President Donald Trump posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to hero Welles Crowther at an event to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, quipping that he didn't like that Crowther has become "much more famous than me." Known as the "Man in the Red Bandana," Crowther led people to safety at the World Trade Center's South Tower before he died in its collapse.
First responders who rushed to the World Trade Center on and immediately after the 9/11 attacks were likely exposed to dangerous toxins, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said.
Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen launched a major attack on southwestern Saudi Arabia early Tuesday, targeting oil and other infrastructure in an escalation that risks widening the region’s conflicts and adding further pressure to crude prices. The attacks mark a dramatic escalation in the Saudi-Houthi conflict, which flared up again in July, shortly after the US-Iran ceasefire unraveled, with Houthi missile attacks on Saudi oil facilities and tankers in an expansion of the Middle East war. Meanwhile, in offices across the US military and intelligence community, there have been recent quiet discussions about cutting the number of people and facilities typically stationed in the Middle East if the Trump administration succeeds in ending…