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The once-booming gambling industry in Macau now confronts an array of obstacles, ranging from restrictive local policies to China’s economic slowdown and crackdown on corruption.
Employees of companies like American Apparel will be putting in extra effort to turn around what is shaping up to be a dismal shopping season.
New techniques have made previously impossible goals fast and cheap enough for many to find worth pursuing.
An increase in fatalities and injuries has mostly affected undocumented immigrant laborers and far exceeds the rate of new construction.
Investigations are being hampered by a dispute between the White House and its own watchdogs over the shrinking access of inspectors general to confidential files.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 25, 2015, covering November 27, 2015.
Chris Stapleton
Eric Church
Ellie Goulding
The Weeknd
Tim McGraw
2015Mark Behr, Tanzanian-South African author and academic (born 1963)[†]
Mark Behr was a Tanzanian-born writer who grew up in South Africa. He was professor of English literature and creative writing at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee. He also taught in the MA program at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
2015Maurice Strong, Canadian businessman and diplomat (born 1929)[†]
Maurice Frederick Strong, was a Canadian oil and mineral businessman and a diplomat who served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.
2015Garrett Swasey, American figure skater and coach (born 1971)[†]
Garrett Preston Russell Swasey (November 16, 1971 – November 27, 2015) was an American competitive ice skater, figure skating coach, and police officer. As an ice dancer, he won the 1992 U.S. junior ice dance title at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships and went on to participate twice more at the senior level. He coached along with Doreen Denny. Swasey was shot and killed in the line of duty during the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting in 2015.
2015Philippe Washer, Belgian tennis player and golfer (born 1924)[†]
Philippe Washer was a Belgian tennis player. He competed in the Davis Cup a number of times, from 1946 to 1961. He was ranked world No. 8 in 1957.
2015An active shooter inside a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado, shoots at least four police officers. One officer later dies. Two civilians are also killed, and six injured. The shooter later surrendered.[†]
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. (PPFA), or simply Planned Parenthood, is an American nonprofit organization that provides reproductive and sexual healthcare and sexual education in the United States and globally. It is a member of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]