The court did not explain why it rejected the emergency appeal challenging the state's school vaccination requirements.

St. Patrick’s Cathedral honored NYPD officers and other first responders who died in the 2001 attacks with a Mass on Friday, Sept. 11, marking the 25th anniversary of the tragedy at the World Trade Center.

Twenty-five years after the 9/11 attacks on the United States, we recall the words of successive Popes who have repeatedly appealed for peace and reconciliation.