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Critics said a tide of lawsuits accusing banks of wrongfully breaking into homes reinforced their claim that the foreclosure process is fundamentally flawed.
The battle over ratification of the arms control treaty with Russia has shown a growing political divide on national security.
In the 1950s, Charles David Keeling began measuring carbon dioxide levels, which rise relentlessly as the political debate drags on.
Sales at Sears are worse than at its major competitors, and many of the company’s 2,200 Sears and Kmart stores are run-down and in undesirable locations.
Across Africa and the developing world, a new global land rush is gobbling up large expanses of arable land.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 22, 2010, covering December 22, 2010.
Susan Boyle
Taylor Swift
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T.I.
Jackie Evancho
2010Fred Foy, American soldier and announcer (born 1921)[†]
Frederick William Foy was an American radio and television announcer and actor. He is best known for his narration of The Lone Ranger. Radio historian Jim Harmon described Foy as "the announcer, perhaps the greatest announcer-narrator in the history of radio drama."
2010The repeal of the Don't ask, don't tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, is signed into law by President Barack Obama.[†]
The Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010 is a landmark United States federal statute enacted in December 2010 that established a process for ending the "don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) policy, thus allowing gay, lesbian, and bisexual people to serve openly in the United States Armed Forces. It ended the policy in place since 1993 that allowed them to serve only if they kept their sexual orientation secret and the military did not learn of their sexual orientation, which was controversial.
In 2010, the world population was approximately 7,021,732,148 people[†]