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Senator Mitch McConnell aligned with the president to push the deal, which would link 12 nations on either side of the Pacific into a trading bloc and expand the president’s trading authority. The legislation still requires House approval.
For 70 years, New Jersey has banned self-serve gas stations and most residents want it to stay that way.
Rick Nash scored two goals, Martin St. Louis added one and Tampa Bay’s dangerous first line did not score as the Rangers knotted the Eastern Conference finals, 2-2.
Not long ago, the vote would have been unthinkable. Ireland decriminalized homosexuality only in 1993. But the vote was 62 percent in favor, with 38 percent opposed.
The white officer, Michael Brelo, climbed onto the hood of a car and fired repeatedly at an unarmed black couple. His trial played out amid broader questions about how the police interact with African-Americans.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 20, 2015, covering May 23, 2015.
Mumford & Sons
Josh Groban
Various Artists
Tech N9ne
Zac Brown Band
2015Anne Meara, American actress, comedian and playwright (born 1929)[†]
Anne Meara was an American comedian and actress. Along with her husband Jerry Stiller, she was one-half of the prominent 1960s comedy team Stiller and Meara. Their son is actor, director, and producer Ben Stiller. She was also featured on stage, on television, and in numerous films and later became a playwright. During her career, Meara was nominated for four Emmy Awards and a Tony Award, and she won a Writers Guild Award as a co-writer for the television movie The Other Woman.
2015Aleksey Mozgovoy, Pro-Russian Ukrainian separatist leader (born 1975)[†]
Aleksey Borisovich Mozgovoy was a commander of the Russian-installed separatist Luhansk People's Republic in Ukraine. He was the leader of the pro-Russian Prizrak Brigade.
2015Alicia Nash, Salvadoran-American physicist and engineer (born 1933)[†]
Alicia Esther Nash was a Salvadoran-American physicist. The wife of mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr., she was a mental-health care advocate, who gave up her professional aspirations to support her husband and son, who were both diagnosed with schizophrenia.
2015John Forbes Nash Jr., American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1928)[†]
John Forbes Nash Jr., known and published as John Nash, was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, real algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and partial differential equations. Nash and fellow game theorists John Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten were awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics. In 2015, Louis Nirenberg and he were awarded the Abel Prize for their contributions to the field of partial differential equations.
2015At least 30 people are killed as a result of floods and tornadoes in Texas, Oklahoma, and northern Mexico.[†]
Preceded by more than a week of heavy rain, a slow-moving storm system dropped tremendous precipitation across much of Texas and Oklahoma during the nights of May 24–26, 2015, triggering record-breaking floods. Additionally, many areas reported tornado activity and lightning. Particularly hard hit were areas along the Blanco River in Hays County, Texas, where entire blocks of homes were leveled. On the morning of May 26, the National Weather Service issued a flash flood emergency for southwest Harris County and northeast Fort Bend County. The system also produced deadly tornadoes in parts of Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma. This flood significantly contributed to the wettest month ever for Texas and Oklahoma.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]