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President Barack Obama is venturing onto the hallowed ground of the World Trade Center site, getting a firsthand look at the skyscraper being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

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First responders and residents who were stricken with cancer after being exposed to the toxic ash that exploded over Manhattan when the World Trade Center collapsed would qualify for free treatment for the disease and potentially hefty compensation payments under a rule proposed Friday by federal health officials.

After months of study, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health said

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A federal health official is expected to announce soon whether people with cancer will be covered by an aid program for anyone sickened by World Trade Center dust.

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A change to the design of a needle that will sit atop One World Trade Center is raising questions over whether the building will be America's tallest when completed.

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Workers have raised a steel column to the top of the building that's been called the Freedom Tower to make it New York City's tallest skyscraper.

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It’s official: 1 World Trade Center has now become New York's tallest skyscraper, and is on its way to becoming the tallest structure in the Western Hemisphere.

Many today were applauding the erection of the beam marked 1271 ft, marking the building as the city’s tallest skyscraper!

This comes with a sense of ambivalence on my part

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West Paterson in Passaic County is the latest New Jersey community to receive a piece of original steel from the World Trade Center to honor the victims and remember the attacks of September 11th, 2001.

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The new World Trade Center has reached a milestone: The skyscraper being built to replace the terror-wrecked twin towers is now 100 stories high -- on its way to becoming New York's tallest building.

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A government panel favors expanding an aid program for people sickened by World Trade Center dust to include people who have at least some types of cancer.

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Construction work at the World Trade Center was partly shut down Thursday for an investigation after a crane dropped metal beams 40 stories, damaging a flatbed truck.

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