Snapchat’s New Test: Grow Like Facebook, Without the Baggage
By Kevin Roose
Under pressure from investors, Snap is making radical changes. Can it emulate Facebook without losing its innovative spirit?
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On this day
November 15, 2017
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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A Growing Call to Limit Lawyers’ Donations to Prosecutors
By James C. McKinley Jr
After criticism in cases that involved the Trumps and Harvey Weinstein, the Manhattan district attorney says it’s time to limit contributions from defense lawyers.
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Nico Muhly on His New Opera and Women’s ‘Pressurized’ Lives
By Roslyn Sulcas
“Marnie,” based on a novel that inspired a Hitchcock film, opens in London on Saturday before coming to the Metropolitan Opera next season.
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Tax Bill Thrown Into Uncertainty as First G.O.P. Senator Comes Out Against It
By Alan Rappeport and Thomas Kaplan
Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin said he opposed both the House and Senate tax plans as written, posing a new obstacle to Republican leaders eager to overhaul the tax code.
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Under Trump, Banking Watchdog Trades Its Bite for a Tamer Stance
By Ben Protess and Jessica Silver-Greenberg
A change in course has made the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which oversees the nation’s biggest banks, part of a campaign to roll back regulations.
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Music on My Birthday
Billboard 200
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 15, 2017, covering November 15, 2017.
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Live In No Shoes Nation
Kenny Chesney
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Meaning Of Life
Kelly Clarkson
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Heartbreak On A Full Moon
Chris Brown
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Without Warning
21 Savage| Offset & Metro Boomin
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Stoney
Post Malone
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Notable Deaths
2017Lil Peep, American singer and rapper (born 1996)[†]
Gustav Elijah Åhr, known professionally as Lil Peep, was an American rapper and singer-songwriter. He was a member of the hip-hop collective GothBoiClique, and is credited as being a leading figure of the emo rap sub-genre, and an inspiration in alternative youth subcultures.
Historical Events
2017A flood a few miles outside of Athens results in the death of 25 people.[†]
During the morning hours of 15 November 2017, after heavy rainfall caused because of the barometric low Eurydice and the Cyclone Numa, flooding occurred in Western Attica and mainly in Mandra, Nea Peramos, Magoula and Elefsina. The floods killed 24 people and caused severe damage. This is the third largest flood in Attica based on the number of dead.
Historical Context for November 15, 2017
In 2017, the world population was approximately 7,645,617,954 people[†]