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Flags and flowers are placed in the inscribed names at the National September 11 Memorial in New York on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Donald King)
6 hours ago

US marks 24th anniversary of 9/11 terror attacks

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Volunteers work during the "NYC Meal Pack For 9/11 Day" at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
13 hours ago

Volunteers prep millions of meals for fellow New Yorkers on 24th anniversary of 9/11

Read full article: Volunteers prep millions of meals for fellow New Yorkers on 24th anniversary of 9/11
FILE - President Donald Trump attends the NASCAR Daytona 500 auto race at Daytona International Speedway, Feb. 16, 2025, in Daytona Beach, Fla. (Pool via AP, File)
19 hours ago

Trump loves the spotlight that comes with sports. He especially loves when it's on him

Read full article: Trump loves the spotlight that comes with sports. He especially loves when it's on him
Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a joint news conference with Ecuador's Foreign Minister Gabriela Sommerfeld at the Palacio de Carondelet, in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)
2 days ago

US upends its role as the high-seas drug police with a military strike on Venezuelan boat

Read full article: US upends its role as the high-seas drug police with a military strike on Venezuelan boat

The United States has long relied on the Coast Guard and allies to interdict drug vessels through arrests and prosecutions at sea.

FILE - Hagi Abucar places flowers for his former coworker Lindsey Herkness on the south reflecting pool during the 9/11 Memorial ceremony on the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, Sept. 11, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

Trump seeking ways to take over 9/11 memorial in NYC

Read full article: Trump seeking ways to take over 9/11 memorial in NYC

President Donald Trump’s administration says it's looking at ways the federal government can assume operation of the 9/11 memorial in New York City.

FILE - Rudy Giuliani speaks to the media outside Manhattan federal court in New York, Jan. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, file)

Released from hospital, Rudy Giuliani speaks out about New Hampshire car crash

Read full article: Released from hospital, Rudy Giuliani speaks out about New Hampshire car crash

Rudy Giuliani says he experienced the most pain he'd ever felt when he was in a highway car crash last weekend.

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9/11 Field of Honor Memorial makes its debut at Beaver Dam Sunflower Festival

Read full article: 9/11 Field of Honor Memorial makes its debut at Beaver Dam Sunflower Festival

Volunteers marked Labor Day by creating a poignant tribute to fallen 9/11 first responders at Beaver Dam Farm in Buchanan, planting 406 American flags and attaching 406 tags adorned with names and photos of those who made the ultimate sacrifice among the sunflowers at the farm.

FILE - Rudy Giuliani speaks to the media outside Manhattan federal court in New York, Jan. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, file)

Trump says he's awarding former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Read full article: Trump says he's awarding former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom

President Donald Trump says he’s awarding former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom, announcing the honor two days after his longtime political ally was badly injured in a traffic accident.

John Broderick, former New Hampshire Supreme Court chief justice and former administrator of the YDC Settlement Fund, is sworn in to testify Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, in Concord, N.H., in a lawsuit seeking to block changes to the states process for compensating those who were abused as children in state custody. (Geoff Forester/The Concord Monitor via AP, Pool)

9/11 victims' fund architect slams changes to New Hampshire abuse settlement program

Read full article: 9/11 victims' fund architect slams changes to New Hampshire abuse settlement program

An attorney who helped design the 9/11 victims’ compensation fund says New Hampshire lawmakers have undermined the fairness of a settlement program for abuse victims at the state’s youth detention center.

In this image taken from video provided by Chris O'Brien, stabbing suspect Bradford Gille of Afton, Mich., is confronted by bystanders at a Walmart parking lot at a gun point, Saturday, July 26, 2025, in Traverse City, Mich. (Chris O'Brien via AP)

Suspect in Michigan Walmart stabbings is charged with a rarely used state terrorism count

Read full article: Suspect in Michigan Walmart stabbings is charged with a rarely used state terrorism count

A Michigan prosecutor has filed a terrorism charge against a man accused of stabbing 11 people at a Walmart store.

FILE - Barry Stevens, portraying Benjamin Franklin, right, walks past a just unveiled stamp marking the 250th anniversary of the postal service, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in Washington, as Postmaster General David Steiner looks on. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

From Benjamin Franklin to Pony Express to anthrax: How the US Postal Service shaped a nation

Read full article: From Benjamin Franklin to Pony Express to anthrax: How the US Postal Service shaped a nation

The U.S. Postal Service is turning 250.

FILE- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan, March 1, 2003, in this photo obtained by the Associated Press. (AP Photo, File)

Appeals court throws out plea deal for alleged mastermind of Sept. 11 attacks

Read full article: Appeals court throws out plea deal for alleged mastermind of Sept. 11 attacks

A divided federal appeals court has thrown out an agreement that would've allowed accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to plead guilty in a deal sparing him the risk of execution for al-Qaida’s 2001 attacks.

FILE - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini has a heavy escort as he enters car to leave the airport in Tehran, Iran, Feb. 1, 1979, after arriving back in the country on a chartered Air France Boing 747. (AP Photo/FY, File)

The US and Iran have had bitter relations for decades. After the bombs, a new chapter begins

Read full article: The US and Iran have had bitter relations for decades. After the bombs, a new chapter begins

A new chapter in U.S.-Iran relations is about to be written, whether for the better or the even worse.

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FILE - The Euro sculpture stands in front of the former headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt, Germany, May 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)
12 minutes ago

European Central Bank expected to keep rates on hold as economy weathers Trump's tariffs

Read full article: European Central Bank expected to keep rates on hold as economy weathers Trump's tariffs
FILE - Britain's Ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson, speaks during a reception at the ambassador's residence on Feb. 26, 2025 in Washington. (Carl Court/Pool Photo via AP, File)
14 minutes ago

UK's Starmer fires Britain's ambassador to the US over his links to Jeffrey Epstein

Read full article: UK's Starmer fires Britain's ambassador to the US over his links to Jeffrey Epstein
Passengers check flight schedule on a screen as Nepal's international airport which was closed due to nationwide protests reopens in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
36 minutes ago

Hundreds seek to leave Nepal as the army tries to restore order after violent protests

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Setting screen time limits for your kids

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President Donald Trump speaks during a media conference at the end of the NATO summit as Foreign Secretary Marco Rubio, right, and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth listen, in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump says US would protect NATO allies, recognizing that ‘they love their countries’

Read full article: Trump says US would protect NATO allies, recognizing that ‘they love their countries’

NATO’s annual summit this week focused heavily on Article 5, the alliance’s collective defense guarantee.

Research assistant Alyssa Carpenter inspects timbers from of a wooden Revolutionary War-era gunboat to prepare for the craft's partial reconstruction at the New York State Museum, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Albany, New York (AP Photo/Michael Hill)

A Revolutionary War-era boat is being painstakingly rebuilt after centuries buried beneath Manhattan

Read full article: A Revolutionary War-era boat is being painstakingly rebuilt after centuries buried beneath Manhattan

A Revolutionary War-era boat is being reconstructed more than two centuries after being buried deep beneath Manhattan’s expanding shoreline.

Vice President JD Vance speaks during a visit to the Wilshire Federal Building Friday, June 20, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Vance blames California Dems for violent immigration protests and calls Sen. Alex Padilla 'Jose'

Read full article: Vance blames California Dems for violent immigration protests and calls Sen. Alex Padilla 'Jose'

Vice President JD Vance is accusing California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass of encouraging violent immigration protests.

This wanted poster from the U.S. State Departments' Rewards for Justice program shows al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula leader Saad bin Atef al-Awlaki. (Rewards For Justice, U.S. Department of State, via AP)

Yemen's al-Qaida branch leader threatens Trump, Musk and others

Read full article: Yemen's al-Qaida branch leader threatens Trump, Musk and others

The leader of al-Qaida’s Yemen branch has threatened both U.S. President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip in his first video message since taking over the group last year.

FILE - Former New York City police Commissioner Bernard Kerik stands outside the Federal Court in Washington, June 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Bernard Kerik, who led NYPD on 9/11 before prison and pardon, has died at 69

Read full article: Bernard Kerik, who led NYPD on 9/11 before prison and pardon, has died at 69

Bernard Kerik, who served as New York City’s police commissioner on 9/11 and later pleaded guilty to tax fraud before being pardoned, has died.

President Donald Trump speaks as he meets with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Federal judge blocks Trump's firing of two Democratic members of privacy oversight board

Read full article: Federal judge blocks Trump's firing of two Democratic members of privacy oversight board

A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s firing of two Democratic members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.

FILE - Theo Von arrives at "Opry 100: A Live Celebration", March 19, 2025, at The Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tenn. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File)

Theo Von riffs on drugs, disabilities and homosexuality before Trump speaks at US base in Qatar

Read full article: Theo Von riffs on drugs, disabilities and homosexuality before Trump speaks at US base in Qatar

When President Donald Trump addressed U_S_ and Qatari troops at a military base in Qatar, he assured the rank and file “we don’t care if you’re politically correct.”.

Cathy Votaw, 69, left, and her daughter Anna Eisenberg, pose with a painting of Votaw's father, Albert Votaw, portrayed as a young man in the 1940's, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, at their home in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

USAID is all but gone. For one family, 3 generations of service were defined by it

Read full article: USAID is all but gone. For one family, 3 generations of service were defined by it

In a way, the requiem of a now dismantled agency that promoted U.S. security through development and humanitarian work abroad can be told through its people.

FILE - In this photo taken April 6, 2016, a sign at the federal courthouse in Tacoma, Wash., is shown to inform visitors of the federal government's REAL ID act. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, file)

What to know as US prepares to require REAL ID for many air travelers next month

Read full article: What to know as US prepares to require REAL ID for many air travelers next month

The U.S. will require enhanced identification for many air travelers starting May 7.

President Donald Trump waves as he returns to the White House, Sunday, April 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

As controversies pile up, Trump allies increasingly turn on one another

Read full article: As controversies pile up, Trump allies increasingly turn on one another

Members of President Donald Trump’s administration are increasingly feuding as they face escalating controversies.

FILE - Laura Loomer arrives with Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at Philadelphia International Airport, Sept. 10, 2024, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola, File)

A look at Laura Loomer, longtime Trump ally criticized for racist posts and Sept. 11 conspiracies

Read full article: A look at Laura Loomer, longtime Trump ally criticized for racist posts and Sept. 11 conspiracies

Laura Loomer, a right-wing personality known for her incendiary social media presence, appeared to have President Donald Trump's ear again.

FILE - Architect David Childs talks about his design for the new 7 World Trade Center, a 52-story building which will rise to a height of 750 feet, during the design's unveiling at the building's construction site in New York, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2002. (AP Photo/Ed Bailey, file)

David Childs, architect of One World Trade Center that rose on Twin Towers site after 9/11, dies

Read full article: David Childs, architect of One World Trade Center that rose on Twin Towers site after 9/11, dies

David Childs, the lead architect of the One World Trade Center skyscraper that rose from the site where the Twin Towers collapsed in New York City during the 9/11 attacks, has died.

FILE - Passengers waiting for a flight to Helsinki rest at Lisbon's international Portela Airport on May 10, 2010, as flights were disrupted due to an ash cloud drifting over from a volcano in Iceland that caused major air travel chaos. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

A look at some of history's worst air travel disruptions before a fire shut Heathrow

Read full article: A look at some of history's worst air travel disruptions before a fire shut Heathrow

A fire that closed London’s Heathrow Airport has sparked one of the most serious disruptions to air travel in years.

The Department of Homeland Security seal is pictured as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem tours U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, Monday, March 17, 2025, in Kodiak, Alaska. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

They worked to prevent violence and terrorism at the agency created after 9/11. Then they got fired

Read full article: They worked to prevent violence and terrorism at the agency created after 9/11. Then they got fired

A federal program designed to prevent targeted violence and terrorism in the U.S. has lost 20% of its staff after layoffs hit its probationary staffers.

New York Mayor Eric Adams holds a flower and listens to speakers during a ceremony marking the anniversary of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing at the 9/11 Memorial, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Bell tolls as New York marks the anniversary of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing

Read full article: Bell tolls as New York marks the anniversary of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing

New York City has marked the anniversary of the 1993 bombing at the old World Trade Center, when Islamic extremists first attempted to bring down the twin towers.

U.S. Border Patrol agent David Maland is recognized with military honors before his burial at Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis, on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

Border Patrol agent whose death is tied to cultlike Zizians is buried with military honors

Read full article: Border Patrol agent whose death is tied to cultlike Zizians is buried with military honors
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