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They helped clean up the wreckage of 9/11. Now they face the threat of deportation
Within days of the terrorist attack that destroyed the World Trade Center, word spread in the immigrant neighborhoods of New York that workers were desperately needed to aid in the cleanup.
EXCLUSIVE – They were the longest-serving volunteer unit on Ground Zero
Now the veteran officers of Team Romeo are battling a new horror: scores of 9/11-related illnesses from cancer to PTSD
Leaders of 9/11 fund call on ill survivors of terrorist attacks to apply for benefits
Officials in charge of the federal 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund urged people sickened by the terrorist attacks to apply for benefits.
Why people are still getting sick 16 years after the 9/11 attacks
Esther Regelson lived two blocks south of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
9/11 Children: Scientists Find Toxins in Their Baby Teeth
On September 11, 2001, Lucie Lagodich was just 11 months old but already able to sit up.
Children Who Survived September 11 Attacks May Face Heart Risks
Researchers examined people who were children when they lived through 2001 World Trade Center attacks in New York.
9/11 dust tied to heart risk in children, study says
When two hijacked passenger planes crashed into the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001, a massive cloud of dust swept across the New York skyline.
Harrison officer dies from 9/11-related cancer
A retired Harrison police officer who responded to Ground Zero following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attack died on Saturday — just two days before the 16th anniversary of the attacks.
New 9/11 monument: A moral imperative
We write on behalf of the thousands who are sick from the toxins released on 9/11.
9/11: Mental health of first responders in focus on 16th anniversary of terror attack
It has been 16 years since the September 11 terror attacks in the United States, but for the first responders who survived it feels like yesterday.