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--:-- Host Giles Snyder: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder.
--:-- Host Giles Snyder: The State Department says it will revoke the visa of Colombia's president after he called for U.S. soldiers to disobey President Trump. NPR's Amy Held reports he was speaking at a pro-Palestinian rally in New York City on Friday.
--:-- NPR's Amy Held: In a post on social media, the State Department called the actions of Colombian President Gustavo Petro reckless and incendiary. He was in New York City for the U.N. General Assembly.
--:-- NPR's Amy Held: Online video shows him addressing protesters outside with a megaphone. He says, I ask all soldiers in the U.S. Army not to point their guns at humanity. Disobey Trump's order.
--:-- NPR's Amy Held: Petro has been a vocal critic of Israel's war in Gaza and President Trump. In March, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced anyone engaging in activities counter to U.S. national interest or foreign policy would have their visas revoked.
--:-- NPR's Amy Held: On social media Saturday Petro said he back in Bogota and does not care he no longer has a visa writing humanity must be free all over the world.
--:-- Host Giles Snyder: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected at the White House to meet with President Trump on Monday. Yesterday, he told the U.N. General Assembly that Israel must finish the job against Hamas.
--:-- NPR's Amy Held: Dozens of delegates walked out as he began speaking.
--:-- Host Giles Snyder: Federal regulators giving Boeing more authority to perform the final safety checks on new 737 MAX jets. NPR's Joel Rose reports that regulators revoked that authority after a pair of deadly crashes.
--:-- NPR's Joel Rose: The Federal Aviation Administration will once again allow Boeing to issue airworthiness certificates for some of its 737 MAX planes.
--:-- NPR's Joel Rose: The FAA revoked that authority in 2019 after the crashes of two 737 MAX jets that killed 346 people.
--:-- NPR's Joel Rose: The move will not immediately lead to the delivery of more planes, but it is a sign of the FAA's growing confidence that Boeing has improved its quality and safety practices.
--:-- NPR's Joel Rose: The FAA capped production of the 737 MAX at 38 jets per month after a mid-air panel blowout last year.
--:-- NPR's Joel Rose: The agency says Boeing has not yet sought to increase that production rate and that FAA safety inspectors would still have to sign off before it does.
--:-- Host Giles Snyder: A medical examiner says a man accused of killing four of people and then himself inside the New York City headquarters of the NFL in July had CTE a brain injury that Dr Kristen Damso says is troubling.
--:-- Dr. Kristen Damso: It's highly concerning when a person who's experiencing mental health challenges believes that those symptoms are solely attributable to a neuropathological disease that cannot be diagnosed during life.
--:-- Host Giles Snyder: Dr. Damso Conner is the director of the New York City's Brain Injury Research Center at Mount Sinai.
--:-- NPR's Joel Rose: 27-year-old Shane Temuro drove across country from Las Vegas to target the NFL offices. He left behind notes saying he might have CTE and for medical examiners to analyze his brain.
--:-- Host Giles Snyder: Officials in Denmark are reporting more unexplained drone activity. The defense ministry says unidentified drones were spotted near military installations overnight.
--:-- NPR's Joel Rose: They followed drone sightings earlier this week that temporarily shut down Danish airports.
--:-- NPR's Joel Rose: There have also been possible sightings in Germany, Norway and Lithuania, leading to security concerns in northern Europe.
--:-- Host Giles Snyder: British customers of Facebook and Instagram are being offered the option of paying to go ad-free. Vicki Barker reports from London.
--:-- Vicki Barker: Parent company Meta says UK users will be offered subscriptions starting at about a month to go ad on their smartphones or PCs.
--:-- Vicki Barker: That follows its out settlement earlier this year of a lawsuit brought by a British privacy campaigner who argued that Meta's use of her personal data breached UK data protection laws.
--:-- Vicki Barker: Her argument was backed by British regulators who have now pronounced themselves pleased with Meta's decision.
--:-- Vicki Barker: But a similar arrangement, already in place in Europe, is being challenged by regulators there.
--:-- Vicki Barker: They argue customers shouldn't have to pay to enjoy their fundamental right to data protection.
--:-- Host Giles Snyder: For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London.
--:-- Host Giles Snyder: South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has declared a state of emergency ahead of a storm system that forecasters say could strengthen into a tropical storm as soon as today.
--:-- Host Giles Snyder: Separately, Hurricane Umberto has intensified into a powerful Category 4 storm in the Atlantic and could lead to life-threatening surf and rip currents for the northern leeward islands of Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda this weekend.
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