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Registration began today, June 11 for tickets to visit the September 11th memorial at the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan.

This is the first day visitors can make a free, online reservation to visit the 9/11 Memorial at the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan. Advance visitor passes for date and time are required, officials said, and are free. The Memorial will be dedicated on the 10th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attack on September 11, 2011.

President Barack Obama on Monday reiterated that Congressional Republicans and Democrats will resolve the debt ceiling and that the U.S. Government would not default on its debt -- but the key, he underscored, is a GOP compromise on the revenue component. Major cuts in spending are already a part of the deal.

Social daily coupon network Groupon is changing its privacy policy. The company will collect and share more user information.

Is Microsoft going for the kill with Nokia?

Need For Speed: The Run will arrive on November 15, 2011

Cutting federal spending in 2011 could tip the U.S. economy back into a recession, just as it almost did in 1937. On the contrary, if the federal government spent more on infrastructure/public works projects it would create many jobs, and achieve great things, like the construction of the Empire State Building in the 1930s and 1 World Trade Center today.

A giant hogweed is spreading across New York, threatening humans with sap that causes severe burns, blistering, permanent scarring and even blindness. N.Y. Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has issued a giant hogweed warning and set up a hotline since the weed's growth has become out of control.

Currently, the Yankees' batter is dating Friday Night Lights actress Minka Kelly.

A new report from the Governors Highway Safety Association indicates cell phone usage and texting are helping cause one-fourth of all accidents on the road.

Navel swabs of volunteers threw up nearly 600 new strains of bacteria

A New York City artist, who installed spyware onto public computers to snap photos of customers in Apple stores was visited by US Secret Service this week.

Derek Jeter slammed a home run at Yankee Stadium in New York on Saturday to reach his 3000th career hit.

James Thomas Hackemer, a sergeant in the U.S. Army, was riding the Ride of Steel roller coaster in the front row when he fell off to his untimely death.

Rupert Murdoch was listed three times in the Time 100 as among the most influential people in the world. He is ranked 13th most powerful person in the world in the 2010 Forbes' The World's Most Powerful People list.

The 140-character magic from online social networking site Twitter is increasingly pushing the traditional news providers to the corner. The day when Twitter emerges as the first source of news is not far.

In what is perhaps an unprecedented development, a major U.S. newspaper has called for the removal of the chief of a foreign country’s intelligence chief.

Betty Ford, the widow of late President Gerald Ford and a trailblazing co-founder of an addiction center in California that bears her name, has died at the age of 93, according to the director of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum.

Greece, tiny Mediterranean nation plagued by debt problems, still bears watching by U.S. investors/readers. The reason? Bond vigilantes who have driven up Greece's interest rates could do the same in the United States, if Washington doesn't eliminate its budget deficit.

Rebekah Brooks, the embattled CEO of News International, said she will not resign from her post in defiance of massive pressure on her from many quarters, in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal that led to the demise of her tabloid, the News of the World (NOTW).

San Diego Comic-Con is over two weeks away, but celebrities and studios alike are already announcing screenings and appearances.