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Chapter 1: What role does melody play in capturing our attention?
Conductor Robert Frahn says a good melody captures our attention.
Chapter 2: How does music influence our perception of time?
And then it moves you through time. Music is architecture in time. If you engage in the moment with what you're listening to, you do lose a sense of the time around you.
How we experience time. That's on the TED Radio Hour from NPR.
Chapter 3: What are the highlights of President Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingly. This is day two of President Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia. In Riyadh yesterday, the president announced $600 billion worth of contracts with companies in the U.S., They included the defense, energy, and high-tech sectors. NPR's Bobby Allen says many executives from Silicon Valley are also in Riyadh.
Chapter 4: Which tech leaders accompanied President Trump to Saudi Arabia and why?
Tech leaders took center stage during Trump's inauguration, and similarly they flanked the president during his visit to Saudi Arabia. Billionaire Elon Musk, OpenAI Sam Altman, Palantir's Alex Karp, and other tech titans joined Trump, some with an eye toward investment dollars to fuel artificial intelligence infrastructure.
A flurry of deals were announced, including from chipmaker NVIDIA, which says it will sell some of its top AI chips to the Gulf state. One big tech executive absent from the summit was Amazon's Jeff Bezos, who owns The Washington Post. Bezos has drawn attention to the 2018 killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, who U.S.
Chapter 5: What major deals were announced during the Saudi Arabia summit?
Chapter 6: Why was Jeff Bezos absent from the Saudi summit?
officials believe was killed with the approval of the Saudi crown prince. Bobby Allen, NPR News.
Chapter 7: What are the next stops on President Trump's Middle East tour?
After Saudi Arabia, Trump is scheduled to visit Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. While in Saudi Arabia, President Trump also announced he's lifting U.S. sanctions on Syria.
Chapter 8: Why is President Trump lifting U.S. sanctions on Syria?
To give them a fresh start, it gives them a chance for greatness. The sanctions were really crippling, very powerful.
Speaking in Riyadh, Trump says he's hopeful Syria's new government will help stabilize the country and keep the peace, following the ouster of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. U.S. sanctions on Syria have been in place since 1979. Trump says he spoke with Turkey's president before making the announcement. He also met with Syria's new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaf, for about 30 minutes in Riyadh.
On Capitol Hill, more than two dozen Democratic senators have introduced a resolution to try to block the Trump administration from accepting delivery of a luxury 747 jumbo jet from Qatar. As NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports, the jet is worth $400 million and would be used by Trump as Air Force One.
The ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jeanne Shaheen, describes the Qatari offer as clearly illegal and corrupt and says it raises national security concerns.
Air Force One is not just an airplane that flies the president around. It's also a White House in the air. in that you have to have secure communications, you have to be able to refuel in case there's an emergency.
President Trump says only a, quote, stupid person would say no to a free, very expensive airplane. Shaheen says she's heard private concerns from some of her Republican colleagues. Only Democrats have signed on to a resolution opposing this. Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, the State Department.
This is NPR News from Washington. A federal grand jury in Wisconsin has indicted Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan. She's accused of helping a man in the U.S. without legal status of evading U.S. immigration authorities as he appeared in her courtroom. Dugan is expected in court again tomorrow to formally enter a plea. Her defense attorneys maintain her innocence.
More testimony is expected today in New York in the sex trafficking trial of hip-hop mogul Sean Diddy Combs. His ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, took the stand yesterday, where she testified about how Combs exerted his control over her. NPR's Anastasia Tsilkas' report includes mentions of physical and sexual assault.
Cassie Ventura was a model and singer who signed a 10-album deal with Combs' record label when she was 19 years old. She claims that rather than releasing her music and furthering her career, Combs instead subjected her to years of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse.
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