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Merger and acquisition talks have been active, but the deals’ advisers get paid on completion. This year, antitrust officials thwarted some large mergers.
Plunging print ad sales and an explosion of online outlets spreading inaccurate information threaten to diminish, and in some cases extinguish, the impact of traditional media companies.
The specter of accusations against Mr. Cosby has surfaced in many of the efforts to revise state laws.
Supporters of the AT&T-Time Warner deal have pointed to the success of a similar one between Comcast and NBCUniversal, where both sides are thriving.
Racing across the electoral map, Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Trump begged voters to see Tuesday’s vote as a choice of almost apocalyptic significance.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 2, 2016, covering November 7, 2016.
Kings of Leon
Drake
Soundtrack
The Game
Twenty One Pilots
2016Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer-songwriter and poet (born 1934)[†]
Leonard Norman Cohen was a Canadian songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist. Themes commonly explored throughout his work include faith and mortality, isolation and depression, betrayal and redemption, social and political conflict, sexual and romantic love, desire, regret, and loss. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour. In 2011, he received one of the Prince of Asturias Awards for literature and the ninth Glenn Gould Prize. In 2023, Rolling Stone named Cohen the 103rd-greatest singer.
2016Janet Reno, American lawyer and government official; Attorney General of the United States (1993–2001) (born 1938)[†]
Janet Wood Reno was an American lawyer and public official who served as the 78th United States attorney general from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. A member of the Democratic Party, Reno was the second-longest serving attorney general, behind only William Wirt, and the first female to serve in the position.
2016Jimmy Young, British singer and radio personality (born 1921)[†]
Sir Leslie Ronald Young, known professionally as Jimmy Young, was an English singer, disc jockey and radio personality. Early in his career in the 1950s he had two number ones, "Unchained Melody" and "The Man from Laramie", both in 1955, and several other top ten hits in the UK chart, but he became better known for his long-running show on BBC Radio 2, The JY Prog, which ran from 1973 until 2002.
In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]