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The story of Pinnacle Sports is a case study in how bookmaking sites, illegal in the United States, manage to operate on American soil.
The network aims to keep a strong hold on television audiences by focusing on scripted dramas.
The candidate’s gentle demeanor has resonated with supporters as some recent polls show him now in the lead in the early-voting state of Iowa.
Venture capital is flowing to a group of start-ups that are pursuing the long-sought goal of making fusion power a reality.
This comedy-drama by Stephen Karam traces the connections and tensions in a Pennsylvania clan that is assembling in Manhattan for a holiday dinner.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 21, 2015, covering October 26, 2015.
Janet
The Weeknd
Drake & Future
Fetty Wap
Tamar Braxton
2015Willis Carto, American activist and theorist (born 1926)[†]
Willis Allison Carto was an American far-right political activist. He described himself as a Jeffersonian and a populist, but was primarily known for his promotion of antisemitic conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial.
2015Leo Kadanoff, American physicist and academic (born 1937)[†]
Leo Philip Kadanoff was an American physicist. He was a professor of physics at the University of Chicago and a former president of the American Physical Society (APS). He contributed to the fields of statistical physics, chaos theory, and theoretical condensed matter physics.
2015Giuseppe Nazzaro, Italian-Syrian bishop and theologian (born 1937)[†]
Giuseppe Nazzaro, OFM was an Emeritus bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Aleppo, Custodian of the Holy Land and a polyglot.
2015A 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes in the Hindu Kush mountain range in South Asia, killing 399 people and leaving 2,536 people injured.[†]
The Hindu Kush is an 800-kilometre-long (500 mi) mountain range in Central and South Asia to the west of the Himalayas. It stretches from central and eastern Afghanistan into northwestern Pakistan and far southeastern Tajikistan. The range forms the western section of the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region (HKH); to the north, near its northeastern end, the Hindu Kush buttresses the Pamir Mountains near the point where the borders of China, Pakistan and Afghanistan meet, after which it runs southwest through Pakistan and into Afghanistan near their border.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]