Latest September 11 attacks News

What to know about Guantánamo Bay, the base where Trump will send 'criminal aliens'

Jan. 29, 2025 22:56 PM EST

President Donald Trump, who made the deportation of immigrants a central part of his campaign and presidency, said Wednesday that the U.S. will use a detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to hold tens of thousands of the “worst criminal aliens.” “We’re going to send them...

Trump's Commerce Secretary nominee, Howard Lutnick, vows to sell his business interests in 90 days

Jan. 29, 2025 12:33 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Billionaire financier Howard Lutnick, President Donald Trump's choice to lead the Commerce Department, said Wednesday that he would sell all of his business holdings within 90 days. “I will divest, I will sell all of my interests, my business interests, all of...

A hearse carrying a fallen US Border Patrol agent has been escorted to a Vermont funeral home

Jan. 24, 2025 06:45 AM EST

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Law enforcement officers from around Vermont escorted a fallen U.S. Border Patrol agent to a funeral home Thursday, three days after he was killed during a traffic stop near the Canadian border. Hundreds of vehicles with lights flashing accompanied the hearse...

Border Patrol agent killed in Vermont worked at the Pentagon during 9/11, family says

Jan. 23, 2025 18:53 PM EST

A U.S. Border Patrol agent who was killed in Vermont during a traffic stop near the Canadian border was a military veteran who worked security duty at the Pentagon during the Sept. 11 attacks, his family said. “He was a devoted agent who served with honor and bravery,” a family...

Border Patrol agent killed in Vermont was a military veteran who worked at the Pentagon during 9/11, family says

Jan. 22, 2025 08:04 AM EST
CONCORD, Vt. (AP) — Border Patrol agent killed in Vermont was a military veteran who worked at the Pentagon during 9/11, family says.

Pakistani airline says ad showing plane flying toward Eiffel Tower never meant to evoke 9/11

Jan. 16, 2025 14:27 PM EST

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s national airline said Thursday that an advertisement showing a plane heading toward the Eiffel Tower was never intended to evoke the memories of the Sept. 11 attacks. The illustration, not in video format, shows a plane superimposed over the French...

This is what the Homeland Security secretary has to say about his border record

Jan. 13, 2025 15:29 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the waning days of the Biden administration, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas defended his agency's work to tamp down border-crossing numbers and argued against breaking apart the sprawling department in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press. ...

A contentious push to wrap up the 9/11 prosecutions takes an emotional toll on victims' families

Jan. 09, 2025 20:28 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — After his only child was killed on 9/11, Ken Fairben looked for justice in a far-off military courtroom on the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba. He traveled there multiple times to observe hearings for accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and...

The Biden administration succeeds in temporarily blocking a plea deal for accused 9/11 mastermind

Jan. 09, 2025 20:17 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration succeeded Thursday in temporarily blocking accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed from entering a guilty plea in a deal that would spare him the risk of execution for al-Qaida’s Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. It is the latest...

The Biden administration succeeds in temporarily blocking a plea deal for the accused mastermind of the 9/11 attacks

Jan. 09, 2025 18:16 PM EST
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration succeeds in temporarily blocking a plea deal for the accused mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.