Archdiocese of New York looks to help immigrant workers, volunteers who became ill after working at Ground Zero
Immigrants who got sick after working at Ground Zero and have inadequate health insurance could get some help from the Archdiocese of New York, according to newly filed court documents. The Archdiocese is asking a state judge permission to use $1.3 million that it raised in scholarship money for the children of 9/11 victims to be given to Catholic Charities. More.
US defense department eyes Colorado prisons to hold Guantánamo detainees
A team from the US Defense Department’s policy shop will spend three days this week in Colorado to determine if two prisons in the state might indefinitely hold dozens of Guantánamo detainees. More.
Retired detective dies from 9/11-related illness
Retired Detective Ronald Richards, 45, of the NYPD bomb squad, died Sunday after a long, 9/11-related illness. Richards was assigned to Emergency Service Truck 5 in Staten Island on 9/11 and he responded when the planes struck the World Trade Center. More.
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.