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The latest uproar around Martin Shkreli has nothing to do with drug prices, but allegations of fraud at a small hedge fund.
Pharmaceutical executives can look at the federal indictment and say that Martin Shkreli is an aberration, a rotten apple, but his arrest is not likely to make concern about drug prices go away.
The dispute came after members of Senator Bernie Sanders’s data team were found to have gotten access to proprietary information from Hillary Clinton’s team during a software glitch with an important voter file.
For the first time in the nearly five-year civil war in Syria, the Security Council backed a process for resolving the conflict.
New York City has banned new wood-burning fireplaces. But it’s full of old ones, some in reasonably priced apartments.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 16, 2015, covering December 18, 2015.
Adele
Justin Bieber
Pentatonix
One Direction
Taylor Swift
2015Luc Brewaeys, Belgian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1959)[†]
Luc Brewaeys was a Belgian composer, conductor, pianist and recording producer at the VRT. He studied composition with André Laporte in Brussels, with Franco Donatoni in Siena (Italy) and with Brian Ferneyhough in Darmstadt (Germany).
2015Helge Solum Larsen, Norwegian businessman and politician (born 1969)[†]
Helge Solum Larsen was a Norwegian businessman and politician for the Liberal Party. He served as deputy leader of the party from 2010 to 2012.
2015Kellingley Colliery, the last deep coal mine in Great Britain, closes.[†]
Kellingley Colliery, known affectionately as the 'Big K', was a deep coal mine in North Yorkshire, England, 3.6 miles (5.8 km) east of Ferrybridge power station. It was owned and operated by UK Coal.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]