Senate Votes 97-to-1 to Override Obama 9/11 Bill Veto
The Senate delivered a blow to President Barack Obama’s legacy Wednesday, voting 97-to-1 to override his veto of a bill that would allow 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia.
The Senate delivered a blow to President Barack Obama’s legacy Wednesday, voting 97-to-1 to override his veto of a bill that would allow 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia.
The terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 forever changed the New York City skyline but the resolve of New Yorkers has never wavered. Fifteen years later a touching memorial now stands in remembrance to the more than 3,000 people who lost their lives when terrorists flew two airplanes into the World Trade Center towers.
The mother of Mohammed Atta, one of the kamikaze hijackers who destroyed the World Trade Center, says she believes her son is alive at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, in an interview published Sunday in Spain.
WASHINGTON — Inside an opulent palace in Riyadh late one evening in February 2004, two American investigators interrogated a man they believed might hold answers to one of the lingering mysteries of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks: What role, if any, did officials in Saudi Arabia’s government play in the plot?
TEL AVIV – The Saudi press is continuing to unleash fury over the U.S. Senate’s unanimous vote on a bill allowing the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia, this time with the London-based Al-Hayat daily claiming that the U.S. planned the attacks on the World Trade Center in order to generate a global war on terror.
TEL AVIV – The Saudi press slammed the U.S. for its “despicable” double standard in regard to a proposed bill that would allow victims of the September 11 attacks to sue the kingdom, claiming that the move would “open the gates of hell,” enabling all countries that have been wronged by the U.S. to sue it for war crimes.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s campaign is furious with 2016 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump over Trump’s comments that the 9/11 terrorist attacks happened on Bush’s brother former President George W. Bush’s watch. But a review of the basic facts of the situation—and Jeb Bush’s own writings— reveals that even the Bushes admit that “leaky” immigration enforcement was a major driving factor in leading to the terrorist attacks.
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump says he is more competent than both President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama, noting that the World Trade Center came down during Bush’s watch.
Bretagne, believed to be the only surviving 9/11 rescue dog, recently celebrated her 16th birthday in New York City.
On September 10, 2001, our leaders in Washington were happy to be debating things like Kennedy-Boehner education reform and McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform.
On the day before the Sept. 11 anniversary, Ben Sturner stepped onto his balcony to see a rainbow emerging from the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. From his apartment in Long Island City, Queens, Sturner had a clear view of the phenomenon.
The Associated Press plans to move its global headquarters from Manhattan’s far west side to a smaller, less-expensive space adjacent to the World Trade Center site, the news cooperative’s president said Wednesday.
Two of the largest media companies in the country, News Corp. and 21st Century Fox, announced that they have signed onto a “non-binding” letter of intent to rebuild at 2 World Trade Center.