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Federal authorities said the bank was suspected of laundering money for Mexican drug cartels and moving cash for Saudi Arabian banks with ties to terrorists.
An animosity between the two men at the center of a fatal shooting outside the Empire State Building on Friday evolved over years in the workplace.
For all the injury and indignity that come with squatting behind the plate, what the catcher does with a bat in hand is how he is measured — in the eyes of fans, and in the checkbooks of owners.
A 1968 car crash in France and the 1998 diagnosis of Ann Romney’s multiple sclerosis offer clues into Mitt Romney’s character, and how he reacts to challenges.
The Red Sox reached an agreement with the Dodgers on a trade that would send three of their most expensive players — first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, left fielder Carl Crawford and starter Josh Beckett — to Los Angeles.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 22, 2012, covering August 25, 2012.
Various Artists
Rick Ross
Frank Sinatra
Elle Varner
Colt Ford
2012Florencio Amarilla, Paraguayan footballer, coach, and actor (born 1935)[†]
Florencio Amarilla Lacasa was a Paraguayan footballer, coach and later actor.
2012Neil Armstrong, American pilot, engineer, and astronaut (born 1930)[†]
Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who, in 1969, became the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor.
2012Roberto González Barrera, Mexican banker and businessman (born 1930)[†]
Roberto González Barrera was a Mexican businessman. He was the chairman of Gruma, the largest producer of tortillas and corn flour in the world, and of Banorte, the largest Mexican-owned private bank in Mexico. Because of his prominent role in the expansion of Gruma, he was often nicknamed "El Maseco" or "Don Maseco", as well as the "King of Tortillas".
2012Donald Gorrie, Scottish politician (born 1933)[†]
Donald Cameron Easterbrook Gorrie OBE was a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician. He was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Central Scotland region from 1999 to 2007, and sat in the British House of Commons as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh West from 1997 to 2001.
2012Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space, becoming the first man-made object to do so.[†]
Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, as part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System and the interstellar space beyond the Sun's heliosphere. It was launched 16 days after its twin, Voyager 2. It communicates through the NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) to receive routine commands and to transmit data to Earth. Real-time distance and velocity data are provided by NASA and JPL. At a distance of 166.40 AU from Earth as of May 2025, it is the most distant human-made object from Earth.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]