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Three men guided millions through horror of Sept. 11, 2001 09/03/2021 03:00am • NEW YORK (AP) — “Turn on your television.” Those words were repeated in millions of homes on Sept. 11, 2001. Friends and relatives took to the telephone: Something awful was happening. You have to see. Before social media and with online news in its infancy, the story of the day when terrorist 20 years after 9/11: 'We will live with the scars' forever 09/03/2021 01:14am • PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Twenty years later, Jack Grandcolas still remembers waking up at 7:03 that morning. He looked at the clock, then out the window where an image in the sky caught his eye — a fleeting vision that looked like an angel ascending. He didn’t know it yet, but that was the Rookie Sheets hits 2 HRs, White Sox beat Pirates 6-3 09/01/2021 11:28pm • CHICAGO (AP) — Rookie Gavin Sheets hit two home runs, leading the Chicago White Sox to a 6-3 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday night. Sheets, who was promoted from Triple-A Charlotte before the game, hit a three-run homer off Max Kranick (1-3) with two out in the fourth inning to snap a Review: In 'Worth,' weighing the personal losses of 9/11 09/01/2021 07:54pm • “What is life worth?” asks Washington lawyer Kenneth J. Feinberg (Michael Keaton) in the opening scenes of the based-on-a-true-story drama “Worth,” while writing the question on a blackboard for a room full of law school students. To Feinberg, it's not a trick question or a moral one. It's September entertainment guide 2021 09/01/2021 04:47am • The summer is about to give way to fall with plenty of fun happenings around town. Which events should you mark on your calendar? Time for your September Entertainment Guide:   September Entertainment Guide: Sept. 1-5: D.C. Jazz Festival Sept. 1-6: “Fairytales in the Sun China ready for World Cup qualifying, whatever it takes 08/26/2021 11:21pm • While it may be one of soccer’s biggest underachievers, China’s national team is the envy of Asia in terms of preparation for the 2022 World Cup. Serious resources are being poured into qualifying for next year’s World Cup in Qatar, which will mark the 20th anniversary of China’s first and, PGA Tour postseason heads to Caves Valley near Baltimore 08/25/2021 05:54pm • PGA TOUR BMW CHAMPIONSHIP Site: Owings Mills, Maryland. Course: Caves Valley GC. Yardage: 7,542. Par: 72. Prize money: $9.5 million. Winner's share: $1.71 million. Television: Thursday-Friday, 3-7 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday, noon to 3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3-6 p.m. (NBC); Sunday, noon-2 p.m. (Golf Met Opera and orchestra reach deal, allowing season to start 08/24/2021 01:34pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera reached a four-year agreement with the union for its orchestra, the last major deal needed for the company to resume performances following a 1 1/2-year layoff caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The contract with local 802 of the American Federation of Music G-7 grapples with Afghanistan, an afterthought not long ago 08/23/2021 04:31pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Two months ago, the leaders of the world’s seven major industrialized democracies met at the height of summer on England’s southeast coast. It was a happy occasion: the first in-person summit of the Group of Seven nations in two years due to the coronavirus pandemic and the w Rolling Stones honor album 'Tattoo You' with 9 new tunes 08/19/2021 09:00am • NEW YORK (AP) — The Rolling Stones are celebrating the 40th anniversary of their album “Tattoo You” with a remastered collection that includes nine previously unreleased tracks. The newly-remastered 11-track album is out on Oct. 22, including songs “Hang Fire,” “Waiting on a Friend” a The Latest: Australia also records new COVID-19 highs 08/18/2021 10:37pm • CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s two most populous states on Thursday recorded new benchmark highs in COVID-19 infections. New South Wales reported a record 681 cases in the latest 24-hour period, mostly in Sydney. The previous record for the most populous state was 633 cases set on Wednesday. Editorial Roundup: U.S. 08/18/2021 12:09pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Aug. 17 The Hindu on the fall of Kabul and a bleak future facing Afghanistan: History came full circle on August 15 when the Taliban captured Kabul, almost 20 years after the U.S. launched its global war on terror. The city of roughly GOP hits Biden despite divides over Afghanistan withdrawal 08/17/2021 08:58am • WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Joe Biden announced he would stick to his predecessor's plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, Republican reaction was mixed and largely muted. Foreign policy had become so contentious that the party's own leaders had no single position on the end of the na Analysis: Defiant Biden is face of chaotic Afghan evacuation 08/17/2021 12:13am • Four presidents share responsibility for the missteps in Afghanistan that accumulated over two decades. But only President Joe Biden will be the face of the war's chaotic, violent conclusion. The president fought that reality Monday as he spread blame for the Taliban's swift and complete recapture o Analysis: Defiant Biden is face of chaotic Afghan evacuation 08/16/2021 07:19pm • Four presidents share responsibility for the missteps in Afghanistan that accumulated over two decades. But only President Joe Biden will be the face of the war's chaotic, violent conclusion. The president fought that reality Monday as he spread blame for the Taliban's swift and complete recapture o