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In the 25 years since 9/11, here are 25 ways the country has changed

Airport security looks different. Federal agencies have new responsibilities, power and spending habits.

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Mechanicsburg Patriot News· Sep 11, 9:55 AMIn the 25 years since 9/11, here are 25 ways the country has changed

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Josh Shapiro has worn the same pin every day to remember the lives lost on 9/11Shapiro was a young staffer on Capitol Hill on Sept. 11, 2001. He keeps a reminder of the day close to his chest.

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Larsen recalls local impacts, aftermath of 9/11 on 25th anniversaryU.S. Rep. Rick Larsen remembers being in Washington, D.C., on the day of the attacks and visiting the U.S.-Canada border in the months after.

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Evers orders flags to half-staff for 9/11, declares Day of Service and RemembranceGov. Tony Evers orders flags to half-staff Friday for 25th anniversary of Sept. 11 attacks.

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LIZ PEEK: We cannot let the left rewrite what happened on 9/11As the United States marks 25 years since 9/11, Ilhan Omar's dismissive remarks and leftist curricula threaten to erase the truth about Ground Zero.

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11: How attacks on flights defined US air travel – WTOP NewsTaking a commercial flight from a U.S. airport generally requires a boarding pass to get anywhere near a gate, security screening controlled by the federal gove

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U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum remembers 9/11, 25 years laterThe congresswoman, who was in Washington that day, is the only member of Minnesota’s 2001 delegation still serving today.

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Twenty-five years of “temporary”: how 9/11 built a surveillance state Americans never voted forThe towers fell in a single morning, but the government that rose from the rubble never stopped growing. A quarter-century after September 11, 2001, the emergency measures that the federal government swore were only temporary have calcified into a permanent architecture — an alphabet soup of agencies, a legal doctrine of pre-emption, and a surveillance…

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9/11 anniversary sees NC, US flags lowered to remember victimsNC Gov. Josh Stein and President Donald Trump have orders flags to be lowered on the anniversary of 9/11.

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Utah governor doubts America could unite if 9Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said "Never Forget" isn’t enough. Americans need to engage in service and stop treating each other as enemies.

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turn, condemns 'terror' after past comments mourning Afghans killed by US warsMichigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed condemned 9/11 as a "cruel act of terror," a shift from past posts mourning victims of US military wars.

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