Closing the South Beach firehouse every night to save money would instead cost lives, hundreds of Staten Islanders said at a weekend protest against the city’s latest budget proposal.
They chanted “161! 24-7!” and held up signs “Help Keep Local Firehouse Open” and “Many Fires Happen at Night” in hopes the city will answer their call [...]
Fatima Tayeh has lived through many hardships. The 76-year old grandmother lost her husband to a brain tumor when she was only 39 years old. Her eldest son who subsequently took over the family business died from a massive heart attack 14 years ago. This is a story of perseverance and how Fatima makes it [...]
By Rima Abdelkader
CNN was the only television news outlet to report from inside Iraq when the Persian Gulf War struck in 1991. Seventeen years later, sophisticated technologies and the Web replaced America’s major television network as the premier place for news in the attack of Mumbai’s Taj Mahal hotel.
People reported the attacks as soon as [...]
By Rima Abdelkader
U.S. Army helicopter pilot Edward George Johnson’s job in Cairo was to be ready to fly American troops in scout and attack helicopters to wherever they were needed. Instead, federal prosecutors today said the chief warrant officer used his six-month tour to smuggle some of Egypt’s rarest antique artifacts out of the country and make [...]
