September 11, 2012: Afternoon
- Romney's tax promises: risk-heavy and detail-free.
- Comparing jobs lost and created since the Great Recession—mining, utilities, and hospitality have bounced back the most.
- A photo gallery of former video store locations.
- Gallery: Closed-down malls and abandoned big-box retail stores.
- White terrorism, driven by racial supremacy and xenophobia, should rank as the greatest threat to national security in America today.
- The discovery of a handwritten note helped a grieving family close the door on Sept. 11.
- Sept. 11, 1957: The day Colorado went radioactive.
- That day, her son had received 31 electric shocks as punishment for misbehaving.
- A writer secretly records his life for three years.
- A defense of the unfairly maligned weatherman.
- Related: The top 10 best-named weathermen.
- After all this time, vitamin D could be the key to curing baldness.
- Twenty-nine of Earth's 100 most threatened species.
- On the unexpected success of the pet funeral business, complete with its thousand-dollar coffins and grave markers.