9/11

Photo credit: CNN/YouTube & Robert H. Jackson (29) – Flickr – The Challenger space shuttle tragedy and the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald were both shown live on television.

Democracy, History, Popular

12 of the most unbelievable moments ever captured on live TV

Evan Porter

4/26/2025
An Operation Smile volunteer reverses an oxygen mask so a child with a cleft condition can blow a bubble for the first time in Guadalajara, Mexico. (Operation Smile Photos)

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Family, Science

How Bubbles Help Kids with Cleft Conditions

Sarah Watts

5/11/2026
Photo credit: via Engin Akyurt/Unsplash – A woman looks to the ground in dispair.

Health, Mental Health, Popular

Gen Xer explains sense of ‘impending doom’ that seems to define the Millennial generation

Tod Perry

3/25/2024
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She’s looking for people her dad helped on 9/11. The story itself is a timeline cleanser.

Annie Reneau

9/10/2021
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Culture, Democracy, Popular

Artists made these 40 chalk portraits honoring each passenger and crew member of Flight 93

Annie Reneau

9/9/2021
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Culture, Heroes, Popular, Wellness

Flight attendant who nearly died on 9/11 commemorates coworkers with a 200-mile bar-cart push

Tod Perry

8/25/2021
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Heroes, Popular

Remember the heroic young ‘man in the red bandana’ who kept going back to save lives on 9/11

Annie Reneau

9/11/2020
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A cop picked up a donated helmet on 9/11. Months later, he found a note inside.

Eric March

9/15/2017
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5 Syrian families didn’t know what they’d find in Canada. They found the perfect town.

Eric March

6/5/2017
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For 5 years, an innocent man was imprisoned and tortured. This is his story.

Parker Molloy

12/15/2016
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A 9/11 widow’s final conversation with her husband shows why we should never forget.

Evan Porter

9/11/2016
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What it was like being a 13-year-old New Yorker on 9/11.

Sarah Kay

9/9/2016
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It took Jon Stewart and lots of public outrage, but the Zadroga Act is moving forward.

Jon Comulada

12/17/2015
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Jon Stewart urges action from Congress in his return to ‘The Daily Show.’

Parker Molloy

12/8/2015
Photo credit: Image via Pixabay. – A shadow casts across the earth.

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5 lessons from 9/11 that won’t be in the history books.

Erica Williams Simon

9/11/2015
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The one 9/11 memorial photo I think everyone should see.

Rollie Williams

9/11/2012