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Today in History 09/07/2021 12:00am • Today in History Today is Tuesday, Sept. 7, the 250th day of 2021. There are 115 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 7, 1977, the Panama Canal treaties, calling for the U.S. to eventually turn over control of the waterway to Panama, were signed in Washington by Preside First responders nationwide resist COVID vaccine mandates 09/06/2021 11:58am • March 11, 2021. It was supposed to be a turning point in the coronavirus pandemic for Erin Tokley, a longtime Philadelphia police officer, Baptist minister and 47-year-old father of three. It was supposed to be the day of his vaccine appointment. Instead it was the date of his funeral. Tokley — â How 9/11 changed air travel: more security, less privacy 09/06/2021 07:17am • DALLAS (AP) — Ask anyone old enough to remember travel before Sept. 11, 2001, and you're likely to get a gauzy recollection of what flying was like. There was security screening, but it wasn’t anywhere near as intrusive. There were no long checkpoint lines. Passengers and their families could w Teaching Sept. 11 as history: 'We could do a better job' 09/06/2021 04:05am • No one who remembers seeing them will ever forget the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. But 20 years later, they’re almost as far in the rearview mirror as the Carter presidency was when the attacks happened. An entire generation of children has been born, raised and graduated high school since then, and How events such as Sept. 11 have affected our collective mental health 09/06/2021 04:00am • The Sept. 11 terror attacks in 2001, the D.C. sniper attacks in 2002 and the coronavirus pandemic of 2020. They all caused pain and suffering on a mass scale, but a Northern Virginia psychiatrist believes they also reflected the commonality of the human experience and helped advance the cause of men How 9/11 changed air travel: more security, less privacy 09/06/2021 03:16am • DALLAS (AP) — Ask anyone old enough to remember travel before Sept. 11, 2001, and you're likely to get a gauzy recollection of what flying was like. There was security screening, but it wasn’t anywhere near as intrusive. There were no long checkpoint lines. Passengers and their families could How 9/11 changed air travel: more security, less privacy 09/06/2021 03:00am • DALLAS (AP) — Ask anyone old enough to remember travel before Sept. 11, 2001, and you're likely to get a gauzy recollection of what flying was like. There was security screening, but it wasn’t anywhere near as intrusive. There were no long checkpoint lines. Passengers and their families could 9/11: As the decades pass, the act of remembering evolves 09/05/2021 04:40am • SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Across the vast field where the plane fell out of the sky so many years ago, all is quiet. The hills around Shanksville seem to swallow sound. The plateau that Americans by the millions ascend to visit the Flight 93 National Memorial, to think of those who died in this sou 9/11: As the decades pass, the act of remembering evolves 09/05/2021 12:30am • SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Across the vast field where the plane fell out of the sky so many years ago, all is quiet. The hills around Shanksville seem to swallow sound. The plateau that Americans by the millions ascend to visit the Flight 93 National Memorial, to think of those who died in this sou Harris to California on Wednesday to campaign with Newsom 09/04/2021 10:00pm • Vice President Kamala Harris will visit California's Bay Area next week to campaign with Gov. Gavin Newsom, who faces possible removal from office in a Sept. 14 recall election. Symone Sanders, Harris' chief spokesperson, tweeted Saturday that the vice president would visit on Wednesday. Sanders lat Biden to mark 20th anniversary of 9/11 at 3 memorial sites 09/04/2021 03:46pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will visit all three 9/11 memorial sites to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and pay his respects to the nearly 3,000 people killed that day. Biden will visit ground zero in New York City, the Pentagon and the memorial outside Shanksvi Surviving 9/11 was 'just the first piece of the journey' 09/04/2021 12:30am • NEW YORK (AP) — Trapped deep in the wreckage of the World Trade Center, Will Jimeno lived through the unthinkable. Twenty years later, he's still living with it. A brace and a quarter-sized divot on his left leg reflect the injuries that ended his police career, a lifetime dream. He has post-tra AP Top Political News at 10:00 p.m. EDT 09/04/2021 12:00am • Over 24 hours in Kabul, brutality, trauma, moments of grace US: Afghan evacuees who fail initial screening Kosovo-bound Origin story of the Texas law that could upend Roe v. Wade It's a girl, and a boy: Buttigieg celebrates 2 babies Shadow docket Supreme Court decisions could affect millions Biden t Biden moves to declassify documents about Sept. 11 attacks 09/03/2021 09:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday directed the declassification of certain documents related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a supportive gesture to victims' families who have long sought the records in hopes of implicating the Saudi government. The order, coming little mor Pandemic once again disrupts plans for Jewish High Holy Days 09/03/2021 10:43am • As customary, there will be celebrations and somber reflections as American Jews observe the upcoming High Holy Days — their faith’s most important period. There also will be deep disappointment, as rabbis once again cancel or limit in-person worship due to the persisting COVID-19 pandemic. The