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Why are flights being canceled across New York and Philadelphia airports?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. An equipment outage is causing severe disruptions to air traffic at major airports in the northeastern U.S. Hundreds of flights are canceled or delayed at airports around New York City and Philadelphia. The Federal Aviation Administration said the problems began with a blown circuit at its traffic control facility in Philadelphia, which also handles traffic at Newark International Airport. President Trump is set to address the U.N. General Assembly in New York City tomorrow morning. We traveled up today to meet with New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani. It'll be their third face-to-face since Mamdani's election last year. This time, the president visits the mayor's home.
Meanwhile, world leaders gather for the U.N.
What is President Trump's agenda at the United Nations General Assembly?
meeting, and the U.S. war with Iran overshadows that gathering. Qatar's energy minister says the Strait of Hormuz is never going to be obsolete. reports his remarks stand in contrast with what the U.S. Treasury Secretary has said.
Saad Al-Kaabi says there are imports and exports that need the Strait of Hormuz. Countering Treasury Secretary Scott Besson's comments that the waterway will become, quote, worthless as more energy pipelines are built. Here's Al-Kaabi speaking at the Qatar Economic Forum in New York.
I think this is completely wrong.
Have you told the United States this?
Why does Qatar’s energy minister say the Strait of Hormuz will never become obsolete?
No, I'm telling the United States today. Nobody has asked me whether it's going to be obsolete or not. But I think if you look at the trade that we have through that, it cannot be obsolete.
He also says it will take three years to repair Qatar energy facilities hit by Iran in March during the U.S. war. Aya Botraoui, NPR News, Dubai.
A court hearing will be held Wednesday afternoon on a motion to lift the Trump administration's ban on several media organizations' White House access. CNN, MSNOW and Politico had sued on First Amendment grounds. Trump argues he was right to ban them because their negative coverage of him has been unfair, he says. In the fallout, the media organizations that pool their resources to cover the president and White House events said the pool would not cover the White House today.
What is the court hearing about lifting the Trump administration’s White House media ban?
And Pierce David Folk reports. The
other networks have said essentially we're not going to step up and fill the gap if you're tossing out CNN. A strike against one of us is a strike against all of us. And notably, Fox News fully embracing that. Its White House reporter is or chief White House reporter, Jackie Heinrich, is the head of the White House Correspondents Association.
NPR's David Fokkenflik reporting. Paramount's owners have made a series of concessions to a coalition of 12 Democratic state attorneys general to resolve a lawsuit that endangered the media company's $111 billion takeover bid of its larger Hollywood rival Warner Brothers Discovery. That, according to a person with knowledge of the arrangement. This is NPR News. About two-thirds of Americans oppose new data center construction in their communities.
Why do two‑thirds of Americans oppose new data center construction in their neighborhoods?
That's according to a poll by The Economist and YouGov. The issue has cut across political parties and forged unexpected bipartisan cooperation. NPR's Scott Newman traveled to some data center hotspots to hear from residents.
Casey Hatch lives near a data center in Loudoun County, Virginia, one of the many supporting the artificial intelligence boom. She works in IT and even uses AI in her job. But she's also become an active member in a grassroots bipartisan group that opposes data centers. She spoke recently with a cousin who doesn't usually share their politics and found common ground over the data center issue.
We couldn't have this conversation five years ago, me and him, and suddenly we were on the same page.
Virginia's Governor Abigail Spanberger campaigned on qualified support for data center expansion, but just last week she signed an executive order seeking to limit their development. Scott Newman, NPR News.
The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago says the central bank may have to cause economic pain in the form of higher unemployment to bring down persistently high inflation.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Why are flights being canceled across New York and Philadelphia airports?
0:01–0:48
2
What is President Trump's agenda at the United Nations General Assembly?
0:48–1:24
3
Why does Qatar’s energy minister say the Strait of Hormuz will never become obsolete?
1:24–2:15
4
What is the court hearing about lifting the Trump administration’s White House media ban?
2:15–3:09
5
Why do two‑thirds of Americans oppose new data center construction in their neighborhoods?
3:09–4:43
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How might the Federal Reserve use higher unemployment to combat persistent inflation?
4:43–5:03