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Melissa Block profiles several of the newly announced 2012 MacArthur Fellows. In this segment she speaks with Laura Poitras, a documentarian who is making a trilogy of films about the post-Sept. 11 world.

Eleven people have died in the massive wildfires that continue to spread in the panhandle of Texas. Michele Norris talks with Kim Powell, the Fire Chief of Pampa, Texas, where four people have died from the fires.

More than a dozen shows grace the stages of Southwest Florida's equity and community theaters during the week of November 11, 2024.

Top officials of the 9/11 Commission, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, push Congress to pass an intelligence reform bill. NPR's David Welna reports.

New York City marks the third anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks with moments of silence at ground zero and a light show at sunset. In Virginia, bells toll at the Pentagon for the 184 people killed there. Hear NPR's Luke Burbank.

The Senate Governmental Affairs committee hears testimony on the recommendations of the bipartisan commission investigating the 9/11 attacks. The committee is exploring whether and how to implement recommendations on improving intelligence analysis. NPR's Larry Abramson reports.

A new report chronicles intelligence mistakes and missed opportunities before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The report from the Office of the Inspector General at the Department of Justice highlights the failure to adequately share information between the FBI and the CIA.

New Yorkers mark the third anniversary of the terrorist attacks with a ceremony at ground zero in lower Manhattan. Mayor Michael Bloomberg addressed the crowd, while family members read from a roster of the dead. Other ceremonies are held across the nation.

NPR's Libby Lewis talks with NPR's Noah Adams about the U.S. Senate hearing Friday that hints at willingness by lawmakers to look at ways to reorganize the nation's intelligence operations in light of last week's 9-11 Commission report.

On September 11, 2001, Stephanie Streit was a senior in high school. It took her a few years to make the leap, but she's spent the last decade training to be a military trauma surgeon.