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In an Instagram post, Michelle Obama recalls where she and her daughters were in 2001 when she found out about the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Two window washers were trapped on a dangling scaffold nearly 70 stories up the new 1 World Trade Center tower for nearly two hours on Wednesday before firefighters sawed through a thick double-layered window to reach them. The dramatic rescue, coming a little more than a week after the nation’s tallest […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — Thirteen years after the 9/11 terrorist attack, the resurrected World Trade Center is opening for business. It’s an emotional milestone for New Yorkers and the nation. Some of publishing giant Conde Nast’s staffers began working at 1 World Trade Center on Monday. The 104-story, $3.9 billion skyscraper dominates the Manhattan skyline […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City medical examiner’s office says two potential pieces of human remains have been found during the sifting of newly uncovered debris from the World Trade Center site. The office says the discovery was made Monday. About 60 truckloads of debris that could contain tiny human bone fragments have […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — A bell tolled at the World Trade Center on Tuesday, honoring six people who died 20 years ago in the first terrorist attack on lower Manhattan. Family, friends and city officials stood near the memorial to those who perished eight years later in the Sept. 11 attack, which toppled the same […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — A final steel beam was lifted Monday atop a new World Trade Center skyscraper — the first expected to open at the site next year since the twin towers were decimated on 9/11. With BeBe Winans singing "God Bless America," workers raised their hardhats in tribute as the mammoth beam rose […]