Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton.
The CIA has declassified dozens of documents presented to U.S. presidents related to Al-Qaeda
in the 9/11 attacks.
“They show the intelligence community was concerned about a possible attack, but did not”
know specifics, here's NPR's Greg Meiery. The CIA posted on its website 71 documents from Daily Briefings delivered to President's Bill Clinton and George W. Bush from 1998 to 2001. A briefing to Bush on August 6, 2001, just over a month before the attack, said the FBI found, quote, "Patterns of Suspicious Activity, consistent with preparations for hijackings,
including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York." The briefing added, quote, "We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, saying that Ben Laden wanted to hijack a U.S. aircraft." The briefing was one of two declassified previously, the other 69 have just now been released. Greg Meiery, NPR News, Washington.
The Navy is providing new details on how much its main supply hub in Bahrain has been damaged by the war with Iran, Steve Walsh with WHO in Norfolk as the story.
“NPR has been reporting since April about the evacuation of families and sailors from”
Naval Support Activity Bahrain and the damage the base suffered. In recent days, the Navy has become more forthcoming, acting Navy Secretary Hong Kao told the epoch times that Iranian forces blew the hell out of Bahrain and that the Navy is reviewing the future of the base. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Darrell Coddle told sailors in a televised town hall that
the service didn't expect to increase staff at the base any time soon. A Navy official says it is managing more than 1,700 cases of sailors and families who remain dislocated since the beginning of the war in February. For MPR News, I'm Steve Walsh. Inflation remains stubbornly high last month fueled and part by rising gasoline prices,
MPR Scott Horsey reports the cost of living in August was up 3.4% from a year ago. Inflation heated up in August after a slowdown the month before, prices rose 4/10%
“between July and August with higher gasoline prices accounting for more than a third of that”
overall job. Energy prices continued to climb in early September with the average price
of diesel fuel now topping $6 a gallon for the first time ever.
The cost of airline tickets and use cars was also up last month. Stripping out volatile energy and food prices so-called core inflation dipped to 2.4% in August was slightly smaller annual increase than the previous month. Today's inflation report is the last big piece of economic news before next week's federal reserve meeting where policy makers will have to decide whether to raise interest
rates. Scott Horsey and Pair News Washington. Major US stock indexes rebounded today, clawing back much of their losses for the week after oil prices eased. This is NPR.
A federal appeals court says the Trump administration exceeded its authority when it forced a Michigan coal-fired power plant to stay open past its scheduled retirement date last year. Energy Secretary Chris Wright had said the 64-year-old J.H. Campbell plant was needed to ensure reliable electricity in the region and he used emergency powers to keep it operating. The DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled there was no real emergency under the law.
Nintendo of America is using tariff refunds for a sale starting tomorrow and PR's Steam
Bassaha reports that while companies have received more than $100 billion back, they've
been reluctant to offer customers' refunds. Nintendo says it will offer up to 30% off on some digital games and savings of other products like close. The Japan-based company is facing a US-class action lawsuit from customers demanding direct refunds.
Nintendo responded in court filing saying it does not have an obligation to offer refunds and customers paid those higher prices willingly. The company said in the sales announcement that it absorbed most of the tariff costs, but the refunds help make this sale possible. The companies like Walmart have also said they'll pass long tariff savings, not through
custom refunds but lower prices, though they haven't offered details yet. Steven Bassaha and PR news. In Nashville, Republican and Democratic leaders are in an ugly partisan battle over who controls the city's airport, but they agree on one thing. It should be renamed to honor the state's favorite daughter, Dolly Parton, the Metropolitan
National Airport Authority today unanimously approved a motion to begin the renaming process. This message comes from the Center for U.S. voters abroad foundation. All U.S. citizens abroad may request an absentee ballot to vote in the 2026 election, visit registerabroad.com to get started.
