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Over a period of years, American and Iranian negotiators came to understand what mattered most to each other. Then a brief alignment of personalities and events helped bring a deal to completion.
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign has been slow to harness the fund-raising power of the Democratic Party’s legions of grass-roots donors, according to reports filed Wednesday, a weakness that her campaign is racing to combat.
The lawmakers endorsed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s legislation despite broad public opposition and the largest demonstrations in three years.
The president is intent on improving life behind bars. To make his points, he became the first sitting president to pay a visit to a federal prison.
Saudi Arabia’s alarm over the nuclear deal comes after a trove of documents revealed its efforts in recent years to undermine its primary adversary: Shiite Iran.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 15, 2015, covering July 16, 2015.
Meek Mill
Miguel
Taylor Swift
Ed Sheeran
James Taylor
2015Denis Avey, English soldier, engineer, and author (born 1919)[†]
Denis Avey was a British veteran of the Second World War who was held as a prisoner of war at E715, a subcamp of Auschwitz. While there he saved the life of a Jewish prisoner, Ernst Lobethal, by smuggling cigarettes to him. For that he was made a British Hero of the Holocaust in 2010.
2015Evelyn Ebsworth, English chemist and academic (born 1933)[†]
Evelyn Algernon Valentine Ebsworth, was a British chemist and academic. He was the Crum Brown Professor of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh from 1967 to 1990, and Vice-Chancellor and Warden of Durham University from 1990 to 1998.
2015Alcides Ghiggia, Uruguayan footballer and manager (born 1926)[†]
Alcides Edgardo Ghiggia Pereyra was a Uruguayan football player, who played as a right winger. He achieved lasting fame for his decisive role in the final match of the 1950 World Cup, and at the time of his death exactly 65 years later, he was also the last surviving player of the Uruguay squad at the 1950 World Cup.
2015Jack Goody, English anthropologist, author, and academic (born 1919)[†]
Sir John Rankine Goody was an English social anthropologist. He was a prominent lecturer at Cambridge University, and was William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology from 1973 to 1984.
2015Four U.S. Marines and one gunman die in a shooting spree targeting military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee.[†]
The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines or simply the Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through combined arms, implementing its own infantry, artillery, aerial, and special operations forces. The U.S. Marine Corps is one of the six armed forces of the United States and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]