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The drug was approved in 2012 for cancer patients, but has since become an outsize moneymaker for Insys Therapeutics and has been prescribed more widely.
The former labor secretary Elaine Chao will be more crucial than ever as Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, turns to face a well-funded female candidate in Kentucky.
The Royal Bank of Scotland is sending Citizens Bank on its own into an industry that is struggling with low interest rates and slow loan growth.
The techno thriller “Person of Interest,” on CBS, has finished its third season with awareness of how to use and transcend broadcasts drama formulas.
The Chinese authorities said Mark Reilly, a Briton, had ordered his subordinates to form a “massive bribery network.”
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 14, 2014, covering May 14, 2014.
Soundtrack
Lindsey Stirling
Ray LaMontagne
Passion
Iggy Azalea
2014Jeffrey Kruger, English-American businessman (born 1931)[†]
Jeffrey Sonny Kruger MBE was a British entertainment business executive who owned the Flamingo Club in Soho, London, established the independent record label Ember Records, and set up the music business conglomerate TKO.
2014Emanuel Raymond Lewis, American librarian and author (born 1928)[†]
Emanuel Raymond Lewis was the longest-serving and final House Librarian for the United States House of Representatives Library in the U.S. Capitol Building. He was appointed House Librarian in 1973, and served in this position until January 1995, at which time the library, along with the House Historical Office, was reorganized and placed under the new Legislative Resource Center, a division of the Office of the Clerk. The House Library predated the Library of Congress, serving as the official repository of Congressional documents generated by the U.S. House of Representatives since 1792.
2014Morvin Simon, New Zealand historian, composer, and conductor (born 1944)[†]
Morvin Te Anatipa Simon was a New Zealand Māori composer, kapa haka leader, choirmaster and historian.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]