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9/11 Families United issued a statement about the 16-page document, which was released on the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks, and called on the Saudi government to “own up” to the role its officials played. The FBI document, which is partially redacted, discusses contacts between the 9/11 hijackers and Saudi associates but does not say that Saudi Arabia’s government played a role in the attacks. Terry Strada of 9/11 Families United, whose husband Tom was in the World Trade Center on 9/11 and was killed, said: “Twenty years ago today they murdered our loved ones and inflicted immeasurable pain and suffering on our lives....

The 18th anniversary of the attacks at the Twin Towers, Pentagon and aboard United Airlines Flight 93 occurred on Wednesday. Along with watching or attending one of several memorial ceremonies, people observe the somber day in their own ways. Some people prefer to watch documentaries or news footage of that day while others take to quiet reflection or talking with friends. Regardless of how a person honors that day, the anniversary serves as a way to never forget the historic tragedy or the heroism it brought out in people....

If they’re sitting up, whatever they’re sitting in will be able to prevent them from falling over if they slump or lean. For the most part, the body will keep itself upright enough to prevent falling, but it’s a good precaution to take. Make sure your subject is not thirsty or hungry and does not have to go to the bathroom. If there are other people around, ask them not to disturb you, and don’t forget to make sure pets cannot come in the room and interrupt your session....

“Sometimes there are kids in the dugout and I go up and have them sign my bat,” Napoli said, via WEEI.com. “It was kind of crazy, the first home run I hit the other day was where he actually signed it. It was pretty cool. I appreciate where he signed it.” “It’s pretty cool,” he added. “Everyone is always asking for my autograph, so I think it’s pretty cool to go up to a kid and say, ‘Hey, give me your autograph....

But today Reynolds is the one crying racism. He faces a 20-count indictment charging that he had sex with an underage girl, solicited lewd photos of another and then tried to obstruct an investigation. Federal authorities are also probing reports that he deposited $76,000 in campaign contributions into an unregistered account. Reynolds denies all wrongdoing: “If I were a white congressman with the same background would the same thing have happened?...

In a case that has received considerable social media and political attention, the 30-year-old musician and producer from New York, real name Rakim Mayers, has been in jail since his arrest on July 3, three days after the incident took place. Video footage posted on social media shows the altercation. The rapper says he was acting in self defense, claiming two men harassed and followed his entourage. On Thursday morning the Swedish prosecutor’s office said the rapper was charged with aggravated assault and is to remain in custody pending trial, Sky News reported....

BAN: North Korea has declared very defiantly that if the Security Council adopts any sanctions, it will regard this as a declaration of war. This is very worrisome and shows total disrespect of the United Nations. I think that I would be in a much better position than any other previous secretary-general, as I come from Korea and have experience. I will try to coordinate with the concerned parties. If necessary, I will take my own initiative, which will include visiting North Korea and meeting with North Korean leaders....

The 2014-15 English Premier League season kicks off Saturday, a perfect way to warm up – and hopefully build your bankroll – for the American football season that’s upon us. Throughout the EPL season, The Linemakers on Sporting News will offer a helping handicapping hand for your soccer betting endeavors. We’re lucky enough to have a partner in Goal.com, which boasts a savvy group of prognosticators who know the league inside and out, and we’ll feature at least one of their betting previews each week, typically tied to NBC’s nationally-televised game....

Nabokov’s son Dmitri has assembled the 52 stories published in English before Nabokov died in 1977, and translated another 13 written in Russian between 1920 or ‘21 and 1924. (Nabokov wrote directly in English after moving to the United States in 1940.) It’s human nature to dread a writer’s long-lost juvenilia, but after the 21-year-old Nabokov’s debut story (a heavy-handed anti-Soviet fancy called “The Wood-Sprite”) things pick up in a hurry....

No matter how the trial goes, Stewart has already paid a steep price. Shares in her company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, have fallen 50 percent since her legal troubles began. While the stock trade that landed her in trouble saved her $45,000, her net worth is down at least $300 million. And though the U.S. attorney decided not to charge her with insider trading–she’ll be tried for the alleged cover-up–last week the Securities and Exchange Commission piled on, filing a civil suit alleging insider trading and securities fraud....

So it was sad to read last week that Mrs. Astor, who at the age of 104 is bedridden with various maladies, had become the object of a most undignified family squabble. Under the headline battle of n.y. blue bloods!, the New York Daily News reported that Mrs. Astor’s grandson Philip Marshall has gone to court to remove his father, Anthony Marshall, as her guardian. Marshall senior has been neglecting his mother’s health and well-being “while enriching himself with millions of dollars,” the younger Marshall alleged in court papers....

The trips are all part of an educational—and perhaps a bit voyeuristic—new travel niche dubbed “poorism.” Private operators in Soweto, South Africa; Mumbai, India; Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and, naturally, New York all offer similar tours. They’re usually thrifty walking journeys that last a few hours, during which clients visit commercial districts, schools and medical facilities. “We deliberately stop and spend money,” says Outterson. There are no reliable statistics about the trend, but guides say anecdotally that interest has boomed in recent years....

When Danish voters rejected the Maastricht Treaty on European integration one month ago, many said their main concern was an increasing concentration of power in the EC bureaucracy in Brussels. It is a familiar refrain in Britain, too; former prime minister Margaret Thatcher never misses an opportunity to attack the idea of a European superstate as socialism by the back door, “combining all the most striking failures of our age....

It’s the stuff of nightmares–and now a powerful film as well. The British-made documentary “Touching the Void” re-creates the ordeal of two young British climbers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, who were trapped on the flank of Siula Grande, a forbidding Peruvian peak, back in 1985. So how was the moral crisis resolved? The thousands who read Simpson’s best-selling memoir, also called “Touching the Void,” will already know: Yates cut the rope....

Nifty story, but is that what happened in Baghdad on June 29? Discerning truth from fantasy in postwar Iraq is never easy. The Bush administration was leery about preliminary reports of a failed coup, even though officials are hungry for a return on their covert program to de-stabilize Saddam. For more than a week after Iraqi dissidents claimed Saddam had been attacked, official Washington declined to confirm that there was any basis at all to the reports....

They contact me by phone or letter. If they can’t write, a relative will do it for them. I ask them to enclose medical documentation of their problem. Then I evaluate the records myself. I go over them with my assistant, who’s a medical technologist and has some medical expertise, for some more input. We go to the patient’s house, with the patient’s friends and relatives there, whoever the patient wants, with my two assistants....

Both gays and straights have struggled with the inconvenience of safe sex since the AIDS epidemic made condoms necessary more than a decade ago. But as AIDS deaths plummeted 23 percent in the last year due in large part to new drugs known as protease inhibitors (chart), a small but growing minority of gay men have begun seeking out unsafe sex again. Because of the months-long HIV incubation period, it’s too early to tell if this new attitude will reverse the declines in infection rates among homosexuals....