by Tom H. Hastings If you an adult born after, say, 1995, you probably recall a fair bit about the terrible events of Sept. 11, 2001. For most Americans, the terror attack which turned three commercial airliners full of passengers into guided missiles came as a bolt out of the blue, ...
Westwood Middle School will host a 9/11 Remembrance and First Responder Appreciation Day from 1-3 p.m. Monday at the school. This is to commemorate and memorialize the 22nd anniversary of the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, The Pentagon and on United Flight 93. “We’re ...
CHARLESTON — The 9/11 Families United organization, representing people whose loved ones died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, has criticized LIV Golf Tour events bankrolled by a Saudi investment arm as “sportswashing” meant to launder the regime’s human rights record. This ...
Supreme Court justices appeared to agree on Wednesday that it’s time for the longest-held U.S. detainee at Guantánamo Bay to tell his story in court. The prisoner, Zain al-Abidine Muhammad Hussein, better known as Abu Zubaydah, was waterboarded more than 60 times after being captured in a ...
When judging the nation’s character, the media tend to gravitate toward its loudest voices, its most extreme measures, its deepest grudges. The result is a loss of all subtlety and nuance. In the days and weeks following Aug. 26, when our nation lost 13 service members in a deadly terror ...
by Carl P. Leubsdorf It’s been two decades since that horrific morning when an assault from the sky caused New York’s two iconic towers to erupt in flames and left an entire nation feeling it was under attack. The gas masks, the bottles of water, the wads of bills and ...