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Actor Chris Pratt honored the lives of those killed during the Sept. 11 attacks, posting a powerful message to social media and participating in the Waves of Flags Ceremony at Pepperdine University. The “Jurassic World” star wrote on Instagram, “Let’s take a moment to remember and honor the lives lost on September 11, 2001. It’s…

Shoshana Hebshi, who describes herself as “half-Arab, half Jewish,” was at the center of an in-flight scare that made headlines Sunday. The self-described housewife was arrested at gunpoint at the end of a Frontier Airlines flight after other passengers reported her behavior with two male passengers as being “suspicious.” Security was heightened since America was…

Prayer, scripture-reading and talk of the Almighty resounded as Americans stood together on the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks on America. At the Flight 93 Memorial in Pennsylvania, a Navy tenor’s voice wafted clear the words of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”  in the morning stillness: “In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was…

The dedication of a 9/11 memorial in a grassy field near Shanksville, Pa., Saturday gave former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton a chance to appeal for unity. Neither “specifically mentioned the fractured state of relations in Washington,” observed Katherine Q. Seelye in the New York Times. “But their sharing of a stage and their comments…

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