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Michael Arad, the Israeli-American designer of the 9/11 Memorial in NYC. (Rachel Neville)
October 5, 2025, 8:02 am
Israeli designer of 9/11 memorial says too soon to construct national Oct. 7 monument
Michael Arad beat out 5,200 submissions for a highly charged NYC tribute that took 8 years to complete. He has advice for future commemoration of Israel’s victims of the Hamas onslaught
By Sue Surkes
An honor guard, followed by bagpipers, pay their respects to victims of the 1993 bombing World Trade Center during a ceremony marking the 28th anniversary of the attack, in New York, February 26, 2021. (Mary Altaffer/AP)
February 26, 2023, 2:56 pm
‘Powder keg’ for 9/11: World Trade Center 1993 bombing remembered
For some survivors and victims’ relatives, the attack still echoes as a warning that was unheeded
By Jennifer Peltz
People run from the collapse of World Trade Center towers in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 after terrorists crashed two hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and brought down the twin 110-story towers. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)
September 10, 2021, 2:28 pm
When ash fell like snow: 20 years on, a fire warden’s 9/11 memories still haunt
Volunteer fire warden Alan Fromm rushed into 5 World Trade Center to evacuate his office building; after the South Tower collapsed, he was found unconscious under an ambulance
By Marissa Newman
The St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine, center, is nearing completion, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021, at the World Trade Center in New York. (AP/Mark Lennihan)
September 10, 2021, 10:03 am
Two decades after 9/11, Ground Zero still being rebuilt
Church and performing arts center near completion, but one tower expected to take another five years, and construction on another tower won’t start until an anchor tenant found
By Karen Matthews
Franklin Anchahua-Herrera sits for a portrait in a room that he shares with his father, August 17, 2021, in the Queens borough of New York. (AP/John Minchillo)
September 9, 2021, 10:30 am
Immigrant 9/11 cleanup crews seek residency as compensation for health problems
A congressional bill fast-tracking legal status for an estimated 1,000-2,000 people has stalled; 20 years on, only several dozen still protesting
By Claudia Torrens
Construction continues on St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine across the street from the 9/11 Memorial and Museum on September 08, 2021 in New York City. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)
September 9, 2021, 5:12 am
20 years on, shrine to church destroyed on 9/11 nears completion
The old St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which was crushed underneath the falling south tower, was the only house of worship destroyed in the attacks
By Peter Smith
In this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001 file photo, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, center, leads New York Gov. George Pataki, left, and Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., on a tour of the site of the World Trade Center disaster (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
September 8, 2021, 7:18 pm
They were some of 9/11’s biggest names. Where are they now?
A look at some of the people who came to the fore in wake of world-altering attacks, and what they’ve been up to since
By JERRY SCHWARTZ
Pedestrians flee the area of New York's World Trade Center in lower Manhattan on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)
September 8, 2021, 5:53 pm
Ahead of 20th anniversary, 20 images that captured the enormity of 9/11
Street scenes chart escalating horror as people stare and weep at burning skyscrapers, then run from billowing dust cloud after one of them crumbles
By Jennifer Peltz
In this September 11, 2001 file photo, the remains of the World Trade Center stands amid the debris following the terrorist attack on the building in New York. (AP/Alexandre Fuchs)
September 8, 2021, 9:14 am
20 years later, two more victims of 9/11 attacks identified
‘We made a promise to the families of World Trade Center victims to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes to identify their loved ones,’ says top NYC medical official
By AFP
A US flag is unfurled at the Pentagon on the 16th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, on Monday, September 11, 2017. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)
September 7, 2021, 7:51 pm
As the decades pass, the act of remembering 9/11 evolves
The remembrance this year will likely be different following the recent chaotic US exit from Afghanistan, ending a 20-year war that was sparked by the September 11 attacks
By Ted Anthony
Désirée Bouchat, a survivor of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, looks at photos of those who perished, in a display at the 9/11 Tribute Museum, on Friday, August 6, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
September 7, 2021, 7:07 pm
20 years later, 9/11 survivors still cope with the trauma: ‘It never goes away’
Guy Sanders, an EMT who was en route when the towers collapsed, killing his colleague, says ‘it’s not something to be gotten over’
By Jennifer Peltz
Illustrative: Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt speaks at the group's 2018 National Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. (Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images/JTA)
September 5, 2021, 6:49 pm
ADL CEO apologizes ‘without caveat’ for opposing Islamic center near Ground Zero
Jason Greenblatt admits his organization mishandled its response to proposed Cordoba House, warns against rising Islamophobia
By PHILISSA CRAMER
American businessman Larry Silverstein gives an interview to Israeli TV from his Lower Manhattan office, August 2021. (Screenshot: Channel 13)
September 1, 2021, 12:00 pm
Larry Silverstein: I decided to rebuild World Trade Center just 2 days post-9/11
Speaking to Israeli TV, American businessman describes how he bought Twin Towers 7 weeks before the 2001 terror attacks, and how a dermatologist appointment saved his life that day
By Michael Bachner
Firefighters work beneath the destroyed mullions, the vertical struts that once faced the outer walls of the World Trade Center towers, after the terrorist attack on the twin towers in New York, September 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
September 11, 2020, 6:52 am
19 years after 9/11, US still fears foreign terror, underplays domestic attacks
Devastating 2001 events symbolize terrorism for many Americans, causing them to underestimate risk of homegrown, far-right extremism, experts say
By Jeff Gruenewald
A US flag hanging from a steel girder, damaged in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, blows in the breeze at a memorial in Jersey City, N.J., Sept. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)
September 11, 2020, 6:41 am
In a year of restrictions, virus changes 9/11 memorial ceremonies
Dueling events will be held for 2001 terror attack in New York, after officials spark outcry by deciding to cancel traditional reading of victims’ names due to COVID-19
By Jennifer Peltz
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