The latest in September 11 Attacks

U.S. settles suit with Muslims in post-9/11 abuse

2010-06-25T20:00:05Z

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government will pay $1.26 million to five Muslim men detained for months without charges after the September 11 attacks who sued for unlawful imprisonment and abuse, their lawyers said on Tuesday.

The men claimed they suffered inhumane and degrading treatment in a Brooklyn detention center, including solitary...

North American '09 sponsorship spending estimate cut

2010-04-16T11:52:15Z

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. recession has led a company that tracks North American sponsorship spending to halve its growth estimate for 2009, the first time the firm has ever updated its projection mid-year.

IEG, a unit of advertising giant WPP Plc, on Wed...

US shifts Visa Waiver Program authorization to Internet

2010-12-14T07:37:04Z

Starting Monday, travelers from 35 countries must request authorization online to enter the United States, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Friday.

The Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) has been applicable since August 2008, but will become compulsory from January 12 for applicable European...

Suicides dropped 40 percent after 2005 attacks: study

2010-04-16T17:33:49Z

The number of suicides in England and Wales fell by about 40 percent after the July 2005 bombings on London, scientists revealed Tuesday, echoing a trend also seen after the September 11 attacks.

Two British researchers found a "small but significant reduction" in the daily suicide count five days after the attacks on July 7 that killed 52 people, they reported in the British Journal of Psychology...

Congress Attacks Health

2010-12-12T08:31:43Z

Rep. Carolyn Maloney, left,, D-N.Y., speaks to Charles Wolf, whose wife Katherine died during the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center after a news conference near ground zero, Friday, Dec. 10, 2010 in New York. Maloney held the news conference to demand tha...

Attacks Health

2010-11-19T12:31:54Z

FILE - In this Dec. 28, 2001 file photo, emergency workers continue recovery and cleanup efforts with the help of heavy machinery at the site of the World Trade Center attacks in New York. More than 10,000 people have joined a legal settlement that will pay hundreds of millions of dollars to workers exposed to the tons of toxic dust that blanketed National September 11 Memorial pool during a test of the waterfalls, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010 at the World Trade Center site in New York. The two memorial pools, which are scheduled to be open to the public in September 2011, reflect ...

Cubs Brewers Baseball

2010-09-11T19:15:31Z

Chicago Cubs coach Ivan Dejesus, left, Starlin Castro and Alfonso Soriano, right, pause for a moment of silence in remembrance of the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack before a baseball game against the New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani reads a poem during a memorial service commemorating the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Peter Foley, Pool)