New memorial commemorates workers who lost their lives on the jobWASHINGTON — Labor leaders are dedicating a national memorial to honor the more than 5,000 workers who lose their lives on the job each year. SC’s Freestyle Music Park unveils rides for the younger set, prepares to open in late MayMYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Hard Rock Park is gone but visitors to the new Freestyle Music Park opening in its place can still “Get Off My Cloud” and “Fly Like an Eagle.” Animals, aliens, fantasy and fun: Summer’s family films from ‘Up’ to ‘They Came From Upstairs’LOS ANGELES — Animated animals and pint-sized aliens. Museum relics that come to life at night. Magic rocks that make wishes come true. A bouquet of balloons big enough to lift a house into the sky. Obama visits plant that builds wind turbine towers, calls for ‘new era’ in energy explorationNEWTON, Iowa — President Barack Obama, standing Wednesday in the shell of a once-giant Maytag appliance factory that now houses a wind energy company, declared that a “new era of energy exploration in America” would be a crucial to leading the nation out of an economic crisis. Obama wins fight on halting F-22s, new skirmishes with Boeing on horizonWASHINGTON — The Obama administration has chalked up a quick victory in its drive to kill an expensive jet fighter better suited for the Cold War than Afghanistan, but more skirmishes with job-rich defense contractors and their allies in Congress are just over the horizon. Obama to spend Earth Day in Iowa, touting energy bill at wind power companyWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is going on the road to pitch his energy plan — as well as environmentally friendly jobs production — in a hard-hit Iowa town, while administration officials make a similar push back in Washington. AP Executive Morning BriefingThe top business news from The Associated Press for the morning of Thursday, July 2, 2009: Obama spends Earth Day in Iowa, touting energy bill at wind power companyWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is going on the road to pitch his energy plan — as well as environmentally friendly jobs production — in a hard-hit Iowa town, while administration officials make a similar push back in Washington. March of Living honours Holocaust victimsWARSAW - Some seven thousand people walked silently at Auschwitz in Poland Tuesday to honour victims of the Holocaust amid a controversial UN conference on racism. World-wide condemnation follows Ahmadinejad rantGENEVA/WASHINGTON - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s strong rhetoric against Israel at a racism conference in Geneva Monday triggered a world-wide round of denunciations as a number of countries walked out on his speech in Geneva. Exhibit shows horrors of World War II killing fieldsSTOCKHOLM - Piles of bullets and spent cartridges, a rusty spade, old pistols and sub-machine pistols, pieces of clothing and numerous maps and photographs. Germany marks Holocaust anniversary despite Jewish boycottBERLIN - Germany Tuesday marked the Holocaust Memorial Day with President Horst Koehler promising that his country would keep alive the memory of Nazi crimes and its victims. |
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