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Under the accord, if ratified, 20,000 wireless employees would get better pay and job protection, and the company would bring work back from overseas.
With the Republican majority in the Senate now reduced to a single seat, the party’s establishment is uneasy about what the populist wing could do in next year’s primary races.
Naomi, Christy, Gisele, Gigi, Versace: a surprising trend of the year reaches its apogee.
The acquisition of most of Rupert Murdoch’s entertainment empire makes Disney a true competitor to services like Netflix and Amazon.
As he prepares to sell off much of 21st Century Fox, the 86-year-old magnate is testing the ties that bind the family-run fief.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 13, 2017, covering December 14, 2017.
Taylor Swift
Pentatonix
Sam Smith
Garth Brooks
Ed Sheeran
2017Yu Kwang-chung, Chinese writer (born 1928)[†]
Yu Kwang-chung, also romanised as Yu Guangzhong was a Taiwanese writer, poet, educator and critic.
2017The Walt Disney Company announces that it would acquire 21st Century Fox, including the 20th Century Fox movie studio, for $52.4 billion.[†]
The Walt Disney Company, commonly referred to as simply Disney, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was founded on October 16, 1923, as an animation studio, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy Oliver Disney as Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio; it later operated under the names Walt Disney Studio and Walt Disney Productions before adopting its current name in 1986. In 1928, Disney established itself as a leader in the animation industry with the short film Steamboat Willie. The film used synchronized sound to become the first post-produced sound cartoon, and popularized Mickey Mouse, who became Disney's mascot and corporate icon.
In 2017, the world population was approximately 7,645,617,954 people[†]