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The Rising: World Trade Center's glittery spire
The sky was falling and streaked with blood I heard you calling me then you disappeared into the dust Up the stairs, into the fire... - Bruce Springsteen, Into the Fire That warm clear morning of September 11, 2001, it was public workers who rushed into the the twin towers to save lives. Show More Summary
1,776 Feet
Construction workers bolted a communications spire atop the New World Trade Center in Manhattan today, bringing the still-under-construction skyscraper to its final height of 1,776 feet. Rightly: New York has rebuilt, and are taller and better than before. Show More Summary
World Trade Center, Built With Union Labor, Is Now America’s Tallest Building
One World Trade Center, which will replace the World Trade Center towers that fell in the September 11 terrorist attacks, became the tallest building in the United States this morning when workers hoisted a 408-foot spire atop it. At 1,776 feet tall, the building is now the tallest in the United States and the third-tallest [...]
1 WORLD TRADE CENTER TOPPED: ‘LIKE GIVING THE TERRORISTS THE FIGHTER’
It took a long time, but the sphere at 1 World Trade Trade Center was raised to the top, making the building the tallest in the USA and the third tallest in the world. And for some New Yorkers, it’s like giving the terrorists the finger, as one person in the Big Apple put it.
Video: World Trade Center to become tallest building in Western hemisphere today … or tomorrow
New beginnings.
Almost 12 years later, a new discovery of a plane part from 9/11
The New York City Police Department released these photos of a piece of a Boeing plane that was crashed into the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001, and the narrow intra-block alley in which it was discovered: The piece was found wedged behind 51 Park Place, an addr …
Rachel Maddow Goes After Alex Jones And The Truthers
Maddow mocks Republicans for embracing its most extreme elements. She also recommended the Popular Mechanics volume Debunking 9/11 Myths, which attempted to debunk the misinformation about the collapse of the World Trade Center towers and refute some of the “9/11 truther” theories about the attacks being planned by the U.S. government. “Of course it didn’t [...]
Fox Gears Up For Another Wave Of Islamophobia
Fox News is expressing unfounded "concerns" about the developer of an Islamic community center near the World Trade Center who has recently purchased other buildings in the area. The network spent years smearing the center as a potential...Show More Summary
At the Bush Library...
"... a butterfly ballot from Palm Beach County, Fla., a replica of Mr. Bush’s Oval Office, the bullhorn he used at ground zero and a gnarled steel girder from the World Trade Center demolished on Sept. 11, 2001...." Mr. Bush’s museum...Show More Summary
From the ashes of 9/11, a portrait of Kennedy emerges
From the ashes of 9/11, a portrait of Kennedy emerges (via AFP) Rarely seen photos of John F. Kennedy, once feared to have been lost forever when the World Trade Center was destroyed on 9/11, form part of a striking exhibition opening Friday which aims to shed new light on the iconic US leader. The [...]
Judge Throws Out Atheist Lawsuit over World Trade Center Cross
A U.S. District judge has thrown out a lawsuit, brought by an atheist group that hoped to prevent the display of a cross-shaped steel beam found in the rubble at the site of the World Trade Center. The Associated Press reports that Judge...Show More Summary
The Most Devastating Sequester Cuts
Think Progress has 32 of them, including: $20 million cut from the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Programs $10 million cut from the World Trade Center Health Program Fund $168 million cut from Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration $75 million cut from the Aging and Disability Services Programs… $633 million cut [...]
Have you forgotten? World Trade Center bombing, 20 years later
Yes, it’s really been two decades since the first World Trade Center bombing. We always hear “Never forget.” But how many still remember anymore? And how many have really learned? The jihadi truck bomb exploded at 12:18pm, Feb. 26, 1993: Four of the six people killed in the attack worked for the World Trade Center’s [...]
Torture at Gitmo: Lt. Col. Couch on His Refusal to Prosecute Abused Prisoner
On Sept. 11, 2001, Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Couch’s friend died co-piloting the second plane to hit the World Trade Center. Soon after, Couch became one of the first military prosecutors assigned to the U.S. military base at Guantánamo Bay to prosecute men alleged to have carried out the terrorist plot. Show More Summary
Ramzi Yousef Sues to End Solitary
Convicted 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef is serving life with no parole plus 240 years at a Colorado federal supermax prison in a 7-by-11-foot cell with no bars and one small high window, far from other inmates and prison staff. Show More Summary
Zero Dark Thirty: Hijacking History
What if a new film came out about 9/11, “based on a firsthand account of actual events,” that convincingly showed no Jews were in the World Trade Center that fateful morning. The fiery disaster, in fact, was a Zionist/CIA plot to justify...Show More Summary
Racist, sexist graffiti in the new World Trade Center bathrooms.
Port Authority police are now investigating. Who wrote these things? The construction workers?
“Such slurs are offensive and have no place at the World Trade Center site or elsewhere,” PA spokeswoman Lisa MacSpadden said. “The Port Authority...Show More Summary
No Twin Towers in Skyline of CW's 'The Carrie Diaries'
Remember those two tall buildings that dominated the skyline of New York City before 9/11?
Some wanted to build a memorial on the site of the former World Trade Center after that horrifying day. Others wanted to leave the area as itShow More Summary