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Regulators, investors and economists are starting to conclude that after five years of endless analysis and speculation, no one really knows how the markets will react to a Greek default.
Justine Musk, who was married to the entrepreneur Elon Musk, offered her insights on the hugely successful in a series of web posts.
Democrats and Republicans alike are putting forth ideas to reduce the prison population and rethink a system that has locked up a generation of young men, particularly African Americans.
Officials had planned to start raising rates between June and September, but growth has fallen short of the Fed’s expectations, which could delay that action.
Relatives of some of China’s most powerful politicians and their business associates own significant stakes in companies of Wang Jianlin, Asia’s richest man.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 22, 2015, covering April 28, 2015.
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All Time Low
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Maroon 5
Taylor Swift
2015Antônio Abujamra, Brazilian actor and director (born 1932)[†]
Antônio Abujamra was a Brazilian theatre and television director and actor. Having majored in journalism and philosophy at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul in 1957, he started a career as a theatre critic while he directed and acted in his own plays at the university theatre. Professionally, he made his debut as a theatre director in 1961, and as an actor in 1987, acting in both theatre and television. In 1989, he gained national fame for his role as Ravengar in Rede Globo's telenovela Que Rei Sou Eu?, which became his best known role. In that same year, Abujamra won the Best Actor award at the Gramado Film Festival for his role in the film Festa. From 2000 onward, he was the presenter on TV Cultura's interview program Provocações. His son André Abujamra is a score composer, while his niece Clarisse Abujamra, is also an actress.
2015Marcia Brown, American author and illustrator (born 1918)[†]
Marcia Joan Brown was an American writer and illustrator of more than 30 children's books. She won three annual Caldecott Medals from the American Library Association, six Caldecott Medal honors as an illustrator, recognizing the year's best U.S. picture book illustration, and the ALA's Children's Literature Legacy Award in 1992 for her career contribution to children's literature. This total of nine books with awards and honors is more than any other Caldecott-nominated illustrator. Many of her titles have been published in translation, including Afrikaans, German, Japanese, Spanish, and Xhosa-Bantu editions. Brown is known as one of the most honored illustrators in children's literature.
2015Michael J. Ingelido, American general (born 1916)[†]
Michael Joseph Ingelido was an American Air Force major general who was commander of the Fourteenth Aerospace Force,, Ent Air Force Base, Colorado.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]