More than half of the claims submitted to the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund remain incomplete, the result of a process that advocates and lawyers say had been too labor-intensive.
Standing inside the National September 11 Memorial Museum amid photos of thousands of victims, Mayor Bill de Blasio typed F-O-N-T-A-N-A on a screen, bringing up images of Dave Fontana, the Brooklyn firefighter he met months before terrorists toppled the Twin Towers.
The U.S. Supreme Court gave the go-ahead Monday to a lawsuit by victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks against the government of Saudi Arabia, alleging it indirectly financed al-Qaeda in the years before the hijackings. The justices declined to hear an appeal by the Saudi government of a lower-court ruling that the lawsuit could go forward. More.