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NYPD graduate Casey Kloepfer (left), gets his shield and officer Ronald Kloepfer (right) died on 9/11 At four years of age, Casey Kloepfer was too young to understand why his father never came home from work. Twenty-five years later, he carries that loss into the same department his father served, wearing his father’s badge number…

Trump opens 2.93M acres of Utah lands to new mining claims after cutting monument protections. (Photo: Shutterstock) President Donald Trump’s July decision to sharply shrink two major national monuments in Utah took effect for mining and mineral development on September 11, when nearly 2.93 million acres removed from Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante became eligible…

The Intrepid wasn’t an independent FBI facility. The museum complex also assisted FEMA and state and local emergency responders during the response. The ship’s flight deck served another unanticipated purpose, as a temporary helipad. One morning that changed New York’s skyline forever, one of the city’s most unlikely buildings became a place of urgent work….

US CEO asks if US is ready to deport foreign doctors or AI engineers through the elimination of the 60-day grace period. The CEO of an immigration firm in Seattle, Xiao Wang, questioned the DHS proposal to eliminate the 60-day grace period allowed to job visa holders in case they get laid off and asked…

Three lawmakers wrote to commerce secretary Howard Lutnick against three Indian IT companies. A bipartisan group of US lawmakers has urged the Trump administration to blacklist three Indian companies over allegations that they have been involved in “hack-for-hire” operations targeting American citizens, businesses and lawyers.In a letter to US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Democratic Senators…

Milwaukee Brewers owner Mark Attanasio to open $2 million Malibu property to public after beach dispute. (Photo: NY Post) Milwaukee Brewers owner Mark Attanasio is being forced to dedicate a $2 million beachfront property in Malibu for public use after his company allegedly used heavy machinery to remove sand, cobble stones and boulders from a…

When 21-year-old Alexandra walked across the stage at Fort Hays State University in 2007 to collect her bachelor’s degree, she had a rather unusual fellow graduate beside her. Her grandmother, Nola Ochs, was also receiving a degree that day. The difference was that Alexandra was 21 and Ochs was 95.For Ochs, the ceremony marked the…

Nigerian-origin professor at Carnegie Mellon University Uju Anya’s social media posts trigger outrage. Carnegie Mellon University has launched a review of social media posts attributed to Nigerian-born professor Uju Anya after a fresh backlash over remarks described by the university as “hostile and threatening”. The university said Anya, an associate professor of second-language acquisition in…

Doug Brown (left) and Dereck Lovell (far right) Image Credit: Doug Brown via PEOPLE When the World Trade Center was engulfed in smoke and flames on September 11, 2001, a security guard carrying a flashlight and bullhorn appeared to six people who were struggling to find a way out of the South Tower. He was…

Chicago’s founding problem had always been plumbing. The city drew its drinking water from Lake Michigan and emptied sewers into the Chicago River, which flowed straight into Lake Michigan. But every rainstorm flushed the stockyards and slaughterhouses and a million people’s waste out toward the water intakes. This is why the nineteenth-century city was periodically…