Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. The head of the National Transportation Safety Board is opposing part of the defense policy bill, which just passed out of the House today and is advancing to the Senate. NPR's Joel Rose reports the nation's top safety investigator warns the bill would undermine safety improvements made after a deadly midair collision in January.
In an unusual rebuke, National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy raised major concerns about a provision in the defense policy bill now before Congress.
Chapter 2: What safety concerns did the National Transportation Safety Board raise about the defense policy bill?
If it sounds like I'm mad, I am mad. This is shameful. Homendy said the provision would roll back safety improvements that were recommended by the NTSB after the collision of a military Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet near Washington, D.C. in January. After the crash, the Defense Department agreed to require military aircraft to broadcast their position.
But the NTSB says the bill's language would recreate exemptions that were in place at the time of the crash that killed 67 people, the nation's deadliest aviation disaster in more than 20 years. Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington. In Miami, voters elected the city's first female mayor. She's also the first Democrat to lead the city in 28 years.
Mayor-elect Eileen Higgins says as county commissioner she represented both Republicans and Democrats and She says anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies motivated voters in the election. I'm at community meetings. It's so sad. And you'll talk to someone, they'll whisper to you, my brother, my uncle. Sometimes they'll tell you they were taken to Alligator Alcatraz.
Sometimes they'll tell you they don't know where they were taken. They've just been disappeared. And so unfortunately, this national anti-immigrant fervor is affecting us here in Miami more And I do think it influenced the way people voted this time. Higgins won the race by about 19 percentage points.
Wall Street welcomed the Federal Reserve's decision today to cut interest rates by another quarter percentage point. As NPR's Maria Aspin reports, all the major U.S. markets rose. The Dow Jones closed up more than a percent. The cut was widely expected, but unusually contested. Two members of the Federal Reserve's Rate Setting Committee wanted to keep rates steady.
while a third member, appointed by President Trump on a temporary basis, voted for a deeper cut. The Fed is trying to shore up a weakening job market, which it usually does by cutting rates. But it's also trying to keep inflation under control, which it usually does by keeping rates higher.
Policymakers had to vote without seeing some of the latest jobs and inflation data, which was delayed by the six-week government shutdown. Now Chair Jerome Powell says the Fed is ready to wait and see how the economy evolves. Maria Aspen, NPR News, New York. The S&P 500 climbed six-tenths of a percent, just shy of its all-time high set in October. This is NPR News.
Iceland's national broadcaster has announced it will boycott next year's Eurovision Song Contest due to discord over Israel's participation in The decision follows similar moves by Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland, and Slovenia. NASA has lost contact with one of its Mars missions. As Joe Palco reports, the spacecraft, known as MAVEN, has been orbiting the red planet for more than a decade.
It's pretty easy to describe what scientists hope to learn from MAVEN. The MAVEN mission is about understanding the history of the climate on Mars. Bruce Joukowsky was MAVEN's principal investigator when it went into orbit in 2014. Mars is now a cold, arid planet, hostile to life. But scientists believe it was once wet and warm and potentially habitable.
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