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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is in the cross-hairs of Republicans who contend that it — and its director — have too much power.
The leading candidates are both high-profile politicians with their share of detractors.
As crisis has engulfed soccer on both sides of the Atlantic in recent months, there remains some common ground between the two nations.
An electric company in Washington is offering incentives to cannabis growers to upgrade their operations — a high-stakes experiment in energy conservation.
The body of a woman whose mutation keeps her on the brink of starvation may hold the secret to treating obesity.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 23, 2016, covering November 25, 2016.
Bon Jovi
Alicia Keys
Soundtrack
Pentatonix
Rae Sremmurd
2016Fidel Castro, Communist leader of Cuba, and revolutionary (born 1926)[†]
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1965 until 2011. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party communist state; industry and business were nationalized, and socialist reforms were implemented throughout society.
2016Ron Glass, American actor (born 1945)[†]
Ronald Earle Glass was an American actor. He was known for his roles as literary Det. Ron Harris in the television sitcom Barney Miller (1975–1982), and as the spiritual shepherd, Shepherd Book, in the science fiction series Firefly (2002) and its sequel film Serenity (2005).
In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]