Trump Honors the American Spirit That Endured After 9/11.

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President Trump closed his 9/11 address Friday with a message about what survived the attacks: the American spirit. Speaking at the Pentagon 25 years after nearly 3,000 people were killed, Trump contrasted the hatred behind the attacks with the resilience he said the country has demonstrated in the quarter-century since. “September 11 reminded us of the terrible power of hate,” Trump said. “The 25 years since have shown us the even greater power of the American spirit to endure and prevail, and to win.” “And today, our country is stronger than it has ever been before. It has never been

In Dallas, a President’s Promise — With a Price Tag.

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Dallas was where Donald Trump opened the fall campaign. He opened it with a number. Five thousand dollars. Cash. To every adult citizen, if Republicans hold the House and Senate in November. He called it the “Trump dividend.” Borrowed straight from the boardroom — a company rewarding its shareholders. Only here the company was the country. It was an odd thing to hear a president say. It was also, judging by the reaction in the hall, exactly the thing his crowd wanted to hear. The setting was new, too. The party’s first-ever midterm convention. A fitting stage for a candidate

The Ninety Minutes That Made Welles Crowther a Hero.

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Welles Crowther was 24 years old, and he worked in finance, and he wore a red bandana under his work shirt because his father, a volunteer firefighter, had given it to him when he was six. He used to say it was going to help him change the world. He said it, apparently, more than once. He was a kid who meant it. On September 11, 2001, he was on the 78th floor of the South Tower when the second plane hit. He could have gone down. He went the other way. He found people in the smoke — burned,

New York Remembers. New York Also Notices.

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Zohran Mamdani is going to Ground Zero on Friday. He announced it himself, matter-of-factly, standing near a parade that had already seen three people stabbed before lunchtime. He’ll be there for the 25th anniversary of September 11th, he says, to honor “the families whose loved ones were stolen from them.” He’ll be the first Muslim mayor of New York to attend the ceremony. That’s a real thing, a historic thing. And it’s happening under a cloud he built himself. Rudy Giuliani doesn’t want him there. Neither does George Pataki. Giuliani says he’d take it personally. Pataki wants Mamdani to either

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