Masters and Johnson sexuality research team. Along with her collaborator, William H. Masters, she pioneered research into the nature of human sexual response and the diagnosis and treatment of sexual dysfunctions and disorders from 1957 until the 1990s.
2013Pius Langa, South African lawyer and jurist, 19th Chief Justice of South Africa (born 1939)[†]
Pius Nkonzo Langa SCOB was Chief Justice of South Africa from June 2005 to October 2009. Formerly a human rights lawyer, he was appointed as a puisne judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa upon its inception in 1995. He was the Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa from November 2001 until May 2005, when President Thabo Mbeki elevated him to the Chief Justiceship. He was South Africa's first black African Chief Justice.
2013Santiago de Compostela derailment: A high-speed train derails in Spain rounding a curve with an 80 km/h (50 mph) speed limit at 190 km/h (120 mph), killing 78 passengers.[†]
The Santiago de Compostela derailment occurred on 24 July 2013, when an Alvia high-speed train travelling from Madrid to Ferrol, in the north-west of Spain, derailed at high speed on a bend about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) outside of the railway station at Santiago de Compostela. Of the 178 people injured, the provisional number of deaths in hospital had reached 79 by the following 28 July.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]