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Oliver Stone's World Trade Center is based on the Ground Zero ordeal of two New York Port Authority police officers and their rescuers, including one from the NYPD. Two of the cops depicted in the film discuss their ordeal: one who was trapped, a second who came to the rescue.

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., chaired a hearing on new laws that restrict classroom discussion of gender, sexual orientation and race. Students, parents and teachers are among those who spoke.

The Vincent Price Museum in East L.A. features a major exhibition of Latinx artists using sound in their work, from demolishing a piano to dedicating musical oldies to incarcerated loved ones.

President Biden heads to Asia Friday for a meeting of the Quad group, which includes leaders from India, Japan and Australia. The unspoken focus of the gathering is China.

More and more people are getting used to the idea that COVID 19 isn't going to just disappear one day. There's only one human disease that's ever been truly eradicated. And that's smallpox.

Sheriff John Q. Williams on salaries, staff shortages.

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg has published a memoir called Enemy Combatant. Begg says he was arrested in Pakistan without ever being charged with a crime, beaten and psychologically tortured at prison camps in Afghanistan and kept in isolation for nearly two years at Guantanamo Bay.

Georgia jobless rate stays at record low 3.1% in April.

Poverty stricken Senegalese young men are so desperate for work and respect that they risk their lives trying to make the 600-mile voyage to Spain's Canary Islands. But it can be a problem for both Spain and Senegal.

July's presidential election left the nation almost equally divided between a leftist who wants to renegotiate NAFTA to protect farmers, and a conservative who wants to encourage more free trade deals. But treaties alone aren't the only source of Mexico's economic woes.