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Casablanca at 70: A Film That Is More Relevant Than Ever

Rebecca Tinsley | Posted 01.30.2012 | Impact

Read More: Fascism, Bosnia, Casablanca, Nazis, Arab Spring, The English Patient, Darfur, World War Two, 9/11, Sudan, Nigeria, Gay Marriage, Rwanda, Impact News

Where are today's Casablanca-style heroes? They are in the streets of North Africa (and Syria), facing down well-armed, brutal, corrupt regimes, most of which were propped up by the West.

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City Denies Request For Parade Honoring 9/11 First Responders

Posted 01.25.2012 | New York

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The city has denied a request from a disabled Ground Zero worker to organize a ticker-tape parade honoring 9/11 first responders. 51-year old TJ G...

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Open Letter to Mark Wahlberg, From One Dad to Another

Davis Schneiderman | Posted 01.19.2012 | Comedy

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Why apologize, Mark, for who we are and what the world has made of us? We are both proud parents, and we'll do what we must do to protect our children and our country.

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Justice and the Enemy: The Case for Guantanamo

William Shawcross | Posted 01.17.2012 | Politics

Read More: 9/11, Adolf Eichmann, Nazi War Criminal, William Shawcross, Jerusalem, Nuremberg, Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Justice and the Enemy, Politics News

Critics of military courts sometimes complain that the accused have far less rights than in the federal system. This is not so. Any Nazi defendant transported by time machine from Nuremberg to Guantanamo would be stunned by the rights, privileges, and safeguards to which he was now entitled.

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Is Peace With the Taliban Possible?

Jayshree Bajoria | Posted 01.13.2012 | World

Read More: Afghan Peace Talks, Taliban, Qatar, Taliban Talks, Afghanistan, Afghan Taliban, Marc Grossman, Afghanistan War, Pakistan, 9/11, World News

Taliban peace talks are riddled with challenges: the Taliban has sought the release of at least five senior Taliban leaders from the Guantanamo Bay prison and poor Afghan governance continues to undermine a lasting solution.

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Why You Should Practice Emergency Preparedness With Your Kids

Dr. G | Posted 01.11.2012 | Parents

Read More: Parenting, Kids, 911, Emergency Preparedness, Parents News

Practice calling 911 with your kids. Run a fire drill. Talk to them about doing exactly what you say in an emergency and not asking questions until after.

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NYC 911 Makes 9/11 Changes

AP | By SAMANTHA GROSS | Posted 01.06.2012 | New York

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NEW YORK -- The city's 911 operators are now able to give callers details about emergency events, reversing what the Sept. 11 Commission determined we...

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Mom Who Shot Intruder To Protect Baby Won't Face Charges

AP | Posted 01.05.2012 | Crime

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BLANCHARD, Okla. -- Authorities don't plan to file charges against an Oklahoma woman who fatally shot a New Year's Eve intruder at her house while she...

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Did 911 Give Okla. Mom Permission To Shoot Intruder?

Posted 01.06.2012 | Crime

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A teenage mother shot and killed an intruder after a 911 operator said she was allowed to defend her infant son and herself with force. Sarah McKi...

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Man Pees On ER Floor, Passes "Unbearable" Gas

Posted 01.03.2012 | Miami

Read More: Isreal Rosado, Urination, Gas, New Horizons, Florida News, Fort Pierce, 911, Florida, St. Lucie, Lawnwood, Miami News

Fort Pierce police working at Lawnwood Regional Medical Center & Heart Institute's emergency room December 17 say they encountered a man who refused t...

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Michael Bloomberg Says Work On Planned 9/11 Museum Has Stalled

AP | By DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 12.30.2011 | New York

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NEW YORK -- Work on a planned museum at the World Trade Center has ground to a halt because of a financial dispute, and there is now no possibility it...

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Ballroom Dancing Can Do All THIS?

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 12.29.2011 | Women

Read More: Women, Lifestyle, Emotional Wellness, Patrice Tanaka, 9/11, Women in Business, Passion, Joy, Becoming Ginger Rogers, Positive Thinking, Women and Caretaking, Women and Optomism, Book Reviews, Women News, Women and Perfectionism, New Year, Emmanuel Pierre-Antoine, Women and Joy, Women News

"We want to make sure others are taken care of. We're trying to be there 200 percent, and we put ourselves last."

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TLC's Controversial New Show Takes On 9/11

AP | By DAVID BAUDER | Posted 12.29.2011 | TV

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NEW YORK -- A television show about members of a Muslim community in Michigan is focusing what may be its second-to-last episode almost entirely on th...

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1 Million People Have Visited The 9/11 Memorial

AP | Posted 12.29.2011 | New York

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NEW YORK — Officials at the Sept. 11 Memorial in New York City say they plan to announce Thursday that the site has had 1 million visitors since...

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Iraq War in Retrospect: Toppling Saddam Not Worth the Cost

Michael Hughes | Posted 12.28.2011 | World

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The fact we have the military might to conquer the world matters not when our economic backbone is on the verge of snapping. As Dwight D. Eisenhower once said: "How far can you go without destroying from within, what you are trying to defend from without?"

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Obama Signs Bill Honoring 9/11 Victims

AP | Posted 12.23.2011 | Politics

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PITTSBURGH -- President Barack Obama has signed a bill that honors victims of the Sept. 11 attacks with congressional medals. Obama signed the Fallen...

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Gingrich Slams GOP Rival Over 'Drugs'

The Huffington Post | Paige Lavender | Posted 12.22.2011 | Politics

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Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich slammed rival Ron Paul when he claimed Paul's political base is made of "people who want to legalize d...

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Movie review: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Marshall Fine | Posted 12.22.2011 | Entertainment

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I keep want to referring to Stephen Daldry's film of Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close as, instead, ..& Incredibly Cute. That...

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Always Ready? For Aging Coast Guard Fleet, Not So Much

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.21.2011 | Politics

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BALTIMORE -- Cmdr. William Lane climbs down a steep ladder deep within the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bear. Stepping over a pipe with paint blistered ...

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Rep. Peter King's Spurious Religious 'Enemy Within'

Rep. Mike Honda | Posted 12.19.2011 | Politics

Read More: 9/11, Rep Mike Honda, Rep. Peter King, Kareem Khan, Muslim Americans, Homeland Security, Terrorism, Politics News

Two weeks ago, on the 70th Anniversary of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Rep. Peter King once again sought the spotlight with a congressional hearing claiming to explore 'homegrown terrorism's threat to military communities inside the United States.'

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Family Guy Prompts the Question: Ten Years Later, Is It Okay to Have Fun With 9/11?

Ed Martin | Posted 12.15.2011 | TV

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Ten years later, is it too soon for television to have some fun with the events of September 11, 2001? I've been wondering about this since the November 20 episode of Fox's often controversial Family Guy.

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South Korean Developers May Change 'Twin Towers' Building Design

The Huffington Post | Ileana Llorens | Posted 12.20.2011 | World

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South Korean developers may be backing down from plans to erect two luxury apartment buildings that some say resemble the World Trade Center buildings...

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Ex-Naval Officer Gets Prison Time For 9/11 Fraud

AP | By NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 12.12.2011 | DC

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WASHINGTON -- A retired naval officer honored for helping rescue fellow Pentagon workers in the 2001 terrorist attack was sentenced Monday to 3 1/2 y...

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Ron Paul: 9/11 Caused 'Glee In The Administration'

Posted 12.09.2011 | Politics

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GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul launched a harsh charge against the Bush administration Thursday night, alleging that it responded to the 9/11 att...

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