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Why did the stock market rise after the Fed’s interest‑rate hike?
Live from NPR News in Washington on Korva Coleman, stocks opened higher this morning a day after the Federal Reserve voted to raise interest rates. NPR Scott Horsley reports the Dow Jones Industrials jumped about two hundred points in early trading.
Stocks initially fell on Wednesday after the rate hike was announced, but are on the upswing once again in hopes the central bank will get control over stubborn inflation. Meanwhile, the Bank of England opted to hold its own benchmark interest rate steady. Energy prices continue to soar, Triple A says the average price of gasoline jumped seven cents a gallon overnight, while the price of diesel fuel jumped eight cents to a new record high of six dollars thirty nine cents a gallon. Rising interest rates are not good for home builders. Builders broke ground on fewer new homes in August, although most of the decline was in apartment buildings. Permits for future home construction were also down last month.
Scott Horsley, MPR News, Washington.
Kearney also urged deeper ties in an address to the European Parliament in France this morning.
What are the implications of the EU‑Canada alliance for trade and defense?
In a veiled reference to the U.S., Kearney said he's not proposing a bloc that would become a great power rival aimed at dominating others, but is pursuing resilience so that no one can threaten our sovereignty, territorial integrity, or rule of law. Carney's speech focused on a much closer relationship between Canada and Europe. Carney said the EU and Canada have common values, a commitment to the rule of law and democracy, and that prosperity grows when it is shared. He said a closer alliance could have mutual advantages. Europe would bring market power, research depth, advanced manufacturing, and a rapidly growing defense industrial base, while Canada brings energy at a huge scale and critical minerals.
For NPR News, I'm Dan Karpinchuk in Toronto.
A new study released by MIT warns that students who rely too heavily on artificial intelligence risk surrendering their ability to think and judge for themselves. MPR's Windsor Johnston reports researchers say universities need to rethink how students are taught and tested.
The committee heard reports of students using AI to write essays and complete problem sets without regard for actually learning. MIT professor Eric Klopfer, who helped write the report, says using technology to lighten the mental load can be helpful, but the concern is when students take it too far.
How is AI use in universities affecting student learning and assessment?
Cognitive surrender is sort of an extreme slippery version of that where we hand over so much we no longer have our own agency in what we're doing or how we're accomplishing it. Um and we turn it completely over to a machine, in this case AI.
The committee is recommending more oral exams, face to face follow-ups, and collaborative projects, along with clearer policies explaining when AI supports learning and when it begins to replace it. Windsor Johnston, NPR News. You're listening to NPR News
from Washington. House Speaker Mike Johnson has dismissed the chamber early so members can go home and campaign. Fellow Republican Congressman Thomas Massey of Kentucky is furious. He says the House won't be able to take up his articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Heggseth. The Trump administration is preparing to install signs that warn against ideological bias at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. NPR's Jennifer Venasco has more.
Why is the Trump administration adding ideological‑bias signs to the Smithsonian?
The Interior Department says the signs will comply with President Trump's July Executive Order called Restoring Trust in the Smithsonian Institution. In a September third letter to Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley, Interior Secretary Doug Bergham said the temporary signs would warn visitors that the National Museum of American History is being used, quote, as a tool to advance personal radical ideologies. In a statement shared with NPR, Senator Merkley calls it another step in a well-planned pressure campaign by the Trump administration and says he will, quote, fight like hell to protect the Smithsonians' independence. The twelve signs cost an estimated seven thousand dollars each.
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Chapters
5 chapters
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Why did the stock market rise after the Fed’s interest‑rate hike?
0:00–1:09
2
What are the implications of the EU‑Canada alliance for trade and defense?
1:09–2:28
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How is AI use in universities affecting student learning and assessment?
2:28–3:30
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Why is the Trump administration adding ideological‑bias signs to the Smithsonian?
3:30–4:38
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Who was psychedelic pop‑artist Peter Max and why is his work significant?
4:38–5:03