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When he lost his 2006 re-election bid, Rick Santorum built a lucrative career in the private sector based largely on income from businesses his work in Congress had benefited.
In Mexico and Latin America, old migratory patterns are changing as migrants move to a wider range of cities and countries, creating regional challenges and opportunities.
From making a recess appointment to inserting itself into the Iowa caucuses, the Obama campaign is trying to tie his rivals to the unpopular Congress.
Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, without explanation, is holding up President Obama’s nomination of Patty Shwartz to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Effects on students’ lives beyond academics, in areas as varied as teenage-pregnancy and adult earnings, are cited.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 4, 2012, covering January 6, 2012.
Michael Buble
Adele
Young Jeezy
Justin Bieber
Drake
2012Bob Holness, South African-English radio and television host (born 1928)[†]
Robert Wentworth John Holness was an English-South African radio and television presenter and occasional actor. He presented the British version of Blockbusters.
2012Spike Pola, Australian footballer and soldier (born 1914)[†]
Jack Stephen "Spike" Pola was an Australian rules footballer who played for the West Perth Football Club in the Western Australian National Football League (WANFL).
2012Twenty-six people are killed and 63 wounded when a suicide bomber blows himself up at a police station in Damascus.[†]
Damascus is the capital and largest city of Syria. It is the oldest capital in the world and, according to some, the fourth holiest city in Islam. Known colloquially in Syria as aš-Šām (الشَّام) and dubbed, poetically, the "City of Jasmine", Damascus is a major cultural center of the Levant and the Arab world.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]