Articles filed under Terrorism
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Ground zero rebuilding still unfinished, 20 years laterSep 09, 2021 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Two decades after its destruction in the Sept. 11 attacks, the work to rebuild the World Trade Center complex remains incomplete. Two planned skyscrapers...
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Guantanamo prison lingers, an unresolved legacy of 9/11Sep 09, 2021 7:00 am - NAVAL STATION GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (AP) - President Joe Biden turned the page on one legacy of 9/11 by ending the war in Afghanistan. But he has yet to do much about ano...
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How the Sept. 11 attacks would shape Biden's presidencySep 09, 2021 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - For then-Sen. Joe Biden, Sept. 11, 2001, started like most days: riding the 8:35 a.m. Amtrak to work. He had a relatively quiet day planned, including ...
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Des Plaines to mark 9/11 anniversarySep 09, 2021 1:00 am - Des Plaines officials will mark the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks Saturday at the city's monument to the tragedies. The public ceremony is set for 8 a.m. at the D...
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'You see their soul': Images of fallen Illinois service members on display at Arlington Heights librarySep 09, 2021 1:00 am - Those who walked into the Arlington Heights Memorial Library Thursday morning saw the faces of some 320 Illinois service members who gave the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq,...
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'I could hear others in the newsroom calling family members'Sep 09, 2021 1:00 am - It was a beautiful morning. I did a lot of singing on the way in to work, arriving at 8 a.m. As I walked into the newsroom, I saw a group of people watching the televisi...
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A U.S. Marine, a curious Afghan boy, an unfathomable momentSep 08, 2021 7:00 am - One day not long ago, I watched my soon-to-be 3-year-old son jump up and down to the sound of 'œho'ť and 'œhey.'ť It's a song by the Lumineers, an American folk-rock ban...
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They were some of 9/11's biggest names. Where are they now?Sep 08, 2021 7:00 am - Rudolph Giuliani was a hero before he was a punchline. Lisa Beamer was a wife and mother before she became a symbol of Sept. 11 - and though her celebrity passed, her wi...
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9/11 artifacts share 'pieces of truth' in victims' storiesSep 08, 2021 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - For nearly six years, Andrea Haberman's ashen and damaged wallet lay mostly untouched in a drawer at her parents' Wisconsin home, along with a partly mel...
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Watch as our journalists recount the emotions of working on 9/11Sep 08, 2021 5:00 am - The events of Sept. 11, 2001, shocked the Daily Herald newsroom as they did the entire country. It was a day no one could predict and no one will forget. Daily Herald jo...