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Rev. Mitchell L. Ikenna Johnson, one of six nominees by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to the Chicago Board of Education listens to the mayor during a news conference introducing his nominees Monday, Oct. 7, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Chicago school board head ousted because of social media posts deemed antisemitic, misogynistic

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The president of the Chicago school board resigned Thursday just a week after he was appointed because of social media posts deemed antisemitic, anti-women and lending credence to a conspiracy theory about the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

FILE - In this photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, the control tower of Camp VI detention facility is seen on April 17, 2019, in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Lawyer for news organizations presses Guantanamo judge to make public a plea deal for 9/11 accused

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A lawyer for news organizations has urged the U.S. military commission at Guantanamo Bay to unseal the plea deal struck with accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two others.

FILE - Three women hold the pager 'Quix' as they present it at CeBIT '97 in Hannover, Germany, Tuesday March 18, 1997. The beep-beep-beep of a small black box on your belt or in your pocket was something of a status symbol decades before the smartphone wiped it from popular culture. (AP Photo/Fabian Bimmer, File)

Doctors and first responders are among those who still use pagers

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Electronic pagers that were status symbols in the 1990s are used for communication precisely because they are old school.

Mercedes Arias stands by the name of her father Joseph Amatuccio on the south pool during the 9/11 Memorial ceremony on the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

9/11 anniversary brings Biden, Harris and Trump together at ground zero

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Some 9/11 victims’ relatives have appealed to presidential candidates for accountability as the U.S. marks an anniversary laced with election-season politics.

Lynne Patton, Laura Loomer and Corey Lewandowski watch as Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump visits the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Company in Shanksville, Pa., Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Laura Loomer, who promoted a 9/11 conspiracy theory, joins Trump for ceremonies marking the attacks

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Right-wing activist and influencer Laura Loomer has joined Republican nominee Donald Trump in New York and Pennsylvania as he commemorated the anniversary of the attacks.

FILE - Mayor Eric Adams speaks during a press conference at City Hall in New York, Dec. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter K. Afriyie, File)

NYC mayor won't say if he backs police commissioner under an investigative cloud

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams has declined to say if he remains confident in the city's police commissioner, days after federal agents seized the cellphones of the head of the police department and at least four other high-ranking mayoral deputies.

Pamela Yarosz and her daughter Capri are shown with a photo of New York firefighter Christopher Michael Mozzillo Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024, in Freehold, N.J.. Mozzillo, who died in the 9/11 attacks, was Pamela's brother. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)

A 9/11 anniversary tradition is handed down to a new generation

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A poignant phrase will likely echo Wednesday at the World Trade Center when 9/11 victims relatives remember loved ones lost in the 2001 attacks.

Terry Strada, national chair of 9/11 Families United, speaks outside Manhattan federal court on Wednesday, July 31, 2024, shortly after plea deals were announced for three men charged in the Sept. 11 attacks. (AP Photo/Lawrence Neumeister)

'Original sin': Torture of 9/11 suspects means even without plea deal, they may never face a verdict

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A Defense Department disagreement over how to bring to justice the accused mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and four others has thrown the cases into disarray.

FILE - This Monday, Dec. 8, 2008 courtroom drawing by artist Janet Hamlin and reviewed by the U.S. military, shows Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, center, and co-defendant Walid Bin Attash, left, attending a pre-trial session at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. The man accused of being the main plotter in al-Qaeda's Sept. 11, 2001 attacks has agreed to plead guilty, The Defense Department said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, Pool, File)

9/11 hearings at Guantanamo Bay in upheaval after surprise order by US defense chief

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Military-run hearings for accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two co-defendants at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are in upheaval following Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s decision to throw out a plea agreement.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks during a news conference at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Defense chief defends decision to throw out plea deal for 9/11 defendants

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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has spoken for the first time on his decision to throw out a plea deal for the accused mastermind of al-Qaida’s 2001 attacks and two other defendants.

Terry Strada, national chair of 9/11 Families United, speaks outside Manhattan federal court on Wednesday, July 31, 2024, shortly after plea deals were announced for three men charged in the Sept. 11 attacks. (AP Photo/Lawrence Neumeister)

Sept. 11 families group leader cheers restoration of death penalty option in 9-11 prosecutions

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The head of a group of family members of victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks says she's hearing nearly unanimous praise of the U.S. defense secretary's nullification of plea deals for the accused mastermind and two others.

FILE - This Monday, Dec. 8, 2008 courtroom drawing by artist Janet Hamlin and reviewed by the U.S. military, shows Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, center, and co-defendant Walid Bin Attash, left, attending a pre-trial session at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. The man accused of being the main plotter in al-Qaeda's Sept. 11, 2001 attacks has agreed to plead guilty, The Defense Department said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, Pool, File)

Defense secretary overrides plea agreement for accused 9/11 mastermind and two other defendants

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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has overridden a plea agreement reached earlier this week for the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and two other defendants, reinstating them as death penalty cases.

FILE- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan Saturday March 1, 2003 in this photo obtained by the Associated Press. The man accused of being the main plotter in al-Qaeda's Sept. 11, 2001 attacks has agreed to plead guilty, The Defense Department said Wednesday. (AP Photo, FILE)

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused as the main plotter of 9/11 attacks, agrees to plead guilty

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The man accused of being the main plotter in al-Qaida’s Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has agreed to plead guilty.

FILE - Entertainer and activist Jon Stewart speaks at the Capitol in Washington, May 26, 2021. Stewart is pressing the Biden administration to fix a loophole in a massive veterans aid bill that has left out some of the very first troops who responded after the Sept. 11 attacks. They got sick from staying at at Karshi-Khanabad, Uzbekistan, or K2, a base contaminated with enriched uranium. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Jon Stewart pushes VA to help veterans sickened after post-9/11 exposure to uranium

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Comedian Jon Stewart is pressing the Biden administration to fix a loophole in a massive veterans aid bill that has left out some of the very first troops who responded after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

A traveler walks through the departure area as airline catering workers who are employed by Gate Gourmet picket with their supporters, calling for a new union contract with raises and affordable health insurance, Wednesday, July 3, 2024, at Miami International Airport in Miami. A long Fourth of July holiday weekend is expected to create new travel records. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

More than 3 million pass through US airport security in a day for the first time as travel surges

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Agents for the U.S. Transportation Security Administration on Sunday screened 3 million airline passengers in a single day for the first time ever.

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff gives remarks during the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Tree of Life complex in Pittsburgh, Sunday, June 23, 2024. The new structure is replacing the Tree of Life synagogue where 11 worshipers were murdered in 2018 in the deadliest act of antisemitism in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke)

Ceremony marks start of rebuilding for Pittsburgh synagogue targeted in antisemitic mass shooting

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Second gentleman Douglas Emhoff and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro are among the dignitaries marking the groundbreaking of a new structure replacing the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.

Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones speaks to the media after arriving at the federal courthouse for a hearing in front of a bankruptcy judge Friday, June 14, 2024, in Houston. The judge is expected to rule on whether to liquidate Jones' assets to help pay the $1.5 billion he owes for his false claims that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Who is Alex Jones? The conspiracist and dietary supplement salesman built an empire over decades

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Alex Jones has pushed many theories over the last three decades, including that the U.S. government was behind or failed to stop the Oklahoma City bombing and the 9/11 attacks.

Travelers walk through Salt Lake City International Airport Friday, May 24, 2024, in Salt Lake City. A record number of Americans are expected to travel over the 2024 Memorial Day holiday. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Travelers cope with crowds and high prices on the busiest day of Memorial Day weekend

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Travelers are contenting with big crowds and flight delays on what is expected to be the busiest day of the Memorial Day weekend.

FILE - Al Cowlings, with O.J. Simpson hiding, drives a white Ford Bronco as they lead police on a two-county chase along the northbound 405 Freeway towards Simpson's home, June 17, 1994, in Los Angeles. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial, has died. He was 76. (AP Photo/Lois Bernstein, File)

How O.J. Simpson burned the Ford Bronco into America's collective memory

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O.J. Simpson's time in a white Ford Bronco during a slow-moving police pursuit 30 years ago still burns bright in the nation’s cultural memory.

FILE - The crater in an underground parking garage from the World Trade Center explosion is shown in this Feb. 27, 1993 photo. New York City is marking the anniversary of the 1993 bombing that blew apart a van parked in an underground garage, killing six people and injured more than 1,000. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is holding a memorial Mass on Monday, Feb. 26, 2024 at St. Peters Church in Manhattan. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)

New York City honors victims of 1993 World Trade Center bombing

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New York City has marked the anniversary of the 1993 bombing at the old World Trade Center.