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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is starting to draw up regulations that could sharply reduce the number of unaffordable loans from payday lenders.
The law has long treated educational information as a category worthy of special protections, like credit or medical records, but the reality is often different.
For some time now, there have been two versions of Brian Williams. One is an Emmy-winning, sober, talented anchor on the “NBC Nightly News” and the other is a funny, urbane celebrity.
The air of inevitability around Comcast’s proposed $45 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable has dissipated as the F.C.C. prepares to vote on a proposal to regulate the Internet like a utility.
Chief Justice Roy S. Moore ordered local judges to ignore a federal court’s ruling that struck down Alabama’s ban on gay nuptials, reigniting a states’ rights debate similar to the one that arose during federally ordered integration.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 4, 2015, covering February 9, 2015.
Fall Out Boy
Taylor Swift
Meghan Trainor
Ed Sheeran
Joey Bada$$
2015Liu Han, Chinese businessman and philanthropist (born 1965)[†]
Liu Han was a Chinese billionaire businessman, the former chairman of the conglomerate Hanlong Group, with interests in power generation and mining. His assets were officially valued at 40 billion yuan. He was convicted of murder, running a mafia-style gang, and many other charges, and executed in February 2015.
2015Ed Sabol, American film producer, co-founded NFL Films (born 1916)[†]
Edwin Milton Sabol was an American filmmaker and the founder of NFL Films. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011 as a contributor due to his works with NFL Films.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]