Four decades ago, William Daugherty, a former CIA operative, was held hostage in Iran for 444 days. His wait for the financial compensation policymakers had promised him will now be a lot longer than that. A fund created in 2015 for the Iran hostages and other victims of state-sponsored terrorism has become a new source of cash for relatives of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks waged by al-Qaida terrorists on New York and Washington. More.

It’s take three for 2 World Trade Center: The New York Post reports that developer Larry Silverstein has scrapped Bjarke Ingels Group’s 2015 design for the unbuilt skyscraper, and will instead go back to working with Foster + Partners to produce a new design for the building. In an extensive interview with the Post, Silverstein said that he wants to finish leasing 3 World Trade Center. More.

The expulsion of 21 Saudi pilots training at the Pensacola naval base may signal the beginning of a new attitude towards the desert kingdom, which soon may come under a scrutiny it has never felt from the United States. Buried deep in the massive $1.4 trillion spending bill signed on Dec. 20, 2019, is a provision requiring the declassification of all information detailing efforts undertaken by the Saudi government to help its citizens charged with crimes escape the U.S.

Six-term Washington state Rep. Matt Shea is accused of participating "in an act of domestic terrorism against the United States," according to a report released Thursday. Independent investigators commissioned by the Washington State House of Representatives found that Shea, as a leader of the Patriot Movement, "planned, engaged in, and promoted a total of three armed conflicts of political violence against the United States government" between 2014 and 2016.

When Tim Farrell helped found the eponymous Terry Fund in the months after Sept. 11, 2001, to memorialize his brother, an FDNY firefighter killed in the attacks, the charity gave small $500 scholarships, said their sibling and the fund’s co-founder, Brian Farrell. In the 18 years since, the fund, named to honor Terry Farrell, who died while serving with Rescue 4, has expanded across the country, with 17 chapters from New York to California, including Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Nevada.

From the call for a moment of silence for the victims of the Dec. 10 Jersey City shooting, the ceremony to light a menorah in the World Trade Center transit hub took on a different meaning of remembrance and hope. It is a new menorah, the first to be lit in the World Trade center PATH station in a pre-Hannukah ceremony. More.

It’s been a controversial battle for years and now it could be back. Ground Zero mosque sent New York City into a tailspin, with an immense backlash that led developers to put a hold on the project. Since then, it’s gone through tweaks and changes—but it seems this development project is back on track. The building is a mere two blocks from the site of the horrific 9/11 terror attacks. More.

For their tireless efforts that eventually resulted in lifelong health care and compensation for those who fell ill at Ground Zero, 18 New Yorkers received the city’s Bronze Medallion on Monday in a morning ceremony at Broadway’s historic Beacon Theatre. Mayor Bill de Blasio handed out the awards, which recognized the first responders and volunteers — still ailing from working on the World Trade Center after the 9/11 terrorist attacks — for convincing Congress to renew the Sept. 11 Victims Compensation Fund through 2092.