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A lawyer says Elton Simpson, who was killed after opening fire at a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest, learned how to avoid attention after being the focus of an earlier F.B.I. investigation.
Johnson & Johnson named the bioethicist Arthur L. Caplan to create a panel to decide on patients’ requests for lifesaving medicines before they are approved.
Google’s foray into cellular and broadband is a strategic move aimed at enhancing its position in search and exploiting new profit opportunities.
The Senate voted to give Congress a say in the nuclear agreement with Iran, despite Republican infighting.
Manicurists are routinely underpaid and exploited, and endure ethnic bias and other abuse, The New York Times has found.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 6, 2015, covering May 7, 2015.
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2015Frank DiPascali, American businessman (born 1956)[†]
Frank DiPascali Jr. was an American fraudster and financier who was a key lieutenant of Bernie Madoff for three decades. He referred to himself as the company's "director of options trading" and as "chief financial officer". For a number of years, he played a key part in the daily operation of the Madoff investment scandal, later recounting how he helped manipulate billions of dollars in account statements so clients would believe that they were creating wealth for them.
2015John Dixon, Australian-American author and illustrator (born 1929)[†]
John Dixon was an Australian comic book artist and writer, best known for his comic strip creation, Air Hawk and the Flying Doctors.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]