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At Ground Zero this morning, a seventh bell will toll for the first time — not for those killed in the 2001 attacks, but for the more than 3,000 people who have since died of 9/11-related illness, a toll that now outnumbers the day itself.

Vice President Vance and former President Biden are attending the Lower Manhattan ceremony; Trump is marking the day at the Pentagon instead. New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who was urged by former officials to skip the ceremonies, said he'd attend anyway.

What makes this anniversary different: the day's aftermath has now outlasted the day. A Brown University study counted roughly 7,000 more American service members killed in the wars that followed than died in the attacks themselves — a quarter-century in which the response to 9/11 has claimed more lives than 9/11 did.

Anthropic said this week it detected and blocked a handful of attempts to use its Claude models to help design biological weapons, among five case studies of misuse spanning December to August. A Russia-linked hacking campaign and an Iranian propaganda operation were also caught using the tool, the company said.

The disclosure lands as Senator Bernie Sanders pushes legislation to pause advanced AI development and ban "superintelligence" research — a bid Trump has dismissed, warning that "if we don't win AI, we're going to be put in a very bad position." Anthropic's threat-intelligence lead called it "an incredibly nuanced situation," not a cartoonish villain plot.

What makes this different: AI safety warnings have mostly stayed hypothetical, a future risk to legislate around. This is a company disclosing specific, real attempts to weaponize its own product over the past nine months — turning an abstract debate about "AI takeover" into a paper trail with case numbers attached.

Diesel just hit a record $6.05 a gallon nationally, AAA data show, up from $3.70 a year ago; regular gasoline reached $4.29 on Friday, up from $2.98 before the Iran war began. Brent crude has traded above $105 a barrel this week, and Trump says he doesn't expect prices to ease before the November midterms.

The pain is landing hardest on freight and grocery delivery, pushing up the cost of perishables like meat and produce before shoppers even reach the register.

What makes this different: past oil shocks have usually been temporary, easing within a news cycle or two. Seven months into the Iran war with no resolution in sight, and a president explicitly framing the pain as unavoidable until after an election, this price spike looks less like a shock than a plateau.

A Dutch tour bus overturned in the Swiss Alps, killing five and injuring 40 in a construction zone between Susch and Zernez, where seven helicopters and 13 ambulance crews reached 45 passengers.

Sweden votes Sunday in an election that could put the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats in a governing coalition for the first time, as PM Ulf Kristersson seeks a second term against Social Democrat Magdalena Andersson.

Ukraine is telling civilians to flee its "fortress cities" as Russia pushes to seize the last of the Donbas — wounded civilians in the region rose from 70 in June to 212 in August.

The prosecutor investigating Trump's "deep state" foes has resigned, with Joe diGenova telling the AP directly he stepped down after five months of the Justice Department probe producing no charges.

Trump pledged $500 Obamacare refund checks to nearly one million Americans in 30 states, with the White House calling them refunds for "Obamacare overcharges" collected under Biden.

US authorities are extraditing six Nigerian nationals from South Africa over an alleged romance-scam ring accused of defrauding more than 100 American women, including pensioners, of over $6 million.

The 10-year Treasury yield is pressing 5% at 4.955% Friday morning, while the 30-year at 5.362% has cleared the level BMO says Bessent quietly treats as a line, with heavy corporate issuance and fiscal worries driving the sell-off.

The UK grew 0.4% in July against forecasts of nothing at all, with the ONS crediting AI-related businesses for growth that now stretches back to May, though KPMG notes consumer-facing services shrank underneath the headline.

Enflame soared 206% on its Shanghai debut, a Tencent-backed Nvidia rival whose order book was massively oversubscribed, by more than 6,000 times, and which remains unprofitable on 990 million yuan of 2025 revenue.

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Mercury is shrinking about 30% faster than thought, losing up to 14 miles of diameter as it cools, "a grape shriveling into a raisin," per German researchers.

New research has upended a century-old assumption about lungs, finding microbial communities do live inside healthy lungs, a result that could reshape how doctors treat chronic disease.

A 66-million-year-old feather preserved inside fossilized dinosaur feces in Montana may explain why only well-insulated birds survived the asteroid winter.

Yankees rookie Anthony Volpe launched a grand slam in his first game back from Triple-A, finishing 3-for-4 with a career-high five RBIs as New York swept the Rockies 10-3.

The 49ers routed the Rams 27-7 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Brock Purdy throwing three touchdowns in the NFL's first Asia-Pacific game.

Elena Rybakina rallied past Coco Gauff 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 to reach a US Open final against Aryna Sabalenka, whose 99-week reign at No. 1 ends Monday regardless.

Harry Styles extended his "Together, Together" tour into 2027 with 25 more stadium dates, adding Kylie Minogue as a support act for select shows including three nights in London.

Diana's "revenge dress" is going to auction, the black Stambolian gown she wore the night Charles's adultery documentary aired, with Sotheby's expecting up to $300,000 for it on December 9.

A four-hour documentary on Elon Musk premiered at the Venice Film Festival this week, offering a provocative new profile of the world's richest man ahead of a wider release.

What it is: A new moment of silence joins the ceremony at Ground Zero today. The usual ones mark the strikes and the collapses; this one is for the people who died not on September 11, 2001 but in the years afterward, from illnesses traced to what they breathed. More than 140,000 responders and survivors are enrolled in the World Trade Center Health Program, and Mount Sinai thoracic surgery chair Raja Flores writes that more than 8,000 have died, with the number still climbing.

The detail: The federal ledger is more exact than the death toll. The CDC's latest quarterly summary counts 145,275 members enrolled as of June 30, 67.3% certified for at least one 9/11-related condition, and 57,044 lifetime cancer certifications.

Of those, 10,393 were issued in the last twelve months alone — a single-year figure suggesting the caseload is accelerating rather than tapering in year 25.

Why it matters: This stopped behaving like the aftermath of an event and started behaving like a chronic epidemic. Survivors now slightly outnumber responders among lifetime cancer certifications, 28,913 to 28,131 — the dust reached far past the people who ran toward it. There is still no certified national count of deaths caused by the exposure itself.

What to watch: The commemoration is split three ways. Trump is speaking at the Pentagon instead of Lower Manhattan, where Vance and Biden attend; Shanksville holds its own service. "I encourage every American, particularly people who are young enough to not remember that day, just to tune in," Vance said.

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Alexander Hamilton is confirmed as the first Treasury secretary (1789) · Ground is broken for the Pentagon (1941) · The Beatles record the album version of "Love Me Do" (1962) · Pinochet's coup topples Salvador Allende in Chile (1973) · Pete Rose passes Ty Cobb with hit 4,192 (1985) · Al-Qaeda attacks kill 2,977 people (2001)

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