Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. President Trump will attend the Saudi Investment Forum in Washington, D.C. today. He's hosting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Chapter 2: What investment plans did Saudi Arabia announce during Trump's visit?
They have announced that Saudi Arabia will invest up to a trillion dollars in the U.S., focusing on the tech sector. Details are still unclear. Trump hosted the Crown Prince at a dinner last night and said he is elevating Saudi Arabia's status to a major non-NATO ally. This comes with improved U.S. economic and military ties.
Separately, House Speaker Mike Johnson says he is not pleased that the Senate approved a bill to require the Justice Department to release all files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Johnson spoke to reporters after attending the dinner last night.
I'm deeply disappointed in this outcome. I think... I've been at the state dinner. I don't know. They just told that Chuck Schumer rushed it to the floor and put it out there preemptively. It needed amendments. I just spoke to the president about that. We'll see what happens.
Trump has said he would sign the bill. It's not clear when that would happen. A federal appeals court panel has blocked a plan by Texas lawmakers to redraw the state's congressional districts. President Trump had demanded the redistricting. It's an effort to send more Republicans to Congress. Houston Public Media's Andrew Schneider reports Texas officials have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The three-judge panel issued an injunction saying the plaintiffs were likely to prove at trial that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 map. Democratic Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia represents a Houston district that would have been dramatically redrawn.
Well, obviously I'm elated. We all spent much time and we kept saying these are racially gerrymandered maps. And now the judge has agreed. They in fact say substantial evidence, not just evidence, but substantial.
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Chapter 3: What is House Speaker Mike Johnson's stance on the Epstein files bill?
The high court would need to act swiftly as the registration period for the 2026 Texas primaries is nearly halfway over. For NPR News, I'm Andrew Schneider in Houston.
Stocks opened higher this morning as Target issued a cautious forecast for the holiday shopping season. NPR's Scott Horsley reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose about 120 points in early trading.
Discount retailer Target says customers are keeping a tight grip on their pocketbooks, with most of their spending devoted to food and other essentials. Spending on discretionary items like home furnishings is down. Target reported a drop in same-store sales for the most recent quarter and lowered its profit forecast for the full year.
A federal judge ruled Facebook's parent company does not have a monopoly in the social networking space. The decision means Meta will not have to spin off its Instagram or WhatsApp features. And new figures from the Commerce Department show the nation's trade deficit shrank in August as higher tariffs took effect. That report, along with many others, was delayed by the government shutdown.
Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
You're listening to NPR News. Officials in southern Japan say a huge fire has burned more than 170 buildings. At least one person has died in the coastal city of Saganseki. Scores of people have evacuated. The fire has burned about 12 acres, or an area about the size of six soccer fields. The blaze has spread to a forest, and the Japanese military is now helping firefighters attack the flames.
It's not clear how the blaze got started. Brain scientists say several Trump administration claims about autism lack a strong scientific foundation. NPR's John Hamilton reports from the Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego.
At a session on autism, speakers question plans to make a prescription cancer drug called Leucovorin widely available to autistic children. Federal officials have said several clinical trials support using the drug in autism, but Dr. Shefali Jeste, chair of pediatrics at the University of California, Los Angeles, says the results of those studies are hard to interpret.
These trials have been conducted without the rigor that we would really want.
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