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have been declassified on the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks.
“The documents' detailed intelligence gathered about Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda in the”
years leading up to the hijackings. The records trace CIA analysts evolving understanding of Al Qaeda and their efforts to warn of Bin Laden's plotting of the attack. The CIA director John Ratcliffe says that the release is an act of exceptional transparency. The documents include reports from February 1998 to September 12, 2001.
The September 11th attacks led to the creation of a U.S. military court in Guantanamo bake Cuba for suspected terrorists and pierced Sasha Fyfer has more on the 9/11 case which still hasn't gone to trial.
The military court was basically invented from scratch after the 9/11 attacks.
This case could have been tried in U.S. federal court and many people think if it had, it would be long over by now. Our federal courts have successfully prosecuted countless terrorism suspects who are now in U.S. prisons, but our government put the military court in Cuba because they said they
“wanted it to be beyond the reach of U.S. law.”
NPR's censor Fyfer reporting, Iran says it will attend a regional meeting of the foreign ministers of countries in the Persian Gulf, Iran says that eight countries will be represented to discuss issues around the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has blockaded since the beginning of the war, and PR's Hedil Al-Shanti reports. 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 Strait of Hormuz. The Iranian blockade of the Strait has affected global oil supplies, U.S. diesel prices
hit a new American high at an average of $6 a gallon this week. Hedil Al-Shanti NPR News Istanbul. Swing voters in Michigan say they're worried about higher prices as President Trump ramps up tariffs on Canada, and Paris actually low-pads reports on two online focus groups this week with these voters.
The focus groups consisted of 13 people in the battleground state of Michigan who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 and then Trump in 2024. 11 of these swing voters, a sizable majority, said they think this escalating trade war with Canada will be bad for Michigan, which shares a border with the country. P.J. was one of those voters, he participated under the condition his last name would not
be used. Prices are going to go off, I mean, that's, you know, the more we put tariffs on stuff and more day put tariffs on stuff, lack of trade, I mean, prices are just ultimately going to go up, you know, for, for all of us.
“These voters say affordability and high prices remain the key issue for them heading into”
this year's midterm elections, Ashley Lopez and P.R. News. Major US stock index is rebounded today, this is NPR News.
The Trump administration has provided a nearly $100 million loan to a US-owned cell network
in Africa, Africa, Africa, to expand American tech presence on the continent. China's Huawei is a leading player in telecommunications infrastructure in Africa. The Trump administration raised national security concerns about Huawei, it faces a criminal racketeering trial in New York, which opened this week. Nintendo of America is using tariff refunds for a sale starting tomorrow, and P.R. Steven
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 on 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.
Other companies like Walmart have also said they'll pass long-term savings, not through custom refunds, but lower prices, though they haven't offered details yet. Steven Bassaha and P.R. News. Emma Bonino, a prominent Italian politician known for her work with the radical party, has died at 78.
Bonino rose to prominence in the 1970s by leading a campaign to legalize abortion in Italy, challenging the Vatican's objections. The party described her life as a long struggle against forces that deny freedom. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
