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A rushed goodbye, a missed phone call: Sorrow lingers 25 years after 9/11
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Maria McHugh saw her husband's name light up her phone and let it go to voicemail. He would never call again.
The forever fight: After 25 years, America’s War on Terror carries a complex, bloody legacy
Throughout its 25 years, the post-9/11 war on terrorism and all the conflicts that branched from it -- including Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa -- defined presidencies, exacted a staggering human cost, remade the pillars of the federal government and exposed the hard limits of what raw American military might can achieve.
The FBI says 16 shooters were stopped by civilians. One researcher counts 225
The FBI's active-shooter database routinely misses cases where an armed civilian stops an active-shooter attack, according to a new report from the Crime Prevention Research Center.
Trump rallies faithful at midterm convention, vows to campaign for embattled Republicans
President Trump made a midterm pitch to Republican faithful packed into the American Airlines Center on Wednesday, pledging to hold rallies for dozens of Republican candidates running in the closest House and Senate races and promising a $5,000 dividend check to every adult American if the Republicans hold on to Congress.
Trump team aims to drop race, sexual orientation, illegal immigrants from census
The Trump administration proposed major changes Wednesday to the decennial census, calling for the elimination of questions on race, ethnicity and sexual orientation, which it said would bring the questionnaire more in line with the census' original purpose.
The plane people of Gander: A Sept. 11 debt America must never forget
Jacqueline Pinto was flying home to New York from a vacation in Italy on Sept. 11, 2001, when her pilot announced a delay.
America backslides on Sept. 11’s hard lessons about IDs, intel agencies and ports of entry
A quarter-century after 9/11, the consensus around securing IDs is fraying, and the same is true for other security lessons from the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history.
Oil and gas prices surge as GOP convenes for midterm convention to tout ‘affordability’ solutions
Diesel fuel prices hit a record high Wednesday while gas prices jumped another 7 cents in a single day, and the stock market headed for another sell-off because crude oil prices rose above $100 per barrel again.
Is empathy a virtue or a weakness? Vance, Musk and others say it’s gone too far
Several conservative public figures say misplaced empathy for hardened criminals and Islamist migrants has pushed Western society to the brink of collapse.
‘It could kill us all by the end of the decade,’ an AI researcher says. He’s not alone
A researcher who left Anthropic this week warned that rapidly improving artificial intelligence could kill everyone by the end of the decade, the third such industry insider to sound an alarm about possible human extinction by rogue machines.
Never forget, never agree: Public schools struggle to explain 9/11 on 25th anniversary
None of today's K-12 students was alive during the 9/11 terror attacks 25 years ago -- and schools are stumbling over how to teach why they happened.
Trump escalates ally trade war, bans Canadian dairy, liquor and motorcycles from U.S.
The White House announced late Tuesday that it has banned dairy products, alcoholic beverages and motorcycles from Canada as the trade war between the two longtime allies escalates.
Chinese government linked to massive AI tech theft from American tech companies
Chinese AI companies are stealing artificial intelligence technology from U.S. companies with Beijing's help, U.S. intelligence and security authorities revealed Tuesday.
Fox News muzzles Maria Bartiromo
The muzzling of Maria Bartiromo by Fox News Media Chief Executive Suzanne Scott should be a wake-up call to every Fox viewer who believes the network is pro-Trump and pro-MAGA.
Sept. 11 comments come back to haunt left-wing Democrats
Socialists and other left-wing Democrats are facing new scrutiny over past comments about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks ahead of the 25th anniversary Friday.
TikTok feminists, Lindsay Clancy and Karyann Parkinson
Lindsay Clancy, who has admitted to strangling her three children, has received an outpouring of support from women across the country.
South Korea weighs joining U.S. effort to protect tankers in Gulf despite warnings from Iran
A conflicted South Korea is weighing whether to deploy military forces to the Gulf to aid the U.S. in the on-again, off-again war against Iran.
Economy sounds warning bell for Trump, GOP in midterm elections
Less than two years after voter anger over inflation ushered President Trump into the White House, those same economic anxieties threaten to cost his party its majorities in the House and Senate and derail his agenda.
Trump-a-palooza: GOP throws convention to boost voter turnout in midterms
The Republican Party is set to open its first-ever midterm convention this week, looking to spark sorely needed energy and a bump in the polls for its candidates.
House campaign in Arizona puts a spotlight on perceived Marxist-Islamist threat
Navy veteran Zuhdi Jasser, the only Muslim running as a Republican in this year's House races, is using his campaign to counter what he warns is a confluence of socialist and Islamist ideology from today's Democratic candidates.
