"In 2017, I was diagnosed with cancer I didn't immediately associate with 9/11," said Tamika Johnson. Advocates behind this seminar say there could be thousands of people like Tamika Johnson out there. "We were lied to about the air being clean," she added. The people aren't first responders, but they are now getting sick because of the time they spent near Ground Zero after the September 11th attacks. More.

Voices of September 11th has announced that New Canaan resident, Bonnie McEneaney McNamara was elected as chair of the board, after serving as a board member since its inception in 2002. She is succeeding Voices board chair and former New Canaan resident, Kurt Wolfgruber, who passed away in June. More.

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Donald Arias said on Monday that the families who lost loved ones in Friday's shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida deserve full disclosure about what happened. “Prior to this administration, we lived through eight years of political correctness, where they got rid of all references to Islamic terror in training materials for the FBI, etc.,” Arias, whose brother died at the World Trade Center on Sept.

On the feast of Saint Nicholas, December 6, 2019, Archbishop Elpidophoros, head of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America visited the construction site of Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church & National Shrine at the World Trade Center.

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.