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As the White House takes on the challenge of the Islamic State, it is focusing on the online community of sympathizers in the United States, who number in the hundreds and fit no single profile.
Two of the biggest and oldest chemical companies in the United States, each with a market value of roughly $60 billion, could become the worldâs second-largest chemical maker in terms of revenue.
A provision slipped into a 2014 spending law by the Florida senator has tangled up the Obama administration and sent tremors through health insurance markets.
A majority of the justices seemed unpersuaded on Wednesday that an affirmative action plan at the University of Texas was constitutional.
Thirty young men spent months burning the bodies of the infected. A year later, many relatives and fellow countrymen still canât forgive them.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 9, 2015, covering December 9, 2015.
Adele
Justin Bieber
One Direction
Jadakiss
The Weeknd
2015Soshana Afroyim, Austrian painter (born 1927)[â ]
Soshana Afroyim was an Austrian painter of the Modernism period. Soshana was a full-time artist and traveled frequently, exhibiting her work internationally. During her journeys, she portrayed many well known personalities and her art developed in different directions. Her early period artwork was largely naturalistic in nature, showing landscapes and portraits. Later her style developed towards abstract art, strongly influenced by Asian calligraphy.
2015Norman Breslow, American statistician and academic (born 1941)[â ]
Norman Edward Breslow was an American statistician and medical researcher. At the time of his death, he was Professor (Emeritus) of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health, of the University of Washington. He is co-author or author of hundreds of published works during 1967 to 2015.
2015Juvenal JuvĂȘncio, Brazilian lawyer and politician (born 1934)[â ]
Juvenal JuvĂȘncio was a Brazilian lawyer, state representative, investigator of police, and president of SĂŁo Paulo Futebol Clube. During the legislature 1963â1967, he took over in alternate condition, state deputy mandate. He was also head of Cecap, during the government of SĂŁo Paulo state governor Laudo Natel (1971â1975). After leaving the presidency, he later became the director of an amateur football club.
2015Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Bolivian cardinal (born 1936)[â ]
Julio Terrazas Sandoval was a Cardinal Priest and Archbishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Cruz de la Sierra in the Roman Catholic Church.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[â ]