Video - Mike Gallagher

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Mike continues his annual tradition of playing this special message.

Mike and Joey look back 25 years later: pager messages that kept New York and South Carolina talking after the towers fell, Mike’s live audio from the Empire State Building as the second plane hit, and their first stunned reactions as the attack unfolded.

GOP organizers are betting a first-of-its-kind midterm convention and the president’s unmatched political showmanship can drive turnout the way a recent targeted rally delivered a 70% local win. Mainstream networks appear uninterested (and football is on), even as supporters argue the event is part of a years-ahead plan to hold Congress—and avoid the chaos they say Democrats have already previewed.

For years after 9/11, saying goodbye stopped at the checkpoint. A limited new program called "Gateside by TSA PreCheck" now lets vetted family members go all the way to the plane—so a child flying to grandma doesn’t have to leave mom and dad at security. It’s a small, overdue step back toward the ordinary life airports used to allow.

Republicans gather in Dallas with control of Congress on the line, but the steep price of participation is drawing attention. As party leaders focus on fundraising and the midterms, questions are emerging about the cost of holding power. How much is too much?

A deadlocked jury left a Massachusetts child-killing case unresolved, but the fallout did not stop. Online theories quickly targeted the father who first discovered the bodies, prompting legal threats. Attorney Kevin Reddington then went on Good Morning America to ask President Trump to pardon her. At the same time, a fundraiser appeared for her parents while callers split over a second trial versus whether the family should have intervened sooner. Reports of a copycat and an earlier similar case overseas only added to the questions now hanging over accountability, mental-health claims, and public sympathy.

A deadlocked jury after seven days leaves the judge ready to declare a mistrial in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial—until her lawyer wins one hour for a last-ditch appeal to replace the holdout instead.

A Republican treasurer-turned-governor candidate is spotlighting Pennsylvania’s tax-driven exodus and billions in overspending, while the incumbent governor quietly drops the very issues he once campaigned on.

A 32-year-old banking executive and new mother was stabbed to death in Times Square on her first day back at work, leaving behind a husband and infant daughter. An Oscar-nominated filmmaker responded by posting a Luigi Mangione tribute and framing the killing around the victim’s employer and Israel. The episode lays bare a growing habit of treating certain murders as political statements rather than evil that demands repentance.

Questions are mounting over whether Republican leaders and fundraising groups are willing to fully back their own nominee—or whether lingering divisions inside the party could have bigger consequences in Texas.