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Remembering 9/11: A quarter century later
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (488+ words) Nearly 25 years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, many changes that followed have become part of ordinary life in America. Some are visible in government buildings, schools and downtown streets. Others are less obvious, woven into emergency planning, military service and the…...
Remembering 9/11: How the 9/11 terror attacks affected air travel - West Central Tribune | News, weather, sports from Willmar Minnesota
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (302+ words) It’s been 25 years since terrorists attacked the United States on September 11, 2001. The effects of those attacks were wide-ranging, and anyone who has traveled by air in the quarter century since the horrific events of 9/11 knows that the world changed forever…...
Remembering 9/11: Americans remember together
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (481+ words) Twenty-five years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Americans still pause to remember a day that changed the country in full public view. The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and…...
Remembering 9/11: Key figures in the American response
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (230+ words) West Central Tribune Remembering 9/11: Key figures in the American response The American response to the attacks of 9/11 was a multifaceted effort that involved an assortment of key officials whose roles are worth noting. In a speech delivered to a shaken…...
Where do Minnesota fairgoers land on hot-button political issues?
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (780+ words) ST. PAUL — Minnesota fairgoers say they’re in favor of banning semiautomatic assault weapons, regulating driverless vehicles like Waymo, and pausing data center development. The Minnesota House and Senate polled fairgoers over 12 days on numerous issues the Legislature has taken up…...
Cal Thomas: Never forget 9/11 attack on America
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (353+ words) I was sitting in my home office not far from the Pentagon when it happened. The TV behind me had the sound lowered but I suddenly became aware of a major development. I reached for the remote and cranked up…...
Ruben Navarrette: Bill Clinton is the father of the immigration enforcement debacle
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (493+ words) SAN DIEGO —In August, former president Bill Clinton celebrated his 80th birthday. I have the perfect gift. It's a reckoning. Clinton is the ultimate political escape artist. In fact, there's an old joke that became popular in the late 1990's when…...
Minnesota Opinion: Got a beef with the cheap-meat plan? Then buy American
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (594+ words) Before writing this editorial, we went on a field trip to a Rochester-area grocery store, where we looked carefully at the packaging of various meat products. On some packages of chicken and turkey (but not all) we saw “HATCHED RAISED…...
Minnesota ranchers brace for impact as Trump opens door to 300,000 tons of foreign beef
1+ week, 9+ hour ago (427+ words) OTTER TAIL COUNTY — President Donald Trump's plan to temporarily allow more foreign beef into the United States is raising concerns among Minnesota cattle producers, where the stakes are high for local producers. Enderson-Thompson Cattle, a multigenerational family feedlot and livestock…...
Cal Thomas: What's in a name?
1+ week, 2+ day ago (237+ words) As part of Donald Trump's trade war with Canada that the administration claims isn't a trade war, the president has signed an executive order, renaming Lake Ontario, "Lake America." This follows his renaming the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of…...