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In the past, Sheldon Silver, the New York State Assembly speaker who now faces graft charges, has rarely given quarter to other powerful people in distress.
President Obama proposes to make community college free for two years for qualifying students. Education ideas that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo endorsed include a tax credit for charitable contributions to public, charter and parochial schools.
Federal officials vowed to make more of an experimental drug that showed promise in treating Ebola, but that project has moved slowly.
With a $69 billion-a-month bond-buying program, Mario Draghi, the central bank president, is unleashing the bank’s full money-printing powers.
In 1961, Vivian Grant died after an unnecessary abortion. A woman who now lives in her apartment in Kips Bay is riveted by her story.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 21, 2015, covering January 23, 2015.
Taylor Swift
Ed Sheeran
Nicki Minaj
Sam Smith
Rae Sremmurd
2015Ernie Banks, American baseball player and coach (born 1931)[†]
Ernest Banks, nicknamed "Mr. Cub" and "Mr. Sunshine", was an American professional baseball player who starred in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a shortstop and first baseman for the Chicago Cubs between 1953 and 1971. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1977 in his first year of eligibility, and was named to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999.
2015Prosper Ego, Dutch activist, founded the Oud-Strijders Legioen (born 1927)[†]
Prosper Joannes Gerardus Antonius Ego was the founder of the Oud-Strijders Legioen.
2015Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (born 1924)[†]
Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was King and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia from 1 August 2005 until his death in 2015. Prior to his accession, he was Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia since 13 June 1982. He was the tenth son of King Abdulaziz, the founder of Saudi Arabia.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]