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Former chairs of September 11 commission have urged Congress and President Biden to act

On a Wednesday morning in January, some two dozen lawyers and their staffers, scattered across America in offices and homes, gathered in front of computer screens for a Zoom call. With the click of a computer mouse, each linked to more lawyers in Saudi Arabia, a videographer and an Arabic translator in New Jersey. The landmark case, which involves more than 10,000 U.S. citizens seeking damages against the kingdom of Saudi Arabia for its alleged links to the attacks, has crept for years at a slower-than-snail pace through federal district court in Manhattan. Now in the coming weeks, it takes ...

<p><img width="350" height="219" src="/media/17260330/biden-signing-executive-order_350x219.jpg" alt="Biden signing executive orders" class="ImageFloatLeft"/>A former federal immigration agent is warning that policies being set in motion by the Biden administration will open the door for an enormous influx of immigrants that could harm the country in ways that are incomprehensible.</p>

PolitiFact's ruling: Half True Here's why: There’s no question the COVID-19 pandemic is one of the deadliest events modern Americans have ever grappled with. But how its death toll compares with other tragedies and natural disasters is being misconstrued in a social media post that purports to list and rank the "deadliest days in American history."  The graphic shows that four of the eight deadliest days since the country’s founding took place between Dec. 2 and Dec. 7, 2020. The image places daily COVID-19 deaths from those days alongside death tolls from the Galveston Hurricane, the...