The Pentagon announced today that 126 service members and civilians were missing and, officials said, presumed dead, raising the death toll from Tuesday's terrorist attack near Washington to 190.
Congress unanimously approved a $40 billion emergency aid package for relief and counter-terrorism measures.
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The leader of Afghanistan's Taliban government expressed a willingness today to talk with the United States about Osama bin Laden. In Washington, the Bush administration brushed aside the Taliban leader's rhetorical offer.
Hijackers flew jetliners into both towers of the World Trade Center and, less than an hour later, into the Pentagon.
An airliner crashed into the Pentagon today about an hour after the conflagration began at the World Trade Center.
Terrorists might have plotted to commandeer two more commercial flights.
The explosions in Manhattan and Washington prompted significant disruptions in telephone service in the Northeast region.
In the chaos following the destruction of the World Trade Center, people who had escaped from the giant office buildings ran northward, ghostlike in their coatings of white plaster dust, many crying and shouting.
New York is about to undertake the largest number of post-mortem examinations in the annals of forensic medicine.
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