The nation forever changed 24 years ago when 3,000 people were killed in New York City, at the Pentagon, and in a field in rural Pennsylvania in terror attacks orchestrated by al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on Sept. 11, 2001.
Over the weekend, the Internet and mainstream press went berserk over the release of nearly 250,000 confidential state department cable and diplomatic directives by the infamous whistle-blowing website, WikiLeaks. Many papers, including the New York Times, The Guardian UK and the German-paper Der Spiegel, have turned their online editions into interactive archives for the few […]
by Charing Ball This morning, the New York Landmark Preservation Committee is meeting to vote on the landmark status of 45-47 Park Place, a five-story building which stands as a prominent example of the store and loft structures that dominated the dry goods warehouse districts of Lower Manhattan. As titillating as real estate preservation may […]
Obama hosts leaders from 46 countries for a two-day nuclear security summit.
(LATimes.com) — Reporting from Washington – The Obama administration will announce Friday a new screening system for flights to the United States under which passengers who fit an intelligence profile of potential terrorists will be searched before boarding their planes, a senior administration official said. The procedures, which have been approved by President Obama, are […]