NPR News: 09-12-2026 9AM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News and Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. President Trump is in Ireland for a two-day visit where he met today with the country's prime minister. NPR's Franco-Ordonia's reports Trump said he would like to see Northern Ireland reunified with the Republic of Ireland. During a cordial meeting with the T-Shug where both sides tatted the long working relationship, President Trump waited into some sensitive political waters, saying he'd like to see Ireland unified. Reenification would involve putting a vote to the people, Northern Ireland's status bird decades of violence, known as the Troubles, ending with the 1998 Good Friday agreement. Reenification would also present practical challenges of combining two different economic and political systems. I think we'll be great. Yeah. Agreed. That's our everybody's cap. It's going to happen eventually.

1:00Previous year's presidents have largely avoided waiting into the Irish unity debate. Franco, Ordonia's, NPR News, Dublin. The president has promised Gams prices will come down after the midterm elections. He blames the war with their run for the increase but has not explained what would bring prices down. Americans are feeling the effects even if they're not filling up their cars. Diesel powers the machinery used to grow food and move goods across the country. Jason Kurtz is a farmer in Forest City, Missouri. We have to harvest. We have to run the machines. We have to use the diesel. So bottom line is it cuts into our bottom line. And that cost keeps climbing. The national average for diesel reached another record high today of more than $6.16 a gallon. According to AAA, that's up more than $0.10 since yesterday and nearly $2.46 from a year ago. Manufacturers are looking for ways to operate more efficiently without sacrificing quality.

2:05NPR's Andrew Issue reports some are turning to artificial intelligence to help them do it. At a GE Appliances plant in northwest Georgia, director of manufacturing operations, Tony Gabbart, points to an AI powered camera system on an assembly line. It's been trained to look for errors and shut the line down if it finds one, like the wrong part on another. The quicker we know what the problem is, the quicker we can fix it. GE Appliances is also using AI to sift through millions of lines of data to detect anomalies before they become problems. If a motor is running hot, they can schedule a repair to avoid an unexpected breakdown. To far, the introduction of AI and other advanced technology has not led to job cuts. In fact, the Georgia plant added 600 jobs as part of a recent expansion. Andrew Issue and PR News. This is NPR. North Korea has launched multiple missiles into the sea following US, South Korean, and

3:08Japanese joint military exercises. NPR's Anthony Cune reports from Seoul that it's the fourth such launch since early last month. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff, say the short-range ballistic missiles, were launched from the East Coast town of Wonsan and flew eastward some 250 miles into the sea. South Korea's National Security Office held an emergency meeting to discuss the launch and criticized it as a violation of UN Security Council resolutions. The launch comes a day after the US, South Korea, and Japan wrapped up joint drills, which North Korea called provocative and warned would trigger unspecified countermeasures. Last month, President Trump ordered US South Korean joint drills shortened in an apparent attempt to restart diplomacy with North Korea, but Pyongyang dismissed the move as insufficient. Anthony Cune in PR News sold. The CIA has declassified several dozen presidential briefing documents to mark the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

4:12The record's detail intelligence gathered about Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda in the years before the hijackings. They trace how CIA analysts' understanding of al-Qaeda evolved and how they warned about bin Laden's plans for an attack. CIA director John Rackliffe called the release an act of exceptional transparency. This is NPR News in Washington.