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The retired general once led the United States Central Command, but his tour was cut short by the Obama administration, which believed he was too hawkish on Iran.
As prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi kept majority ownership in his businesses. Scandals ensued as those businesses profited and his fortune grew.
With a backlog of more than 520,000 cases, many have become crippled by delays and bureaucratic breakdowns, creating a major obstacle for the president-electâs deportation plans.
The power structure of the Reagan years, and the age of AIDS, gave artists and activists something to rebel against.
While the French economy has become more open and competitive in recent decades, candidatesâ proposals to ease labor laws, shrink the government and confront unions face resistance.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 30, 2016, covering December 2, 2016.
A Tribe Called Quest
Pentatonix
Soundtrack
Rae Sremmurd
Drake
2016Thirty-six people die in a fire at a converted Oakland, California, warehouse serving as an artist collective.[â ]
On December 2, 2016, at about 11:20Â p.m. PST, a fire started in a former warehouse that had been unlawfully converted into an artist collective with living spaces in Oakland, California, which was hosting a concert with 80â100 attendees. The building, located in the Fruitvale neighborhood, was zoned for only industrial purposes; residential and entertainment uses were prohibited. The blaze killed 36 people, making it the deadliest fire in the history of Oakland. It was also the deadliest building fire in the United States since The Station nightclub fire in 2003, the deadliest in California since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the deadliest mass-casualty event in Oakland since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[â ]