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As mortgage rules under the Dodd-Frank Act are finished, banks and policy makers want legal protections against lawsuits, while others worry that this will deny borrowers a critical safeguard.
Wal-Mart de Mexico was an aggressive and creative corrupter, offering large payoffs to get what the law otherwise prohibited, an examination by The New York Times found.
President Obama delivered to Speaker John A. Boehner a new offer that would raise revenues by $1.2 trillion over 10 years but maintain tax rates for any household earning below $400,000.
The people of Newtown buried two boys on Monday afternoon, in the first of the many funerals to follow last week’s massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. The boys were both 6 years old.
In the aftermath of the Connecticut school killings, momentum was building on Capitol Hill for tightening controls over firearms.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 12, 2012, covering December 18, 2012.
Alicia Keys
Taylor Swift
Rod Stewart
One Direction
Phillip Phillips
2012Frank Macchiarola, American lawyer and academic (born 1941)[†]
Frank J. Macchiarola, was an American academic. His interests and expertise spanned the legal, academic, executive management and public service areas. From 2008 until his death, Macchiarola was the Chancellor of St. Francis College, after having been the college's president from 1996 to 2008.
2012Mustafa Ould Salek, Mauritanian colonel and politician, President of Mauritania (born 1936)[†]
Col. Mustafa Ould Salek was the president of Mauritania from 1978 to 1979.
2012Jim Whalen, American football player (born 1943)[†]
James Francis Whalen, Jr. was an American professional football player who was a tight end in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL).
2012Anatoliy Zayaev, Ukrainian footballer, coach, and manager (born 1931)[†]
Anatoliy Zayaev was a Soviet football player and a Ukrainian coach. Merited Coach of Ukraine.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]