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• “After DCA collision, Virginia senators to introduce bill restricting flights.” — The Washington Post • “Virginia nursing homes are short-staffed. So are the agencies tasked with watching them.” — WHRO • “These new Virginia food regulation updates take effect Sept. 10. Here’s what to know.” — WRIC • “Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the […]

已解散的香港市民支援爱国民主运动联合会（简称支联会）、前主席李卓人、前副主席何俊仁及邹幸彤涉及煽动他人颠覆国家政权罪。何俊仁开审前认罪；支联会、李卓人及邹幸彤否认控罪，受审后被裁定罪成。案件周五在香港高等法院（借用西九龙裁判法院）作判刑。首被告支联会罚款150万元，李卓人判7年监禁、何俊仁判囚5年2个月、邹幸彤判囚7年3个月。对此，台湾陆委会通过新闻稿表示遗憾与谴责。陆委会强调，“追求民主人权无罪，有关方面以国安为由罗织罪名、进行政治审判，为专制政权护航，再次向国际社会证明所谓的‘一国两制’完全是欺骗世人的谎言”。

已解散的香港市民支援愛國民主運動聯合會（簡稱支聯會）、前主席李卓人、前副主席何俊仁及鄒幸彤涉及煽動他人顛覆國家政權罪。何俊仁開審前認罪；支聯會、李卓人及鄒幸彤否認控罪，受審後被裁定罪成。案件周五在香港高等法院（借用西九龍裁判法院）作判刑。首被告支聯會罰款150萬元，李卓人判7年監禁、何俊仁判囚5年2個月、鄒幸彤判囚7年3個月。對此，台灣陸委會通過新聞稿表示遺憾與譴責。陸委會強調，“追求民主人權無罪，有關方面以國安為由羅織罪名、進行政治審判，為專制政權護航，再次向國際社會證明所謂的‘一國兩制’完全是欺騙世人的謊言”。

A 9/11 Memoir

The long overdue disclosure of reams of air quality records by the administration of Mayor Zohran Mamdani this week offered advocates and survivors some answers for what they knew for the last quarter-century: that the environment in the Lower Manhattan offices, homes and schools they returned to immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks on the […] The post For These 9/11 Survivors, Newly Published Air Quality Records Bring Some Answers appeared first on The City Reporter.

Cerina Fairfax, a Virginia dentist and mother of two, spent nearly two years living in the same house as her husband while she was trying to divorce him. Virginia state law required couples with children, like the Fairfaxes, to wait a year before being allowed to file for divorce. Cerina’s husband, former Virginia Lt. Gov […]

Qytetarë, gazetarë dhe punonjës të mediave protestuan mbrëmë në Beograd në mbështetje të gazetarit Zoran Kesiq, pasi udhëheqësia e re e televizionit “Nova S” anuloi emisionin satirik “24 minuta me Zoran Kesiqin”, transmeton Portalb.mk. Ata thanë se bëhet fjalë për mbrojtjen e hapësirës për kritikë, lirisë së shprehjes dhe të drejtës së publikut për të […]

What a delight the current secretary of state race is. It has everything that a quality election contest should have — most importantly, open and accessible candidates. No one is hiding from constituents or ducking media interviews. And Hoosiers have four genuinely good choices. In reverse alphabetical order, to mix things up, they are Libertarian […]

The two competing candidates for Georgia governor are both focusing on affordability but putting forward starkly different proposals aimed at easing household expenses. At a time when voters are anxious about the rising cost of living, Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta, is pitching a plan to allow local governments to exempt […]

For 37 years, Emmanuel Child Care Center operated out of Emmanuel Church in Rochester, providing infant, toddler, and preschool care to families on the Seacoast. On Aug. 28, the center closed its doors.  According to Pastor John Tate, the childcare program was no longer the best use of the space to meet the community’s needs. […]

Sean Patton would love to live in one of the new apartment complexes multiplying across Sarasota County. But despite a college degree, a steady income and his own business, the rents remain out of financial reach — even for those considered “affordable housing” under a landmark state law. It’s been nearly a decade since [...] The post Florida’s Live Local Act promises affordable rent. For many in Sarasota, it’s still out of reach appeared first on Suncoast Searchlight.

Elementary and middle schools as well as family home schools can now register to qualify for the Feb. 6 bee at Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell.

The rule change would mean physicians recieve 50% less reimbursement from Medicare for services provided on the same day as an office visit.

The Oklahoma Ethics Commission is inching closer to rules regulating the use of AI-generated political messaging. At a meeting on Thursday, they discussed the route they’ll likely take to get it done.

(The Center Square) - Terror struck America on Sept. 11, 2001, when 19 al-Qaeda hijackers seized four Boeing jets and turned them into missiles, killing almost 3,000 people. The hijackers arrived in the U.S. on tourist visas with cash and travelers checks they got in the Middle East. They enrolled in flight schools. Here’s what happened on that morning of 9/11, minute by minute. Details are from sources such as the 9/11 Memorial Museum, the Miller Center, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. the World Economic Forum and the Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks. 5:45 a.m. Hijackers Mohamed Atta and Abdul Aziz al-Omari pass through a security screening at Portland International Airport in Maine and take a commuter flight to Boston Logan International Airport. 6 a.m. Polls open in New York City for the primary election. 6:45 a.m. Atta and Omari arrive at the Boston airport. Atta, Omari, Satam al Suqami, Wail al Shehri and Waleed al Shehri board American Airlines Flight 11. At another terminal at the airport, Marwan al-Shehhi, Fayez Ahmed, Mohand al Shehri, Ahmed al Ghamdi, and Hamza al Ghamdi board United Airlines Flight 175, on a Boeing 767 piloted by Captain Victor Saracini and First Officer Michael Horrocks. 7:15 a.m. Khalid al Mihdhar and Majed Moqed checked in at the American Airlines ticket counter for Flight 77 at Dulles International Airport in the Washington, D.C. area. The plane was a Boeing 757, and the pilots were Capt. Charles F. Burlingame and First Officer David Charlebois. 7:35 a.m. Hani Hanjour and two brothers, Nawaf al Hazmi and Salem al Hazmi, came to the same counter. 7:59 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11, which was on a Boeing 767 piloted by Capt. John Ogonowski and First Officer Thomas McGuinnes, leaves Boston for Los Angeles. Aboard are 76 passengers, 11 crew members and five hijackers. 8:14 a.m. Terrorists hijack Flight 11 over Massachusetts, using knives, Mace and the threat of a bomb. 8:15 a.m. United Airlines Flight 175 leaves Boston for Los Angeles with 51 passengers, nine crew members and five men who hijack the plane during its takeoff. The flight is on a Boeing 767 piloted by Capt. Victor Saracini and First Officer Michael Horrocks. 8:19 a.m. Betty Ann Ong, a flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11, uses an inflight phone to contact the airlines’ ground personnel and report the hijacking. She tells them the cockpit can’t be reached and that two flight attendants were stabbed. The call happens shortly after a hijacker stabs passenger Daniel Lewin, who's sitting in front of the hijacker in first class, where two hijackers are also sitting. Lewin is believed to be the first person killed on 9/11. 8:20 a.m. American Airlines Flight 77 leaves Washington Dulles International Airport for Los Angeles with 58 passengers and six crew members. The hijacking happens as the plane takes off. 8:21 a.m. Hijackers turn off an American Airlines Flight transponder, which is what permits traffic control to identify a plane and its flight path. 8:24 a.m. Hijacker Mohamed Atta tries to communicate with the passengers and crew on American Airlines Flight 11, but presses the wrong number and unknowingly gives information about the attacks to air traffic control. Minutes later, Atta inadvertently contacts ground control again. 8:30 a.m. About 80 people come to the World Trade Center to attend a financial technology conference on the North Tower’s 106th floor. There are also 72 restaurant staff members preparing for the conference and breakfast service. 8:32 a.m. Flight attendant Madeline Amy Sweeney, who’s on Flight 11, reports the hijacking to a friend on the ground - a manager of Boston Logan International Airport. During the last minutes of her life, Sweeney provides her friend with details about the hijackers. 8:37 a.m. The U.S. Air Force’s Northeast Air Defense Sector gets an alert from the Boston Air Traffic Control Center, which hears hijacker Mohamed Atta’s transmissions. 8:42 a.m. United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757, leaves Newark International Airport in New Jersey for San Francisco with seven crew members, 33 passengers and four hijackers. The pilots are Capt. Jason Dahl and First Officer LeRoy Homer Jr. 8:46 a.m. Terrorists controlling Flight 11 crash the American Airlines jet into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. Everyone on the plane and hundreds inside the tower die instantly. At the same time, firefighters, police and paramedics rush to the tower, where an evacuation of survivors has begun. 8:50 a.m. Before President George W. Bush enters a second-grade classroom at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Fla., he's told about a plane crashing into the North Tower. Bush and his advisers assume the crash is an accident. 8:50-8:54 a.m. Five hijackers take control of Flight 77 above southern Ohio. 8:51 a.m. Hijackers take control of United Airlines Flight 175. 8:52 a.m. A flight attendant, believed to be Robert John Fangman, is on Flight 175. Fangman reaches a United Airlines operator in San Francisco and reports the hijacking. 8:55 a.m. The south tower at the World Trade Center is declared secure. A Port Authority fire safety employee goes on the public address system and tells people there is no need to evacuate. 8:59 a.m. Port Authority Police Department Sgt. Al DeVona orders both towers evacuated. 9:03 a.m. Terrorists controlling Flight 175 crash the United Airlines jet into the south tower. As that happens, the New York City Police Department increases its deployment to almost 2,000 officers, and the New York City Fire Department deploys several hundred additional firefighters to the World Trade Center. 9:05 a.m. New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani arrives at the police department’s command post near the World Trade Center. 9:05 a.m. At the school in Florida, second-graders are reading aloud from the book "The Pet Goat" as President George Bush sits and listens. White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card walks over, leans down and whispers to Bush, "A second plane has hit the second tower. America is under attack." Bush stays in his seat and continues to listen to the children read for several minutes. After the reading ends, Bush walks into another room to make phone calls and brief staff. He later explains he didn't want to create a panic among the students and media in the classroom. 9:28 a.m. Four hijackers take control of United Airlines Flight 93 above northern Ohio. 9:30 a.m. A Secret Service agent’s report of possible additional hijacked planes leads to the evacuation of the U.S. Office of Emergency Management’s headquarters at 7 World Trade Center. 9:30 a.m. At the school in Sarasota, Fla., President Bush delivers televised remarks and calls the attacks a "national tragedy." He reports he spoke with Vice President Dick Cheney, New York Gov. George Pataki, FBI Director Robert Mueller III and other officials. 9:35 a.m. Bush and his staff leave the elementary school for the drive to Sarasota Bradenton International Airport. 9:36 a.m. Vice President Dick Cheney is brought by Secret Service agents to the Presidential Emergency Operations Center below the White House. 9:37 a.m. Hijackers crash American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon. All 64 people on the plane are killed. The crash and a fire it caused cost the lives of 125 military and civilian personnel on the ground. 9:42 a.m. All civilian flights in U.S. airspace are grounded by the FAA. 9:45 a.m. Evacuations are started at the U.S. Capitol, where both houses are in session. 9:54 a.m. Air Force One departs with President Bush and his advisers from Sarasota Bradenton International Airport. The president prefers to return to Washington, D.C., but his staff suggests Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana as a secure location. 9:59 a.m. As Americans across the nation watch in horror on TV, the World Trade Center’s South Tower collapses within 10 seconds after burning for 56 minutes. More than 800 civilians and first responders die. 10:03 a.m. Passengers and flight crew fight hijackers and take control of the cockpit of United Airlines Flight 93. During the struggle, the Boeing jet crashes in a field near Shanksville, Pa., instead of what is believed to have been the hijackers' target: the Capitol. At the moment of the crash, the plane was 20 minutes away by air from Washington, D.C. 10:28 a.m. The North Tower of the World Trade Center collapses, after burning for 1 hour and 42 minutes. Also destroyed is the Marriott hotel at the base of the towers. More than 1,600 people are killed. 10:50 a.m. At the Pentagon, a fire caused by the jet crash causes five stories on the western side to collapse. 11:02 a.m. Mayor Giuliani orders evacuation of lower Manhattan. 11:45 a.m. Air Force Once lands at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. 12:16 p.m. The last commercial plane above the continental U.S. lands. Airspace is now completely closed. 2:50 p.m. Air Force One lands at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. That evening, Air Force One lands at Andrews Air Force Base, and Bush and his advisers leave by helicopter to the White House.

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Anita Hack cared for her Queens house for more than three decades, establishing a foothold for her multi-generational family in the city — even as the house repeatedly flooded over the years.  Now, that house is no more, demolished on city orders after floods in August compromised its stability.  With their major asset gone and […] The post City Razes Flood-Plagued Queens Home With No Plan to Rebuild, or Retreat, in Sight appeared first on The City Reporter.

On July 25, I attended a memorial service for my friend Jacob Harper-Leonard. He had died four months earlier. Jacob was the third person to die this year in Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution, where I am incarcerated. During the summer, prison administrators finally agreed to schedule a memorial for all three men; each of the […] The post The Last Seven Minutes of One Man’s Life in an Oregon Prison appeared first on Prison Journalism Project.

The SPARK-CT pilot will offer 10 months of paid training for specialists in job coaching — a workforce that was hollowed out during COVID.