1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1097+ words) Friday marks 25 years since the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the crash of Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Around 3,000 people were killed that day, and nearly 10,000 more have died in the years since from 9/11-related…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (758+ words) AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. AZMAT KHAN: On September 20th, 2001, nine days after the deadliest attack in United States history, President George W. Bush stood before a joint session of Congress and…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (294+ words) AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh. AMY GOODMAN: In terms of budget costs, the U.S. federal government has spent more than $8 trillion on the post-9/11 wars through 2021. For more, we’re joined by…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (158+ words) We speak with Sara Nelson, the international president of the Association of Flight Attendants, about how flight attendants were affected by the 9/11 attacks. Nelson was working in Chicago that day, but she lost five of her friends, who were fellow…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (195+ words) Twenty-five years after September 11, 2001, more people are believed to have died from cancer, respiratory and other illnesses due to exposure to the airborne toxins than the nearly 3,000 people killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center. In the weeks…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (452+ words) We go to Danbury, Connecticut, where residents held a mass demonstration this week to protest recent immigration arrests and to support the city’s immigrant community. Danbury, like many other communities across the United States, has been the target of a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (678+ words) A new documentary titled Top of the World tells the story of Windows on the World, the legendary restaurant atop the World Trade Center, through the eyes of its former employees. Windows on the World served guests for 25 years, until…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (413+ words) Feminist icon Gloria Steinem has died at the age of 92. According to her Instagram page, she died Wednesday “at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her.” Steinem was a tireless advocate for…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (633+ words) A year ago today, the United States bombed a small boat in the Caribbean, killing nine people on board. Two survivors clung to the wreckage for 45 minutes, reportedly waving for help, before a second “double-tap” strike killed them, too. President…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (497+ words) Demonstrators gathered outside Madison Square Garden in New York City on Saturday to protest against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a far-right Indian paramilitary Hindu nationalist organization with close ties to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The leader of the RSS,…...