Former President George W. Bush declines invitation to accompany Obama

President Barack Obama will participate in a wreath-laying ceremony at Ground Zero and meet with 9/11 families and first responders when he visits Thursday.

The White House provided the new details on the trip in a statement Wednesday.

Following the killing of Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, Obama plans to mark the occasion by visiting the most famous site of bin Laden’s destruction.

The White House says Obama’s trip will include a private meeting with family members of 9/11 victims, a meeting with first responders that will be open to some news coverage, and a wreath-laying at the 9/11 memorial.

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Obama has a history of shifting his stance on funding of campaigns

National affairs writer

President Obama, who denounced the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision that allows donors to give unlimited funds to pay for campaign ads without having their names disclosed, now looks likely to benefit from those same type of ads next year.

In his State of Union address in 2010 Obama administered a scolding to the Supreme Court justices who had joined the majority in the Citizens United decision — with some of those justices sitting in front of him in the House chamber.

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Contenders are under intense pressure to demonstrate their ability bring in the money

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Mitt Romney is organizing a phone bank fundraiser in Las Vegas next month. Tim Pawlenty is holding regular “friendraising” meetings in big-money California and elsewhere. Haley Barbour hunkers down soon with finance operatives in cash-rich New York and other lucrative places.

Republican presidential hopefuls are in the midst of a fundraising frenzy as they seek to raise mounds of campaign cash and assemble influential donor networks. W

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New Orleans, LA — A collision involving an Amtrak train and a vehicle left a woman dead in Jefferson Parish. The fatal train accident occurred late Wednesday night, April 20, 2011 just after 10:30 p.m., in the 1000 block of Central Avenue, reported NOLA.com.

According to Jefferson Parish sheriff’s deputies, the female driver of a silver 2002 Toyota Camry was killed when her vehicle was struck by an Amtrak passenger train as it was on its way to New Orleans from Chicago.

The victim has not been identified.

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Compared to other forms of cancer, mesothelioma is particularly aggressive and deadly. Why? The disease—almost always caused by asbestos exposure—is typically detected only in its advanced stages, when treatment options are of limited effectiveness.

The study was presented April 4 at the American Association for Cancer Research’s 102nd annual meeting. Mesothelioma lawyers and experts say the discovery could be a game changer.

For years, mesothelioma lawyers have had far more success than mesothelioma researchers. Large settlements and jury awards have been commonplace, but a cure remains elusive.

Now researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center may be giving victims of asbestos exposure a valuable tool—and hope. They’ve

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