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At Severstal and other companies in industries like steel and chemicals, workers and investors are benefiting from a weak ruble and strong dollar.
Investment returns match the bravado of Davide Serra, a London-based Italian hedge fund manager, who believes quantitative easing will continue.
A Florida archbishop will press the pope’s climate change message in the hope that it will resonate in particular with Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush.
This Shakespeare in the Park production about a duke living in exile features well-known names and the unpredictability of the weather.
Many analysts believe that changes in the European financial system could contain the fallout if Greece defaults on its debt at the end of the month.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 17, 2015, covering June 17, 2015.
Florence + the Machine
Taylor Swift
A$AP Rocky
Jason Derulo
Ed Sheeran
2015Ron Clarke, Australian runner and politician, Mayor of the Gold Coast (born 1937)[†]
Ronald William Clarke, AO, MBE was an Australian athlete, writer, and the Mayor of the Gold Coast from 2004 to 2012. He was one of the best-known middle- and long-distance runners in the 1960s, notable for setting seventeen world records.
2015John David Crow, American football player and coach (born 1935)[†]
John David Crow Sr. was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He won the Heisman Trophy in 1957 as a halfback playing for the Texas A&M Aggies. After college, he played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Chicago / St. Louis Cardinals and the San Francisco 49ers from 1958 to 1968.
2015Süleyman Demirel, Turkish engineer and politician, 9th President of Turkey (born 1924)[†]
Sami Süleyman Gündoğdu Demirel was a Turkish politician, engineer, and statesman who served as the 9th President of Turkey from 1993 to 2000. He previously served as the Prime Minister of Turkey seven times between the years 1965 and 1993. He was the leader of the Justice Party (AP) from 1964 to 1980 and the leader of the True Path Party (DYP) from 1987 to 1993.
2015Roberto M. Levingston, Argentinian general and politician, 36th President of Argentina (born 1920)[†]
Roberto Marcelo Levingston Laborda was an Argentine Army general who was the 36th President of Argentina from 1970 to 1971.
2015Clementa C. Pinckney, American minister and politician (born 1973)[†]
Clementa Carlos Pinckney was an American politician and pastor who served as a Democratic member of the South Carolina Senate, representing the 45th District from 2000 until his murder in 2015 during the Charleston church shooting. He was previously a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1997 through 2000.
2015Nine people are killed in a mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.[†]
An anti-black mass shooting and hate crime occurred on June 17, 2015, in Charleston, South Carolina. Nine people were killed, and one was injured, during a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest black church in the Southern United States. Among the fatalities was the senior pastor, state senator Clementa C. Pinckney. All ten victims were African Americans. At the time, it was the deadliest mass shooting at a place of worship in U.S. history, until the Sutherland Springs church shooting in 2017.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]