Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush will be part of a small group of politicians to participate in the ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced during his weekly radio address Friday.
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The new Navy assault ship USS New York steamed into New York harbor Monday, cutting through the water with a bow built using seven and a half tons of steel recovered from the wreckage of the World Trade Center.
A jury Thursday found that former college professor Ward Churchill, who referred to victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks as "little Eichmanns" in an essay, was wrongfully terminated by the University of Colorado, according to a court official.
For New Yorkers it felt like a flashback to Sept. 11. At 3:36 P.M. on Aug. 18, 2007, came a report that a skyscraper was burning about 150 feet from where the World Trade Center's Twin Towers once stood. Thick black smoke was pouring out of the shell of what used to be the Deutsche Bank building. The structure had been badly damaged in the terrorist attack when portions of the collapsing south tower dug a 15-story gash and propelled toxic dust into it. Six years later the bank building was finally being taken down.
The momentum behind changing New York's harsh Rockefeller drug laws seems gone, as lawmakers worry about narcotics kingpins getting out of jail
A professor who compared some victims of the al Qaeda attack on the World Trade Center to Nazis was fired Tuesday by the University of Colorado's Board of Regents.
The attacks of September 11, 2001, reshaped the face of the nation and the course of history. Our lives and the lives of those to come -- not just here in New York or the United States, but around the globe -- have changed forever.
Three bills signed by New York Gov. George Pataki expand health and death benefits to 9/11 rescue workers who became sick or have died in the nearly five years since the attacks on the World Trade Center.
A New York City building erupted in flames and collapsed after an explosion Monday, and investigators are looking into whether the blast may have resulted from a suicide attempt, a fire official told CNN.
Trucks rolled onto the World Trade Center site Thursday morning as workers gathered to start long-delayed construction at 9/11's Ground Zero.
Ed Cox, the son-in-law of Richard Nixon who launched and then suspended a campaign to unseat Democratic U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, has decided to sit out the 2006 race.
Jeanine Pirro, the longtime prosecutor who had been set to run against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton next year, has decided to drop out of the U.S. Senate race in New York, she announced Wednesday.
A judge ruled a strike by New York transit workers illegal on Tuesday afternoon, while millions of commuters battled their way home in frigid temperatures.
Eliot Spitzer has made powerful enemies by bringing down entrenched CEOs and shaking-up such Wall Street stalwarts as the mutual fund industry.
A tour boat that sank to the bottom of New York's Lake George Sunday, killing 20 elderly passengers, did not have enough crew on board, authorities said Monday.
A controversial proposal for an International Freedom Center adjacent to the planned memorial at the World Trade Center site has been abandoned.
Looking down on ground zero from an office 20 floors above the site, New York Gov. George Pataki sees progress.
They roll their eyes at the questions, which one called "dramatically premature." They're amused by media interest in the 2008 presidential race, and they scoff at claims that they're privately plotting their own runs for the White House.
New York officials released the latest design for the signature building at the World Trade Center site Wednesday after revising it to make the tower more secure.
The price of membership is measured in unimaginable grief. To qualify as an elite Gold Star mother, a woman's son or daughter must die while fighting in the ranks of the U.S. military service in the line of duty.
The proposed tallest building in the world, meant to take the place of the twin towers of the World Trade Center, will be redesigned, New York Gov. George Pataki said Wednesday.
The G.O.P. race for 2008 starts now, and many of the contenders are already working hard for the right to inherit the Bush mantle.
The steel frame of the first skyscraper to replace one of the seven Lower Manhattan buildings destroyed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, was completed Thursday.
Three years after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, people across the United States and the world paused to remember the 2,973 people who were killed that day.
New York Gov. George Pataki addressed Republican National Convention delegates on the final night of their four-day convention. This is a transcript of his remarks.
New York Gov. George Pataki introduced President Bush at the Republican National Convention Thursday night by invoking images of September 11, 2001.
Posted: 11:34 p.m. ET From Todd Leopold, CNN.com
The day before the curtain was to be raised for a week of well-practiced political theater, Republican National Convention delegates flocked Sunday to New York's Great White Way for a taste of a different kind of theater.
Less than two weeks before the Republican National Convention convenes in Manhattan, a group of congressional Democrats from New York on Tuesday charged that the Bush administration exploits the 9/11 attacks for political gain.
Part poet, part pol, Peggy Noonan was the Republican Party's go-to speechwriter for nearly a decade.
When the 9/11 commission released its final report in July, the commissioners were quick to note that their report does not politicize the security failings that enabled the attacks to occur.
In an emotional ceremony Sunday, New York laid the cornerstone for the new Freedom Tower, promising it will reclaim the city's skyline, altered after the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001.
A cornerstone is scheduled to be laid Sunday at New York's World Trade Center site for Freedom Tower, designed to be the tallest building in the world.
If the administration's hard line on Iraq is turning off some voters, Republican Party leaders are hoping to restore a more moderate face when it counts the most -- at the party's national convention in New York City at the end of August.
State and local police in New York and Vermont will soon have instant access to federal counterterrorism data under an FBI-run pilot program that could become a new weapon in the war on terrorism, officials announced Tuesday.
Groundbreaking for the tallest building in the world, to rise from the ashes of the World Trade Center site, will take place July 4, Gov. George Pataki announced Wednesday.
The American Civil Liberties Union announced Wednesday it had filed a lawsuit in Albany, New York, seeking marriage equality for 13 same-sex couples in an attempt to put an end to a gay and lesbian "stigma of inferiority."
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