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One World Trade Center is scheduled to be completed in early 2014 The 72-story 4 World Trade Center will open in November 2013. The 9/11 Museum is on schedule to open spring 2014 2 WCBS NewYork NEW YORK- Work continues to progress at the World Trade Center site as the nation prepares to mark the […]

President Obama to give Syria speech Tuesday Speaking to reporters at the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia President Obama on Friday, September 6, 2013, stated he might fail to convince the American public to back proposed U.S. military strikes against Syria. The President will address the American people on Tuesday, September 10, 2013 about […]

10 States are shortchanging Historically-Black Land Grant Universities, report says APLU releases new policy brief: Land-Grant But Unequal: State One-To-One Match Funding for 1890 Land-Grant Universities Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) September 5, 2013—Concerned that states are failing to provide the nation’s 1890 black land-grant universities the same level of one-to-one matching dollars […]

Remembering yesteryear: President Richard Nixon ends U.S. biological weapons program and statement on chemical weapons In November 1969, President Richard Nixon surprised the American public, and the world, by ordering the United States to unilaterally discontinue its biological weapons program, thus ending further research into their development. Though this decision came as a shock to […]

89,000 left Ireland in year to April 2013, 6 percent left for United States Government admits “an unacceptable level” as emigrant leaves every six minutes By Jane Walsh IrishCentral A person emigrates from Ireland every six minutes according to new figures released by the Central Statistics Office. That figures show 240 people a day, the […]

Black African Jews immigrate to Israel Haaretz The last 450 immigrants from Ethiopia landed in Israel on Wednesday afternoon, ending a 30-year national project. However, hundreds or even thousands of others remain in a camp in Ethiopia, as Israel has refused to let them in. Wednesday’s landing completed the effort’s final stage, which consisted of […]

Japanese town to scrap marooned ‘tsunami boat’ BBC News As Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports, the boat will be scrapped after residents said it brought back painful memories A Japanese town has decided to scrap a marooned fishing boat which has become a symbol of the devastating 2011 tsunami, officials say. Residents of Kesennuma in Miyagi prefecture […]

First high-speed Pendolino train arrives in Poland Polish Press Agency The first of twenty high-speed Pendolino trains purchased by Polish State Railways (PKP) has been delivered to Wroclaw, south west Poland. The train, which was made at the Alstom factory in Savigliano, Italy, is part of a programme to reduce journey durations between key Polish […]

Home prices climb in 87% of U.S. cities amid recovery Bloomberg Prices for single-family homes climbed in 87 percent of U.S. cities in the second quarter as the national housing recovery accelerated amid competition for a limited number of properties on the market. The median transaction price rose from a year earlier in 142 of […]

Blackout: How Argentina ‘Eliminated’ Africans From Its History And Conscience By Palash GhoshI International Business Times Tens of millions of black Africans were forcibly removed from their homelands from the 16th century to the 19th century to toil on the plantations and farms of the New World. This so-called “Middle Passage” accounted for one of […]