NPR News: 09-12-2026 4AM EDT
Summary
Saudi Arabia reports drone attacks on a major oil pipeline, while Houthi rebels seize a strategic island near the Red Sea. Domestically, soaring gas prices and inflation are straining the economy and markets amid the U.S. war with Iran. The episode also covers a Hong Kong court sentencing activists to prison, updated Russian casualty figures in Ukraine, a new Vermont college focused on practical engineering, and U.S. Open tennis results.
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Saudi oil pipeline drone attack and Houthi island capture
Rising gas prices and impact on truckers
Stock market decline and inflation data
Hong Kong activists sentenced to prison
Russian troop casualties and drone strikes on Kyiv
Vermont's Greenway Institute engineering college
US Open tennis semifinals results
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