On this special anniversary edition, we revisit September 11 through the established historical account and the alternative theories that continue to surround the attacks. We also examine fashion’s massive waste problem, new research involving prenatal Tylenol exposure and a theater dispute that ended with a two-year prison sentence.

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Twenty-five years after 9/11, the official account remains familiar, but questions involving the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and World Trade Center Building 7 have never entirely disappeared. We present both versions without mockery, examining the accepted timeline alongside the structural arguments, recovered evidence and unusual details that continue to fuel suspicions of an inside job.

Fashion Week sells glamour, exclusivity and the promise of something new. Behind the runway, however, manufacturers produce billions of garments that will never be worn. We look at the mountains of discarded clothing, luxury products deliberately destroyed and governments finally beginning to confront an industry built around relentless overproduction.

Tylenol has long been considered one of the safer pain relievers during pregnancy. A new Danish study has complicated that assumption after researchers observed reproductive differences in girls exposed to acetaminophen before birth. The findings come with significant limitations, but the numbers are substantial enough to warrant closer attention and years of follow-up.

Finally, a British theatergoer objected to a woman singing during the Queen musical We Will Rock You. His response went far beyond an annoyed glance or a complaint to the usher. The confrontation ended in court, where a judge handed the former Scottish laird a two-year prison sentence and an involuntary intermission.

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Today’s jobs-themed show examines shrinking American industries, a restaurant payroll investigation, some of history’s strangest occupations and an AI experiment that puts software in the manager’s chair.

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America consumes a relentless supply of news, entertainment and digital content, yet the industries producing it continue shedding workers. We examine the forces quietly dismantling careers once considered secure.

A federal investigation into a Florida restaurant raises serious concerns about salaries, overtime and the records employers must keep. The case offers an expensive reminder that changing how workers are paid does not necessarily change what they are legally owed.

The modern workplace has its problems, but medieval job seekers faced options that were dangerous, disgusting and occasionally absurd. Some people built careers around duties that would send today’s human-resources department into immediate cardiac arrest.

An experimental San Francisco store has placed artificial intelligence in charge of hiring and supervising human employees. What happens when the software reviewing your performance also controls whether you keep your job?

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Pregnant Amazon workers allege they were punished for seeking basic accommodations, newly released records raise questions about official air-quality assurances after 9/11, TSA revives a pre-9/11 airport tradition, and compact discs make an unexpected comeback.

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Four former Amazon warehouse workers are challenging one of America’s largest employers over its treatment of pregnant employees. Their allegations also expose the sharp divide between U.S. maternity protections and the paid leave guaranteed in countries such as Russia, China and France.

For the first time in decades, some people without airline tickets will be permitted to pass through airport security and visit the gates. TSA’s new Gateside program brings back a familiar airport ritual, but only for travelers who clear several conditions.

Twenty-five years after September 11, a major release of government records is renewing scrutiny of what New York officials knew about the air around Ground Zero. The documents could reshape the public account of decisions that affected residents, workers and first responders.

Finally, CDs are back. Sales are growing faster than vinyl as Gen Z, K-pop fans and longtime collectors rediscover physical music, album artwork and the useful concept of actually owning what they buy.

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Germany’s political establishment suffers a major electoral blow, ICE receives extraordinary authority over a detained hunger striker, a billionaire backs an untested treatment for his daughter and Malta offers young drivers a lucrative reason to surrender their licenses.

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Germany’s right-wing AfD has delivered a punishing election result in Saxony-Anhalt, exposing deep voter anger over the economy, pensions and the cost of living. Could this regional vote signal a much larger political shift heading toward Germany’s 2029 national election?

A Cuban detainee’s hunger strike has led ICE into deeply controversial medical territory. A federal court authorized increasingly invasive measures, raising serious questions about bodily autonomy, detention conditions and how far the government may go to keep someone alive.

After a devastating medical crisis left his daughter unable to see, billionaire Bill Ackman turned to elite doctors and experimental science. The resulting first-in-human treatment offered a glimmer of possibility, but the story also reveals how far money can push medicine before the evidence catches up.

Malta has an unusual offer for young residents tired of traffic: surrender your driver’s license for five years and collect nearly $29,000. The deal sounds tempting, but the fine print makes walking away from driving more complicated than simply handing over the keys.

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Mitch McConnell may finally return to Washington, scientists are studying whether Americans’ shrinking vocabulary could affect their brains, and an experimental insomnia treatment is raising eyebrows for reasons best discussed before lunch.

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Sen. Mitch McConnell has spent months away from Capitol Hill following a serious health setback. Now, another Kentucky lawmaker says the 84-year-old senator plans to return when Congress reconvenes. But McConnell’s own office is choosing its words carefully, and the uncertainty is fueling questions about who is actually running the clock on his final months in office.

The blank “Gen Z stare” has become an online punchline, but researchers say it may reflect a broader decline in face-to-face conversation. Americans are speaking fewer words each year, particularly those under 25, and scientists are examining what our increasingly silent lives could be doing to our social skills and brains.

Could the secret to better sleep be hiding in your gut? A small clinical trial tested capsules made with bacteria extracted from healthy donors. The results were striking, although the treatment’s source material may be enough to keep some insomniacs awake.

Finally, a Polish man allegedly ordered hundreds of pizzas for unsuspecting strangers, leaving restaurants with major losses and recipients facing far more than unwanted pepperoni. What began as an apparent prank escalated into criminal allegations, disturbing threats and the possibility of eight years behind bars.

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Hunter Biden explains how his Burisma income followed him into addiction, Florida accelerates its use of the death penalty, scientists investigate a possible dark-matter detection and political influencers face questions over undisclosed campaign payments.

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Hunter Biden is opening up about the money that kept flowing during the darkest period of his crack addiction. His account connects a notorious overseas business arrangement, an expensive Hollywood hotel and a deeply personal intervention involving his father and the Secret Service.

Executions are climbing across America, with one state accounting for an unusually large share of the increase. Yet death sentences and public support for capital punishment are moving in the opposite direction. We examine the numbers and the political push behind the resurgence.

Scientists working nearly a mile underground have recorded one mysterious particle interaction that could answer a question physics has wrestled with for decades. Is this the first direct evidence of dark matter, or another cosmic false alarm?

Political campaigns are paying social-media personalities to promote candidates and attack their opponents, often without viewers knowing money changed hands. The practice spans both parties and exploits a disclosure loophole built for the age of television, not TikTok.

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Trump takes aim at America’s dominant meat processors, Hollywood rallies behind Mark Ruffalo, federal forecasters identify the jobs disappearing fastest, and a robot vacuum catches more than dust.

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President Trump is promising to loosen federal processing rules and give independent ranchers another route around the four companies controlling most American beef production. But can deregulation create real competition without weakening food-safety protections?

More than 180 Jewish artists, filmmakers and faith leaders are defending Mark Ruffalo after Paramount accused him of invoking antisemitic tropes. The clash began over a $111 billion media merger but has grown into a bitter fight involving Israel, corporate power and who gets to define legitimate criticism.

The Labor Department has identified the 30 occupations expected to decline fastest through 2035. Typists, telephone operators and data-entry workers lead the list, while automation threatens hundreds of thousands of clerical, retail and customer-service positions.

Finally, a Taiwanese husband used his robot vacuum to confirm that his wife was cheating. The evidence helped him win in court, but the vacuum’s footage created a serious legal mess of its own. Apparently, smart appliances now come with marital consequences.

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The G20’s guest list triggers an international dispute, researchers test whether readers can recognize AI-generated fiction, an Arctic tourist receives a very expensive lesson in wildlife etiquette, and a hideous Hawaiian shirt exposes a weakness in automated surveillance.

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The United States welcomes Russia back to a major G20 finance meeting while excluding South Africa, an actual member of the group. European officials object, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pushes his economic agenda, and even the official photograph becomes a diplomatic battlefield.

A ship passenger in Norway’s Arctic territory decides to wake a sleeping polar bear with the vessel’s horn. Norwegian authorities respond with a punishment that may qualify as the world’s most expensive alarm-clock bill.

A Villanova University study asks readers to compare human-written short stories with fiction produced by ChatGPT. Their preferences reveal an awkward gap between what people say they value and what they enjoy reading.

A German artist creates an $88 Hawaiian shirt designed to confuse AI surveillance cameras. The garment may look like a fashion crime to humans, but its strange pattern raises serious questions about the reliability of machines increasingly trusted to monitor public spaces.

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A deportation advocate gets deported, an American family allegedly turns cemetery theft into a multistate business, California’s highest court confronts an extraordinary ballot seizure, and science finally gives heavy-metal fans something useful to tell their doctors.

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Milo Yiannopoulos spent years demanding aggressive immigration enforcement. Then ICE detained the former Breitbart provocateur and shipped him back to Britain within roughly 24 hours. Was this routine enforcement, preferential treatment or simply political irony operating at maximum efficiency?

Police say an Indiana mother, her daughter and the daughter’s boyfriend traveled through at least nine states breaking into mausoleum niches. Authorities are still calculating the number of victims in a case involving stolen wedding rings, family heirlooms and one deeply disturbing version of the American road trip.

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco seized approximately 650,000 ballots while investigating claims of election irregularities. California officials say the alleged discrepancy came from misunderstood records, while Bianco insists he acted legally. Now the state Supreme Court must decide who controls ballots after an election and whether a sheriff can conduct his own investigation outside the established recount process.

Finally, German researchers subjected 122 heavy-metal fans to ice-cold water and discovered that festival veterans could endure the pain longer. The music did not make the pain disappear, but several days of roaring guitars and mosh pits apparently made it easier to tolerate. Medical science may never look at Metallica the same way again.

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A homemade surveillance decoy produces three felony charges, a major study measures the NFL’s CTE problem, disputed DNA evidence sends a man to prison, and a Las Vegas traveler books a hotel that apparently exists only online.

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A Florida police department responds to stolen license-plate readers with 3D-printed bait cameras. When one man takes the bait, prosecutors pursue charges carrying a potential decades-long prison sentence. The case raises serious questions about surveillance, entrapment and how much a plastic prop is worth once the criminal code gets involved.

Researchers have produced the strongest estimate yet of CTE among deceased NFL players. The numbers are disturbing, but the players’ ages and the study’s methodology complicate what the findings can tell us about football today.

Alexis Rodriguez served seven and a half years after DNA evidence connected him to an attempted rape. His conviction is gone, and he is now accusing New York City forensic analysts of changing the science to fit the suspect.

A woman deliberately avoids a poorly reviewed Las Vegas hotel, books a seemingly different property and arrives at the hotel she rejected. The explanation from the company somehow makes the story even stranger.

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