Sept. 11

The Senate passed legislation Tuesday that would allow families of Sept. 11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia, rejecting the fierce objections of a U.S. ally and setting Congress on a collision course with the Obama administration.

The rights group is asking the Defense Department to investigate claims by lawyers for Mustafa al-Hawsawi that he is receiving inadequate medical treatment at the U.S. base in Cuba.

Tell people Donald's Trump's wrong, and there was no TV footage of people in New Jersey celebrating the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001 — and there's a pretty good chance they'll tell you they remember it.

The events of Sept. 11, 2001 remain a vivid and painful memory for many, even 14 years later. This year's memorial events in New Jersey are listed below, along with an opportunity to share your thoughts.

NEW YORK (AP) -- It has been nearly 14 years since the Sept. 11 attacks, but a lawsuit on behalf of Muslims rounded up in the aftermath has barely moved forward as lawyers try to show how frightening it was for hundreds of men with no ties to terrorism to be treated like terrorists, locked up and abused for months at a time.

NEW YORK (AP) -- In the terrorism trial of a man accused of being one of al-Qaida's early leaders, an American described being asked in 1995 by Osama bin Laden to kill Egypt's president by ramming his plane with his own in midair.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is joining the debate over the Senate's torture report by saying it's hard to rule out the use of extreme measures to extract information if millions of lives were threatened.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Top spies past and present campaigned Wednesday to discredit the Senate's investigation into the CIA's harrowing torture practices after 9/11, battling to define the historical record and deter potential legal action around the world.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a damning indictment of CIA practices, Senate investigators on Tuesday accused the spy agency of inflicting pain and suffering on al-Qaida prisoners far beyond its legal boundaries and then deceiving the nation with narratives of useful interrogations unsubstantiated by its own records.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Three retired firefighters who worked at ground zero have died on the same day from cancer, an illness that many fear might be connected to toxic World Trade Center dust released on Sept. 11, fire officials said Thursday.