Yes, the Jan. 6 insurrectionists were terrorists.  George W. Bush just indicted them.  —  Few Americans expected wisdom from former president George W. Bush on the 20th anniversary of 9/11.  Even fewer expected wisdom on the current state of our politics.  That is nevertheless what we got from his remarks in Shanksville, Pa., today.

USCP's January 6 Internal Investigations  —  After January 6, the United States Capitol Police promised to provide an update on its internal investigations related to the attack.  —  This week, the USCP provided the Department of Justice the administrative cases as part of the ongoing discovery production …

Dems hurtle toward a new fiscal cliff  —  Congress is approaching hard deadlines on the debt ceiling and funding the government, at the same time Democrats are focused on passing spending bills.  —  The need to raise the nation's debt limit before October is suddenly looming over a host …

US pulls missile defenses in Saudi Arabia amid Yemen attacks  —  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. has removed its most advanced missile defense system and Patriot batteries from Saudi Arabia in recent weeks, even as the kingdom faced continued air attacks from Yemen's Houthi rebels …

NY hospital to pause baby deliveries after staffers quit over vaccine mandate  —  LOWVILLE, N.Y. — An upstate New York hospital said it will pause the delivery of babies in two weeks because of a spate of resignations by maternity unit workers who are objecting to COVID-19 vaccination mandates.

The GOP's halting, uneven journey toward becoming the anti-vaccine mandate party  —  Or in this case, toward opposing something that isn't a vaccine mandate at all.  —  There are a couple of perplexing things about the political opposition to the Biden administration's decision …

In Shanksville, Biden says the future of democracy is on the line.  —  Shortly after former President George W. Bush spoke at the Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville, Pa., on Saturday, President Biden arrived to observe a wreath-laying ceremony at the place where, 20 years ago …

Alabama man dies of cardiac event after 43 hospitals with full ICUs turned him away  —  The family of a man who died of heart issues in Mississippi is asking people to get vaccinated for COVID-19 after 43 hospitals across three states were unable to accept him because of full cardiac ICUs.

Biden's vaccine push wins cautious business support as political opponents fume  —  Even in deep red Texas, some employers embrace the president's vaccine strategy.  —  Bob Harvey's phone did not ring.  —  In Washington, a political furor had erupted over President Biden's new coronavirus vaccine …

The Taliban flag flies at the Afghan presidential palace on 9/11  —  Prime Minister Mohammad Hasan Akhund raised the Taliban flag at 11:00 a.m. local time at the Afghanistan presidential palace today.  Ahmadullahh Muttaqi, multimedia chief of the group's cultural commission said a brief ceremony marked …

Where the Meaning of Flight 93 Can Never End The national memorial was built to allow multiple interpretations.  —  Paul Murdoch did not set out to heal the wound in the Earth, but to preserve it as a scar.  The architect of the Flight 93 National Memorial has spent most of the last two decades refining …

Escape From New York The great maritime rescue of lower Manhattan on 9/11.  —  On that bright-blue morning 20 years ago, Coast Guard lieutenant Michael Day was at his office on Staten Island, looking out over lower Manhattan.  Day was a relatively junior officer whose job entailed safety …

The U.S. Needs an Operation Warp Speed for Rapid COVID-19 Testing  —  Dr. Michael Mina, MD, PhD, is assistant professor of epidemiology and immunology/infectious diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics; and associate medical director …

Doctor says ‘death is imminent’ for a woman on a hospital bed in Michigan who refused the COVID-19 vaccine ‘adamantly’  — Dr. Nicole Linder from Michigan said she watched a patient's COVID-19 symptoms worsen for weeks.  — Her patient, Kathy, refused to get vaccinated, and now it's too late, Linder said.

‘Overall crime decreased in 2020’ in the United States, report finds  —  WASHINGTON — After crime rates in the United States surged in the second half of the 20th century, moderate Democrats persuaded the party to toughen up its platform in the 1990s to channel widespread voter concerns spreading from big cities to the suburbs.

Republicans seize on Biden's novel use of a law on workplace safety to attack his vaccine mandates.  —  President Biden's far-reaching assertion of presidential authority to require vaccines for 80 million American workers relies on a first-of-its-kind application of a 51-year-old law that grants …

Abimael Guzman, founder of Peruvian rebel group Shining Path, dies at 86  —  Abimael Guzman, leader of the Shining Path rebels who nearly toppled the Peruvian state in a bloody Maoist revolution, died on Saturday while in prison and following several weeks of poor health, the government said.