Fourteen years after the attack on the World Trade Center (WTC), a case study in the current issue of Annals of Global Health identifies several elements that have had a critical impact on the evolution of the WTC response and, directly or indirectly, on the health of the WTC-exposed population.
Health Care Lessons Learned in the Aftermath of September 11, 2001
7 Key Points From the C.I.A. Torture Report
The report released by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence discloses new details about the C.I.A.’s torture practices.
Feinstein report: CIA misled Bush, public about torture
The CIA misled former President George W. Bush, other policymakers and the American public about the extent and effectiveness of interrogation techniques of terrorist suspects that amounted to torture under international law, according to a report that Sen. Dianne Feinstein released Tuesday.
Prince William, Kate visit Sept. 11 memorial
Britain's Prince William and his wife, Kate, laid flowers Tuesday at one of New York City's most somber sites—the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum.
Senate report on CIA program details brutality, dishonesty
An exhaustive five-year Senate investigation of the CIA’s secret interrogations of terrorism suspects renders a strikingly bleak verdict on a program launched in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, describing levels of brutality, dishonesty and seemingly arbitrary violence that at times brought even agency employees to moments of anguish.
Senate Intelligence Committee's Report
On April 3, 2014, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted to send the Findings and Conclusions and the Executive Summary of its final Study on the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program to the President for declassification and subsequent public release.
White House and Republicans Clash Over C.I.A. Torture Report
With the long-awaited Senate report on the use of torture by the United States government — a detailed account that will shed an unsparing light on the Central Intelligence Agency’s darkest practices after the September 2001 terrorist attacks — set to be released Tuesday, the Obama administration and its Republican critics clashed over the wisdom of making it public, and the risk that it will set off a backlash overseas.
Britain's 9/11 Memorial Finally Leaves Storage
A sculpture made with material sourced from the wreckage of New York's Twin Towers is to be permanently displayed in London's Olympic Park, the Art Newspaper reports.
According to the New York Daily News, the 28-foot structure by American artist Miya Ando, entitled After 9/11 (2011), was given to the United Kingdom as a public memorial to honor the 67 British citizens who died in the attacks. More.