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What did President Trump say about Ukraine’s chances of retaking its territory?

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Live from NPR News in Washington on Korova Coleman. President Trump says he now believes that Ukraine can retake all of its territory with the help of Europe. He called Russia a paper tiger. Trump met with Ukraine's president on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, as NPR's Michelle Kelleman reports.

Michelle Kellerman 0:25

Із оформ, і мету на соцмереж африкінь в Україні президент Володимир Зеленський. Зеленський твол до УН секеріт каунсел да і Трамп токен аффідія.

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Москву фейс Америка анвес пастенти.

Michelle Kellerman 0:48

Зеленський бластить Русін президент Владимир Путін про накопити до Уніда НАЦ антин аккуюзит Русі пролонгела с Ворлвар Ту. Мишел Келеман, НПРНЮЗЮ НАТО НАТЕНС.

How are SIM farms being used to disrupt communications at the UN General Assembly?

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Сікрет сервис сез і твард айден операція на куда девастатил товар строити Нью-Йорк Сити ареа. This involved more than one hundred thousand SIM cards. These are usually tucked into mobile devices like cell phones, but these were placed in multiple sites around the city. Cybersecurity expert Jordan Ray Kelly explains these are sim farms. It essentially operates like hundreds of thousands of cell phones in one place doing things at massive scale. That means the operation could have cut off communication to millions of people. It's not clear who did this or whether it was intended to spy on the UN General Assembly. House Democrats are planning to hold two meetings in coming days.

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They'll discuss the looming federal government shutdown. That will happen a week from today, unless Congress passes a spending bill. Republicans don't have enough votes to pass legislation on their own.

Why are House Democrats convening meetings about an imminent federal shutdown?

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Democrats say they won't sign on unless the GOP rescinds some of the huge cuts to federal healthcare programs. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says many companies in the United States are cutting back on hiring. That's because of the economy's uncertain outlook, and BR's Scott Horsley has more.

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Hiring slowed to a crawl over the summer, and the Fed hopes to prevent a sharper slowdown by cutting interest rates. The central bank's still keeping a watchful eye on inflation, though. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell told an audience in Rhode Island that President Trump's tariffs have already resulted in some price hikes, and more are expected.

Jerome Powell 2:33

Uncertainty around the path of inflation remains high. We will carefully assess and manage the risk of higher and more persistent inflation. We'll make sure that this one time increase in prices does not become an ongoing inflation problem.

Scott Horsley 2:46

On average, members of the Fed's rate setting committee expect to cut interest rates by an additional half percentage point by the end of this year. Scott Horsley, MPR News, Washington.

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This is NPR. Late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has returned to the air.

What is the Federal Reserve’s outlook on hiring cuts and upcoming interest‑rate moves?

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ABC suspended him for less than a week. That came after Trump administration officials got angry over his comments over the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Kimmel noted last night that he never intended to make light of the killing, but he then began a spirited defense of free speech principles. He also thanked Republicans who'd supported him. Video platform YouTube says it will reinstate some accounts it once banned. This was for spreading falsehoods about COVID nineteen and elections. NPR's Bobby Allen reports it's the latest tech platform to loosen rules on misinformation since President Trump returned to office.

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A letter from a Google lawyer to the House Judiciary Committee lays out the change. Those who were kicked off YouTube will soon have a way to come back. Google says it has retired a number of rules that had cracked down on YouTube channels that pushed COVID and election misinformation. Among the accounts that have been banned under those rules, former Trump advisor Steve Bannon, Robert F.