NPR News: 09-11-2026 10PM EDT

0:00This message comes from mattress firm. Different sleep preferences. mattress firm sleep experts can match you with a tempered pedic split-king sleep system. Visit mattress firm's best sale of the year and save up to $1,400. Restrictions apply. Seah store for details. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton, the CIA has declassified dozens of documents presented to US presidents related to al-Qaeda in the 9-11 attacks. They show the intelligence community was concerned about a possible attack, but did not know specifics. Here's NPR's Greg Meiery. The CIA posted on its website 71 documents from daily briefings delivered to presidents 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, quote, patterns of suspicious activity consistent with preparations for hijackings, including recent surveillance of federal buildings

1:01in New York. The briefing added, quote, we have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, saying that Ben Laden wanted to hijack a US aircraft. That briefing was one of two declassified previously. The other 69 have just now been released. Greg Meiery, NPR News, Washington. The Navy is providing new details on how much its main supply hub in Bahrain has been damaged by the war with Iran, Steve Walsh with WHO in Norfolk has the story. NPR has been reporting since April about the evacuation of families and sailors from naval support activity Bahrain and the damage the base suffered. In recent days, the Navy has become more forthcoming, acting Navy Secretary Hong Khao told the epoch times that Iranian forces blew the hell out of Bahrain and that the Navy is reviewing the future of the base. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Darryl Kotl told Sailors in a televised Hound Hall that the service didn't expect to increase staff at the base anytime soon.

2:03A Navy official says it is managing more than 1,700 cases of sailors and families who remain dislocated since the beginning of the war in February. For NPR News, I'm Steve Walsh. Inflation remains stubbornly high last month, fueled in part by rising gasoline prices. NPR Scott Horsey reports the cost of living in August was up 3.4% from a year ago. Inflation heated up in August after a slow down the month before, prices rose 4% of a percent between July and August with higher gasoline prices accounting for more than a third of that overall jump. Energy prices continued to climb in early September with the average price of diesel fuel now topping $6 a gallon for the first time ever. The cost of airline tickets and used cars was also up last month. Stripping out volatile energy and food prices so-called core inflation dipped to 2.4% in August was slightly smaller annual increase than the previous month. Today's inflation report is the last big piece of economic news before next week's Federal Reserve meeting where policy makers will have to decide

3:05whether to raise interest rates. Scott Horsey in Pair News, Washington. Major US stock index has rebounded today calling back much of their losses for the week after oil prices eased. 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 operating. The DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled there was no real emergency under the law. Nintendo of America is using tariff refunds for a sale starting tomorrow. NPR Steven Bessonha 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

4:08from 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 helped make this sale possible. Other companies like Walmart have also said though past long-taire savings not through custom refunds but lower prices though they haven't offered details yet. Steven Bessonha and P.R. News. 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 to honor the state's favorite daughter, Donnelly Parton, the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority today unanimously approved a motion to begin the renaming process. This is NPR. This message is from Synchrony Bank who wants to remind you to stay flexible. Not the yoga-bending circus performing kind of flexible, financially flexible like with their high yield savings account.

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