9.11 | The day still speaks

Myrna Brown (0:05)

Good morning. Today is the 25th anniversary of the 9-11 attack on America. We'll talk about what's changed in the years since.

Nick Eicher (0:14)

John Stonestreet will be along for Culture Friday, also today.

SPEAKER_3 (0:18)

Are you taking this seriously now, Hank Malone?

Nick Eicher (0:20)

World Arts and Culture editor Colin Garbarino reviews Runner, an action comedy about a medical delivery that turns into a fight for survival and a preview of Doubletake.

Myrna Brown (0:37)

It's Friday, September 11th. This is The World and Everything In It. From listeners supported World Radio, I'm Myrna Brown.

Nick Eicher (0:45)

And I'm Nick Eicher. Good morning.

Myrna Brown (0:49)

Up next, Kent Covington with today's news.

Kent Covington (0:53)

Secretary of State Marco Rubio was in Peru Thursday, wrapping up a three country South America trip in which he pressed countries to step up the fight against drug cartels. And Peruvian President Caico Fujimori promised to do just that.

Fujimori announcing that her country is signing on to the Shield of America's Pact. Members of that US led bloc are working together on military and law enforcement operations targeting cartels. Ecuador joined that bloc back in March. And in Quito, Ecuador this week, Rubio announced that the administration will ask Congress for $45 million in security aid for Ecuador.

Marco Rubio (1:31)

We are aligning with governments and leaders that are willing to be serious about taking these groups on as opposed to leaders who in the past, like we had with Petro in Colombia, are actually on the take or aligned with these terrorist organizations and these narco groups and so forth. So you have to make a choice here.

Kent Covington (1:46)

Last October, the US sanctioned Gustavo Petro, Colombia's president at the time, over what the US said was his coziness with drug cartels. Petro was the nation's first socialist president. But this week, Rubio was in Colombia with kind words for Petro's conservative replacement, President Abelardo de las Priejas, a former Miami resident and a dual US citizen.

Marco Rubio (2:09)

This is a man of energy. This is a man of strength. This is a man of vision and of courage.

Kent Covington (2:15)

The Pentagon said Colombia has also joined the Shield of Americas program.

Vice President JD. Vance headlined day two of the first ever midterm Republican National Convention on Thursday. World's Mary Muncie has this report from Dallas, Texas.

Mary Muncie (2:32)

Vance touted what he called the administration's wins thus far, including work to stop Medicaid fraud and locking down the southern border.

JD Vance (2:40)

We have seen the foreign-born share of our population drop by three million people. That's illegal aliens that we sent back home.

Mary Muncie (2:48)

Vance and other speakers also marked 25 years since 9-11 and one year since Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated. The group's Vice President Lucas Miles said of Kirk, I think he would say, the work's not finished.

Lucas Miles (3:03)

There's still young people to reach. There's still pastors to equip, still a generation searching for truth.

Mary Muncie (3:09)

And with less than eight weeks until election day, President Trump led the audience in reciting an oath.

SPEAKER_3 (3:15)

We swear that on November 3rd, we are going to go out and vote. So help me God.

Mary Muncie (3:26)

Reporting for WORLD, I'm Mary Muncie in Dallas.

Kent Covington (3:30)

The US. Supreme Court has blocked Missouri Republicans from using new congressional districts in November. The justices Thursday paused a federal order requiring the new map. Republican lawmakers passed it last year. It was designed to help the GOP win seven of the state's eight seats. But critics gathered more than 300,000 signatures for a referendum. Missouri's state Supreme Court ruled unanimously last week that the new map never took effect. So, the state will use districts drawn in 2022

Voters decide in November whether the new map ever takes effect.

Wholesale inflation heated up in August after cooling this summer. World's Benjamin Eicher has that story.

Benjamin Eicher (4:13)

The Bureau of Labor Statistics says that wholesale prices rose 5.4% from a year ago, up from 4.8% in July.

Higher energy prices amid the Iran War helped drive that increase. US crude surged above $100 a barrel on Thursday, and wholesale diesel prices jumped about 24% in August alone. Diesel, of course, fuels most of the trucks that carry consumer goods across the country, so an increase there can drive up the cost of many other things. The hotter inflation numbers could push the Fed toward raising interest rates when it meets next week. The government's Consumer Inflation Report comes out today and could help tip that decision. For World, I'm Benjamin Eicher.