Commemoration ceremonies to be held around the world for the nearly 3,000 killed in 2001 terror attack on US. Plus, JD Vance sets out his stall as heir to Donald Trump<\/p>\n
Good morning. It is a sombre day for the nation as people gather to mourn and remember the nearly 3,000 victims of the attacks on September 11 2001<\/a>, when 19 al-Qaida hijackers seized control of four airliners, slamming two of the planes into the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and the fourth into a field in western Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n We have comprehensive coverage of the anniversary, which will be marked by ceremonies around the world. There are stories of the day from people who were there. Stanley Praimnath and Brian Clark were two of only four individuals known to have survived above the impact zone in the south tower, and they spoke to our Washington bureau chief David Smith<\/a>. Anna Sweeney Rossman was five when her mother, Amy Sweeney, a flight attendant, was killed onboard American Airlines flight 11, and she spoke to Ramon Antonio Vargas<\/a> about how the events of that day have cast a shadow on her life.<\/p>\n Donald Trump\u2019s promise of a $5,000 \u201cTrump dividend\u201d for every US citizen if Republicans retain control of the US Congress in November\u2019s midterm elections has sparked incredulity and accusations of bribery<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n With his approval rating at a historic low, Trump brought down the curtain on the Republicans\u2019 first ever midterm convention<\/strong> by pleading with supporters to do him \u201cthe biggest favor\u201d and \u201cpretend\u201d they are voting for him<\/a> in November\u2019s US elections.<\/p>\n JD Vance, meanwhile, made a clear pitch that he should be the heir to Trump<\/a><\/strong> with a blistering speech that featured exaggerated claims of success, criticism of the Democrats as \u201clunatics\u201d and an aggressive dismissal of a protester waving a Mexican flag.<\/p>\n A US appeals court has rejected Trump\u2019s attempt<\/a> to impose sweeping restrictions on mail-in voting<\/strong> before November\u2019s high-stakes midterm elections, dealing a fresh blow to the president\u2019s attempted crackdown.<\/p>\n Anthropic has detailed <\/strong>efforts by bad actors to misuse its AI<\/a> for the production of bioweapons<\/strong>. More researchers and staff members at the AI startup have posted their own dire warnings about the safety of the technology, but Elon Musk called the chorus of concerns<\/a> a \u201csetup\u201d and a \u201cpsyop\u201d.<\/p>\n California has adopted<\/a> what Gavin Newsom described as \u201cnation-leading\u201d legislation that bans addictive social media features for young users<\/strong>, regulates companion chatbots and implements new safeguards around AI.<\/p>\n Sales of previously occupied US homes declined in August to their slowest annual pace in more than a year<\/a><\/strong> as home shoppers grappled with rising mortgage rates and home prices.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Commemoration ceremonies to be held around the world for the nearly 3,000 killed in 2001 terror attack on US. Plus, JD Vance sets out his stall as heir to Donald Trump Good morning. It is a sombre day for the nation as people gather to mourn and remember the nearly 3,000 victims of the attacks … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}