“Jet fuel can’t melt steel beams” became one of the most famous claims in 9/11 conspiracy culture. But did the steel need to melt for the towers — or World Trade Center 7 — to collapse? In this highlight from The Brief, Gerald Posner explains the engineering argument behind the World Trade Center collapses, including why steel can lose strength or expand from heat long before it melts, how fireproofing mattered in the Twin Towers, and why investigators concluded that uncontrolled fires and structural failure brought down WTC 7. Posner also addresses why World Trade Center 7 looked like a controlled demolition to many viewers — and why he believes the evidence points to fire-induced collapse, not explosives. Watch the full…
Journalist Ashleigh Banfield talks about learning, while she was on the air on Sept. 11, 2001, that a close friend who worked in the World Trade Center had died.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is calling on current Mayor Zohran Mamdani to stay away from the 25th anniversary ceremonies honoring the victims of the September 11 attacks, a demand that puts the city's first Muslim mayor at the center of a growing fight over who speaks for Ground Zero. Giuliani made the […] The post Giuliani says Mayor Mamdani has no place at Ground Zero on the 9/11 anniversary appeared first on American Almanac .
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is calling on current Mayor Zohran Mamdani to stay away from the 25th anniversary ceremonies honoring the victims of the September 11 attacks, a demand that puts the city's first Muslim mayor at the center of a growing fight over who speaks for Ground Zero. Giuliani made the remarks during a Friday appearance on the Newsmax program "Finnerty," where he argued that Mamdani's presence at the ceremonies would be an affront to the families who lost husbands, wives, and children in the 2001 attacks. The former mayor, who led New York through the worst terrorist strike on American soil, did not mince words about why he believes Mamdani should not attend. The broadside lands as Mamdani faces mounting…Open
On Wednesday’s “Finnerty,” Hedieh Mirahmadi, founder of Resurrect Ministry, and Michael Macko, son of a 1993 WTC bombing victim, weighed in on Adam Hamawy's win in the Democratic House primary in New Jersey, who has ties to a convicted terrorist.
