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The company’s C.F.O., Bruce Thompson, who was once considered a candidate to replace the bank’s chief, is stepping down by the end of the month.
In Yussef El Guindi’s play, two male photographers attempt a ménage à trois with a female writer, only to encounter unexpected revelations.
Pharmaceutical cost transparency bills have been introduced in at least six states in the last year, aiming to make drug makers explain their prices.
In the last year, large Chinese and Japanese companies, including Tencent and Sega, have pumped tens of millions of dollars into American mobile gaming firms.
Fishermen, shopkeepers and policemen were all drawn in, as participants or observers, to a multimillion-dollar people smuggling business.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 22, 2015, covering July 23, 2015.
Meek Mill
Taylor Swift
Miguel
Ed Sheeran
Sam Hunt
2015Shigeko Kubota, Japanese-American sculptor and director (born 1937)[†]
Shigeko Kubota was a Japanese video artist, sculptor and avant-garde performance artist, who mostly lived in New York City. She was one of the first artists to adopt the portable video camera Sony Portapak in 1970, likening it to a "new paintbrush." Kubota is known for constructing sculptural installations with a strong DIY aesthetic, which include sculptures with embedded monitors playing her original videos. She was a key member and influence on Fluxus, the international group of avant-garde artists centered on George Maciunas, having been involved with the group since witnessing John Cage perform in Tokyo in 1962 and subsequently moving to New York in 1964. She was closely associated with George Brecht, Jackson Mac Low, John Cage, Joe Jones, Nam June Paik, and Ay-O, among other members of Fluxus. Kubota was deemed "Vice Chairman" of the Fluxus Organization by Maciunas.
2015Don Oberdorfer, American journalist, author, and academic (born 1931)[†]
Donald Oberdorfer Jr. was an American professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University with a specialty in Korea, and was a journalist for 38 years, 25 of them with The Washington Post. He is the author of five books and several academic papers. His book on Mike Mansfield, Senator Mansfield: The Extraordinary Life of a Great American Statesman and Diplomat, won the D.B. Hardeman Prize in 2003.
2015William Wakefield Baum, American cardinal (born 1926)[†]
William Wakefield Baum was an American Catholic prelate who served as bishop of Springfield-Cape Girardeau in Missouri and archbishop of Washington in the District of Columbia. He then served in the Roman Curia as prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education and the major penitentiary.
2015NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by the Kepler space telescope.[†]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the United States's civil space program, aeronautics research and space research. Established in 1958, it succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to give the American space development effort a distinct civilian orientation, emphasizing peaceful applications in space science. It has since led most of America's space exploration programs, including Project Mercury, Project Gemini, the 1968–1972 Apollo program missions, the Skylab space station, and the Space Shuttle. Currently, NASA supports the International Space Station (ISS) along with the Commercial Crew Program and oversees the development of the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System for the lunar Artemis program.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]