Roma and Fenerbahce draw as both end long Champions League waits. Dest scores for PSV

LONDON (AP) — Roma and Fenerbahce both ended long absences from the Champions League but neither could celebrate a winning return in a 1-1 draw on Thursday.

Roma had missed seven Champions League seasons since reaching the last 16 in 2018-19, while Fenerbahce was last in Europe's top-tier competition in the 2008-09 campaign.

Roma took the lead on Bryan Cristante's low shot from outside the box in the 39th minute. Fenerbahce left back Archie Brown moved into a center forward position and looked like a natural striker as he flicked the ball over the goalkeeper to level the score in the 48th. Nathan Aké headed against the bar late on with a chance to win the game for Fenerbahce.

United States full back Sergiño Dest scored for PSV Eindhoven off a low cross in a 1-1 draw with Shakhtar Donetsk after Gleiker Mendoza had opened the scoring for the Ukrainian team.

Six-time winner Bayern Munich hosts last season’s surprise package Bodø/Glimt, and upstart Como makes its debut against Leipzig.

Bodø/Glimt is coming off a run to the last 16 that included victories over Manchester City, Atletico Madrid and Inter Milan. The tiny Norwegian club has already come through two rounds of qualifying to reach the league phase again.

With 14 goals in 13 matches last season, Bayern striker Harry Kane finished second only to Kylian Mbappé (15) in last season's scoring chart. Bayern was eliminated by eventual champion Paris Saint-Germain in the semifinals.

Cesc Fabregas' Como finished fourth ahead of Juventus and AC Milan last season to claim Serie A’s final Champions League spot with a high-pressing brand of soccer that is uncommon in Italy.

Having played in the fourth division of Italian soccer just seven years ago, it’s the first time in Como’s 119-year history that it has qualified for a continental competition.

Also, three-time winner Manchester United marks its Champions League return after two years out by hosting Azerbaijani debutant Sabah, which came through three rounds of qualifying and a playoff to make it this far.

Slavia Prague plays Lens in the other late match.

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PSV's Sergino Dest, right, scores his side's first goal during the Champions League opening phase soccer match between PSV and Shakhtar in Eindhoven, Netherlands, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

Fenerbahce's Archie Brown, centre, celebrates after scoring his side's first goal during the Champions League opening phase soccer match between Fenerbahce and Roma in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Roma's Bryan Cristante, centre, celebrates after scoring his side's first goal during the Champions League opening phase soccer match between Fenerbahce and Roma in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Fenerbahce's Archie Brown, centre, challenges for the ball with Roma's Gianluca Mancini, left, and Roma's Devyne Rensch during the Champions League opening phase soccer match between Fenerbahce and Roma in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Manchester United's Marcus Rashford, foreground, gestures, during a training session at Carrington Training Centre in Manchester, England, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026. (Peter Byrne/PA via AP)

Manchester United manager Michael Carrick, right, speaks with Jonny Evans during a training session at Carrington Training Centre in Manchester, England, Wednesday, Sept 9, 2026. (Peter Byrne/PA via AP)

FC Bayern Munich's Harry Kane attends a team training session a day before their group stage Champions League soccer match between Bayern Munich and Bodø/Glimt, in Munich, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026. (Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Seat belts and a flight attendant call button from the doomed United Airlines Flight 93. A purse filled with keys and a wallet recovered from the World Trade Center site. The telephone that sat on U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson's desk when his wife, Barbara, called from a hijacked airplane.

The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is honoring the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks this week with displays of dozens of rarely seen objects that tell the story of that day in often searingly personal terms.

The exhibit, which runs through Saturday, comes as the museum is under growing scrutiny by President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress over the manner in which it tells American history.

The Smithsonian began collecting items just months after the attacks and regularly displays some of them throughout the sprawling museum along the National Mall. But this week's exhibit is unique as the items are displayed on tables, rather than seen through glass. The museum's director, Anthea Hartig, said some of the items being shown this week are “so fragile they'll probably never go on display.”

The goal, she said, is to help visitors “both never forget, but also kind of reconnect" as a new generation emerges that didn't experience the attacks.

“This has truly slipped into history rather than being part of our memory landscape,” she said.

Some of the items, including a beeper belonging to an employee who worked on the 97th floor of the South Tower, harken back to office life at the turn of the century. A candy dispenser from the Pentagon includes melted chocolate.

The museum has faced conservative criticism since the White House released a report on Independence Day branding the museum's leadership as radical activists. Hartig faced two days of congressional hearings in July, where Republicans argued the museum should present a more unifying version of American history, prompting concern from historians that lawmakers and the White House were more interested in revisionism than accurate history.

Trump later ordered his administration to install signs in front of the museum telling visitors that some of the exhibits are inaccurate. More than a month later, such signs have not been installed.

In an interview, Hartig said the scrutiny didn't influence how the Sept. 11 exhibit came together.

“This museum exists as a repository, as a place of memory,” she said. “And so the current political moment is like many other political moments that we document. There’s different opinions and contestation over how we do our work.”

More change could be ahead after Lonnie Bunch announced his plans to step down as the leader of the Smithsonian Institution. The Smithsonian operates outside the executive branch and Bunch's successor will be chosen by a Board of Regents that includes Vice President JD Vance, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, a bipartisan group of lawmakers and so-called citizen regents.

Hartig acknowledged that “leadership transitions are always complicated.”

But, she said, “I wake up every day confident in Americans' ability to embrace the complexities of their past.”

Pieces of the metal fuselage recovered from the wreckage of United Airlines Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa., are displayed at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

A log book recovered from the wreckage of United Airlines Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa., is put on temporary display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, the nation's official repository for September 11 materials, displays artifacts from New York, the Pentagon and the Flight 93 crash site in Shanksville, Pa., in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Seatbelts recovered from the wreckage of United Airlines Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa., are displayed at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

A badly damaged flag recovered from the World Trade Center debris is displayed at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, the nation's official repository for September 11 materials, in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)