NPR News: 09-03-2026 12PM EDT

0:00Lie from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Some of the most influential figures in the global fight for gender equality are paying tribute to a giant among them. Gloria Steinem died yesterday. The journalist and activist spent a lifetime championing women's rights, including abortion rights. In an interview with WHOI's Fresh Air, she said that despite the Supreme Court's decision to strike down Roe v. Wade, her work on reproductive justice was not in vain. Politics and deep change and everything we're trying to do is like a tree. And too often we think the tree grows from the top, from Congress. Trees grow from the bottom. Gloria Steinem was 92 years old. Tributes today include those of former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Clinton says Steinem pushed open doors for millions of women. Two Democrats in Congress are urging the Department of Homeland Security to help state

1:02and local officials bolster election security ahead of November. Here's NPR is Jenna McLaughlin. Ahead of them in term elections, two Democrats are urging President Trump's Homeland Security Chief Mark Wayne Mullin and the Acting Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Nick Anderson, to take action. Senator Alex Bedia of California and Representative Joseph Moral of New York demand that DHS distribute the nearly $40 million Congress approved for election security. Including for an information sharing center, designed to help state and local election officials receive the latest intelligence on cyber threats and disinformation campaigns targeting their offices. The lawmakers point to ongoing digital attacks facing American critical infrastructure and federal cyber job cuts as additional reasons for urgency. Jenna McLaughlin and PR News. A new assessment of the deadly floods in Nepal and Tibet finds there were warning signs days before part of a glacier collapse into a valley. The section of ice was about 3,000 feet wide, sending a fast-moving wall of water, ice

2:08and debris, some 80 miles downstream. And PR's Dihadid reports more than 1200 people were killed and about 4,000 others are still unaccounted for. The assessment was by a consortium that looks at risk data in the high mountains, scientists looked at publicly available satellite imagery and found melting had sped up on the glacier, a sign it was unstable, and there was an indication of a crack in the bedrock. One report author, Jakob Steiner, told NPR that their rapid assessment showed it's possible to develop an early warning system. We could have seen indications that things are changing and could have been at least alert. The report says there's still a risk of more flash flooding because of potentially unstable masses of rock and ice that remain on the glacier. Dihadid, NPR News. This is NPR. Three people are dead, including the suspect following a mass shooting inside an apartment building in Minneapolis.

3:08Madsepik of Minnesota Public Radio reports six others were injured including three police officers. They were arrived at the building less than two minutes after getting the initial 911 call. Resident Yumeika Agnew says she and several neighbors were about to step out of the elevator on the first floor when they heard gunfire. The door's open and we heard the gunshots, just like that. So we just started pushing the button for the door to shut. Agnew made it to safety in her apartment before evacuating. Police did not cite a motive, but court records show that building management was in the process of evicting the suspected shooter over earlier threats of violence for NPR News. I'm Matt Sepik in Minneapolis. Several musicians have filed a class action lawsuit against the AI Music Maker, Soono. Justin Barney of MWPLN has a latest. Soono is an AI company that can generate a fully fleshed song with as little as a one-word prompt. Amongst several claims, the Soono says that users are blocked from using specific

4:11names in their prompts. But when Americana singer Jason Isbel's name was prompted, Soono created a song with clean-mail vocals and a country twang. The lawsuit states that Soono encoded the identities of countless artists into its AI model without permission and now exploits them for its own profit. The suit comes amidst an avalanche of lawsuits against Soono in the past week. That's Justin Barney reporting. It's NPR News. How do you handle really big emotions? It starts with emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is OK. A, what am I really feeling? B, is this emotion helpful or unhelpful for achieving my goal? If it's unhelpful, what am I going to do about it? Or what's my strategy for regulating it? The science of emotional regulation on shortwave. Listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.