A wide variety of stories feature across the front pages of American newspapers with a few picking up on news that inflation slowing to a three-year low and tributes marking the anniversary of the September 11 2001 attacks. 

A handful of newspapers continue their coverage of the Kamala Harris and Donald Trump election debate as the country’s presidential election looms. 

‘Debate offers relief for Democrats’

‘Anxiety-producing gut check,’ says the Connecticut Post.

Connecticut Post says whilst Biden’s TV debate performance was an “anxiety-producing gut check,” Tuesday’s performance from Harris offered a sigh of relief.

‘Defining moment saw classic Trump vs Prosecutor Harris,’ says The Desert Sun.

The Los Angeles-based The Desert Sun pictures Harris and Trump shaking hands – noting the opening exchange between the pair was a “defining moment.” The paper says it was “Classic Trump versus Prosecutor Harris.” The paper says “despite all the advice former President Donald Trump got beforehand − that he should attack Vice President Kamala Harris on policy and avoid getting personal − the debater who showed up in Philadelphia on Tuesday night was the familiar Trump.

‘Study shows Democratic voters had bigger emotional response,’ Daily News writes.

Idaho paper Moscow-Pullman Daily News leads with a study at Washington State University which monitored audiences’ live reactions to the Tuesday presidential debate. The paper says the audience showed a bigger emotional response from Democratic voters than Republicans. 

‘Fierce showdown saw Harris make stronger case than Biden could,’ Palladium writes.

The Palladium-Item writes Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump faced off during Tuesday night’s presidential debate in a fierce showdown. All eyes were on Harris to see if the former prosecutor would make a stronger case against Trump and his felon status than Biden, who struggled to effectively criticise the Republican nominee in their debate on June 27. 

‘Trump emerged from the rocky debate looking to regain footing as election looms,’ St Louis Post-Dispatch says.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch says Donald Trump emerged Wednesday from a rocky debate against Kamala Harris looking to regain his footing with 55 days until Election Day, the first ballots already going out in Alabama and other states on the cusp of early voting. By the end of Tuesday night, it was the 78-year-old Trump on the defensive after the 59-year-old Harris controlled much of the debate, repeatedly baiting the Republican former president into agitated answers replete with exaggerations and mistruths.

‘Tributes paid to 9/11 victims – 23 years after deadly attack’

The newspapers pay tribute to the victims of 9/11 marking 23 years after the attack in the US. 

‘It’s something you never forget,’ writes the Press of Atlantic City.

New Jersey-based The Press of Atlantic City reports ‘It’s something you never forget,’ as it marks the anniversary of the attacks. Fire Chief Scott Evans clearly remembers driving more than 1,000 miles from Texas to New York to respond to the World Trade Center three days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

‘Firefighters, military personnel and community pay tribute,’ writes The Gazette.

The Gazette says firefighters, military personnel and community members take a moment of silence Wednesday during their hike up the Manitou Incline in Manitou Springs at 8:46 a.m. MST, representative of Flight 11 crashing into the World Trade Center’s North Tower at 8:46 a.m. EST, Sept. 11, 2001, on the anniversary of the attack. The group climbed 2,768 steps to the top of the Incline in honour of the 343 New York Fire Department firefighters and first responders who gave their lives and the nearly 3,000 civilians who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

‘We’ll never let anyone forget all those lost,’ writes The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“We’ll never let anyone forget all those lost,” says the headline on the front page of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The paper says “With presidential candidates looking on, some 9/11 victims’ relatives appealed to them Wednesday for accountability as the U.S. marked an anniversary laced with election-season politics.” The image was one of putting politics aside at another solemn commemoration of the 9/11 attack, it adds.