Local community populations ("survivors") exposed to the World Trade Center (WTC) disaster experienced complex exposures to mixtures of dust and combustion products with potential carcinogenic effects. More.

Rudy Giuliani, hospitalized in Florida with pneumonia his lawyer has attributed to toxic exposures on and after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, is just now applying for coverage in the World Trade Center Health Program. More.

The Trump administration has slashed funding for infectious disease research and has far fewer employees, including disease detectives, to respond to outbreaks. More.

For centuries, humans have tried to make sense of tornadoes. Indigenous tribes passed their observations down through stories. Benjamin Franklin, in his writings, claimed that he chased a twister on horseback, cracking his whip at it along the way. More.

As a Suffolk County fire coordinator on Sept. 11, 2001, Anthony LaFerrera sent volunteer firefighters from the Town of Babylon to Ground Zero. More.

New York lawmakers want to give workers’ compensation benefits to members of the National Guard who responded to Ground Zero on September 11, 2001. More.

When King Charles and Queen Camilla arrived at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City on April 29, the moment was steeped in quiet reflection. Nearly 25 years after the attacks, the royal couple laid a bouquet of white flowers at the edge of the south reflecting pool. More.

A steel beam from the World Trade Center’s fallen South Tower was displayed Monday at a Long Island education center, where hundreds of families devastated by 9/11 tearfully flocked to the mobile memorial. More.