NPR News: 09-11-2026 6PM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News in Washington, on Ryle and Barton, the CIA has declassified dozens of documents presented to US 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 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 in 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. What briefing was one of two declassified previously, the other 69 have just now been

1:01released. 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 says he's concerned with adding to the $40 trillion federal debt. What I don't think you want to do is borrow another 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's paralysis 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 US were hit by the diarrhea causing illness this summer.

2:03The 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 tailor 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. Anthropics 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

3:06coal-fired power plant to stay open past its scheduled retirement date last year. The 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 Jane Arraf reports. Israel's Prime Minister says Israeli forces destroyed what he called an underground command complex of Iran-backed Hezbollah on a strategic ridge Thursday night. He said Israeli forces would remain in the area. The Israeli military has invaded Lebanon and now controls about 6 percent of its territory. Israel and Hezbollah have been fighting for control of Ali Al-Taharij since June. Lebanon's state news agency said the impact of the detonation registered the effect of a light earthquake. A U.S. broker at ceasefire in June called for Israeli forces to withdraw and Hezbollah

4:08to disarm, ending over control to the Lebanese army. But that process has stalled. Jane Arraf and Pierre News, they root. 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, Dali Parton, the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority. Today, unanimously approved a motion to begin the renaming process. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.