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President Donald Trump honored slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk as he remembered the victims of Sept. 11 during a ceremony Thursday in Virginia, and announced he would posthumously award the popular figure the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Kirk, the late co-founder and head of the political advocacy organization Turning Point …

Ashley Murray, North Dakota Monitor President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris honored victims on the 23rd anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, when four hijacked commercial airliners crashed into New York City’s Twin Towers, a Pennsylvania field and the Pentagon, shocking the world and precipitating …

The House passed legislation Friday that would give as much as $3 billion in payments to thousands of spouses and children of victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks who were left out of previous compensation rounds. The “Fairness for 9/11 Families Act” passed overwhelmingly, 400-31, in the last vote before …

President Joe Biden commemorated the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with visits to each of the three sites where hijacked planes crashed in 2001, honoring the victims of the assault. Biden began the day in New York, where he and first lady Jill Biden attended a ceremony at the …

President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Friday to allow the Department of Justice to release documents related to the September 11 terrorist attack in New York City. The 20th anniversary of the attack is days away. “My heart continues to be with the 9/11 families who are suffering, …

The Department of Homeland Security on Friday issued a new National Terrorism Advisory System bulletin warning of the threat of extremist violence as the coronavirus spreads widely again and the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks approaches. “The Homeland continues to face a diverse and challenging threat …

“We are ending America’s longest war,” President Biden said on Thursday as he announced the US military mission in Afghanistan would end on August 31. “The U.S. did what we went to do in Afghanistan,” Biden said in a press conference in the White House’s East Room. He cited killing …

The House voted to repeal the 2002 authorization for the use of military force. Supporters of the repeal argue it is outdated and unnecessary. The legislation was signed into law to allow the United States military to take down President Saddam Hussein. The bill has been used to authorize other …