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It has been a day of deep reflection on the events of September 11, 2001.
“On this 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, President Trump delivered”
a speech at the Pentagon and Pierce Frank Ordonia's reports that during the solemn event Trump also defended his administration's war against Iran.
President Trump and the first lady listened as the names of the 184 people killed
at the Pentagon were read at the beginning of the 25th anniversary ceremony of the attacks. The killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington, D.C. in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. In honoring those who died, Trump also sought to tie the moment to his decision to go to war in Iran. Trump spoke of American unity following the 9/11 attacks, calling it the authentic spirit of
the nation, Franco, Ordonias, and P.R. News. Iran says it will attend a regional meeting of the four ministers of countries in the Persian Gulf. The Iranian Foreign Ministry says that eight foreign ministers will be attending to discuss issues around the state of Hormuz, which Iran has blockaded since the start of the war.
“We have more from NPR as Hadeel Al-Shalci.”
The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Esmail Bakahi, 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 state of Hormuz.
The Iranian blockade of the state 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 and P.R. News is done. The last big economic report before the Federal Reserve holds its next interest rate setting meeting next week shows, no relief from inflation in the U.S., and P.R. has got
horse-laced as the U.S. were with Iran shows no sign of abating oil prices are more volatile and energy prices are rising.
“The overall cost-living in August was up 3.4% from a year ago, similar to the annual inflation”
rate the month before. That's higher than the Federal Reserve would like, and could signal a need to raise interest rates. But if you strip out energy and food prices, the annual core inflation rate cooled a little bit last month.
So, FED policy makers really have to try to figure out which way is the trend line actually moving. And P.R. has got horse-laced reporting. The Dow is closed up more than 500 points. It's NPR News. A new study from the Brookings Institution looked at the impacts of cell phones bands a year
out. Nearly all students attend schools with some kind of cell phone restriction or ban in the United States. And P.R. is Sequoia Carrillo has details. The Brookings recent study on cell phone bands finds that usage of phones in schools by teens
increased across the 2025-26 school year despite nearly all schools having some kind of ban in place. The increases were the smallest in schools with the strictest policies like Bell to Bell bands versus policies that allowed you during lunch and passing periods. But even in schools with strictest policies, most teens reported no impact on well-being
indicators like happiness or stress. Cell phone bands have swept the country in popularity in recent years, uniting folks from across the political and geographic spectrum. Sequoia Carrillo and P.R. News. A federal court has ruled that the energy department overstepped its authority when it
forced a coal-fired power plant in Michigan to keep operating longer than its schedule retirement date last year. Another member of Norway's Royal Family has died in a statement the palace says Princess Astrid was 94 when she passed away today, just two days after she attended the funeral of her 89-year-old brother King Harold.
When it comes to naming its international airport in honor of the late Dolly Park, Nashville is all in today, the Metropolitan National Airport Authority voted unanimously to start the renaming process, although the final name has yet to be decided. It's NPR News.
This week on the MPR Politics podcast, the Republican mid-term convention was basically a
two-night MAGA infomercial. He has told voters, "I want you to pretend, please, that I'm on the ballot, just come out in vote and show up for it." We break down President Trump's mid-term strategy, including that $5,000 promise.
