In a remarkable tableau, President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris stood together at ground zero just hours after Trump and Harris faced off in their first-ever debate. Trump and Biden — the successor whose inauguration Trump skipped — shook hands, and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg appeared to facilitate a handshake between Harris and Trump.

Hundreds show up at various events at bases designed to remember the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and honor those who died in them.

Iran’s reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian traveled to Iraq on his first trip abroad, hoping to cement Tehran’s ties to Baghdad as regional tensions increasingly pull both countries into the widening Middle East fray.

Kamala Harris pressed a forceful case against Donald Trump on Tuesday in their first and perhaps only debate before the presidential election, repeatedly goading him in an event that showcased their starkly different visions for the country on abortion, immigration and American democracy.

House GOP lawmakers pushed through a subpoena to force the Department of Veterans Affairs to identify its third-party partners conducting voter registration at some VA hospitals and clinics in battleground states before the presidential election.

Regulators suspended two private enrollment sites from accessing healthcare.gov information over concerns that some consumer information is processed or stored in India. Affordable Care Act marketplace data must stay in the U.S.

Many students in Georgia’s Barrow County headed back to class Tuesday, six days after a shooting killed two teachers and two students at the school district’s Apalachee High School northeast of Atlanta.

The first U.S. troops to deploy after the Sept. 11 attacks are suffering from radiation exposure that the government has yet to officially recognize 23 years later. They are a final group of 9/11 service members that comedian Jon Stewart, a champion for first responders, can’t leave behind.

Omaha police arrested a suspect about half an hour after a shooting Tuesday that critically injured a teenage boy at a high school in Nebraska’s largest city.

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo began testifying Tuesday in a combative congressional subcommittee hearing centered on his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic as the virus began to spread through the state’s nursing homes in 2020.

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are gearing up to take the stage for Tuesday night’s debate in Philadelphia, where they’ll fight to sway 2024 election voters on the biggest stage in U.S. politics.

Ukraine’s prime minister warned Tuesday that the country could be facing its toughest winter since the full-scale Russian invasion began, as airstrikes against the country’s beleaguered energy infrastructure intensify.

“It’s not just frustrating, it’s life-threatening,” said Angela Oakley, a manager with the American Red Cross, who had multiple posts marked as spam during Hurricane Debby. “I’ve noticed this happening with more and more frequency, especially around disasters.

A coalition of over 40 state attorneys general urged Congress on Tuesday to place labels on social media platforms warning of their potential risks to children, rallying substantial bipartisan support behind a proposal championed by U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy.

A top U.S. government codebreaker who decrypted secret Soviet communications during the Cold War concluded that Ethel Rosenberg knew about her husband’s activities but “did not engage in the work herself,” according to a recently declassified memo that her sons say proves their mother was not a spy and should lead to her exoneration in the sensational 1950s atomic espionage case.

“NASA at a Crossroads,” a sweeping report by a committee of aerospace experts and published Tuesday by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, warns that the agency could be on an unsustainable path, one that imperils its long-term success.

China hawks in the U.S. House overcame a last-ditch lobbying effort and passed legislation Monday night that would blacklist Chinese biotech companies and their U.S. subsidiaries.

The Navy doesn’t have enough manpower and training to keep its ships in shape for combat, a government watchdog agency said after interviewing sailors across the fleet.

A soldier who filed a sexual assault complaint ahead of her unit’s deployment was damaged financially by her boss’ reprisal but wasn’t wrongly denied a promotion, Defense Department investigators decided recently.