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Phil Gramm, one of the chief architects of a sweeping deregulation of financial rules in the late 1990s, will testify before the House Financial Services Committee on the impact of Dodd-Frank.
Republican politicians have refined the way they are talking about pregnancy and abortion rights, crafting their words in a way they hope puts Democrats on the defensive.
Trump’s interest in the sport’s homeland will fall under scrutiny this week as the Women’s British Open is held at his most recent purchase, Turnberry.
Researchers have little experience with raises of such magnitude. The effects, especially in areas with low median incomes, could be profound.
Martinez, a former Red Sox pitcher, brought a playful mood to the ceremony in which he, John Smoltz, Randy Johnson and Craig Biggio were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 22, 2015, covering July 27, 2015.
Meek Mill
Taylor Swift
Miguel
Ed Sheeran
Sam Hunt
2015Rickey Grundy, American singer-songwriter (born 1959)[†]
Ricky R. Grundy, who went by the stage name Rickey Grundy, was an American gospel musician and leader of The Rickey Grundy Chorale. He started his music career in 1988, with Sparrow Records releasing Spirit Come Down, and they released two albums that placed on the Billboard magazine Gospel Albums chart. Grundy died on July 27, 2015, after a season of health complications.
2015A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Indian engineer, academic, and politician, 11th President of India (born 1931)[†]
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam was an Indian aerospace scientist and statesman who served as the president of India from 2002 to 2007.
2015Samuel Pisar, Polish-born American lawyer and author (born 1929)[†]
Samuel Pisar was a Polish-American lawyer, author, and Holocaust survivor.
2015Anthony Shaw, English general (born 1930)[†]
Major General Anthony John Shaw was a senior British Army officer, who was Director General of the Army Medical Services from 1988 to 1990.
2015At least seven people are killed and many injured after gunmen attack an Indian police station in Punjab.[†]
On 27 July 2015, three gunmen dressed in army uniforms opened fire on a bus and then attacked the Dina Nagar police station in Gurdaspur district of Punjab, India. The attack resulted in the death of three civilians and four policemen, including a superintendent of police; fifteen others were injured. In addition, five bombs were found planted on the Amritsar–Pathankot line on a rail-bridge near Parmanand railway station, five kilometers from the site of the attack. All three attackers were killed in the operation, which lasted almost 12 hours.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]