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Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Worst delivers his first major speech today since taking
over the central bank in May.
“NPR's Raphael Non-Reports investors and economists will be listening closely for clues”
about his approach to interest rates and inflation." Every year, economists and policymakers get together in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and fetchers traditionally give a speech about the economy, often about what to expect in the month ahead. But Worst prefers being vague.
He has said investors rely too much on guidance from the Fed, instead of making their own economic assessments. So investors wore disappointed in July when Worst said his goal was to fight inflation, but did not give any specifics. The question now is, will Worst offer more clues about his thinking, or will he keep things
close to his best and talk instead about some other major economic theme, like the impact from AI, Raphael Non-MPR News. Nearly six months after military families were evacuated from Bahrain, the U.S. Navy is laying out what comes next.
“During a recent town hall, officials acknowledged they didn't expect the war with their”
run to last this long, Steve Walsh with Member Station W.H.R.O. reports. Navy leaders tried to answer questions from over 580 dependents on the call who were evacuated from naval support activity, Bahrain shortly after the war began. Vice Admiral Kurt Orenshaw, the head of Fifth Fleet, conceded that the Navy thought this would be a short conflict.
We literally have been making this up as we go, because nothing is conceived to go on this length of time. More than 1300 family members of Service Member Station did Bahrain have been spread across Europe and the U.S. Many are living in hotels. Navy leaders said they want families to pick a more permanent location while the military
works out the future of the base. For NPR News, I'm Steve Walsh. Story deliberations resume this morning in the murder trial of former labor and delivery nurse Lindsay Clancy. She killed her three children in 2023.
“Deborah Becker from Member Station W.B.U.R. reports the case now turns on whether she was”
criminally responsible at the time. Judge William Sullivan told the jurors they have to decide whether to find her guilty of
first-degree murder, second-degree murder, or manslaughter for the killing of each child.
Now they could find her not guilty because of a lack of criminal responsibility if they agree that her mental condition made her incapable of knowing right from wrong or following the law. If she's found guilty of first-degree murder, she would be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Deborah Becker reporting. This is NPR News. The federal judge is again blocking President Trump's executive order aimed at restricting male voting in the midterm elections. The judge imposed a new 14-day hold following another round of lawsuits just days before
male ballots were set to go out. The Supreme Court sided with Trump earlier this week, finding the lower court had acted prematurely, but the justices did not rule on whether the President's order is legal. The case could now be headed back to the high court with potentially significant consequences for the midterms.
One of Broadway's biggest post-pandemic successes, the musical six, will come to a close in early January. Jeff London reports the show has been a popular hit, specifically with teens and tweens. Six was scheduled to open on March 12, 2020, but that was the date all of Broadway shut down because of the COVID pandemic.
It finally opened 19 months later and became a hit.
A cheeky British import with a small cast and a small band, the show picked up two Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Costume Design. And it turned a profit in a tough Broadway environment where only one out of ten commercial productions make their money back, when six closes, it will have run for 2,178 performances. For NPR News, I'm Jeff London in New York.
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