NYDailyNews: A hungry rat chomped on a straphanger’s foot as she waited for a train in a downtown subway station, transit sources said. The woman was sitting on a bench on a J train platform inside the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall station about 9:30 a.m. Monday when the rodent skittered up to her and bit down [...]
The First plane right before impact. The second plane right before impact. War had been declared. The first Warriors. But our Flag was still there.
FoxNews: KABUL, Afghanistan – The Taliban set off a truck bomb on an American base in eastern Afghanistan Saturday night, wounding nearly 80 Americans and killing five Afghan civilians in a deadly strike that served as a fresh reminder of the consequences of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The bombing took place on the same [...]
DoDLive: On a beautiful late April afternoon, Marcela Kazimir watched tearfully as her wounded husband was carried onto a massive C-17 Globemaster III aircraft at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, for the flight to the United States. Marine Cpl. Miroslav “Mike” Kazimir, her husband of just 13 months, was in bad shape, suffering severe leg and [...]
New York Times: Is it just me, or are the 9/11 commemorations oddly subdued? Actually, I don’t think it’s me, and it’s not really that odd. What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. Te atrocity should have [...]
CNN: While all eyes are on lower Manhattan, nearly 200 people gathered more than 100 blocks north of Ground Zero on Friday night to honor 9/11 families and to recognize a decade of interfaith work at the Interchurch Center. “Tonight we want to commemorate the event and we are going to honor 10 families who [...]
Mr. Secretary, thank you very much. Mr. Vice President, Dr. Biden, President Clinton, Mr. Speaker, members of Congress, my friends Tommy Franks and Tom Ridge, thank you for helping raise the money for this memorial. Members of the National Park Service and the National Park Foundation, all of those who supported this memorial, but most [...]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A Southwest Airlines flight bound for Baltimore was diverted to Nashville on Saturday after a passenger displayed “suspicious behavior” and a suspicious item was found, The Tennessean reported. Southwest Airlines spokesman Chris Mainz said Flight 1307, which was scheduled to land in Baltimore at 2:40 p.m. E.T., was diverted because the crew [...]
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The Hill: President Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress was watched by 31 million television viewers, according to Nielsen. Eleven networks carried the president’s Thursday evening jobs speech, which began shortly after 7 p.m. EDT. The NFL season opener between the Green Bay Packers and the New Orleans Saints, which began after Obama’s [...]
The Hill: The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) has sued the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to stop a new regulation by the board that would require employers to post notices informing their workers of their right to organize a union. Filed Thursday in in the U.S. District Court in Washington, NAM’s lawsuit says the [...]
National Journal: Former President Bill Clinton said on Saturday that he and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, will host a fundraiser in Washington to raise the $10 million needed to complete the Flight 93 National Memorial. Speaking at the memorial’s dedication in Shanksville, Pa., Clinton made the announcement while joking about the hyperpartisan environment in [...]
WASHINGTON, DC — SEPTEMBER 10: U.S. President Barack Obama (R) with daughter Malia Obama, and, from left, Jeffrey Ragsdale, Jamillah Linkins, and Marianne Ali, participate in a service project to commemorate the 9/11 anniversary at DC Central Kitchen September 10, 2011 in Washington, DC. The First Family packaged meals that will go to organizations such [...]
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP)- An actor who appeared in the first “Austin Powers” movie was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the violent 1990 gang rape of a Southern California woman. Joseph Son, 40, was found guilty of one felony count of torture Aug. 25 after being linked to [...]
A weapons vault at Fort Bragg FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) – Officials at Fort Bragg say an investigation is under way into the disappearance of nearly 14,000 rounds of ammunition at the Army base. Staff Sgt. Joshua Ford, a spokesman for the 82nd Airborne Division, says the ammunition went missing from the 1st Brigade Combat Team [...]
Politico: The tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks has focused attention again on the high-profile commission set up to investigate them, but one of the blue-ribbon panel’s most significant recommendations on how to combat terrorists is virtually ignored these days—and has been forcefully rejected by two successive administrations. The 9/11 commission’s unanimous report issued [...]
