Smoke still rose from the ruins of the World Trade Center, and the smell of nearly 2,000 deaths lingered miles uptown. A reporter asked New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani whether he worried that the city's Muslim neighborhoods would be attacked in revenge for that Islamist-inspired atrocity. ...
Today is Saturday, Sept. 12, the 255th day of 2026. There are 110 days left in the year. Today in history: On Sept. 12, 2013, Voyager 1, launched 36 years earlier, became the first man-made spacecraft ever to leave the solar system. Also on this date: In 1857, the S.S. Central America (also known as the "Ship of Gold") sank off the coast of South Carolina after sailing into a hurricane in one of the worst maritime disasters in American history; 425 people were killed and thousands of pounds of gold sank with the ship to the bottom of the ocean. In 1940, the Lascaux cave ...
I've heard people reflect on where they were when JFK got shot, when Princess Di died, when the Edmund Fitzgerald sank... I'm a millennial. I remember the day the towers fell. In 2001, I was a student at Melvin H. Kreps Middle School in East Windsor, New Jersey. Mid-morning on Sept. 11, my classmates and I filed into our sixth-grade English class and took our seats to find our teacher in a state of distress. She was tearful, struggling to speak, and we were trying to find out what was going on. She managed to choke out something about the Twin Towers and a plane. I had no idea what ...
Today is Friday, Sept. 11, the 254th day of 2026. There are 111 days left in the year. Today in history: On Sept. 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed as 19 al-Qaida hijackers seized control of four jetliners, sending two of the planes into New York's World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and the fourth into a field in western Pennsylvania. It remains the deadliest terror attack in history. Also on this date: In 1789, Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. In 1814, an American fleet scored a decisive ...
Did you celebrate labor last Monday, Labor Day? I did. But not organized labor. At least I get to choose. Organized labor isn't a fan of choice. Joining CBS in NYC, I was told: "You must join (and pay dues to) SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild — American Federation of TV and Radio ...
A decade later, Colin Kaepernick is as tiresome as ever. To mark the 10-year anniversary of his kneeling during the National Anthem, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback is out with a new memoir, "The Perilous Fight." (Get it?) In an interview with NBC News in advance of the book's ...
