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The militants have alternated between terrorizing residents and courting them in their takeover of the ancient Syrian city.
The Chinese government sent a 500-person delegation from 100 publishing houses to BookExpo America in New York; a few blocks away from the expo, the PEN American Center organized a protest.
A political battle has disrupted the case against the Computer Sciences Corporation, forcing on-again, off-again negotiations that at times have imperiled the case altogether.
In David Javerbaum’s show based on his book of the same title, God presides over his flock from a swooping white couch, like a celestial talk show host.
Bill Clinton agreed to appear at a gala for the model Petra Nemcova’s charity in 2014 after Ms. Nemcova offered a large donation to the Clinton Foundation.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 27, 2015, covering May 29, 2015.
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Mumford & Sons
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David Guetta
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2015Henry Carr, American football player and sprinter (born 1942)[†]
Henry Carr was an American track and field athlete who won two gold medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
2015Doris Hart, American tennis player (born 1925)[†]
Doris Hart was an American tennis player who was active in the 1940s and first half of the 1950s. She was ranked world No. 1 in 1951. She was the fourth player, and second woman, to win a Career Grand Slam in singles. She was the first of only three players to complete the career "Boxed Set" of Grand Slam titles, which is winning at least one title in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles at all four Grand Slam events. Only she and Margaret Court achieved this during the amateur era of the sport.
2015Betsy Palmer, American actress (born 1926)[†]
Betsy Palmer was an American actress known for her many film and Broadway roles, television guest-starring appearances, as a panelist on the game show I've Got a Secret, and later for playing the antagonist and mother of Jason Voorhees, Pamela Voorhees, in the first Friday the 13th film (1980).
2015One World Observatory at One World Trade Center opens.[†]
One World Trade Center, also known as One WTC and as the Freedom Tower, is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, One World Trade Center is the tallest building in the United States, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, and the seventh-tallest in the world. The supertall structure has the same name as the North Tower of the original World Trade Center, which was destroyed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The new skyscraper stands on the northwest corner of the 16-acre (6.5 ha) World Trade Center site, on the site of the original 6 World Trade Center. It is bounded by West Street to the west, Vesey Street to the north, Fulton Street to the south, and Washington Street to the east.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]