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On Thursday, Odom remained hospitalized in Las Vegas, two days after he was found unconscious in a Nevada brothel. “I can’t lie,” one of his former coaches said. “A lot of us were afraid of this day.”
T. Boone Pickens, the 87-year-old oil and gas tycoon, is embroiled in a battle over wind power in the Canadian province of Ontario.
One of most striking takeaways from the Republican and Democratic debates is that the two parties do not just disagree on solutions to domestic and foreign policy issues — they do not even agree on what the issues are.
The Keen Company’s revival, a stage adaptation of Graham Greene’s frolicsome 1969 novel, is on Theater Row.
The writer Jane Smiley on what keeps pulling her back to the renowned horse farms of Northern Virginia and Maryland.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 14, 2015, covering October 16, 2015.
Fetty Wap
Drake & Future
Don Henley
George Strait
The Weeknd
2015Richard J. Cardamone, American lawyer and judge (born 1925)[†]
Richard Joseph Cardamone was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
2015James W. Fowler, American psychologist and academic (born 1940)[†]
James William Fowler III (1940–2015) was an American theologian who was Professor of Theology and Human Development at Emory University. He was director of both the Center for Research on Faith and Moral Development, and the Center for Ethics until he retired in 2005. He was a minister in the United Methodist Church. Fowler is best known for his book Stages of Faith, published in 1981, in which he sought to develop the idea of a developmental process in "human faith".
2015William James, Australian general and physician (born 1930)[†]
Major General William Brian "Digger" James was an Australian soldier and military physician who served in the Australian Army during the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
2015Vera Williams, American author and illustrator (born 1927)[†]
Vera Baker Williams was an American children's writer and illustrator. Her best known work, A Chair for My Mother, has won multiple awards and was featured on the children's television show Reading Rainbow.
2015Memduh Ün, Turkish film producer, director, actor and screenwriter (born 1920)[†]
Arif Memduh Ün was a Turkish film producer, director, actor and screenwriter. His film, The Broken Pots, was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]