There are moments that define a generation. Ask any American who’s old enough where they were on November 22, 1963, when President John F. Kennedy was shot, and it will be a case of instant reca...

I’ll always remember September 11 as something that happened in the evening. At the time I was living in a town in northern India, and I watched the towers fall on a TV someone had dragged into ...

First it was the Cronut; now a close cousin, the Croffle, has thrown New York City into a dessert craze. The Croffle, a hybrid between a croissant and a waffle that originated in South Korea, is being...

“We were there no more than a few hours from jump to extraction,” he said. It was the kind of mission the Rangers, a group of special light-infantry troops, were designed to carry out: a ...

On September 11, 2001, Lila Nordstrom was taking an architecture class on the 10th floor of Stuyvesant High School in lower Manhattan, overlooking the World Trade Center. "Suddenly we heard a hu...

As the United States ends its 'forever war' in Afghanistan, a museum in New York is teaching students about the event that set it in motion before they were born: 9/11. The 9/11 Tribute Museu...

Tom Canavan was buried alive at the World Trade Center site when the twin towers collapsed 20 years ago on Sept. 11. He was on the 47th floor of the North Tower on a conference call in his boss' ...

It may seem like a terrible thing to say, but a fair number of people — especially in the news media — are nostalgic about the months that followed 9/11. Some pundits openly pine for the s...

To understand how very different the experience of flying was before Sep. 11, 2001, consider this story from Felix Hernandez about ordering pizza. In 1999, Hernandez was the pilot on a Trans World Air...

The territory of Afghanistan must not be used to carry out terror attacks against other countries, the five-nation influential grouping BRICS said on Thursday and strongly called for combating terrori...