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a major oil pipeline after it was attacked by drones yesterday.
“And here's Hadeel Elshaltchi reports, the move puts another vital oil shipping route”
at risk as Iran continues to block aid the straight of Hormuz." Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry said the drones were launched from Iraq and targeted the east-west pipeline in the areas around Riyadh and Medina. It said that the attacks resulted in injuries and damage to the pipeline. The Iraqi Prime Minister ordered an investigation.
On Friday, the Houthis captured a strategic island in the Bebelmendab straight at the entrance of the Red Sea. The rebel group has been fighting Yemeni government forces, which are backed by Saudi Arabia, and it controls most of Yemen's north and capital. The Houthis have been attacking Saudi oil tankers moving through Bebelmendab, which is a
vital shipping channel near the Red Sea. Hadeel Elshaltchi and PR news, Istanbul.
“Meanwhile, President Trump, speaking from Ireland, where he's on a two-day visit, says”
Iran was most likely behind the attack. But it's still not certain who launched the attacks. This is an Iraq say they've closed a number of their borders today, as a precautionary measure. Meanwhile, the pipeline shut down could add even more pressure to energy prices.
Socks on Wall Street overall fell this week as energy prices soared, and Pierre Scott Horstley reports a market rally yesterday, wasn't enough to reverse losses earlier in the week. An escalation of the U.S. war with Iran pushed crude oil prices higher, retail gasoline prices in the U.S. jumped about 15 cents a gallon during the week.
While the price of diesel fuel top $6 a gallon for the first time ever, rising energy prices
are keeping inflation elevated, consumer prices in August were up 3.4 percent from a year
ago. Friday's inflation report left investors more confident. The Federal Reserve will raise interest rates when policy makers meet next week. Stocks rose on Friday, but for the week the NASDAQ loss, 2/3 of a percent, the S&P 500 index fell 8/10 percent of the Dow Jones industrial average tumbleed 1.6 percent.
Scott Horstley and Pierre knew it was Washington. The CEO of anthropic says the artificial intelligence industry should slow its fast-moving development in order to give safety measures some time to catch up. Without it, Dario Amade says AI could be capable within 6 to 12 months of leading a swarm of the could take over the entire internet among other risks.
This comes a day after one of the company's employees quit over concerns about the safety of AI, andthropic is a financial supporter of NPR. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Mill invoting for the midterm elections is underway in some states, including Alabama, North Carolina, and Wisconsin.
This even though the Supreme Court is still deciding whether to allow the U.S. Postal Service to refuse to deliver mail-in ballots in some states where election officials don't turn over voter list to the post office and that don't have certain bar codes on the ballot envelopes. A federal judge blocked those requirements.
The United States Postal Service is the financial supporter of NPR. The study finds that laws requiring age restrictions on social media apps are defective, and appears to shadow J reports the research appears in "Jama Network Open." Researchers looked at nearly 40 published studies on the effectiveness of various social media-related legislations across the world and the United States.
In the U.S., 2/3 of 11 and 12-year-olds, you social media despite a minimum age requirement of 13. The study author Dr. Jason Nagata is a pediatrician at the University of California, San Francisco.
“He says age verification is crucial to protecting minus from the harms of social media.”
"There's a lot of other strategies are really dependent on the fact that we can identify under age or minor users." He says social media companies are already using sophisticated algorithms for targeted content, and they could also use them for age verification of minus, free to chatty and PR news. And I'm Janine Herbst.
And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. This is Ira Glass. On this American life, we tell stories about when things change. Like for this guy David, who's an entire life took a sharp and expected and very unpleasant term.
And it did take me a while to realize it's basically because the monkey pressed the button.
That's right, because the monkey pressed the button.
