The December 8, 2012 was a Saturday under the star sign of ♐. It was the 342 day of the year. President of the United States was Barack Obama.
If you were born on this day, you are 13 years old. Your last birthday was on the Monday, December 8, 2025, 177 days ago. Your next birthday is on Tuesday, December 8, 2026, in 187 days. You have lived for 4,925 days, or about 118,221 hours, or about 7,093,306 minutes, or about 425,598,360 seconds.
Date: 09 December 2012
By Albert R. Hunt | Bloomberg News
Albert Hunt
Fears that the fat cats, unshackled by a Supreme Court ruling, would buy the recent U.S. election proved wrong. Yet, despite the spending of $6 billion, voter turnout was down from four years ago.
Date: 09 December 2012
By The New York Times
Referencing technical issues, North Korea said that it might have to postpone a rocket launching planned for as early as Monday.
Date: 08 December 2012
By Margaret Sullivan
Margaret Sullivan
Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks are a major story for The Times, so why was the paper so late to cover the soldier’s pretrial hearing?
Date: 08 December 2012
By Doreen Carvajal
Doreen Carvajal
Over five centuries after the start of the Inquisition, Spain is opening the door to descendants of Sephardic Jews whose ancestors fled the Iberian Peninsula.
Date: 08 December 2012
By The New York Times
Subjects include a support group for transgender Latinas; residents coming back to Kissam Avenue on Staten Island; and the return of a storm-battered newspaper.
Date: 08 December 2012
By Sarah Lyall
Sarah Lyall
A nurse tricked by Australian D.J.’s who called posing as Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles to get information about Kate Middleton’s pregnancy was found dead on Friday.
Date: 08 December 2012
By Marc Santora
Marc Santora
After two Australian radio hosts, as a prank, called the London hospital where Kate Middleton was being treated, a nurse who fell victim to the hoax was found dead.
Date: 08 December 2012
By Hiroko Tabuchi
Hiroko Tabuchi
After a 7.3-magnitude earthquake hit near the same area affected by last year’s earthquake and tsunami, a television broadcaster urged people to “flee now to save your life!”
Date: 08 December 2012
By Micah Cohen
Micah Cohen
A new YouGov poll has found that a slim majority of adults believe the federal government should not enforce federal laws against marijuana use in states where it has been legalized.
Date: 09 December 2012
By Brian Knowlton and Jackie Calmes
Brian Knowlton
President Obama and Speaker John Boehner met privately at the White House as a top Republican senator suggested that his party should perhaps accede to Mr. Obama’s demand to raise the top tax rates so that the attention can shift to making serious cuts in benefit programs like Medicare and Medicaid.