US leads commemorations 25 years after 9/11 attacks with tributes to victims | BBC News
Twenty-five years after 9/11, US presidents past and present have commemorated the lives lost when hijacked planes slammed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field. President Traitor 47 led a Pentagon ceremony, while US Vice-President JD Vance attended a memorial at the site of the WorldContinue Reading
US commemorates 25th anniversary of devastating 9/11 attacks as their legacy endures
Traditionally, there are no political speeches at the Ground Zero commemoration. Victims’ relatives read their names, paid tribute to first responders and called for national unity.Continue Reading
Colombia’s Cali remembers earthquake victims one month on
Residents of Cali gathered to honour those killed in the August 10 earthquake, releasing white balloons and laying flowers one month after the disaster.Continue Reading
The world just had the hottest August ever
Earth just had the hottest August on record, according to newly released weather data.Continue Reading
UN climate chief warns political division is undermining fight against ‘economic security emergency’
The head of the UN’s climate body has warned that treating global warming as a partisan issue is dangerously out of step with reality, as he set out a stark account of the economic toll climate change is already inflicting on Europe.Continue Reading
45 Organizations Urge House Democratic Leadership to Call a Vote on Cuba War Powers Resolution
A coalition of 45 faith, peace, labor, health, and political organizations is calling on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and committee Ranking Members Gregory Meeks and Jim McGovern to immediately announce plans to call a vote on Rep. Nydia Velázquez’s Cuba War Powers Resolution (H.Con.Res. 106). In a letter sentContinue Reading
Record diesel prices threaten to drive up food costs
Surging diesel prices are hitting record highs in Ottawa, raising concerns about the knock-on effects for consumers and local farmers. CTV’s Peter Szperling speaks with Cranberry Creek Dairy Farms co-owner Jake Meeks, who says the rising costs are nerve-wracking as his farm prepares to burn up to 100 litres anContinue Reading
PBS News Hour full episode, Sept. 11, 2026
WATCH TODAY’S SEGMENTS: Friday on the News Hour, Americans remember the lives lost in the 9/11 attacks 25 years ago. We look at how that day led to the longest war in U.S. history and how it transformed the nation. Iran-backed Houthi rebels capture an island at the entrance toContinue Reading
Director honors activist Judy Heumann’s legacy in ‘Being Heumann’
Oscar-winning director Sian Heder premiered “Being Heumann” at the Toronto International Film Festival, honoring disability rights activist Judy Heumann’s legacy — a story actor Dylan O’Brien said happened “right in our backyard” but remained largely unknown. #tiff #film #tiff26 #movie #beingheumann 👉 Subscribe: https://reut.rs/4b8fRGn Keep up with the latest newsContinue Reading
Reflect, Remember, Renew
PERSONAL REFLECTION — Majestic blue skies greeted me as I turned into the Pentagon’s North Parking lot on Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001. As I made my way into work, I was thinking less about what the day might bring—life as a Joint Staff action officer could often feel likeContinue Reading
25 years after 9/11. Whatever happened to mass-effect terrorism?
One remaining mystery about 9/11 is why there have been no attacks of comparable scale since. But, with the combination of new motivations, enhanced means of delivery and AI -devised payloads there should be no cause for complacency. 9/11 changed everything. It led to two decades when the United StatesContinue Reading
Russia spent 18 months building the road to Sloviansk. Ukraine spent three taking it back
Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps has retaken 150–240 sq km north of Lyman since May It erased 18 months of Russian groundwork for a northern march on Sloviansk Almost nobody reported it for three months—not even Russian war correspondents The fighting continues north of Lyman, but on Ukraine’s terms On 22Continue Reading
“Its task is not cargo. Its task is people”: After Russian FPV drone hit their house, K-2 brigade sent ground robot to carry casualties out
A Ukrainian ground robot that usually hauls ammunition and supplies to the front carried a different load out of it this time: wounded civilians. The 20th “K-2” Unmanned Systems Brigade sent the unmanned vehicle to evacuate people hurt when a Russian FPV drone struck their house, and its soldiers walkedContinue Reading