Ryan Fitzgerald of New York, Barbara Keating of California, and an adult woman whose name is being withheld at the request of family are the 1651st, 1652nd, and 1653rd persons identified.

NEW YORK (AP) — Three 9/11 victims’ remains have newly been identified, officials said this week, as evolving DNA technology keeps making gradual gains in the nearly quarter-century-long effort to return the remains of the dead to their loved ones.