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The passions of big contributors — and their ability to change a candidate’s fortunes — are a keenly felt undercurrent to the debate over the fate of President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran.
This film, about the rise of N.W.A., tracks a fistful of upstarts who helped introduce gangster rap to an alternately freaked out and receptive world.
In summer, when room rates are lower and tables accessible, hiking trails through forests and flower-filled meadows beckon, and enticing meals are never far away.
Claiming the Quran’s support, the Islamic State codifies sex slavery in conquered regions of Iraq and Syria and uses the practice as a recruiting tool.
Under the deal, production will increase to 35 episodes a year from the current 18, and a spinoff show and another new educational series for children will be created.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 12, 2015, covering August 13, 2015.
Jill Scott
Future
Lamb of God
Taylor Swift
Soundtrack
2015Watban Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Iraqi politician, Iraqi Minister of Interior (born 1952)[†]
Watban Ibrahim al-Nasiri was an Iraqi politician and former interior minister of Iraq. He was the half-brother of Saddam Hussein and the brother of Barzan al-Tikriti. He was taken into coalition custody on April 13, 2003, following his capture as he tried fleeing to Syria. He died in prison of natural causes in 2015.
2015Bob Fillion, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (born 1920)[†]
Joseph Louis Robert Edgar Fillion was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played seven seasons for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1943 and 1950. He was a member of two Stanley Cup-winning teams during his career with Montreal; in 1944 and 1946. He also spent time with the Buffalo Bisons of the AHL and the Sherbrooke Saints of the Quebec Senior Hockey League (QSHL). He died on August 13, 2015. At the time of his death, Fillion was the last surviving member of the Canadiens' 1944 Stanley Cup team.
2015Om Prakash Munjal, Indian businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Hero Cycles (born 1928)[†]
Om Prakash Munjal was an Indian businessman, poet and philanthropist. He was the founder and chairman of Hero Cycles, the world's largest integrated bicycle manufacturing company by volume and Hero Motors, an Indian two-wheeler components manufacturer, and ventured into newer business fields including luxury hotels and four-wheeler components. He is also known for philanthropic activities of running various schools and hospitals. He died on 13 August 2015 at DMC Hero Heart Centre, Ludhiana.
2015At least 76 people are killed and 212 others are wounded in a truck bombing in Baghdad, Iraq.[†]
On 13 August 2015, a truck bombing attack was launched targeting a Baghdad food market in Sadr City, a predominantly Shi'ite neighborhood.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]