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By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — As a child growing up in Queens, Frank Kotnik watched the Twin Towers across the river growing taller and taller as their construction neared completion. As a teenager, he and his friends once snuck into the original World Trade Center, hoping to take in the views from the roof.

By Brittany Shammas | Photographs by Austin Steele Houston (CNN) — Every Sunday, George Parnham settles into the easy chair tucked in a corner of his ranch-style home, armed with a clunky flip-phone and a notepad scrawled with names. The calls have gotten shorter as he’s gotten older. “How are you?” the 85-year-old asks from

By Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — A brief interaction between New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez captured on video Friday during a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the terror attacks on September 11, 2001, sparked fierce criticism that was met with pushback from those who say the video was taken

By Dalia Faheid, Elise Hammond, CNN (CNN) — Police in Jackson, Mississippi, have arrested a man in the case of Tasia Fortune, the 29-year-old Black woman found hanging from a tree outside an abandoned house last month, following the state medical examiner ruling her death a homicide. Jarques Ratliff, 51, has been charged with murder

By Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — Jackson, Mississippi, police are investigating the death of Tasia Fortune as a homicide after the 29-year-old Black woman was found hanging from a tree outside an abandoned house last month, the city’s police chief said Tuesday. “Jackson Police Department has been investigating this case from day one as a

By Emma Tucker, Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — New York City released over 170,000 pages of documents revealing officials repeatedly misled residents about the toxic air quality levels after the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center, just days before the city marks its 25th anniversary. The disclosure reveals the scale of lives

By Danya Gainor, CNN (CNN) — The merciless ring of the wall-mounted telephone forced Arnold Roma out of the kind of heavy sleep that only his 12-hour hospital shifts could lull him into. He’d only been home from work for five hours, anyway. Squinting against the morning sunlight threatening to consume his Staten Island living

By Sneha Dhandapani, CNN (CNN) — Lindsay Cadillac had baked her own 16th birthday cake, heart-shaped with white-and-pink frosting, and put it in the fridge the night before: September 10, 2001. The next night, what was there to do? She held the cake up, her face stricken, as a big TV behind her replayed smoke

By Gina Park, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Princess Diana’s head-turning “revenge dress” is going on sale for the first time in nearly 30 years. Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy day. 5 things 1️⃣ Cannabis edibles Accidental ingestion of recreational drugs among young children in the US has

By Lila Dominus, CNN New York (CNN) — Until this year, the annual September 11 commemoration ceremony at Ground Zero has included six moments of silence — one for each of the key fatal moments of that day in 2001. As the names of the nearly 3,000 victims are read aloud, a bell rings at

By Alexandra Skores, CNN (CNN) — Crumbs of a vanilla ice cream sandwich covered Michael McCormick’s 6-year-old son’s mouth as the two sat on the edge of the fountain between the North and South towers of the World Trade Center. McCormick was celebrating his 45th birthday with his family on a warm, late summer Sunday

By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — Days after Lindsay Clancy’s complicated triple-murder trial ended with a hung jury, leaving her fate in limbo, her defense attorney expressed an openness to reaching a plea agreement with prosecutors to avert a second trial – but experts say any negotiations would likely be an uphill battle. In an

By Aaron Cooper, Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — A pilot in the cockpit of the Amazon Air Boeing 767 that overran a runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday and struck two vehicles, killing five, expressed concern about the aircraft’s excessive speed — as alarms sounded in the plane — before it touched down, newly

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — On Labor Day, President Donald Trump posted a series of maps to his Truth Social account with the state of New Mexico relabeled as “New America.” On the first day of his second term, Trump signed an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.” Last

By Gloria Pazmino, CNN New York (CNN) — New York City’s leader at the time of the 9/11 attacks, Rudy Giuliani, says “it offends” him that current Mayor Zohran Mamdani will attend Friday’s commemoration ceremony. George Pataki, state governor during the disaster, says Mamdani should stay away. Bruce Blakeman, a candidate for governor, vows to

By Gina Park, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Not hitting 10,000 steps a day? Research suggests picking up the pace may be as beneficial as walking longer at a slower speed. Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy day. 5 things 1️⃣ Neck and neck The critical Senate contests in

By Karin Caifa West Chester, Pennsylvania (CNN) – For today’s K-12 students, and even some teachers, the September 11, 2001, terror attacks are history. But for adults who experienced the day vividly, putting the day’s gravity and meaning into classroom lessons can pose challenges. Martha “Marty” Runzer, is a fifth-grade teacher at Glen Acres Elementary

By Jonny Hallam, Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Online influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate must remain in custody in the US while they fight extradition to the United Kingdom to face rape and human trafficking charges, a federal judge in Miami ruled Wednesday. The written ruling from Magistrate Judge Lauren Louis came after an hourslong

CNN By Aaron Cooper, Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — New information from the flight data recorder onboard the crashed Amazon Air Boeing 767-300 paints a detailed picture – and raises questions – about what happened in the cockpit as the plane careened off a runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday. The 230,000-pound cargo jet,

By Catherine E. Shoichet, Ione Molinares, CNN Washington (CNN) — Soledad Miranda’s eyes fill with tears as she packs boxes for a move she’s hoping she won’t have to make. “I feel defeated,” she says. For 25 years, the program known as Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, has allowed Miranda and around 170,000 other Salvadorans