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September 11, 2012 | | STUBBORN Eleven years after 9/11, the U.S. has decimated Al Qaeda’s leaders, but the terrorist network is unthreatened in Pakistan, exploits Yemen, and is making an Iraq comeback, says Bruce Riedel in Newsweek. Plus, Michael Daly on how 9/11 demands our vigilance. ANNIVERSARY Construction will resume at the National Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum after the museum and the Port Authority came to an agreement on Monday—the eve of the 11th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. All work at the memorial was halted last year over disagreements about funding, financing, and oversigh. At the heart of the dispute is $300 million that Port Authority said it was owed by the museum for additional design and construction costs, a point of contention the Port Authority said it would drop in exchange for financial oversight of the museum. Meanwhile, the federal government on Monday said it will add cancer to the list of illnesses linked to the terrorist attacks—making those who developed cancer after working at Ground Zero in the months following the attack eligible for financial compensation. SLIDE Obama’s lead is growing, and Romney can’t seem to catch a break. If the trend continues, get ready for things to turn very ugly very fast, writes Michael Tomasky. LABOR Around 350,000 Chicago schoolchildren are expected to be locked out of their classrooms on Tuesday as the city’s teachers’ strike carries into a second day. Chicago’s school board and teachers’ union failed to come to an agreement Monday, with two sides deadlocked over several key points of contention, including the hot-button national issues of teacher evaluations and recall policy. “This is about big stakes, the future of education in our country,” said English teacher Vicki Turbov. “This is not about a 2 percent increase.” Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Monday said he didn’t give “two hoots” about Mitt Romney’s opinion after the Republican presidential campaign accused President Obama of putting the interests of organized labor over the students. OUTAGES GoDaddy was an absent father on Monday. The web-hosting juggernaut was the victim of a possible hacking attack, resulting in outages for its millions of clients. A message on the GoDaddy.com website Monday read, “Status Alert: Hey, all. We’re aware of the trouble people are having with our site. We’re working on it.” Many of GoDaddy’s clients are small businesses. The outage began around 1 p.m. EST. Though the hacking collective Anonymous was initially blamed for the attack, someone named “Anonymous Own3r” tweeted, “The attack is not coming from Anonymous coletive, the attack is coming only from me.’ | | 
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