The Justice Department said Thursday that it will provide new information to the families of those killed on 9/11 who are suing the government of Saudi Arabia over possible complicity in the 2001 terrorist attacks — but only under a protective order meant to keep the information from becoming public. More.

It’s a disgrace that 19 years after the tragedy of 9/11, prosecution is only just beginning. The trial date for the terrorists involved in plotting the 9/11 attacks has been set 10 years too late. This week, as the U.S. marks the eighteenth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, memory of the tragic day is still fresh in the minds of most Americans. More.

Every 9/11 anniversary that passes gets both easier and harder. Easier, because time numbs pain, even the most searing and awful kinds of pain. Harder, because with time comes perspective, and 18 years later, the shock and enormity of those despicable acts continue to stand as one of the most atrocious deeds humans have ever perpetrated against one another. More.

“In Saudi Arabia they chose not to see these radical fundamentalists….We allow them to flourish, and have no reason to believe that their way of life would do anyone harm.” That is an astounding statement. It came from the lips of Saudi Ambassador to Washington Prince Bandar bin Sultan, in a long-hidden interview with the 9/11 Commission. More.

In April 1996, Jeffrey R. Smith moved from Florida into my apartment above the Old Print Shop on Lexington Avenue in New York City. I had lived alone for almost 10 years at that point. I cannot say I was living the Carrie Bradshaw life, but I was an independent woman. I loved my job at ABC News, I traveled around the world for work and for pleasure, and I was a doctoral candidate in English literature at NYU. It was a good life, made immeasurably better when Jeff moved in.

Victims' families arguing Saudi government was linked to the attacks; the attorney for those families, Jim Kreindler, weighs in. More.

The oxygen tank sits in the living room of Joe McKay’s home, discreetly positioned in the corner next to a couch. It’s there in case the beast comes for him at night. “The beast” is the insider term for cluster headaches, a debilitating condition McKay has coped with since the spring of 2002 – shortly after he spent months clearing the pile of rubble caused by the destruction of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. More.

The World Trade Center Health Program provides medical monitoring and treatment for responders at the World Trade Center and related sites in New York City, the Pentagon, Shanksville, Pa., and for survivors who were in the New York City disaster area. WTC Health Program covers a variety of physical and mental heath conditions that have been determined to be caused by exposure to the 9/11 terror attacks. More.