Never Give Up: How The Son Of A World Trade Center Hero Decided Nothing Would Keep Him Down
By Luke Mullins Special to the Huffington Post Introduction With as many as 1,700 students pursuing just 32 slots, the chances of winning a Rhodes ...
By Luke Mullins Special to the Huffington Post Introduction With as many as 1,700 students pursuing just 32 slots, the chances of winning a Rhodes ...
María Elena Durazo | Posted 12.27.2009 | Los Angeles
Transportation security officers truly are on the front line of defense. But, thanks to former President Bush, transportation security officers have been second-class employees.
Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 12.28.2009 | World
A worldwide struggle by a transnational movement aided by the Internet and social media enables would-be "lone" fanatics anywhere to market themselves to terror groups as recruits.
AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 12.24.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — Fresh bread will soon be baking high above ground zero. The new World Trade Center got its first restaurant Wednesday – a sand...
AP | Posted 12.16.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — New pictures and video showing the rebuilding at the World Trade Center site are now on two social networking sites. The Port Author...
The New York Review of Books | Posted 12.17.2009 | Books
Amy Hertz, Huffington Post: Two major powers have struggled for control of Afghanistan over the last few decades, The Soviet Union and the US. Facing ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.13.2009 | Media
The Post published an article reporting rap legends Public Enemy referred to 9/11 as "a joke," when in reality they were referring to emergency number 9-1-1. Happily, something is being done about it!
AP | Posted 12.09.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — Former Vice President Dick Cheney says trying suspected Sept. 11 terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (HAH'-leed shayk moh-HAH'-med) in New Y...
nytimes.com | BENJAMIN WEISER | Posted 12.08.2009 | New York
Lawyers to defend Khalid Shaikh Mohammed are expected to initially be chosen from a cadre of about 20 veteran defense lawyers in New York who have bro...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.04.2009 | Media
ABC News White House correspondent Jake Tapper offers up, via Twitter, a Washington Post correction that addresses what Tapper terms an example of "un...
AP | KAREN MATTHEWS | Posted 12.01.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — Families of some of those killed in the Sept. 11 terror attacks welcome President Barack Obama's plan to deploy thousands more troops...
AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 11.20.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — New York juries are often loath to impose the death penalty, even for terrorists. In fact, a jury spared the lives of two Osama bin ...
Phil Bronstein | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
President Obama is judging Khalid Sheikh Mohammed guilty of the 9/11 crimes before the system Obama is supposed to uphold even brings the guy to court.
Adam Hanft | Posted 11.21.2009 | New York
Tough-guy Rudy Giuliani and touchy-feely David Paterson are in unlikely and violent agreement: making Manhattan Ground Zero for the Khalid Sheik Mohammed trial is a very bad idea.
Ryan McDermott | Posted 11.19.2009 | World
It might have seemed unfathomable back in 2001 to think that this war would have gone on so long, but here we are eight years in and no end in sight.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
When contrasted with the recent statements by Attorney General Eric Holder on the KSM trial, the Right really does look like a bunch of sniveling cowards.
Lawrence J. Siegel | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
As a child psychologist, I worked with families who were affected in the aftermath of September 11. My three decades as a mental health professional did not fully prepare me for this task.
Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York
President Obama's decision to try alleged 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo detainees in New York -- mere blocks from the ...
Dan Collins | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York
The outcry against trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York is strange. The same people who tell us to stand up to terrorists feel it's too scary to have them in a U.S. courtroom. Giuliani is livid at the idea.
Craig Alan Silverman | Posted 11.16.2009 | Denver
The government's easier path toward execution is through a tribunal, and yet Holder has chosen the risky path of seeking the death penalty in New York. This is political correctness run amok.
Gerald Shargel | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York
Even Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a self-described "jackal," will be presumed innocent. But with all the constitutional embroidery, will Mohammed receive a fair trial in Manhattan?
AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York
WASHINGTON — Bringing those accused in the Sept. 11 attacks to New York for trial would increase the security threat to the city and give radica...
AP | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York
WASHINGTON (Associated Press) -- The former mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani, says putting suspected Sept. 11 terrorists on trial in New York Cit...
Julie Menin | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York
it should indeed be a jury of New Yorkers, the community who was most adversely impacted by the horrific events of September 11th, who decide Mohammed's fate.
Anthony D. Romero | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
The clock's ticking and it's not looking good. As January 22, 2010 fast approaches, the administration is signaling that it's unlikely to meet its own deadline to close
Posted 12.30.2009 | Politics