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President Obama and House Speaker John A. Boehner have little regard for each otherâs bargaining skills, with a relationship damaged by their failure to reach a budget deal 18 months ago.
The Liberal Democratic Party was returned to power in parliamentary elections Sunday in what analysts say is more a vote against the incumbents than a mandate.
Economists see a number of sources of underlying strength, but some envision slower growth in 2013 even if Washington avoids a stalemate in the fiscal talks.
Kevin Systrom, chief executive of Instagram, insists his company never received any formal acquisition offers besides Facebookâs, but evidence suggests otherwise.
In a bereaved Connecticut town, President Obama chided the nation for not having done enough to protect its children from attacks like the one Friday that left 20 elementary school students dead.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 12, 2012, covering December 16, 2012.
Alicia Keys
Taylor Swift
Rod Stewart
One Direction
Phillip Phillips
2012Elwood V. Jensen, American biologist and academic (born 1920)[â ]
Elwood Vernon Jensen was the Distinguished University Professor, George and Elizabeth Wile Chair in Cancer Research at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine's Vontz Center for Molecular Studies. In 2004 he received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research for his research on estrogen receptors. He is considered the father of the field of hormone action.
2012Jake Adam York, American poet and academic (born 1972)[â ]
Jake Adam York was an American poet. He published three books of poetry before his death: Murder Ballads, which won the 2005 Elixir Prize in Poetry; A Murmuration of Starlings, which won the 2008 Colorado Book Award in Poetry; and Persons Unknown, an editor's selection in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry. A fourth book, Abide, was released posthumously, in 2014. That same year he was also named a posthumous recipient of the Witter Bynner Fellowship by the U.S. Poet Laureate.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[â ]