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Compulsive gamblers say they have lost thousands after being drawn in by aggressive pitches and promises of quick payouts.
The longtime creator of public service announcements hopes its new eye emoji, which is part of the “I Am a Witness” campaign, will resonate with the public in a way that’s reminiscent of Smokey Bear.
Today’s tech companies have accepted lobbying as an essential part of doing business.
The Border Patrol has traffic checkpoints up to 100 miles north of Mexico, confining undocumented immigrants to a small world and, in the extreme, blocking children from specialized medical care.
Puerto Rico proposed to exchange existing bonds for new debt that would be less burdensome, and influential creditors for the first time were receptive.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 18, 2015, covering November 23, 2015.
Chris Stapleton
Carrie Underwood
Eric Church
Various Artists
The Weeknd
2015Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, playwright, and critic (born 1925)[†]
Nawabzada Mirza Jamiluddin Ahmed Khan PP, HI, also known as Jamiluddin Aali or Aaliji, was a Pakistani poet, critic, playwright, essayist, columnist, and scholar.
2015Manmeet Bhullar, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1980)[†]
Manmeet Singh Bhullar was a Canadian politician and Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta who represented the constituency of Calgary-Greenway as a Progressive Conservative. He served as a cabinet minister from 2011 until the defeat of the Progressive Conservative government in 2015. He was widely seen as a rising star in the Progressive Conservative caucus. Bhullar was killed when he was struck by a tractor trailer on a road when he went to help a stranded motorist on November 23, 2015.
2015Douglass North, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1920)[†]
Douglass Cecil North was an American economist known for his work in economic history. Along with Robert Fogel, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1993. In the words of the Nobel Committee, North and Fogel "renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change."
2015Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle became the first rocket to successfully fly to space and then return to Earth for a controlled, vertical landing.[†]
Blue Origin Enterprises, L.P. is an American space technology company headquartered in Kent, Washington. The company operates the suborbital New Shepard rocket and the heavy-lift New Glenn rocket. In addition to producing engines for its own rockets, Blue Origin supplies engines for other vehicles, including United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur. It is also working on the Blue Moon human lunar lander for NASA's Artemis program, the Blue Ring spacecraft platform, and the Orbital Reef space station in partnership with other organizations.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]