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After deciding not to prosecute Goldman Sachs for its conduct during the financial crisis, the Justice Department did something rare: it publicly announced that the investigation was closed.
Most religious institutions are better at collecting money than they used to be, by accepting donations via credit card or electronically pulling money from people’s bank accounts.
Global banks are worried that their New York operations could make them public targets for processing transactions already deemed legal by federal regulators, federal authorities said.
The United States said the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has trained and advised government forces inside Syria and has helped to expel opposition fighters from within the country.
Responding to a surge in the homeless population, New York City has rapidly opened nine shelters in the last two months, and local officials say they were blindsided.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 8, 2012, covering August 11, 2012.
Zac Brown Band
Nas
The Gaslight Anthem
Passion Pit
Kidz Bop Kids
2012Red Bastien, American wrestler, trainer, and promoter (born 1931)[†]
Rolland "Red" Bastien was an American professional wrestler best known for his time in Capital Wrestling Corporation where he was a three-time WWWF United States Tag Team Champion with his kayfabe brother, Lou Bastien.
2012Michael Dokes, American boxer (born 1958)[†]
Michael Marshall Dokes was an American professional boxer who competed from 1976 to 1997, and held the WBA heavyweight title from 1982 to 1983. As an amateur he won a silver medal in the heavyweight division at the 1975 Pan American Games.
2012Lucy Gallardo, Argentinian-Mexican actress and screenwriter (born 1929)[†]
Lucy Gallardo was an Argentine-born Mexican actress and screenwriter. She was best known for her numerous roles in Mexican cinema, as well as Mexico's telenovelas. Gallardo was the widow of Mexican actor Enrique Rambal.
2012At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.[†]
The 2012 East Azerbaijan earthquakes – also known as the Ahar earthquakes – occurred on 11 August 2012, at 16:53 Iran Standard Time, near the cities of Ahar and Varzaqan in Iran's East Azerbaijan province, approximately 60 kilometers from Tabriz. They comprised a doublet separated by eleven minutes, with magnitudes of 6.4 and 6.2 Mww. At least 306 people died and more than 3,000 others were injured, primarily in the rural and mountainous areas to the northeast of Tabriz. The shocks were felt in Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan, though no major damage was reported.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]