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Steve Huffman, the new chief executive of Reddit, faces numerous challenges at the online message board. That includes not repeating the stumbles of previous leaders like Ellen Pao, who stepped down from Reddit on Friday.
The same forces that have made instant messaging and video calls part of daily life for many Americans are now shaking up basic medical care.
A federal trial is meant to determine whether recent changes in the stateâs election laws discriminate against black voters. It could help define the scope of voting rights across the country in the coming presidential election.
Less than 1 percent of Japanâs industrial output is military-related, but some of the nationâs large industrial conglomerates have long had sidelines in military production.
Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin is emerging from a crash course in foreign and domestic issues with the aim of reassuring Republican activists and donors.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 8, 2015, covering July 12, 2015.
Breaking Benjamin
Tori Kelly
Kacey Musgraves
Taylor Swift
James Taylor
2015D'Army Bailey, American lawyer, judge, and actor (born 1941)[â ]
D'Army Bailey was an American lawyer, circuit court judge, civil rights activist, author, and film actor. Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, he served as a city councilman in Berkeley, California, from 1971 to 1973.
2015Chenjerai Hove, Zimbabwean journalist, author, and poet (born 1956)[â ]
Chenjerai Hove, was a Zimbabwean poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both English and Shona. "Modernist in their formal construction, but making extensive use of oral conventions, Hove's novels offer an intense examination of the psychic and social costs - to the rural population, especially, of the war of liberation in Zimbabwe." He died on 12 July 2015 while living in exile in Norway, with his death attributed to liver failure.
2015Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, Tibetan monk and activist (born 1950)[â ]
Lithang Tulku Tenzin Delek Rinpoche or Tenzing Deleg (1950â2015) was a Tibetan Buddhist leader from Garze, Sichuan. He is also known for working to develop social, medical, educational and religious institutions for Tibetan nomads in eastern Tibet, as an advocate for environmental conservation in the face of indiscriminate logging and mining projects, and as a mediator between Tibetans and Chinese.
2015Cheng Siwei, Chinese engineer, economist, and politician (born 1935)[â ]
Cheng Siwei was a Chinese economist, chemical engineer and politician. He was the Chairman of China Soft Science Research Association; President of the Chinese Society for Management Modernization; Director of the Research Center on Fictitious Economy and Data Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Dean of the School of Management of the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Honorary President of East China University of Science and Technology.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[â ]