SEPTEMBER 11

The latest news, features and videos to remember September 11

BOISE, Idaho -- A federal appeals court delivered a stinging rebuke Friday to the Bush administration's post-Sept. 11 detention policies, ruling that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be held liable for people who were wrongfully detained as material witnesses after 9/11. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the government's improper use of material... Full story »

(AP) -- NEW YORK - When Jay-Z released his first "Blueprint" CD on Sept. 11, 2001, the rapper couldn't have known how monumental, and tragic, the day would turn out to be. This week, Jay-Z is once again releasing an album with the "Blueprint" tag, but this time, the release of CD around the Sept. 11 date is not coincidental,... Full story »

This story was originally published October 3, 2008 New York -- The owners of the World Trade Center site announced a delay in the completion of a multibillion-dollar transit hub Thursday but pledged to open a nearly finished Sept. 11 memorial by the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. They set no firm schedule for the completion of the entire... Full story »

This story was originally published September 12, 2008 New York -- Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama made Ground Zero their common ground for one rare day, free of politics and infused with memory. Putting their partisan contest on a respectful hold, they walked together Thursday into the great pit where the World Trade Center towers once stood and,... Full story »

This story was originally published September 7, 2008 9/11: 7 YEARS LATER It is not a tidy anniversary this year. Seven years between that awful day and this Sept. 11, the terrorist attacks linger somewhere between the immediate, a conscious part of our days, and the comfortable remove of the distant past. No longer yesterday and not yet history. What... Full story »

Note: This story was originally published March 16, 2008 New York -- The steel bound for the Freedom Tower at Ground Zero travels thousands of miles, from an ArcelorMittal plant in Luxembourg where columns are rolled through casting machines at temperatures approaching 2,300 degrees. Scrap metal melted into liquid steel in an electric furnace is cast, heated, cooled and heated... Full story »