LAS VEGAS — Twenty-five years after one of the most harrowing days in modern American history, several events in the Las Vegas Valley paid homage Friday to the first responders and thousands of people who were killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

A large crowd turned out for the annual Tolling of the Bells took place at 6:45 a.m. ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Retired Philadelphia Police Capt. Mark Fisher gets winded and lightheaded while emptying the dishwasher or pushing his gas-powered lawnmower, his lungs forever scarred by the ankle-deep ash that he trudged through at ground zero.

When Fisher arrived at the nation’s worst crime scene, two days after the Sept. 11, 2001, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Trent Nettles was a toddler on Sept. 11, 2001.

Now 27, Nettles is an 11th-grade Advanced Placement U.S. history teacher — too young to remember the day but responsible for teaching it to students who weren’t yet born when it happened. His challenge was to make this lesson more than just another unit on the syllabus.

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A quarter-century after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, families returned to the World Trade Center site Friday to read aloud the names of the dead, marking a milestone anniversary of a tragedy that reshaped America.

Mourners and survivors gathered around the twin waterfall pools that mark the footprints of the two towers in Lower Manhattan...Read more

In one week, the U.S. Supreme Court has twice shot down Missouri Republicans' attempts to implement their gerrymandered map aimed at wresting an additional congressional seat from Democrats.

The Republican secretary of state, Denny Hoskins, was forced by the state's high court — during an unprecedented Thursday contempt hearing that could ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — SEIU United Health Workers West President Dave Regan allegedly tried to “extort” an SEIU state council endorsement of the billionaire tax ballot measure from other California union leaders, according to an investigation commissioned by Service Employees International Union.

The investigation and a second inquiry ...Read more

SEATTLE — As fears mounted over increased immigration arrests and deportations across Washington state, five Snohomish County families believed their favorite campgrounds in Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest would always be a place they could feel safe together.

Their belief shattered last Friday, when the families awoke to armed federal...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Rep. David Maloney, a Republican who represents parts of Berks County, wants to rename Lake Erie to “Lake Pennsylvania,” arguing that the state’s only Great Lake has become increasingly important to Pennsylvania’s economy and identity.

Maloney plans to introduce a resolution that would urge President Donald Trump, ...Read more

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump on Friday hailed 9/11 victims, survivors and first responders in a poignant Pentagon ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the attacks, but also invoked the tragedy to defend his controversial war with Iran.

Trump, who skipped the main memorial at ground zero, eloquently paid tribute to a long and varied ...Read more

A six-member bloc of Gulf states is weighing a meeting with Iranian officials next week to discuss the future of the Strait of Hormuz, people familiar with the matter said, in what would be the first gathering with the Islamic Republic since war erupted more than six months ago.

Oman is aiming to get foreign ministers from the Gulf Cooperation ...Read more

BALTIMORE — In the days and weeks after Sept. 11, 2001, when American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the west side of the Pentagon at 530 mph, killing her husband and 183 others, Devora Wolk Pontell found herself lost in a fog of grief and shock.

Getting a new job helped. So did the support of colleagues, losing herself in her work at the ...Read more

A multi-billion-dollar federal program that helps schools and libraries afford broadband internet is under review by the Trump administration, leaving education officials and advocates worried about potentially significant cuts.

The E-Rate program provides about $3 billion annually for internet access and telecommunications to more than 100,000...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Californians just made it through the hottest August on record without having to endure any rolling power outages.

And, as the Southland continues to sweat its way through record-setting heat and humidity this week, there have been no widespread calls to reduce energy.

In fact, the state has not issued a Flex Alert since 2022, ...Read more

NEW YORK — In the days after 9/11, the fear of what might come next beset famously unflappable Gotham. Was another attack in the works? Would large city centers with now-vulnerable skyscrapers become obsolete?

The magnitude of the human carnage and physical destruction was overwhelming.

“It looked, immediately after 9/11, as if Lower ...Read more

One of President Donald Trump’s closest aides, Natalie Harp, worked in the White House for more than a year without completing the normal security clearance process, according to a recent MS Now report.

Harp may have been among the personnel granted interim Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information access at the beginning of ...Read more

If you’ve been following the dispute between Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., you probably know that it centers on the deaths of two infants in Lancaster County in late August 2026.

And you may be aware that despite the county coroner’s confirmation that one infant died ...Read more

A six-member bloc of Gulf states is weighing a meeting with Iranian officials next week to discuss the future of the Strait of Hormuz, people familiar with the matter said, in what would be the first gathering with the Islamic Republic since war erupted more than six months ago.

Oman is aiming to get foreign ministers from the Gulf Cooperation ...Read more