Corrections: August 31, 2012
Date: 31 August 2012
The August 30, 2012 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♍. It was the 242 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 Saturday, August 30, 2025, 294 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, August 30, 2026, in 70 days. You have lived for 5,042 days, or about 121,022 hours, or about 7,261,376 minutes, or about 435,682,560 seconds.
Date: 31 August 2012
By MICHAEL COOPER
Check Point column analyzes incorrect or incomplete facts in Mitt Romney and Paul D Ryan's acceptance speeches at the Republican National Convention; notes that these misrepresentations seem to signal the arrival of a campaign in which fact-checking concerns have been largely set aside.
Date: 31 August 2012
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
Alessandra Stanley The TV Watch column notes that MSNBC has pumped up its ratings by recasting itself as a left-leaning riposte to Fox News during the presidential election by offering counterprogramming instead of news coverage.
Date: 31 August 2012
Fatima Jones is shot and killed, and three people are injured, in a shooting in Brooklyn.
Date: 31 August 2012
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
Two women are found stabbed to death in their apartment in Kazan, Russia, with a message written on an apartment wall that said 'Free Pussy Riot'; message expresses support for the feminist punk band convicted of hooliganism charges for a protest against Russian Pres Vladimir V Putin.
Date: 31 August 2012
By MICHAEL COOPER
Michael COOPER
Check Point column analyzes incorrect or incomplete facts in Mitt Romney and Paul D Ryan's acceptance speeches at the Republican National Convention; notes that these misrepresentations seem to signal the arrival of a campaign in which fact-checking concerns have been largely set aside.
Date: 31 August 2012
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
Alessandra STANLEY
Alessandra Stanley The TV Watch column notes that MSNBC has pumped up its ratings by recasting itself as a left-leaning riposte to Fox News during the presidential election by offering counterprogramming instead of news coverage.
Date: 31 August 2012
By MORGAN SMITH
Morgan SMITH
Date: 31 August 2012
By HOLLIE O'CONNOR
Hollie O'CONNOR
Date: 31 August 2012
By ROSS RAMSEY
Ross RAMSEY
Date: 31 August 2012
Fatima Jones is shot and killed, and three people are injured, in a shooting in Brooklyn.
Date: 31 August 2012
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
David
Two women are found stabbed to death in their apartment in Kazan, Russia, with a message written on an apartment wall that said 'Free Pussy Riot'; message expresses support for the feminist punk band convicted of hooliganism charges for a protest against Russian Pres Vladimir V Putin.