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Prosecutors, in seeking guilty pleas from Credit Suisse and BNP Paribas, are looking to address public outrage and alter the belief that Wall Street institutions are “too big to jail.”
In 2012, 2.2 million Americans were in jail or prison, a larger share of the population than in any other country.
The Senate Banking Committee is drafting a bill that would dismantle Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and create a federal regulator called the Federal Mortgage Insurance Corporation.
A group of former Allstate agents are looking for their day in court after waiving their right to bring a lawsuit. They said they had no choice but to sign.
Ukraine’s acting president on Wednesday conceded what had long been obvious: The government’s police and security officials had lost control in the areas surrounding the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 30, 2014, covering April 30, 2014.
Soundtrack
August Alsina
Needtobreathe
Jason Derulo
Ingrid Michaelson
2014Khaled Choudhury, Indian painter and set designer (born 1919)[†]
Khaled Choudhury was a theatre personality and artist of Bengal. He worked for various directors of both Bengali and Hindi plays, including Sombhu Mitra, Tripti Mitra, and Shyamanand Jalan in various capacities — creating the Stage, sets and costumes and later as music director. He was a bachelor. He has been awarded the Padma Bhushan for his contribution to theatre in India's Republic Day Honours List on 26 January 2012. He died on 30 April 2014 in Kolkata.
2014Julian Lewis, English biologist and academic (born 1946)[†]
Julian Hart Lewis FRS was an English developmental biologist and researcher whose work shed light on the nature of cellular timing mechanisms and their role in animal development. He showed that the Notch ligand controls the timing of nerve cell differentiation and the synchronised cycling of neighbouring cell activity. He modelled the cellular oscillatory circuit that determines the segmentation of the developing body, and clarified the importance of delay kinetics in setting the frequency of those oscillations.
2014Carl E. Moses, American businessman and politician (born 1929)[†]
Carl Eugene Moses was an American businessman from Unalaska, Alaska who served in the Alaska House of Representatives from 1965 to 1973 as both a Republican and Democrat, and was elected again to the House in 1992 running on the Alaskan Independence Party ticket, later switched back to the Democrats, and served until 2007. Moses served a total of eleven full terms in the Alaska House, making him the longest-serving member in the history of that body. In the 2006 primary election, Moses was defeated for renomination by Bryce Edgmon, losing via a coin toss after the election results wound up in court and were later certified by the state of Alaska as ending in a tie vote.
2014Ian Ross, Australian journalist (born 1940)[†]
Ian Charles "Roscoe" Ross was an Australian television news presenter for Seven News in Sydney and for Nine News.
2014A bomb blast in Ürümqi, China kills three people and injures 79 others.[†]
Ürümqi is the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwestern China. With a census population of 4 million in 2020, Ürümqi is the second-largest city in China's northwestern interior after Xi'an, also the second-largest in Central Asia in terms of population, right after Kabul, Afghanistan. Ürümqi has seen significant economic development since the 1990s and currently serves as a regional transport node and a cultural, political and commercial center.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]