World Trade Center

Latest Stories

From left, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo with his daughter, first lady Michelle Obama, President Barack Obama, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Diana Taylor and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani attend a ceremony at the Memorial Hall National September 11 Memorial Museum, Thursday, May 15, 2014, in New York. The museum is a monument to how the Sept. 11 terror attacks shaped history, from its heart-wrenching artifacts to the underground space that houses them amid the remnants of the fallen twin towers' foundations. It also reflects the complexity of crafting a public understanding of the terrorist attacks and reconceiving ground zero. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Reflections on the Sept. 11 museum at ground zero

Associated Press

A flag-draped casket is lifted out of a police vehicle during the ceremonial transfer of unidentified remains of those killed at the World Trade Center from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to the World Trade Center site, Saturday, May 10, 2014, in New York. The remains will be transferred to an underground repository in the same building as the National September 11 Memorial Museum. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

9/11 remains returned to World Trade Center site

By Michael Casey - Associated Press

In this April 15, 2014 photo, Mark Desire, right, assistant director for forensic biology at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, speaks as a criminalist, training in forensic science, prepares sample bone fragments for DNA testing at the training lab, in New York. With new technology yielding results impossible a dozen years ago, forensic scientists are still trying to match the bone with DNA from those who died on Sept. 11, 2001, and have never been identified. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Scientists still working to ID victims from 9/11

By Verena Dobnik - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 9, 2001, file photo, Daniel Nigro, chief of the New York Fire Department, talks to journalists upon his arrival at Rome's Fiumicino airport. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio picked Nigro, a retired fire officer, as the next commissioner of the nation's largest fire department on Thursday, May 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Massimo Sambucetti)

AP sources: NY mayor to name fire department boss

By JONATHAN LEMIRE - Associated Press

Rosaleen Tallon, sister of firefighter Sean Tallon, killed in the 9-11 World Trade Center attacks and other 9-11 victims' family members hold a press conference in front of a fire station opposite the National September 11 Memorial &amp; Museum in New York, Thursday, May 8, 2014. The families oppose the display of their loved ones' remains in the basement of the museum as opposed to on the memorialplaza level. From left are Rosemary Cain, Sally Regenhard, attorney Noman Siegel, Rosaleen Tallon, and retired New York City Fire Chief Jim Riches. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Plan for unidentified 9/11 remains draws protest

By KAREN MATTHEWS - Associated Press

Unidentified remains to return to Sept. 11 site

By JONATHAN LEMIRE - Associated Press

Coalition wants monument for 9/11 1st responders

By MICHAEL R. SISAK - Associated Press

Pedestrians walk past 3 World Trade Center, left, and the Transportation Hub, right, both under construction, Wednesday, April 23, 2014 in New York. At its monthly meeting Wednesday, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey postponed a decision on whether to approve more than $1 billion in financing for Silverstein Properties' retail and office tower, 3 World Trade Center. The tower, planned for 73 floors, is now up to seven floors. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Deep split in Port Authority over WTC tower

By DAVID PORTER - Associated Press

In this Pentagon-approved sketch by court artist Janet Hamlin, Sept. 11 accused conspirator Khalid Sheikh Mohammad confers with defense attorney Cheryl Bormann, in black abaya prior to hearing at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, Thursday April 17, 2014. An effort to prosecute the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack and four co-defendants veered off track again Thursday as a pretrial hearing ended with new obstacles that threaten to further derail the case before a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay. (AP PHOTO/Janet Hamlin, Pool)

Anger and dismay at stalled Guantanamo 9/11 trial

By BEN FOX - Associated Press

New York judge: Jurors can hear imam praise 9/11

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

Goldman Sachs headquarters, left, One World Trade Center, second left, and 4 World Trade Center, center, stand above the lower Manhattan skyline, Wednesday, April 2, 2014 in New York. About 700 people will race up 72 floors at 4 World Trade Center, Thursday in an event called the “Runyon Up,&quot; organized by the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Hundreds make World Trade Center tower climb

By DEEPTI HAJELA - Associated Press

Justin Casquejo passes through security at a courthouse in New York, Wednesday, April 2, 2014. The 16-year-old boy described as a thrill-seeker bypassed an inattentive security guard in the middle of the night and climbed a ladder to the spire of 1 World Trade Center, where he apparently took pictures, authorities said. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Evaluation for teen who tackled World Trade Center

By VERENA DOBNIK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2013, file photo, New York Police Department security cameras are in place at the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum in New York. One World Trade Center is on the left. Sen. Charles Schumer stood by the World Trade Center on Sunday, March 30, 2014, demanding that federal officials review security after daredevils twice sneaked to the top of the site's signature, 104-story skyscraper. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

NY Sen. Schumer asks feds to review WTC security

By VERENA DOBNIK - Associated Press

US official: NY terror case a win for civil courts

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS - Associated Press

In this combination of two photos provided by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, Cable News Network producers Yon Pomrenze, left, and Connor Fieldman Boals, are shown after their arrests on Tuesday, March 25, 2014. Both men have been charged with criminal trespass, obstruction of governmental administration and disorderly conduct after trying to forcibly push their way through a controlled gate at the World Trade Center Construction site in New York City. A spokeswoman for CNN said the men were in the area to do a story about the recent security breaches and were not asked to sneak onto the site. (AP Photo/Port Authority of New York and New Jersey)

CNN employees accused of World Trade Center breach

Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2013, file photo, a visitor to the National September 11 Memorial and Museum takes in the sight as he walks past the museum in New York. The long-awaited museum dedicated to the victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks will open to the public at the World Trade Center site on May 21, officials announced Monday, March 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

NYC museum dedicated to 9/11 victims opens May 21

By KAREN MATTHEWS - Associated Press

Justin Casquejo, 16, of New Jersey posted to Twitter in August this photo of himself facing 1 World Trade Center in lower Manhattan.

Teen who breached World Trade Center security apologizes on Twitter

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Justin Casquejo, 16, of New Jersey posted to Twitter in August this photo of himself facing 1 World Trade Center in lower Manhattan.

N.J. teen breaches security, takes photos on top of World Trade Center

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

FILE. - This Feb. 11, 2014 file photo shows pedestrians in front of the 1 World Trade Center building, left, in New York. A 16-year-old boy from Weehawken, N.J., is accused of bypassing security in the middle of the night and climbing a ladder to the spire of 1 World Trade Center to take pictures according the the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The teen was arrested on the premises at 6 a.m. Sunday March 16, 2014 and his camera and cellphone were seized after authorities obtained a search warrant. He was later released without bail. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Police: NJ teen bypasses guard, reaches WTC spire

By JENNIFER PELTZ and DAVID PORTER - Associated Press

Pedestrians pass a sign warning them of falling ice near City Hall Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, in New York. Amid a brutal winter, New Yorkers are battling something far more dangerous than snow falling from the sky: ice tumbling from skyscrapers. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Tough winter creates menace: Ice from high-rises

By VERENA DOBNIK - Associated Press