Articles filed under Terrorism
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U.S. is safer, but not safe enoughSep 03, 2011 6:00 am - WASHINGTON — We are safer, but not safe enough. In the decade since the Sept. 11 attacks, the government has taken giant steps to protect the nation from terrorists, spe...
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Costs of 9/11 attacks still haunt U.S. economySep 03, 2011 6:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — It took just a few hours for the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center to destroy a symbol of U.S. capitalism. A decade later, the financial damage...
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‘Lone wolf’ terror now seen as biggest threatSep 03, 2011 6:00 am - HAMBURG — After 9/11, it was the men who went to radicalized mosques or terror boot camps who were seen as the biggest terror threat. Today, that picture’s changed: Auth...
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How the U.S. marked the 10th anniversary of Pearl HarborSep 03, 2011 6:00 am - HONOLULU — After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, newspapers from Boston to Bakersfield, Calif., reached into the distant past to find the words to capture the moment for...
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Tillman’s memory sparks action, not wordsSep 03, 2011 6:00 am - TEMPE, Ariz. — The south steps of Arizona State’s football stadium became a shrine in the days after Pat Tillman’s death, covered in flags and flowers, signs and memento...
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10 years, 21,000 bone fragments, no 9/11 closureSep 03, 2011 6:00 am - NEW YORK — His family has his spare firefighter uniform, but not the one he wore on 9/11 — or any other trace of him. Killed at the World Trade Center, 32-year-old Scott...
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The post-9/11 decline and rebirthSep 03, 2011 6:00 am - For Kevin Wolford, the last decade has been a descent from security to loss. Once steadily employed as a roofer in a booming area of Florida, now his unemployment checks...
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Shanksville sees responsibility to honor 9/11 deadSep 03, 2011 6:00 am - SHANKSVILLE, Pa. — Off a tiny country road with old wooden farmhouses that could fit in a Norman Rockwell painting is the site of the Flight 93 National Memorial. It’s s...
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Writers are still trying to out-imagine 9/11Sep 03, 2011 5:11 am - NEW YORK — Ten years later, and our imaginations are still catching up to Sept. 11, 2001. “I don’t think art can ‘compete’ with something like 9/11,” says Jess Walter, w...
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Mt. Prospect 9/11 remembrance at 11 a.m. SundaySep 03, 2011 12:00 am - Ten years after the events of Sept. 11, 2001, citizens of Mount Prospect will come together in a commemoration ceremony to honor the victims who lost their lives on that...