The December 21, 2011 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♐. It was the 354 day of the year. President of the United States was Barack Obama.
If you were born on this day, you are 14 years old. Your last birthday was on the Sunday, December 21, 2025, 196 days ago. Your next birthday is on Monday, December 21, 2026, in 168 days. You have lived for 5,310 days, or about 127,451 hours, or about 7,647,075 minutes, or about 458,824,500 seconds.
Date: 21 December 2011
By Katharine Q. Seelye
Katharine Seelye
A virtual lovefest broke out on Fox News Tuesday night as former President Bill Clinton and former Speaker Newt Gingrich offered respectful praise for each other, neither rising to the bait tossed out by the host, Bill O’Reilly.
Date: 22 December 2011
By Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
Democracy under siege.
Date: 21 December 2011
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Ranbaxy Laboratories of India agreed to a settlement with the United States Food and Drug Administration in relation to a Justice Department investigation to resolve a dispute about plant violations.
Date: 22 December 2011
By Amy Chozick
Amy Chozick
What began as a British scandal has stroked shareholder discontent and called into question who will take over from the 80-year-old Rupert Murdoch at News Corporation.
Date: 21 December 2011
By Gretchen Reynolds
Gretchen Reynolds
Runners over 60 were just as efficient as younger runners, even those in their 20s, though they are more prone to injuries.
Date: 21 December 2011
Bill Conlin abruptly retired Tuesday as three women and one man accused him of sexually molesting them when they were children in the 1970s, according to an investigation by The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Date: 21 December 2011
By David Carr
David Carr
The Piers Morgan who came in for scrutiny in the Leveson inquiry on press ethics in Britain has very little to do with the Piers Morgan of today.
Date: 21 December 2011
By David Bornstein
David Bornstein
Our crises and problems are well covered in the media, but solutions to those problems often aren’t. That can change.
Date: 21 December 2011
By Brian Stelter
Brian Stelter
The international news network Al Jazeera won a DuPont Award, presented by Columbia University, for a report on the pace of recovery in Haiti. CBS, NBC, HBO and The New York Times were also cited.
Date: 22 December 2011
By Noam Cohen
Noam Cohen
For one editor, life after Vogue; Deadspin on the abuse accusations against a Philadelphia sportswriter; will socially conscious hip-hop make a comeback?