Barack Obama, September 11 | featured news

President Obama attends a memorial service and Mitt Romney speaks to the National Guard on 9/11 anniversary.

In a rare public tribute to his predecessor, President Obama unveiled the formal White House portrait of George W. Bush on Thursday, praising his "strength and resolve" after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Sept. 11 changed all of us, including our national leaders who were either in charge on that day, or are responsible for our safety today. "The Early Show" spoke to a number of them, to find out where they were during the terrorist attacks ten years ago. "I was driving down Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. I was a state senator at the time as well as teaching law and practicing law. I was going to a senate hearing," President Barack Obama remembered.

President Barack Obama said Tuesday that a "lone wolf" terror attack in the U.S. is more likely than a major coordinated effort like the Sept. 11 attacks nearly a decade ago....

Days after the killing of Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama met New York firefighters on Thursday before a visit to Ground Zero to offer comfort to a city still scarred by the September 11 attacks.

The founder and spiritual figurehead for al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, is dead. President Barack Obama said in an address from the White House that a small team of Americans carried out the operation to kill bin Laden in Pakistan, and that cooperation from Pakistani authorities was crucial.

President Barack Obama has signed into law a bill to provide aid to survivors of the Sept. 11 attacks and first responders who became ill working in the ruins at the World Trade Center.

President Barack Obama on Friday strongly condemned comments by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that implied a U.S. government role in the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

Anniversary takes place amid controversies over an Islamic community center, a mosque planned near ground zero and a threat to burn Korans.

Republicans attacked President Barack Obama on Sunday for his comments on a controversial plan to build a Muslim cultural center in New York, saying he was "disconnected" from the nation in an election year.