Donald Trump to mark 9/11 attacks anniversary at Pennsylvania memorial

President Donald Trump is marking 17 years since the worst terrorist attack on US soil by visiting the Pennsylvania field that became a September 11 memorial. Mr Trump and his wife Melania are to participate in Tuesday's sombre remembrance in Shanksville, where hijackers crashed a California-bound commercial airliner on September 11, 2001, after the 40 passengers and crew members learned what was happening and attempted to regain control of the aircraft.

Read Lindsey Graham’s Speech on the Court, Filibuster, and Future of the Senate

The Senate is unique among American political bodies in that its very rules and traditions have often been the basis for consequential oratory. Such was the case on Thursday, when South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham delivered a 3,000-word speech on the nuclear option and its devastating effect on the Senate.