A sign of hope found in the wreckage of the World Trade Center. During the clean up after 9/11 a cross beam of steal was found in the ruble is the shape of a cross that was standing erect. It became a symbol of hope and faith for those working on the site. This is an update to the story.
As the United States marks the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, former New York Mayor Ed Koch says the nation is in even greater danger. Though he campaigned to elect Barack Obama as president, Koch says Obama’s job performance is “terrible.”
Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton, the former co-chairs of the 9/11 Commission, release a report highlighting a perilous face of terrorism that has surfaced across the country. The United States was slow to recognize the homegrown threat, says the report, drafted by the national security group at the Washington-based Bipartisan Policy