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Shares in Pandora, the Internet radio service, fell by 35 percent, a plunge that was to some degree a judgment on the company’s outlook in an increasingly crowded field that now includes Apple Music.
Just three months after a new funding round valued the company at more than $50 billion, Uber is said to be going back to the well.
Senior Volkswagen board members say they learned of the company’s emissions scandal not from executives—but from news reports.
Party strategists and voters fear a protracted nomination fight that could end with a damaged standard-bearer facing a more unified left.
If you believe in the traditional Phillips curve, as some at the Fed do, inflation should be taking off any day now.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 21, 2015, covering October 24, 2015.
Janet
The Weeknd
Drake & Future
Fetty Wap
Tamar Braxton
2015Michael Beetham, English commander and pilot (born 1923)[†]
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Michael James Beetham, was a Second World War bomber pilot and a high-ranking commander in the Royal Air Force from the 1960s to the 1980s. As Chief of the Air Staff during the Falklands War, he was involved in the decision to send the Task Force to the South Atlantic. At the time of his death, Beetham was one of only six people holding his service's most senior rank and, excluding Prince Philip's honorary rank, he had the longest time in that rank, making him the senior Marshal of the Royal Air Force.
2015Alvin Bronstein, American lawyer and academic (born 1928)[†]
Alvin J. Bronstein was an American lawyer, and founder and Director Emeritus of the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation. According to his ACLU biography, 'he has argued numerous prisoners’ rights cases in federal trial and appellate courts as well as the Supreme Court of the United States. He was a consultant to state and federal correctional agencies, appeared as an expert witness on numerous occasions and has edited or authored books and articles on human rights and corrections'.
2015Margarita Khemlin, Ukrainian-Russian author and critic (born 1960)[†]
Margarita Khemlin was a Jewish-Ukrainian novelist and short-story writer, best known for her novel Klotsvog.
2015Ján Chryzostom Korec, Slovak cardinal (born 1924)[†]
Ján Chryzostom Korec, SJ was a Slovak Jesuit priest and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was ordained as a priest in 1950 and consecrated as a bishop in 1951.
2015Maureen O'Hara, Irish-American actress and singer (born 1920)[†]
Maureen O'Hara was an Irish-born naturalized American actress who became successful in Hollywood from the 1940s through to the 1960s. She was a natural redhead who was known for playing passionate but sensible heroines, often in Westerns and adventure films. She worked with director John Ford and long-time friend John Wayne on numerous projects.
2015A driver crashes into the Oklahoma State Homecoming parade, killing four people and injuring 34.[†]
The 2015 Oklahoma State University homecoming parade attack occurred on October 24, 2015, in Stillwater, Oklahoma, when Adacia Avery Chambers intentionally drove her sedan into a crowd watching the homecoming parade for Oklahoma State University–Stillwater on the university's campus. Four people were killed in the crash, and 47 others were reported injured. Chambers pleaded no contest to second-degree murder and assault charges, and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]