Here are your top highlights from this day in history for May 24, 2012: – Samuel Morse opens America’s first telegraph line – Four men sentenced for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing – Britain’s Queen Victoria born – The Brooklyn Bridge opens – Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan born
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Here are your top news headlines for this Sunday night, April 29, 2012: – Deadly van accident in New York – One World Trade Center set to become NYC’s tallest building – United Nations chief observer arrives in Syria – Former Libyan oil minister found dead Incoming search terms:april 29 2012 headlinesApril 29th 2012 motor [...]
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In just a few days, One World Trade Center will become the tallest building in Manhattan and also one of the tallest in the world. The building is expected to be taller than the Empire State Building, which currently rises 1,250 feet to the 102nd floor observation deck. One World Trade Center is being built [...]
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A Manhattan skyscraper has been evacuated as the NYPD investigates a suspicious package in the building. See important update below Police say a bomb squad is now on the scene at the Two World Financial Center, which is across the street from One World Trade Center, the site of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. [...]
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Workers at the World Trade Center construction site got a bit of a scare yesterday, as a set of steel beams crashed down 40 stories, crushing a flatbed truck and injuring one person. The crane cables that were lifting the steel beams to the top of Tower 4 (which is set to be 72 stories [...]
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Here’s a sappy-looking, tear-jerking drama that’s got “Oscar bait” written all over it. In other words, you’ll probably love it. “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” is based on Jonathan Safran Foer‘s best-selling novel of the same name. It was scripted by Oscar-winner Eric Roth (“Forrest Gump”, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button“) and features [...]
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An Islamic cultural center near the site of the September 11 terrorist attacks that destroyed the Twin Towers held its first exhibit Wednesday evening, an event that went off without incident. Sharif El-Gamal, the developer for the new center, said the biggest error they made on the new project was not involving the families of [...]
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Tony Bennett visited Howard Stern‘s radio show on Monday to promote his new “Duets II” album, but it’s his comments about 9/11 that are creating the most buzz. Stern asked Bennett about how America should handle terrorists, specifically the ones responsible for the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. “But who [...]
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It will now be easier than ever to book a flight, in theory anyway. Google Flight Search launched yesterday, a new service from the search giant allowing travelers to search for available flights, finally making use of Google’s purchase of ITA software in April 2010. Although you can go directly to the Google Flight Search website, [...]
Of all the videos I’ve seen over the years that commemorate the 9/11 attacks and honor the lives of those that were lost, this special video created by Live for their song “Overcome” is the most moving, in my opinion. No other clip captures the raw emotion and sentiment of that fateful day. On this [...]
While the rest of the world was on the ground, weeping for the tragic loss we experienced on September 11, 2001, astronaut Frank Culbertson was aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Two hundred fifty miles above the Earth’s surface, Culbertson was the only American not on our planet when disaster struck. He, along with two [...]
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As we approach the 10th anniversary of 9/11, some startling new tapes have emerged of shocked first responders and 911 operators who took the first few calls about the hijackings and subsequent crashes. While pieces of these recordings have been heard before, the document published by the Rutgers Law Review gives us an amazing play-by-play of [...]
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