AP - CIA director nominee Michael Hayden acknowledged concerns about civil liberties even as he vigorously defended the Bush administration's warrantless eavesdropping program as a legal spy tool needed to ensnare terrorists.

Reuters - New York Gov. George Pataki named two high-level appointees on Wednesday to rescue the $500 million September 11 memorial, whose soaring price tag and design problems have generated uncertainty at "Ground Zero."

AP - National Intelligence Director John Negroponte declassified a list of 30 congressional briefings the Bush administration says have been held since the National Security Agency began its no-warrant surveillance program after the Sept. 11 attacks.

AFP - The US government released video clips for the first time showing how a hijacked airliner struck the Pentagon and exploded into a ball of fire on September 11, 2001.

AFP - The US government released video clips for the first time showing how a hijacked airliner struck the Pentagon and exploded into a ball of fire on September 11, 2001.

AP - The Pentagon on Tuesday released the first video images of American Airlines Flight 77 crashing into the military headquarters building and killing 189 people in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

AP - A judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Sept. 11 families seeking to stop construction of the World Trade Center memorial, saying designers thoroughly outlined their plans to build on the spots where the twin towers stood.

AP - An investigation of a professor who likened some of the Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi found serious cases of misconduct in his academic research, including plagiarism and fabrications, a University of Colorado spokesman said Tuesday.

AP - A judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Sept. 11 families seeking to stop construction of the World Trade Center memorial, saying designers thoroughly outlined their plans to build on the spots where the twin towers stood.

Reuters - Video images of a hijacked airliner slamming into the Pentagon taken by two security cameras on September 11 were released for the first time by the U.S. government on Tuesday.

AFP - The US government released video clips for the first time showing how a hijacked airliner struck the Pentagon and exploded into a ball of fire on September 11, 2001.

Reuters - President George W. Bush on Tuesday defended intelligence programs that have raised concerns the government is spying on Americans, saying his administration was obliged to "connect dots" to protect citizens after the September 11 attacks.

Reuters - President George W. Bush on Tuesday defended intelligence programs that have raised concerns the government is spying on Americans, saying his administration was obliged to "connect dots" to protect citizens after the September 11 attacks.

AFP - The US government released video clips for the first time showing how a hijacked airliner struck the Pentagon and exploded into a ball of fire on September 11, 2001.

AP - An investigation of a professor who likened some of the Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi found serious cases of misconduct in his academic research, including plagiarism and fabrications, a University of Colorado spokesman said Tuesday.

AP - The Pentagon on Tuesday released the first video images of American Airlines Flight 77 crashing into the military headquarters building and killing 189 people in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.