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The president accused the American Israel Public Affairs Committee of spending millions on advertising to try to defeat the accord, as well as spreading misinformation about it.
Several candidates took hard-line stances on abortion, and Donald Trump refused to renounce his past descriptions of women as “fat pigs.”
In the 10 years since Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana’s losses have overshadowed the restorative steps it has taken.
The case for women’s studies has long been clear. But now a professor has made the argument for a graduate-level study of men and masculinity.
Mr. Trump’s suggestion that Ms. Kelly had questioned him forcefully at the Republican debate because she was menstruating cost him a speaking slot at an influential gathering.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 5, 2015, covering August 8, 2015.
Future
Taylor Swift
Tyrese
Tame Impala
Alan Jackson
2015Sean Price, American rapper (born 1972)[†]
Sean Duval Price was an American rapper and member of the hip hop collective Boot Camp Clik. He was one half of the duo Heltah Skeltah, performing under the name Ruck, along with partner Rock.
2015Gus Mortson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1925)[†]
James Angus Gerald "Old Hardrock" Mortson was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Black Hawks, and Detroit Red Wings, winning four Stanley Cups with Toronto. He also played in eight NHL All-Star Games.
2015Eight people are killed in a shooting in Harris County, Texas.[†]
On August 8, 2015, a mass shooting occurred inside a home in northern Harris County, Texas, near Houston. David Ray Conley III, 48, broke into his former home and held hostage Valerie and Dwayne Jackson, Sr., along with six children, including his own 13-year-old son. Over the course of nine hours, he shot and killed the entire family. He then engaged in a shootout with responding police before surrendering.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]