- New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani , the city's first Muslim mayor, briefly greeted former Mayor Rudy Giuliani at the Ground Zero ceremony Friday to mark the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks after Giuliani urged Mamdani to skip the memorial.
- Mamdani, who was in his fourth grade classroom on the Upper West Side when the World Trade Center was hit, has faced an avalanche of anti-Muslim rhetoric and pleas from right-wing critics, including Giuliani, to avoid this week’s 9/11 ceremonies.
- Giuliani and Mamdani were seen briefly chatting and shaking hands before they parted ways at the solemn ceremony in lower Manhattan.
- Vice President JD Vance and former presidents Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton joined mourners at the site of the attack.
- President Donald Trump opted to attend a 9/11 memorial ceremony at the Pentagon rather than the Ground Zero event after learning he would not be permitted to deliver remarks.
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