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Corporate America has been nearly unified in its support of a deal that would lower various barriers to trade and investment between the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim nations.
Richard W. Matt and David Sweat emerged from curdled childhoods that included early displays of evil behavior, interviews and documents reveal.
Mr. Dorsey is a figure of legend to newer Twitter employees, and remembered with varying degrees of fondness and fear by those who worked with him during his earlier stints there.
An internal State Department assessment says the Islamic State’s social message machine is trumping efforts by the Obama administration and its foreign allies to combat it.
U.S. Soccer gave a detailed defense of its actions and of its decision not to suspend Solo from the national team for this month’s Women’s World Cup.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 10, 2015, covering June 13, 2015.
A$AP Rocky
Taylor Swift
Boosie Badazz
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Hillsong United
2015Buddy Boudreaux, American saxophonist and clarinet player (born 1917)[†]
John Landry “Buddy” Boudreaux was an American big band and jazz musician. He played saxophone and clarinet. Since 1934, he directed and played in a number of bands that have toured the southern United States and drawn nationally known performers to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The State-Times newspaper called him "the city’s sound of big band". His bands backed such artists as Andy Williams, Bernadette Peters, Doc Severinsen, Dionne Warwick, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Burt Bacharach, Johnny Mathis, The Four Tops, Bob Hope, George Burns and Joan Rivers. He opened shows for Tony Bennett, Tony Orlando, Louise Mandrell, The Beach Boys and Bill Cosby. He was co-author—with his barber, Michael T. Abadie—of “My Baton Rouge,” which in 1998 was declared the city's official song.
2015Sergio Renán, Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1933)[†]
Sergio Renán was an Argentine actor, film director, and screenwriter.
2015Mike Shrimpton, New Zealand cricketer and coach (born 1940)[†]
Michael John Froud Shrimpton was a New Zealand cricketer and coach.
2015A man opens fire at policemen outside the police headquarters in Dallas, Texas, while a bag containing a pipe bomb is also found. He was later shot dead by police.[†]
On July 7, 2016, Micah Xavier Johnson ambushed and shot police officers in Dallas, Texas, killing five, injuring nine others, and wounding two civilians. Johnson, a 25-year-old Army Reserve Afghan War veteran, was angry over white police shootings of black men. He shot the officers at the end of a protest against the recent killings by police of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]