Vincent DeMarino, a retired NYPD deputy chief who raced to Ground Zero after the World Trade Center attacks, has died of 9/11-related cancer, relatives and colleagues said. He was 61. DeMarino succumbed to the disease on Friday, his wife told the Daily News, after being diagnosed less than a year ago. More.

Georgia, a former Soviet republic that shares much with Ukraine, has its own corruption scandal. It doesn’t involve a former US vice president, his family or the sale of energy assets. But it does involve a judicial investigation — in this case, a fake inquiry and conviction by a Georgian court of an enemy of the Islamic Republic of Iran. More.

A gunman killed three people and injured several others at a naval air station in Pensacola, Florida, on Friday, marking the second deadly shooting at a military base this week. A Navy sailor at the Pearl Harbor Shipyard in Hawaii killed two civilian Defense Department employees and sent another to the hospital after opening fire on Wednesday. More.

Two hundred fire fighters have now reportedly died from illnesses related to the September 11th attacks, according to a charitable organization that assists 9/11 first responders with medical needs not covered by insurance. The Ray Pfeifer Foundation confirmed on Twitter Wednesday that two more New York City fire fighters have died due to "9/11 illness," marking the 199th, and 200th FDNY deaths related to the World Trade Center attacks.

Federal officials are considering requiring that all travelers — including American citizens — be photographed as they enter or leave the country as part of an identification system using facial-recognition technology. The Department of Homeland Security says it expects to publish a proposed rule next July. Officials did not respond to requests for more details. More.

In speaking to many of the more than 10,000 Ground Zero responders I represented in their lawsuit against the City of New York and its contractors for the injuries and ailments they suffered as a result of working on the cleanup of Ground Zero, I was struck over and over again by their selflessness and heroism. More.

The 9/11 al-Qaeda attacks stirred the United States and its allies to respond with a “war on terror” that continues to play out today. Al-Qaeda launched another lethal, but less visible, attack that day—on the emergency responders who worked at Ground Zero in New York City for the better part of a year after the September 2001 disaster. More.

Allan Gerson, a Washington lawyer and legal scholar who helped pioneer the practice of suing foreign governments in U.S. courts for complicity in terrorism, representing victims’ families in the aftermath of the Lockerbie bombing and the 9/11 terrorist attacks, died Dec. 1 at his home in the District. He was 74. The cause was complications of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a degenerative brain disorder, said his wife, cookbook author Joan Nathan.