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'America Will Always Rise Up': Trump, Biden Commemorate Sept. 11 Attacks

While President Trump spoke in Shanksville, Pa., Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden bumped elbows with Vice President Pence in New York. Biden is traveling to Shanksville later in the day.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden greets Vice President Pence at the 9/11 Memorial in New York to commemorate the 19th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on Friday.

Updated at 12:01 p.m. ET

Friday marks the 19th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks against the United States — the single deadliest instance of a terrorist attack in world history and among the most consequential global policy markers in modern times.

President Trump and first lady Melania Trump attended a morning observance in Shanksville, Pa., where United Flight 93, believed to be headed toward to Washington, D.C., crashed, killing all 40 passengers and crew on board. Former Vice President Joe Biden is expected to visit later

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