Live from NPR News in Washington, on Corva Coleman, stocks opened higher this...
a day after the Federal Reserve voted to raise interest rates, and Pierre Scott Horsley
“reports that Dow Jones' industrial jumped about 200 points in early trading.”
Stocks initially fell on Wednesday, after the rate hike was announced, but are on the upswing once again, and hopes the central bank will get control over stubborn inflation. Meanwhile, the Bank of England opted to hold its own benchmark interest rate steady. Energy prices continued to soar, triple ace as the average price of gasoline jumped 7 cents a gallon overnight, while the price of diesel fuel jumped 8 cents to a new record
high of $6.39 a gallon. Rising interest rates are not good for home builders, builders broke ground on fewer new homes in August, although most of the decline was in apartment buildings. Permits for future home construction were also down last month.
Scott Horsley and Pierre News, Washington.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Karny has welcomed the European Union's offer of an associate membership for his country.
“As Dan Carpensheck reports, Karny also urged deeper ties in and addressed to the European”
Parliament in France this morning. In a veiled reference to the US, Karny said he's not proposing a block that would become a great power rival aimed at dominating others, but is pursuing resilience so that no one can threaten "our sovereignty, territorial integrity, or rule of law." Karny's speech focused on a much closer relationship between Canada and Europe.
Karny said the EU and Canada have common values, a commitment to the rule of law and democracy, and that prosperity grows when it is shared. He said a closer alliance could have mutual advantages. Europe would bring market power, research depth, advance manufacturing, and a rapidly growing defense industrial base.
While Canada brings energy at a huge scale and critical minerals.
For NPR News, I'm Dan Carpensheck in Toronto.
“A new study released by MIT warns that students who rely too heavily on artificial intelligence”
risk surrendering their ability to think and judge for themselves. NPR's Windsor Johnston reports researchers say universities need to rethink how students are taught and tested. The committee heard reports of students using AI to write essays and complete problem sets without regard for actually learning.
MIT professor, Eric Klopfer, who helped write the report, says using technology to light in the mental load can be helpful. But the concern is when students take it too far. Karny and Surrender is an extreme slippery version of that, where we hand over so much we no longer have our own agency in what we're doing or how we're accomplishing it.
We've turned it completely over to a machine in this case AI. The committee is recommending more oral exams, face-to-face follow-ups, and collaborative projects along with clear policies explaining when AI supports learning and when it begins to replace it. Windsor Johnston and PR News.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. House Speaker Mike Johnson has dismissed the chamber early, so members can go home and campaign. Fellow Republican Congressman Thomas Massey of Kentucky's furious, he says the house won't be able to take up his articles of impeachment against defense secretary Pete
Hegsep. The Trump administration is preparing to install signs that warn against ideological bias at the Smith-Sony and Institution in Washington, D.C. and PR's Jennifer Vanasco has more. The Interior Department says the signs will comply with President Trump's July Executive Order, called "Restoring Trust in the Smithsonian Institution."
In a September 3rd letter to Democratic Senator Jeff Merckley, Interior Secretary Doug Bergram said the temporary signs would warn visitors that the National Museum of American History is being used as a tool to advance personal radical ideologies. In a statement shared with NPR, Senator Merckley calls it another step in a well-planned pressure campaign by the Trump administration and says he will "fight like hell to protect
the Smithsonian's independence." The 12 signs cost an estimated $7,000 each, the Smithsonian Institution declined to comment. Jennifer Vanasco and PR news. The graphic artist, Peter Max, has died in New York at the age of 88 according to his son, Max was famous in the 1960s for his simple graphic works known as psychedelic
pop art. It was embraced by the flower power movement. Max's work even appeared on a U.S. postage stamp. This is NPR. We go inside the minds of the people who decide what goes on store shelves.
