NPR News: 09-11-2026 10AM EDT
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How is the nation commemorating the 25th anniversary of 9/11?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. A bell tolled at ground zero this morning in New York City as the nation observes twenty-five years since the September eleventh terrorist attacks. A moment of silence was held at 846, marking the time the first hijack plane struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center. NPR's Brian Mann is at the site where family members are gathering to honor their loved ones.
People are reading out the names of those lost on nine eleven. It's family members speaking incredible emotion here. There are no speeches. Uh that's according to long standing custom, but there is music. Yo-Yo Ma is performing in the background to accompany them. And just a few moments ago, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus performed the Star Spangled Banner.
This morning at the Pentagon, families read aloud the names of the 184 people who were killed when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the building.
Petty Officer Third Class, Melissa Rose Barnes, United States Navy.
President Trump is marking the anniversary at the Pentagon and will address the families gathered there. In western Pennsylvania, the forty passengers and crew members aboard United Airlines Flight 93 are being remembered. Investigators determined the flight had been headed toward the nation's capital. Stocks opened sharply higher this morning on Wall Street after a report showing inflation remained elevated last month, and PR Scott Horsley reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped by about five hundred seventy six points in early trading.
Consumer prices in August were up three point four percent from a year ago, leaving the annual inflation rate unchanged from the month before. Prices rose four tenths of a percent between July and August, with a sharp jump in gasoline prices accounting for more than a third of that monthly increase. Energy prices have continued to climb in September, with the average price of diesel fuel now topping six dollars a gallon for the first time ever. Stripping out volatile food and energy prices, the core inflation rate for the last twelve months cooled slightly, but core inflation for the month of August accelerated. Investors were already betting the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates when policymakers meet next week.
Investors think today's inflation report makes a rate hike even more likely. Scott Horsley, MPR News, Washington.
California Governor Gavin Newsome has signed legislation aimed at protecting children online. One bans social media platforms from offering users under sixteen addictive features such as autoplay and personalized feeds. The measures are among the most extensive online protections for young people in the country. This is NPR. The AI company Anthropic issued a report on its efforts to disrupt threat actors trying to use its AI model Claude for malicious activity, and PR's John Rewich reports that includes blocking research that could lead to the development of biological weapons.
The kind of science knowledge that experts say makes advanced AI useful in developing cures for diseases could also potentially be used to develop bioweapons. And that risk is one of the big concerns that AI researchers and policymakers have about the technology. Anthropic noted five case studies. One involved researching how to make a mosquito-borne disease more transmissible. Another involved redesigning toxins for what Anthropic says was a national program. Anthropic says it's hard to know definitively if the cases were related to plans to build bioweapons, but it notes that it disrupted the activity and shared the information with the authorities and partners in the industry. And to note Anthropic is a financial supporter of NPR.
John Ruich, NPR News.
Missouri's Republican drawn congressional map is blocked after a series of court rulings yesterday. Jason Rosenbaum from St. Louis Public Radio reports the decisions mark as setback for Republicans in the battle for control of the U.S. House.
and no dissent. So that means the map Missouri Republicans passed at the behest of Trump is blocked while the case is considered and there's not much time before the election to actually consider it.
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