Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Herbst. A report from the Pentagon's Inspector General sharply criticizes Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, saying he endangered U.S. troops by sharing highly sensitive attack plans for airstrikes against Yemen in March on the public messaging app Signal. NPR's Greg Myhre has more.
All of these senior government officials at work and at home have rooms where they can communicate securely on government systems known as SCIFs, a sensitive compartmented information facility. And this is what all of them should have been using. Instead, they were on Signal, a publicly available app anyone can download.
The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg spoke to NPR's Morning Edition.
There were two problems with the chat. One, that it was happening in a commercial messaging app. And the second was that they didn't know who they had added into the chat, namely me, and violating basic rules of good digital hygiene.
NPR CEO Catherine Marr also chairs the board of the Signal Foundation. Ukrainian and U.S. negotiators meet in Florida today following Special Envoy Steve Witkoff's talks with Russian President Putin in Moscow this week. And Pierce Eleanor Beardsley reports no real progress was made. The both sides say the talks were productive.
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Chapter 2: What critical issues were raised about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's actions?
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that his negotiators would head to Florida after briefing the Europeans on the U.S.-Russian talks. Russia continues to press on the battlefield in an effort to improve its position at the negotiating table. The Kremlin claims to have taken the eastern city of Pokrovsk after a year and a half of brutal fighting and heavy losses.
Ukraine denies the claim. In a statement on X, Zelensky said there is now a real opportunity to end the war. But as Kiev and cities across Ukraine continue to come under near nightly attack, Zelensky said negotiations must be accompanied by pressure on Russia.
Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Kiev. A CDC vaccine advisory panel meets today to consider whether to change a longstanding recommendation to vaccinate all newborns against hepatitis B. And here's Maria Godoy reports.
Hepatitis B is a virus that attacks the liver. The disease can lead to liver cancer, cirrhosis, and death. And the risks are much higher for people infected as infants. Before the U.S. began universally vaccinating newborns in 1991, some 18,000 children each year became infected before age 10. About half were infected by their mothers at birth. The other half got it from somewhere else.
The virus is found in blood and other bodily fluids, and it can live on surfaces for up to a week. The risks are everywhere. Infections have been documented at daycares, on sports teams, from shared toothbrushes and razors. Since vaccination at birth became routine, hepatitis B case rates in the U.S. have plummeted by 99%.
This is NPR. Delta Airlines says it lost $200 million in profits during the longest government shutdown in history. Melissa Fato from member station WABE has more.
The 43-day shutdown caused delays and cancellations in major airports as unpaid air traffic controllers missed work, ultimately leading the Federal Aviation Administration to order airlines to cancel up to 6% of their domestic flights at 40 airports. Delta is the first U.S. airline to disclose the exact financial impacts of the shutdown.
CEO Ed Bastian told investors that refunds grew significantly and booking slowed during that period. Bastian also said comments from Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy over controller shortages and travel safety led more customers to hold off on booking tickets. More than 10,000 flights were cut nationwide between November 7th and November 16th. For NPR News, I'm Melissa Fato in Atlanta.
President Trump says he's reversing vehicle fuel efficiency standards put into place by President Biden. If the plan is finalized next year, it would ease pressure on automakers to control pollution from gas-powered trucks and cars.
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