After Years of Waiting, These 9/11 Families Are Losing Hope

Pretrial hearings have been on-again, off-again for so long that some family members of the nearly 3,000 victims now question whether justice is attainable.

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Remains of 3 Victims of 9/11 Are Identified From Minuscule Evidence

New York’s medical examiner is working methodically through a backlog of bones. “We’re talking about people putting in overtime 24 years later, for us,” said the son of one victim.

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New Judge Assigned to 9/11 Case Ahead of 24th Anniversary of Attacks

Lt. Col. Michael Schrama is the fifth judge in the case. He was playing college football during the year of the Sept. 11 attacks.

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Thomas A. Durkin, Civil Liberties Lawyer for the Reviled, Dies at 78

He relished skewering the U.S. government as he represented unpopular defendants in public corruption and national security cases, like those at Guantánamo.

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Appeals Court Overturns Plea Deal in 9/11 Case

The court found that Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III had the authority to invalidate a contract reached between the accused mastermind and a Pentagon official.

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Richard A. Boucher, Veteran State Department Spokesman, Dies at 73

Working for six secretaries of state, he was known for explaining and defending U.S. foreign policy in a noncombative tone, without interjecting his own opinion.

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As Mamdani Rises, Anti-Muslim Attacks Roll In From the Right

Republican members of Congress and Trump administration officials have targeted Zohran Mamdani, who would be New York City’s first Muslim mayor.

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Fourth Military Judge in Sept. 11 Case Retires

It is not clear whether the chief judge now handling the case at Guantánamo Bay is serving as a caretaker or will hold hearings this summer.

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Bernard Kerik, New York’s Police Commissioner on 9/11, Dies at 69

His meteoric rise to become New York City’s chief law enforcement officer was later tarnished after he pleaded guilty to federal corruption and tax crimes.

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Can a Jazz Bassist Who Served Time on Terror Charges Revive His Career?

Tarik Shah, who played with jazz greats in his youth, spent years behind bars after pleading guilty to plotting to teach martial arts to Qaeda fighters. Now he is out and working on a comeback.

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