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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the Trump administration will not use tax dollars to pay the $5,000 dividends President Trump promised U.S. adults if the Republicans win the November midterm elections.

Flight 93 remembered 25 years later: ‘They fought the first battle of the long war, and they won it’

Visitors to the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., attend an observance, Friday, Sept.11, 2026, as the nation marks the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

By Mary McCue Bell - The Washington Times

Political leaders solemnly commemorated Flight 93, the plane that went down in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, honoring the passengers whose heroic revolt against hijackers prevented the flight from reaching Washington, D.C.

Visitors to the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., attend an observance, Friday, Sept.11, 2026, as the nation marks the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Flight 93 remembered 25 years later: ‘They fought the first battle of the long war, and they won it’

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Skid row scam: Fraudsters used homeless to pose as valid voters for California referendum drive

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In this photo provided by the North Korean government, its leader Kim Jong Un, left, visits a weapons factory at an undisclosed place in North Korea Saturday, June 6, 2026. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

North Korea launches a ballistic missile toward the sea, South Korea says

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A man walks under heavy rain past temporary tents in Skid Row, one of the largest populations of homeless people in the United States on Monday, Feb. 5, 2024, in Los Angeles. A storm of historic proportions dumped a record amount of rain over parts of Los Angeles on Monday, sending mud and boulders down hillsides dotted with multimillion-dollar homes while people living in homeless encampments in many parts of the city scrambled for safety. Shelters were adding beds for the city's homeless population of nearly 75,000 people. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Skid row scam: Fraudsters used homeless to pose as valid voters for California referendum drive

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, its leader Kim Jong Un, left, visits a weapons factory at an undisclosed place in North Korea Saturday, June 6, 2026. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

North Korea launches a ballistic missile toward the sea, South Korea says

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., tells reporters at the Capitol in Washington on Thursday, July 23, 2026, that the Senate has a busy two weeks of work ahead before the August recess. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

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President Donald Trump attends a ceremony to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks at the Pentagon, Friday, Sept. 11, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump says he’s ‘99% sure’ he could have spoken at ground zero on 9/11

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Visitors to the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., attend an observance, Friday, Sept.11, 2026, as the nation marks the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Flight 93 remembered 25 years later: ‘They fought the first battle of the long war, and they won it’

By Mary McCue Bell - The Washington Times

U.S. soldiers, part of the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), walk as a U.S. Chinook helicopter is seen in the background in Shindand, Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Jan. 28, 2012. On the ground, NATO has helped to keep peace in the Balkans and combat the Taliban-led insurgency in war-torn Afghanistan, the alliance's biggest ever operation, launched after the United States triggered its "all for one and one for all" common defense clause in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. (AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi) **FILE**

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President Donald Trump speaks as he attends a ceremony to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks at the Pentagon, Friday, Sept. 11, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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Visitors to the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., attend an observance, Friday, Sept.11, 2026, as the nation marks the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

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Albuquerque residents Michael Caldwell, left, and his wife, Natasha Caldwell, attend a Second Amendment Protest in response to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's recent public health order suspending the conceal and open carry of guns in and around Albuquerque for 30 days, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, in Albuquerque, N.M. Natasha said, "We came to stand for the Constitution and out of anger about what's happening with this health order." Restrictions on carrying guns in public that are tied to an emergency public health order are going under the legal microscope on Tuesday, Oct. 3, in New Mexico. (AP Photo/Roberto E. Rosales) **FILE**

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In this photo provided by the North Korean government, its leader Kim Jong Un, left, visits a weapons factory at an undisclosed place in North Korea Saturday, June 6, 2026. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

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