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Construction debris from the World Trade Center site will be sifted for any human remains from the 9/11 terrorist attacks starting Monday. Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway said in a memo Friday that DNA testing will continue until every possible identification can be made. The sifting is expected to continue for about 10 weeks on Staten Island. … [Read more...]
A Navy SEAL from the elite SEAL TEAM 6 was killed and another SEAL injured Thursday night during a parachute training accident in Marana, Arizona, the military said. Details of the accident are not immediately available. … [Read more...]
MIAMI (AP) -- Trying to show that the economy remains a top priority, President Barack Obama promoted a plan Friday to create construction and other jobs by attracting private money to help rebuild roads, bridges and other public works projects. Obama fleshed out the details during a visit to a Miami port that's undergoing $2 billion in upgrades paid for with … [Read more...]
A top congressional Republican is drafting alternative gun control legislation that threatens to undermine proposals now under consideration by leaders of the Senate's Democratic majority. A spokeswoman for Iowa's Chuck Grassley refused to give CNN details of the senator's plan. In the past, however, he has backed measures to deter "straw purchases" to clamp down on … [Read more...]
Sen. Rand Paul says there’s “a certain amount of hypocrisy” that the same Hollywood celebrities and prominent politicians — including President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg — who are calling for gun control are also benefiting from armed protection themselves. “I don’t begrudge any famous person like Mayor Bloomberg, or the … [Read more...]
Franklin D. Roosevelt had his Hundred Days. Papa Francesco has had a little less than a month. Yet, like FDR, he has used bold gestures to alert the world that things in the Catholic Church would not be returning to business as usual. … [Read more...]
Kim Jong Un is at it again. The ruler of North Korea held an emergency meeting this morning and went over plans to strike American cities. The state run Rodong newspaper took photos of this meeting and posted them to their website. … [Read more...]
(Reuters) - North Korea put its missile units on standby on Friday to attack U.S. military bases in South Korea and the Pacific, after the United States flew two nuclear-capable stealth bombers over the Korean peninsula in a rare show of force. … [Read more...]
An outspoken Republican in Alabama, Dale Petersen has been getting a lot of media attention lately. Yesterday, Dale and his wife were shopping at their local Sam’s club when Dale absentmindley put back a jar of peanuts he had eaten from. … [Read more...]
The crisp, stucco exterior of an Oklahoma dental clinic concealed what health inspectors say they found inside: rusty instruments used on patients with infectious diseases and a pattern of unsanitary practices that put thousands of people at risk for hepatitis and the virus that causes AIDS. State and local health officials planned to mail notices Friday urging 7,000 … [Read more...]
