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What are FBI Director Cash Patel’s key accomplishments and controversies under Senate scrutiny?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. The director of the FBI is testifying on Capitol Hill at this hour. Cash Patel is appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee amid growing scrutiny about his ability to lead the agency. In his opening statement, Patel highlighted several of the FBI's accomplishments under his leadership.
We've taken ов over six thousand illegal firearms off the strict. That number is an exponential increase. We've identified and located more than forty seven hundred. Child victims. More than forty seven hundred child victims have been found by this FBI. That is a thirty five percent increase from the same time period last year.
How did legendary actor Robert Rafford’s career and recent death impact the entertainment news?
Lawmakers are expected to grill Patel over his social media posts and his role during the madhunt for the suspect who shot and killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Legendary actor Robert Rafford has died. His career spanned more than five decades and included classic films like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Out of Africa and The Way We Were. He was eighty-nine years old. The United States has carried out another deadly airstrike on a small boat from Venezuela. NPR's Quill Lawrence reports it's the second time this month that the US military has killed alleged drug traffickers.
President Trump posted a video of an airstrike on social media saying the US had confirmed the three people on a small boat in international waters were carrying drugs on board. Two US officials who requested anonymity because they're not authorized to speak publicly told NPR that Congress had been notified of the strike. The previous strike on a Venezuelan boat killed eleven people who appeared to be heading back to shore. President Trump has moved ships and troops into the waters off Venezuela and says the US is hunting what he called narco terrorists.
Why did the U.S. conduct a second airstrike on a Venezuelan boat and what are the political reactions?
Venezuela is considered a minor player in smuggling of cocaine to the U.S. The far deadlier drug, fentanyl, is made and smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico. Quill Lawrence NPR News.
Stocks on Wall Street opened higher this morning as the Commerce Department reported an uptick in retail sales last month. NPR Scott Horsley reports the Dow rose forty nine points in early trading.
Back to school shopping gave a bigger than expected boost to retail sales in August as overall sales jumped by six-tenths of a percent. Spending on clothes and electronics was up, so was spending at car dealers and restaurants. By contrast, shoppers spent less money on furniture in August, while spending at grocery stores and gas stations failed to keep pace with last month's rising prices. Manufacturing output inched up last month, largely thanks to
What do the latest Wall Street gains and August retail‑sales data reveal about the U.S. economy?
rise in auto manufacturing, utility output, which generally tracks weather conditions, was down. The Federal Reserve begins a two-day policy meeting today. It's expected to wrap up tomorrow with the central bank's first interest rate cut in nine months. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
One of the arts world's most prestigious honors has been announced. Theater director Rosabo Roland has won the Darthy and Lillian Gish Prize for twenty twenty five. NPR's Anastasia Salucas reports.
In nineteen seventy nine, Rosalbo Rolon co founded a traveling theater company in the Bronx, now known as Pregonas Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, the group has performed in thirty-eight states and eighteen countries. Rolon says winning the Gish Prize, which comes with two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, is an affirmation.
The fact that a group of people that I respect got together and discussed my life and my career and made this decision.
Who is Rosabo Roland and why is her winning the D’Arcy and Lillian Gish Prize significant for theater?
That's what we take with us. I don't take the money with me to the grave. What we take is our reputation and the way people feel about you and the respect people feel for you.
Roland says the award will help her and her colleagues rest easier about the years ahead and keep their eyes on their artistic mission. Anastasiat Zulkus and Pure News, New York.
A key federal vaccine advisory panel is expected to hold a vote later this week on whether to delay when babies receive the hepatitis B vaccine.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What are FBI Director Cash Patel’s key accomplishments and controversies under Senate scrutiny?
0:01–0:41
2
How did legendary actor Robert Rafford’s career and recent death impact the entertainment news?
0:41–1:50
3
Why did the U.S. conduct a second airstrike on a Venezuelan boat and what are the political reactions?
1:50–2:38
4
What do the latest Wall Street gains and August retail‑sales data reveal about the U.S. economy?
2:38–3:41
5
Who is Rosabo Roland and why is her winning the D’Arcy and Lillian Gish Prize significant for theater?
3:41–4:38