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Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day.
In the picture, he departs from this earth like an arrow. Although he has not chosen his fate, he appears to have, in his last instants of life, embraced it. If he were not falling, he might very well be flying. He appears relaxed, hurtling through the air. He appears comfortable in the grip of unimaginable motion. He does not appear intimidated by gravity’s divine suction or by what awaits him. His arms are by his side, only slightly outriggered…
They began jumping not long after the first plane hit the North Tower, not long after the fire started. They kept jumping until the tower fell. They jumped through windows already broken and then, later, through windows they broke themselves. They jumped to escape the smoke and the fire; they jumped when the ceilings fell and the floors collapsed; they jumped just to breathe once more before they died. They jumped continually, from all four sides of the building, and from all floors above and around the building’s fatal wound. They jumped from the offices of Marsh & McLennan, the insurance company; from the offices of Cantor Fitzgerald, the bond-trading company; from Windows on the World, the restaurant on the 106th and 107th floors—the top. For more than an hour and a half, they streamed from the building, one after another, consecutively rather than en masse, as if each individual required the sight of another individual jumping before mustering the courage to jump himself or herself. One photograph, taken at a distance, shows people jumping in perfect sequence, like parachutists, forming an arc composed of three plummeting people, evenly spaced. Indeed, there were reports that some tried parachuting, before the force generated by their fall ripped the drapes, the tablecloths, the desperately gathered fabric, from their hands. They were all, obviously, very much alive on their way down, and their way down lasted an approximate count of ten seconds. They were all, obviously, not just killed when they landed but destroyed, in body though not, one prays, in soul. One hit a fireman on the ground and killed him; the fireman’s body was anointed by Father Mychal Judge, whose own death, shortly thereafter, was embraced as an example of martyrdom after the photograph—the redemptive tableau—of firefighters carrying his body from the rubble made its way around the world.
From the beginning, the spectacle of doomed people jumping from the upper floors of the World Trade Center resisted redemption. They were called “jumpers” or “the jumpers,” as though they represented a new lemminglike class. The trial that hundreds endured in the building and then in the air became its own kind of trial for the thousands watching them from the ground. No one ever got used to it; no one who saw it wished to see it again, although, of course, many saw it again. Each jumper, no matter how many there were, brought fresh horror, elicited shock, tested the spirit, struck a lasting blow. ….
Firefighters watch as the Bridge Fire burns near homes in Wrightwood, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
The wildfires have been endangering tens of thousands of homes and other structures across the region after they sprung to life during a triple-digit heat wave that finally broke Wednesday. Other major fires were burning across the West, including in Idaho, Oregon and Nevada, where about 20,000 people had to flee a blaze outside Reno.
California is only now heading into the teeth of the wildfire season but already has seen nearly three times as much acreage burn than during all of 2023.
In the tight-knit community of Wrightwood, trees burned behind homes as authorities implored residents to evacuate. At least five homes were charred and flames ripped through a popular ski area but the resort’s buildings remained intact, said Janice Quick, president of Wrightwood’s chamber of commerce.
The Bridge Fire was still burning in the area Wednesday, she said, cautioning “the winds have picked up a little bit and something can flip on a dime.”….
The two girls allegedly posted to a Snapchat chat room “I’m going to be a school shooter,” according to the Laredo Police Department.
Investigator Joe Baeza, LPD Public Information Officer, told NewsNation Wednesday that both of the girls’ parents were caught off guard by the allegations, but they complied with police and allowed a search of their residences. No weapons were found.
Given the nature of the alleged threats against Cigarroa Middle School, which is within the Laredo Independent School District, the school closed and did not have classes, along with several other area schools. The neighboring Cigarroa High School canceled classes as well.
The 12-year-olds in Laredo are facing felony charges for making terroristic threats and remain in a juvenile detention center. A judge ordered Tuesday to hold them for at least 10 days, according to local news outlet KGNS News. The Webb County Attorney’s Office is weighing whether to charge them as juveniles or as adults.
The minors’ age and gender make this case especially unique. The deadliest school shooters have typically been in their late teens, according to a Washington Post analysis. Perpetrators have also typically been males, the Post found…..
Since all eyes have been on Aurora, Colorado and the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang terrorizing the apartment complexes, one of the property lenders hired international law firm Perkins Coie to conduct an investigation into what is really going on, and what these lawyers found is nothing short of heinous. From an article out at The Denver Gazette:
Through violence and intimidation, a Venezuelan gang took over the Whispering Pines apartment complex in Aurora and sought to collect up to half of the rent from leaseholders, drying up collections for the landlord, according to a law firm’s investigation.
At the behest of a lender, the international law firm Perkins Coie investigated the alleged criminal activities at Whispering Pines apartments, a 54-unit complex in Aurora, and outlined an operation that included establishing a ‘lower-level’ presence last year, which then escalated into violence and intimidation, the apparent goal of which was to turn the complex into a steady source of income for the gang.
The law firm said once the gang was entrenched at the complex, it used the units for illegal activities, including the prostitution of minors.
The gang, the law firm added, ‘operated in the open,’ patrolled the area and ‘terrorized the community.’
So what did that “lower-level” presence in Whispering Pines look like? Well, according to the same report, gang members issued death threats and menaced the property manager so badly, he later fled; at this point, they told the property’s employees that they were now “working for” TdA. Here’s more, regarding the specifics:…
Fabbri is a health department lecturer at the University of Bath in England. Grundy is an assistant professor of nursing at the University of Toronto in Canada. In their Sept. 9 editorial, they cited studiesdocumenting levels of Big Pharma industry payments made to early-career physicians.
For instance, a study published Sept. 1 in JAMA Internal Medicine showed that among 5,533 U.S. cardiology fellows, 73% received “industry marketing payments” in the year before graduating and 88% received payments in the first few years after they graduated.
“For fellows in specialties that use a lot of technology (referred to as ‘procedural intensive’),” Fabbri and Grundy noted, “the proportion was even higher: 80% received payments before graduating, and 96% afterwards.”
The trial of a French man who recruited dozens of strangers to rape his drugged wife has heard how another man living in the same area copied the tactics to drug and rape his own wife.
Dominique Pélicot, 71, is on trial in the southern city of Avignon for repeatedly raping, and enlisting dozens of strangers to rape, his heavily sedated wife in her own bed over a period of a decade in the southern village of Mazan. Fifty other men aged between 26 and 74 are also on trial for their alleged involvement.
The court proceedings are open to the public at the request of Pélicot’s ex-wife, Gisèle, 71, who has said she made the request to raise awareness of the use of drugs to commit sexual abuse.
On Wednesday, the court of five professional judges heard how another man on trial, named as Jean-Pierre, was an alleged “disciple” of Dominique Pélicot. He was not on trial for raping Gisèle Pélicot, but rather for using the same method to rape his own wife and enlisting Pélicot to rape her too…..
Detroit Police Chief James White described the suspect as a former employee who had been recently fired or suspended, as reported by CBS News Detroit.
According to ClickOnDetroit, the attacker apparently had been waiting in the parking lot and decided to rather indiscriminately target individuals arriving for work.
Witnesses played a crucial role in detaining the suspect, as one individual notably tackled and held down the attacker until the police could take over.
Chief White said, “They plan to submit paperwork to the prosecutor’s office to charge the suspect with attempted murder, among other charges.”
Furthermore, the suspect reportedly has a history of violent encounters with law enforcement, though White refrained from disclosing further details to avoid prejudicing potential jurors. Fire Investigation Division Chief Dennis Richardson admonished the unnecessarily violent and vicious nature of the attack.
Both victims are being treated for serious injuries, primarily affecting their face, neck, and shoulder areas, as mentioned by FOX 2 Detroit.….
Mamadou Tangara, the foreign minister of the Gambia, said he fully supported reparative justice and that the Commonwealth could make it happen. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
The three candidates to be the next secretary general of the Commonwealth have called for reparations for countries that were affected by slavery and colonisation.
The candidates from the Gambia, Ghana and Lesotho expressed their support for either financial reparations or “reparative justice”, as they made their pitches to lead the 56-country organisation at a debate hosted by the Chatham House thinktank in London on Wednesday.
Calls for reparations for the harms caused by slavery and colonialism have grown since the murder of George Floyd by police in 2020 sparked Black Lives Matter protests globally and led many governments, institutions and individuals to examine how they had historically benefited from the slave trade….
Taking a page out of her boss’s playbook, Vice President Kamala Harris told major whoppers during her Tuesday night debate against Donald Trump. With help from left-wing activists masquerading as debate moderators, Harris whitewashed her extreme record, lied about Trump’s policy positions, and more.
Here are some of the biggest falsehoods she told throughout the evening.
1. ‘Middle-Class Kid’
Harris claimed that she grew up a “middle-class kid.” That is not true. As previously noted by journalist Megyn Kelly, Harris’ father was a professor at Stanford University, while her mother was a biomedical scientist at UC Berkley.
2. Trump’s Tax Cuts
Harris falsely insinuated that the 2017 tax cuts approved by the Trump administration disproportionately benefited America’s billionaires and corporations.
That is not true. Data produced by the IRS has shown that “on average all income brackets benefited substantially from the Republicans’ tax reform law, with the biggest beneficiaries being working and middle-income filers, not the top 1 percent,” according to Justin Haskins, writing in The Hill.
3. Trump ‘Sales Tax’
Harris claimed Trump will implement a “sales tax.” Trump has not pledged to do such a thing if elected president.
5. Project 2025
Harris claimed Trump will implement Project 2025 if elected. Trump has repeatedly said he has nothing to do with Project 2025.
6. Just Restoring Roe
When asked whether she supports any restrictions on abortion, Harris dodged the question, instead claiming that she “absolutely support[s] reinstating the protections of Roe v Wade.”
Moments before that, however, Harris pledged to sign legislation such as the ill-named “Women’s Health Protection Act,” which would codify abortion through all nine months of pregnancy. In addition to her history of co-sponsoring the original version of that legislation, Harris also voted against protections for babies born alive after botched abortions.
9. Ninth Month Abortions Don’t Exist
Harris also used her time on the debate stage to assert that “nowhere in America is a woman carrying a pregnancy to term and asking for an abortion.”
“That is not happening. It’s insulting to the women of America,” Harris claimed.
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, however, shows that thousands of abortions are performed after 21 weeks gestation.
The CDC’s findings do not include reporting from at least four abortion-friendly states (California, Maryland, New Hampshire, and New Jersey), which suggests the number of late-term abortions in the U.S. is likely much higher.
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Twenty-three years ago today, the world stood still as we witnessed the horrific events of September 11, 2001. Nearly 3,000 people died, but, as the ashes settled, the people of America rose up, forsaking political and ideological allegiances, choosing to love their neighbors as themselves.
Let us today be reminded of the bond we forged together then and, rather than choosing bitterness and division, may we choose love and peace as we honor the lives of those we lost. That is our prayer on this 23rd anniversary of 9/11.
“The cross tells us that God understands our sin and our suffering and, from the cross, God declares, ‘I love you.’ The story does not end with the cross. For Easter points us beyond the tragedy of the cross to the empty tomb. It tells us there is hope for eternal life, for Christ has conquered evil, and death, and hell. My prayer today is that we will feel the loving arms of God wrapped around us as we know in our hearts that He will never forsake us as we trust in Him. And this is going to be a day we remember as a day of victory.” — Rev. Billy Graham, Sept. 14, 2001
Tunnel to Towers founder Frank Siller honors the legacy of his brother, FDNY firefighter Stephen Siller, and shares a patriotic message with ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ co-host Pete Hegseth to mark the 23rd anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
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