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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s new administrator, Mark R. Rosekind, has ordered a review of a 2013 recall of Ford’s biggest pickup trucks.
Despite his party’s losses in the recent elections, President Obama laid out an expansive agenda as if he were the one who had triumphed.
Todd Bowles, the Jets’ new coach, represents a success under a rule requiring teams to interview minority candidates for head coaching jobs, but minority groups are still underrepresented.
A building in Havana that has long been a center of intrigue and was once the American Embassy will again serve its diplomatic purpose amid the new détente with Cuba.
“I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard” explores the dynamics of the relationship between a playwright and his actress daughter.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 21, 2015, covering January 21, 2015.
Taylor Swift
Ed Sheeran
Nicki Minaj
Sam Smith
Rae Sremmurd
2015Marcus Borg, American scholar, theologian, and author (born 1942)[†]
Marcus Joel Borg was an American New Testament scholar and theologian. He was among the most widely known and influential voices in Liberal Christianity. Borg was a fellow of the Jesus Seminar and a major figure in historical Jesus scholarship. He retired as Hundere Distinguished Professor of Religion and Culture at Oregon State University in 2007. He died eight years later at the age of 72, of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis at his home in Powell Butte, Oregon.
2015Leon Brittan, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (born 1939)[†]
Leon Brittan, Baron Brittan of Spennithorne, was a British Conservative politician and barrister who served as a European Commissioner from 1989 to 1999. As a member of Parliament from 1974 to 1988, he served several ministerial roles in Margaret Thatcher's government, including Home Secretary from 1983 to 1985.
2015Johnnie Lewis, Liberian lawyer and politician, 18th Chief Justice of Liberia (born 1946)[†]
Johnnie N. Lewis was a Liberian lawyer and politician who served as the 18th Chief Justice of Liberia from 2006 to 2012. Before his appointment to the Supreme Court, he served as a circuit judge in Liberia's judicial system.
2015Canek Sánchez Guevara, Cuban author and dissident (born 1974)[†]
Canek Sánchez Guevara (1974–2015) was a Cuban author, photographer, musician and dissident. The grandson of Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara, he grew up in the upper crust of post-revolutionary Cuban society, but soon became disillusioned with the government of Fidel Castro. After his mother's death, he went into exile in Mexico, where he worked as a writer for Proceso, penning criticisms of the Cuban government from a left-wing anarchist perspective. He died in 2015, following complications with cardiac surgery.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]