3+ hour, 28+ min ago   (442+ words) One day after the nation marked 25 years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, families and supporters of the Pentagon Memorial gathered in Arlington to take another step toward ensuring future generations understand what happened there. A ceremonial groundbreaking was held Saturday…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1372+ words) Roughly four minutes after American Airlines Flight 77 struck the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, a ladder truck from Arlington, Virginia’s Fire Station 5 was the first unit on the scene. Twenty-five years later, hundreds gathered at the same firehouse to mark the anniversary…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (606+ words) Several dozen presidential briefing documents declassified Friday, the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, detail intelligence government officials had gathered about Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida leading up to the hijackings that killed nearly 3,000 people and upended American national security. The…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (702+ words) Watch a livestream of the ceremonies marking the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on Friday. More than 10,000 people pass through the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center on its busiest days, but the vast majority likely have no idea the 9/11 attacks had a…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (743+ words) Friday’s milestone anniversary will bring memorial rituals — wreath-laying, flag-flying, moments of silence, vigils and readings of victims’ names — and volunteer projects in tribute to a day that about half of U.S. adults remember as the most historic event of…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (785+ words) For David King, Sept. 11, 2001, started with perfect weather for his morning run in preparation for the Army Ten-Miler. The now-retired Army Special Forces major then reported to an Army G-8 office on the Pentagon’s first floor. He was assigned to an…...

3+ day, 17+ min ago   (772+ words) Holding her child, she went outside. Around her, people stared up at a gash in the north tower of the World Trade Center, smoke billowing from the building just blocks from her home. “What did you see? What did you…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1102+ words) Q&A: Former White House Ari Fleischer remembers ‘the most unimaginable day’ WTOP News As news and “jumbled miscommunications” flooded in about the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said he “knew the world had changed.” Fleischer, who…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (148+ words) WATCH LIVE: Events commemorate 25 years since 9/11 attacks WTOP News Events this week will mark the 25 years since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when nearly 3,000 people died after al-Qaeda members hijacked four planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center towers…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (497+ words) The event at the Ellipse was spearheaded by the Tunnel to Towers Foundation and showcased a massive, 21-foot, nearly 17,000-pound steel beam recovered from the South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York, which had traveled for months…...