The Pentagon memorial to victims of the 9/11 attacks was completed nearly four years ago. The World Trade Center memorial was completed last Sept. 11.
But the memorial outside Shanksville, Pa., where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed with the loss of 40 passengers and crew members, is still millions short of meeting its $70 million proposed budget.
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President Obama lost more than 40 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s Kentucky Democratic primary to the “uncommitted” option — the latest example of the incumbent president failing to win votes in an uncompetitive primary.
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Three decades after private-equity firms transformed American business, American politics is finally catching up — breathless and bewildered.
For the past week, the spotlight of the presidential campaign has fallen on Mitt Romney’s 15 years as an executive at the private-equity firm Bain Capital. President Obama has, at times, portrayed Romney, his likely GOP challenger, as a kind of pinstriped vampire who sucked profits out of hapless companies while factories closed and workers suffered.
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Four Secret Service employees have decided to fight their dismissals for engaging in inappropriate conduct in Colombia last month, a development that could unravel what has been a swift and tidy resolution to an embarrassing scandal over agents’ hiring of prostitutes.
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Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley signed into law a package of tax increases Tuesday targeting six-figure earners, tobacco users and companies engaged in real estate transactions to cover record spending on education.
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