- Four former US presidents—Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Joe Biden—have gathered at the National Sept. 11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan to mark the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
- A commercial airliner hijacked by al-Qaeda terrorists struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan in the first of four attacks on September 11, 2001 that killed nearly 3,000 people and set in motion a series of profoundly world-changing events.
- Bush was president at the time and held a separate memorial event at his presidential library earlier in the week.
- Vice President JD Vance was also in attendance at the New York commemoration alongside the former presidents and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
- President Donald Trump decided to skip the Manhattan event and is attending a ceremony at the Pentagon.
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