Live from NPR news in Washington, on Rylan Barton, the CIA has declassified d...
presented to U.S. presidents related to Al Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks, the documents
“show the intelligence community was concerned about a possible attack, but did not know”
this 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 "patrons of suspicious activity, consistent with preparations for hijackings, including
recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York." The briefing added, "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." NPR briefing was one of two declassified previously, the other 69 have just now been released. Greg Meiery, NPR News, Washington.
President Trump is defending the $5,000 checks he said he'd give to all Americans if
“Republicans keep control of Congress during the midterm elections, Democrats and even some”
Republicans are criticizing the proposed payouts, Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis since he's concerned with adding to the $40 trillion federal debt.
What I don't think you want to do is borrow another million trillion and a half dollars
and then just try to flood that into the economy because that will lead to more inflation. That will lead to more debt and more inflation." Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins, who's in a tight reelection race, called it extraordinarily costly. The CDC says today, the record-cyclist parisus outbreak is over, the parasite that causes
it is seasonal. This year's largest ever outbreak began in May and was mostly linked to iceberg lettuce grown in Mexico and PR's Rachel Carlson has more. Nearly 20,000 people in the U.S., were hit by the diarrhea causing illness this summer.
“The agency still has a backlog of thousands of possible cases to confirm.”
Two people in Michigan died after becoming sick with the disease.
Over half of all confirmed cases were linked to lettuce from caler farms, sold at Taco Bells, and in some grocery stores. But the CDC said Friday that all affected lettuce from this source, which was recalled in July, has been taken off shelves and removed from restaurants. So you can feel a little safer eating the salads you've been avoiding. The Food and Drug Administration is still investigating the outbreak, which was concentrated
in Michigan, Ohio, and Illinois. Rachel Carlson and PR news. Inthropic says it has blocked efforts to use its AI models for cyber attacks, surveillance and research that could have led to biological weapons. The company says it found signs of misuse despite adding stronger safeguards in its latest models to restrict research
for things such as biological misuse. 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 open. The DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled there was no real emergency under the law. The Israeli military blew up what it says are Hezbollah tunnels in southern Lebanon and PR's J.N.A.R.A. reports. Israel's Prime Minister says Israeli forces destroyed what he called an underground command
complex of Iran-backed Hezbollah on a strategic bridge Thursday night. He said Israeli forces would remain in the area. The Israeli military has invaded Lebanon and now controls about 6% of its territory. Israel and Hezbollah have been fighting for control of Ali Al-Tahar Bridge since June. Lebanon's state news agency said the impact of the designation registered the effect of a light earthquake. A U.S. brokerate ceasefire in June called for Israeli forces
to withdraw and Hezbollah to disarm, ending over control to the Lebanese army. But that process has stalled. J.N.A.R.A.R.A.F. and PR News they wrote. 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 in honor of the state's favorite daughter, Dolly Parton, the Metropolitan National Airport Authority today unanimously
approved a motion to begin the renaming process. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. This week on Consider This, the researcher who just resigned from Anthropic, why he believes AI is a threat to humanity. Very soon, these things are going to be so capable that if they decide to go rogue, it's not going to be good. Plus, his view of what Guard Reels could look like this week on Consider This, from NPR.
