When mourners gathered in a Southern California church for Barbara Keating’s November 2001 memorial service, an urn was placed at the altar. The ashes inside were not those of the 72-year-old grandmother. Instead, they came from the rubble of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. More.

Ten-year-old Danielle Riches read off some of the names of the dead at the Sept. 11 remembrance ceremony last year, strangers who were killed before she was born. More.

Almost immediately after the attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, dazed New Yorkers came together to mourn, and to start making sense of what happened. More.

Ahead of the 24th anniversary of 9/11, Democrats are demanding answers from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about the future of the federal World Trade Center Health Program, which covers treatment for 9/11-related illnesses such as cancer and chronic coughs. More.

Soon, 2,983 names, so many familiar to Lower Hudson Valley residents, will be read aloud at what was ground zero on Sept. 11, 2001. Local towns and villages will hold similarly solemn ceremonies remembering residents lost 24 years ago in the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Healthcare facilities are places meant to heal, not places meant to harm. But as gun violence skyrockets across the country, medical facilities are far from immune. More.

For the past 24 years a panel of doctors, union leaders and advocates met monthly with federal health officials to address the mounting health concerns surrounding 9/11 first responders and survivors. More.

The number of first responders and others diagnosed with 9/11-linked cancers has ballooned to 48,579 — a staggering 143% increase in five years, the latest data from the World Trade Center Health Program show. More.