"New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet said in a revealing interview published Friday that he "absolutely" agreed with Times reporter James Risen that the mainstream media had ""failed"" after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

Jeff Reinbold has vivid memories of one of his first visits to the Flight 93 temporary memorial. “It was January 2003, and the temperature was hovering around zero,” he said Thursday. “There were 10 cars in the parking lot, and none were from Pennsylvania. There was a volunteer standing out in the cold, greeting people. I just knew it was a special place.”

"An FBI special agent who lost his job in 2008 told Newsweek columnist Jeff Stein his story about how the 9/11 hijackers slipped through the cracks at the FBI and CIA more than a decade ago.

Mark Rossini said the CIA prevented him from going to FBI headquarters with the information that two known terrorists, who later went on to carry out the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, had entered the US. More.

Steven Bonano, a hero NYPD chief and 9/11 first responder, died Saturday from a rare form of blood cancer believed to be tied to his time at Ground Zero.

The Bronx-born Bonano, who served as commander of the NYPD’s elite Emergency Service Unit, passed away early Saturday morning at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center with friends and family at his bedside, officials said. He was 53. More.

"The compensation program for people with health problems related to the Sept. 11 terror attacks says it has approved payments of $804 million to 3,100 claimants.

Officials at the Sept. 11th Victim Compensation Fund say they've paid $59 million as of Jan 2. The fund was reopened by the passage of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010. The Zadroga Act was named for a detective who died in 2006. It put $2.8 billion in the fund." More.

"Hackers have targeted about 19,000 French websites since a rampage by Islamic extremists left 20 dead last week, a top French cyberdefense official said Thursday as the president tried to calm the nation’s inflamed religious tensions.

"U.S. and French intelligence officials are leaning toward an assessment that the Paris terror attacks were inspired by al-Qaida but not directly supervised by the group, a view that would put the violence in a category of homegrown incidents that are extremely difficult to detect and thwart.

At least 3.7 million people, including world leaders, marched in anti-terrorism rallies in Paris and elsewhere in France on Sunday, French officials said, calling the massive gathering in the nation's capital the largest in France's history. The day was emotional and peaceful, a gesture of unity just days after Islamic extremists slaughtered 17 people.