First responders who became ill after working at Ground Zero deserve every penny of compensation they get. But does that mean anyone claiming to be such a person should automatically be believed? That’s the question behind a new controversy at the 9/11 Museum over the history of that attack and its aftermath. And it’s the latest test of whether that history will be skewed by emotions. More.

Former President George W. Bush paid an unannounced visit to the 9/11 museum Sunday evening, and spent an hour somberly looking at the exhibits.

“He was clearly moved by the museum and its contents,’’ said a law-enforcement source. Bush arrived at 6 p.m. with his security detail while the museum was still open to the public. More.

John C. Whitehead, a Wall Street banker who led Goldman, Sachs & Co.'s international expansion in the 1970s and '80s and later was founding chairman of the National Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum, died Saturday. He was 92.

A man walking from Florida to New York is raising money and healing his heart with every step. Richard Albero, a former Navy Officer and retired teacher, is making the trip to raise money for the Wouned Warrior Project and honor his late nephew.

"I wanted to be able to do some good, and then I wanted to be able to do it for somebody," Albero explained. Albero's nephew Gary was 39 years old when he died in the September 11th attacks, leaving behind a one-year-old son. More.