Leaders Unite at Ground Zero to Honor 9/11 Victims

President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and former President Donald Trump appeared together at the New York City site marking the 9/11 attacks. They attended the annual commemoration where families read the names of nearly 3,000 victims. The leaders also visited the Pennsylvania crash site of United Flight 93.

President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and former President Donald Trump made a rare joint appearance on Wednesday at the New York City site marking the Sept. 11, 2001, plane attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, and Trump, her Republican rival in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, shook hands and exchanged words despite their recent debate.

The event at the "ground zero" site had no formal remarks. Instead, family members read the names of those killed 23 years ago. The annual ceremony commemorated the suicide attacks by al Qaeda militants who flew two planes into the World Trade Center and another into the Pentagon, while a fourth plane crashed in a Pennsylvania field after passengers resisted the hijackers.

Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg also attended. After the New York ceremony, Biden and Harris traveled to Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where they paid respects to the 40 victims of United Flight 93. They later planned to visit a memorial at the Pentagon.

(With inputs from agencies.)