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"Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.

It's a 25th anniversary of 9/11, the attacks that claim nearly 3,000 lives in New York City,

outside Washington, D.C., and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Passengers and crew members of Flight 93 prevented a planned terrorist attack on Washington D.C., everyone on board died when the plane and said crashed in an empty field in Shanksville. NPR member station of UPSU Sydney Roach reports from this morning's Remembrance ceremony at the Flight 93 National Memorial. "Family members read the names of those who died aboard Flight 93 on September 11, 2001."

"The Trisha Kushing, my mother." 40 passengers and crew members were on board when Al Qaeda terrorists took control. The passengers and crew learned of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and fought back against the hijackers.

"And crew, Sunny Garcia."

The plane was headed for Washington, D.C., but instead crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Everyone on board died.

"Cutuzi, Grand Colis, and our unborn child."

There are more events planned throughout the day in the weekend near the crash site. For NPR News, I'm Sidney Roach in Shanksville, Pennsylvania." Iran says it will attend a regional meeting of the four ministers of countries in the Persian Gulf. The Iranian Foreign Ministry said that eight foreign ministers will be attending to discuss issues

around the straight-of-armus, which Iran has blockaded since the start of the war. More from NPR's Hadeel Al-Shalci. "The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Esmail Baka'i, announced that the meeting of foreign ministers will take place in Oman next week." He said the foreign ministers of Iran, Iraq, and other Arab states on the coast of the Persian

Gulf and the Sea of Oman will be attending. He said that the meeting will address negotiations. Iran and Oman have been part of to reach an agreement to temporarily reopen the straight-of-armus.

The Iranian blockade of the straight has affected global oil supplies.

U.S. diesel prices hit a new American high at an average of $6 a gallon this week. Hadeel Al-Shalci, NPR News, Istanbul.

"In the U.S. the cost of living in August was up 3.4 percent from a year ago.

Here's NPR Scottsley." Inflation heated up in August after a slow down the month before, prices rose 4/10 percent between July and August with higher gasoline prices accounting for more than a third of that overall job. Energy prices continue 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 percent 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. It's NPR. A federal court has ruled that the energy department overstepped its authority when it forced a coal-fired power plan in Michigan to keep operating longer than its scheduled retirement date last year.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright had said the J.H. Campbell plant, which has been around for more than 60 years, you just stay open to ensure reliable electricity in the region. Michigan, Illinois, and Minnesota as well as environmental groups legally sought to overturn that order. A trust warned by Princess Diana to a party hours after the then Prince Charles revealed he'd been

unfaithful to her. Is going up for sale, the strapless gown quickly became one of Diana's most memorable looks and was dubbed her revenge dress. NPR's Fatima Alcazar with details. On the same night, Prince Charles admitted his infidelity in a TV documentary,

Princess Diana arrived at a party in London in a strapless fitted black gown, breaking royal protocol while sending her own satorial message amid the scandal. The dress by Greek designer Christina Stambolian will tour around the world before going up for auction in New York this December, where it's expected to sell for up to $300,000. In a statement, Sutherby's auction house said the late Princess understood instinctively that fashion

could be a language in its own right, Fatima Alcazar and Piano's London. U.S. talks for high with the Dow Jones industrial average up more than one percent. I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News. These things are going to be so capable that if they decide to go rogue, it's not going to be good.

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