NPR News: 09-30-2026 10AM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. There was a flight disturbance today on a commercial jet belonging to Fly Dubai. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says one pilot tried to stab another one. The Israeli leader says he then tried to crash the plane. Many passengers aboard our Israeli, the plane diverted to an airport in Saudi Arabia, the pilot and co-pilot have been hospitalized. Stocks opened higher this morning as the Commerce Department delivered a cooler than expected inflation report. NPR Scott Horsley reports the Dow Jones' industrials rose about 30 points in early trading. Consumer prices in August were up 3.4 percent from a year ago, according to the Commerce Department's inflation yardstick, which is closely washed by the Federal Reserve. Gasoline and diesel prices inched lower overnight, but remained much higher than they were before the U.S. launched its war with Iran. The U.S. economy grew a bit faster this spring than first reported. Updated figures show GDP grew at an annual rate of 2.2 percent in April, May and June,

1:03thanks to upward revisions to consumer and government spending and investment. And President Trump's tariff policy is back in court today, importers. Nearly two dozen states are challenging the latest drought of import taxes as illegal. Scott Horsley in Pairing News, Washington. Prosecutors in Massachusetts are still deciding whether Lindsey Clancy will be retried on charges of killing her three young children. From Member Station WBUR, Deborah Becker reports. Judge William Sullivan took several motions under advisement filed by both sides and set another hearing date for November. Some motions asked the judge to dismiss the case. Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz said his office is still considering whether there will be a new trial. No determination to make this to anything. We're doing it. We're doing it. We're doing it. We did not say when he would decide or whether Clancy would be charged with first degree murder again or lesser charges. Fran P.R. News, I'm Deborah Becker in Boston. A new poll looks at what voters in rural America think about President Trump's make America

2:08healthy again movement. Sarah Jane Trouble with KFF Health News has more. About eight in 10 rural voters said President Trump's health care policies have had a negative effect or no impact on the health of people where they live, according to a new poll by the Associated Press and KFF. Kim Solis is a small business owner in Texas. She says her health care costs have climbed since Trump returned to office and she worries about medical emergencies. Certainly, we'd be in a world of hurt trying to take money out of savings or getting it out of our 401k just to be able to do something about it. My brother-in-law for an example, he has to have a shoulder replacement and he can't leave an affordee right now. The poll surveyed more than 2,000 rural voters in mid-August. That's Sarah Jane Trouble with KFF Health News. You're listening to NPR. President Trump says artificial intelligence companies can't self-regulate their developments. He held a meeting with dozens of AI industry leaders at the White House yesterday.

3:11Trump says that some AI industry leaders signed a voluntary agreement he posted online, but there are no details on how the big tech companies will agree to police problems. North Korea has rejected accusations that it planted landbines in the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas. Two mines exploded last week, injuring three South Korean soldiers. NPR's Anthony Cune reports from Seoul, the South calls this, and attack on its forces. The United Nations Command enforces the armistice that ended fighting in the Korean War in 1953. In a statement, the UNC said that they conducted a joint investigation with the South Korean military and found a live North Korean anti-personnel mine in the southern half of the DMZ in violation of armistice agreements. South Korea's military demanded an apology from the North and called on it to stop fortifying positions within the DMZ. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, sister Kim Yajong, called the South's findings a fabrication.

4:13He said that the North has a right to fortify its border, and its troops will retaliate if fired upon. Anthony Cune in PR News sold. In the U.S. forecasters say Hurricane Polo is broken up over northern Mexico, but its heavy moisture is still streaming north. There are flood watches and warnings posted from the desert southwest up to Illinois. I'm Kurova Coleman, NPR News in Washington. Stay tuned for the following announcements and messages from our sponsors.