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Cancer rate for Ground Zero cops 50 percent higher than pre-9/11

NYPD cops who worked at Ground Zero after 9/11 had 50 percent more cancer diagnoses than officers did in the years before the terror attacks, a long-awaited study has found. The NYPD’s 20-year study - the largest ever of cancer among police officers - was distributed internally by the department’s chief surgeon Thursday and obtained exclusively by The Post. More.

Founded in Mass., National Depression Screening Day turns 25

Two Boston University students skipped their lunch date last fall after reading an email blast that encouraged students to attend a “depression screening” on campus. The boy didn’t want to go, but his girlfriend encouraged him, promising that she would come with him. There the boy learned that he showed symptoms “highly consistent with depression,” the girl told Dori Hutchinson, director of BU’s Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation.

Tony Blair's 9/11 Memorial Museum speech on Islamic extremism in full

The terrorist attack of September 11th 2001 destroyed lives and changed lives. It is impossible to be here without feeling an immense emotional connection to the victims, their families and to this city and this country. So much savage grief and injustice meted out in a single day by an act of unspeakable and incomprehensible evil: unspeakable because of its barbarity; incomprehensible because it was carried out in the name of religious faith. More.

Special Report: How a 5-minute phone call put 9/11 trial on hold for more than a year

In August 2013, one of five men accused of helping carry out the September 2001 terrorist attacks met with his defense lawyers in the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Ramzi bin al Shibh, who military prosecutors say relayed money and messages to the 9/11 hijackers, asked his lawyers to send a message to his nephew in Yemen. More.

Pope Francis Talks About 'Palpable' Grief at 9/11 Memorial

Pope Francis said a prayer and laid a white rose at the slabs of names of victims by one of the two reflecting pools. He then met with several relatives of first responders who died in the attack, as well as former New York City Mayors Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg and Gov. Andrew Cuomo. More.

Jon Stewart, Firefighters Rally in D.C. for 9/11 Responder Benefits

Comedian and late night host Jon Stewart is joining hundreds of firefighters to push for the renewal of a bill to compensate first responders who grew ill working at ground zero in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Stewart will also be joined from politicians from New York on Capitol Hill in Washington in support of the World Trade Center Health Program, which provides treatment and compensation to 9/11 first responders.

Rutgers student creates memorial to commemorate 14th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001

While most students were sleeping this morning, Najum Junaid was awake at 7:30 a.m. arranging miniature American flags across the Voorhees Mall lawn. The ""9/11: Never Forget Memorial"" on Voorhees Mall taking place today has been assembled by students involved with the College Republicans for the many years. “A lot of colleges don’t take the time to remember (Sept. 11) with any events. It’s important for our organization to host the '9/11: Never Forget' project so we can remember history and remember what happened,” Junaid said.

14 Years and Counting: Remembering 9/11

Often when we are reminded of horrific events, unless personally involved, we pause for a moment and think about the event that has been brought to our attention, again, and move on to what we doing or thinking before such a reminder. So, possibly, this could be the case with the 9/11 terrorists' attack on the World Trade Center 14 years ago today. I say "possibly," except for meeting Edith Ludnick. Her youngest brother, Gary, was in his office at the building hit by Osama Bin Laden's orchestrated plane crash on September 11, 2001.