On Sept. 12, 2001, the United States staggered to its feet amid the devastation of the al-Qaeda terrorist attacks the day before.
For some Americans and millions of others around the globe, the harshest impacts were just beginning. wapo.st/3yYJKDQ
On Sept. 12, Genelle Guzman woke in a terrible darkness, unable to move.
She was the last person pulled alive from the rubble. To the 30-year-old immigrant, living through the collapse was only the first of many miracles in her life. wapo.st/3yYJKDQ
Ronie Huddleston, a veteran of the first Iraq war, repacked his gear the day after 9/11, after receiving orders for a new combat mission.
He later watched his stepson enlist and serve at the same Iraqi outpost where Huddleston had served 14 years earlier. wapo.st/3yYJKDQ
Lawyer Hina Shamsi watched the collapse in disbelief from a crowded sidewalk.
Years later, she took on U.S. officials in court over tactics used against suspected terrorists, such as torture and detention without trial. wapo.st/3yYJKDQ
For months after 9/11, firefighter Raymond Pfeifer scoured the ruins, exposing himself to toxic chemicals.
He eventually became the face of the lobbying effort to secure government compensation for rescue workers who became ill from 9/11. wapo.st/3yYJKDQ
In Hamburg, Germany, Mariam el Fazazi discovered a horrifying connection to the hijackers: Several were former neighbors who attended a mosque where her father sometimes preached.
The discovery jarred her into a years-long struggle to reclaim her faith. wapo.st/3yYJKDQ
The cataclysm of 9/11 was not contained to a single day, or to a handful of locations.
Over the next two decades, destinies were reshaped for Pfeifer, Huddleston, Guzman, Shamsi, Fazazi and millions of others who had no inkling about what was to come. wapo.st/3yYJKDQ
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President Trump announced full bans on 12 countries and partial bans on seven others on Wednesday. They are set to go in effect on June 9.
Here’s what you need to know:
The countries with a full ban are Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
While Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela are affected by a partial ban.
How were the countries with travel bans selected? Trump said it’s in the interest of national security, writing that the U.S. must ensure those admitted to the country “do not bear hostile attitudes toward its citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles.”
As the coronavirus tore through the world in 2020, and the United States confronted a shortage of tests designed to detect the illness, then-President Donald Trump secretly sent coveted tests to Russian President Vladimir Putin for his personal use. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…
Putin accepted the supplies but took pains to prevent political fallout.
He cautioned Trump not to reveal that he had dispatched the scarce medical equipment to Moscow, according to “War,” a new book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…
Four years later, the personal relationship between the two men appears to have persisted, Woodward reports, as Trump campaigns to return to the White House and Putin orchestrates his bloody assault on Ukraine.
Mark Robinson, the firebrand Republican nominee for governor in North Carolina, has for years made comments downplaying and making light of sexual assault and domestic violence. wapo.st/3KQffZ6
A review of Robinson’s social media posts over the past decade shows that he frequently questioned the credibility of women who aired allegations of sexual assault against prominent men, including Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby and now-U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh. wapo.st/3KQffZ6
In one post, Robinson, North Carolina’s lieutenant governor, characterized Weinstein and others as “sacrificial lambs” being “slaughtered.” wapo.st/3KQffZ6
Exclusive: A Washington Post investigation has found that over the past two decades, hundreds of law enforcement officers in the United States have sexually abused children while officials at every level of the criminal justice system have failed to protect kids, punish abusers and prevent additional crimes. wapo.st/3XiNgZC
The Post conducted an exclusive analysis of the nation’s most comprehensive database of police crimes.
From 2005 through 2022, reporters identified at least 1,800 state and local law enforcement officers who were charged with crimes involving child sexual abuse. wapo.st/3XiNgZC
Police and court documents show that abusive officers frequently spent months befriending and grooming kids.
Many used the threat of arrest or physical harm to make their victims comply. wapo.st/3XiNgZC
Exclusive: For decades, Catholic priests raped or molested Native American children who were taken from their homes by the U.S. government and forced to live at remote boarding schools, a Post investigation found. wapo.st/3yB2VZT
At least 122 priests, sisters and brothers assigned to 22 boarding schools since the 1890s were later accused of sexually abusing Native American children under their care, The Post found. wapo.st/3yB2VZT
Most of the documented abuse occurred in the 1950s and 1960s and involved more than 1,000 children.
Experts say the The Post’s findings are a window into the widespread sexual abuse at Indian boarding schools. wapo.st/3yB2VZT
Exclusive: A group of billionaires and business titans working to shape U.S. public opinion of the war in Gaza privately pressed New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams (D) last month to send police to disperse pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University. wapo.st/4apUvBO
Business executives including Kind snack company founder Daniel Lubetzky, hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb, billionaire Len Blavatnik and real estate investor Joseph Sitt held a Zoom video call with Mayor Eric Adams (D) a log of chat messages shows. wapo.st/4apUvBO
During the call, some attendees discussed making political donations to Adams, as well as how the chat group’s members could pressure Columbia’s president and trustees to permit the mayor to send police to the campus to handle protesters. wapo.st/4apUvBO