Houthi Drone Strikes Disrupt Almost Half Of Saudi Oil Exports
Updated at 4:51 p.m. ET Yemen's Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for drone strikes on two Saudi Aramco oil facilities early Saturday, according to a statement by a Houthi spokesman. Reuters and The Wall Street Journal report that about half of the country's oil production has been disrupted, or 5 million barrels a day. Saudi Arabia produces approximately one-tenth of the world's crude oil, but for now, the impact on global oil prices is unknown, as markets are closed for the weekend....
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Osama Bin Laden's Son Killed In U.S. Counterterrorism Operation, Trump Says
President Trump says that Hamza bin Laden, the son of Osama bin Laden, has been killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region. In a statement released by the White House on Saturday, Trump said bin Laden's son was responsible for "planning and dealing with various terrorist groups." His death, he said, "not only deprives al-Qa'ida of important leadership skills and the symbolic connection to his father, but undermines important operational activities of the...
'We're Tightening Our Belt': Trump's Midwest Support Tested As Farmers Struggle
Farmers in the rural Midwest say they are struggling because of President Trump's ongoing trade war and a recent decision the president made on renewable fuels made from corn and soybeans that benefits the oil industry. "We're tightening our belt," farmer Aaron Lehman says while driving his tractor down a rural road near his farm north of Des Moines, Iowa. "We're talking to our lenders, our landlords [and] our input suppliers." Lehman, the president of the Iowa Farmers Union, says his members...
Democrats Get Closer To Serious Field Of Trump Challengers
There was something different about the Democratic debate this week, compared with the earlier rounds this summer. Something was happening that was hard to pin down, but it was palpable. Not the contrast of night and day, but perhaps the difference between dusk and dawn. It's a critical difference, and it comes at a crucial time. Because the Trump presidency these candidates are competing to truncate has reached what may be a critical juncture. But more of that in a moment. This week, the...
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From Chuck Berry To Tupac Shakur: Taking Stock Of The 2008 Universal Fire
In 2008, fire swept through a Universal Studios Hollywood backlot. The loss was thought to be a few movie sets and film duplicates. But earlier this week, The New York Times published a report revealing that the 2008 fire burned hundreds of thousands of master recordings of genre-spanning, legendary music from the late 1940s to the early '80s as well as digital formats and hard drives from the late '80s up through the early 2000s. According to the report, the fire burned original recordings...
Mugabe's State Funeral Proceeds, But His Burial Plan Has Been Mired In Controversy
The complex remembrance process for longtime Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe continued Saturday with a state funeral. Mugabe, who was ousted in a 2017 military coup, led Zimbabwe for 37 years and died last week at a Singapore hospital. NPR's Eyder Peralta, speaking with Weekend Edition from the funeral in Harare's National Sports Stadium, called the scene "disjointed" — in part because Mugabe's family was in attendance right alongside the president and military who had pressured him out of...
Juanita Abernathy, 'Cornerstone' Of Montgomery Bus Boycott, Dies At 87
Juanita Abernathy, the widow of civil rights icon the Rev. Ralph Abernathy and one of the last surviving architects of the modern civil rights movement, died Thursday. She was 87. She died at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta from complications related to a stroke, family spokesperson James Peterson tells NPR. Funeral arrangements are still being finalized. "She was the last remaining major organizer" of the civil rights movement, according to a statement from Peterson. Abernathy worked alongside...
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Bahamian Government Revises Number Of Missing After Dorian Down To 1,300
As people continue to search for loved ones in the rubble across Bahamian islands, the government now says the number of missing is down to 1,300 — a drastic reduction from previous records of 2,500. "The number of people registered missing with the Bahamas government is going down daily," Carl Smith, a spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency, or NEMA, explained to reporters, adding that many could be unaccounted for in shelters. The latest figures come as yet another...
Greta Thunberg To U.S.: 'You Have A Moral Responsibility' On Climate Change
Greta Thunberg led a protest at the White House on Friday. But she wasn't looking to go inside — "I don't want to meet with people who don't accept the science," she says. The young Swedish activist joined a large crowd of protesters who had gathered outside, calling for immediate action to help the environment and reverse an alarming warming trend in average global temperatures. She says her message for President Trump is the same thing she tells other politicians: Listen to science, and...
New York AG Says Sacklers Transferred $1B From Pharma Accounts To Themselves
Updated at 9:35 p.m. ET New York state Attorney General Letitia James says the family that owns Purdue Pharma, maker of the opioid OxyContin, used Swiss bank accounts to transfer $1 billion from the company to itself. The allegation, which came in court documents filed late Friday, indicates that the Sackler family is trying to keep its wealth free from potential liability in other court cases involving Purdue Pharma's role in the opioid crisis. "While the Sacklers continue to lowball victims...
Appeals Court Reinstates Lawsuit Against Fox News Over Seth Rich Story
A federal appeals court Friday reinstated a lawsuit against Fox News and two other defendants over its coverage of the death of Seth Rich, a 27-year-old Democratic Party aide who was murdered in July 2016. The suit was filed by Rich's parents over a Fox News story from May 2017. The story reported that Rich had been linked to the leak of thousands of Democratic Party emails to WikiLeaks and suggested his death might be related to the release of those emails. The police department in...
Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big Tech
Regulate us. That's the unexpected message from one of the country's leading tech executives. Microsoft President Brad Smith argues that governments need to put some "guardrails" around engineers and the tech titans they serve. If public leaders don't, he says, the Internet giants will cannibalize the very fabric of this country. "We need to work together; we need to work with governments to protect, frankly, something that is far more important than technology: democracy. It was here before...
Eddie Money, Archetype Of Rock Radio, Dies At Age 70
The singer and songwriter Eddie Money, whose singles like "Take Me Home Tonight," "Baby Hold On" and "Two Tickets to Paradise" were an archetype for 1970s and 1980s rock radio, died Friday morning in Los Angeles at age 70. Less than a month ago, Money announced that he had stage IV esophageal cancer, which had metastasized to his liver, lymph nodes and stomach. In a statement sent to NPR, his family said: "The Money Family regrets to announce that Eddie passed away peacefully early this...
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FDA Committee Recommends Approval For New Peanut Allergy Treatment
A closely watched but controversial treatment for peanut allergies took a big step closer to becoming widely available. On Friday, an advisory committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration voted 7-2 to approve Palforzia, a standardized peanut powder product, to help reduce allergic reactions to peanuts for patients ages 4 to 17 as part of oral immunotherapy protocol. The treatment was developed by pharmaceutical company Aimmune Therapeutics. "I voted 'yes' because I thought the data was...
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Stepping Back From The Brink, China And U.S. Hit Pause On Tariff Hikes
China announced Friday it is delaying a planned tariff increase on pork and soy. That move follows President Trumps decision earlier this week to also halt scheduled tariff hikes ahead of trade talks set to resume in October. Here & Nows Peter ODowd talks with Roben Farzad ( @robenfarzad ), host of the podcast and public radio show Full Disclosure . This article was originally published on WBUR.org. Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.