NPR News: 09-05-2026 1PM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Linda Kenyon. Rescuers in Nepal have pulled out two more survivors in separate operations, 10 days after devastating floods hit the country. Nepal's armies said a joint rescue team of Nepalese, military personnel, and South Korean disaster experts rescued a man from a hydropower plant, and a woman was rescued from her home. At least 1,300 people were killed in the August 26 floods, more than 5,000 remain missing. The U.S. ambassador to Israel says he condemns violence against Palestinians by extremist settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, but he added he regrets the limited power the U.S. has to stop such attacks. Ambassador Mike Huckabee made his comments during a visit today to a West Bank town that has seen increased violence, and P.R.s. Kary Khan reports. Huckabee says it's his job as ambassador to serve Americans, but he says the U.S. can't

1:00investigate crimes or make demands of Israel. While touring the town of Turmothaya with relatives of Palestinians killed by Israeli settlers, Huckabee said as long as the violence continues, Israelis too are hurt. It's in their best interest to consequence people who are carrying out acts of criminal behavior and terrorism. Their reputation does not do well when it appears that this tiny little group of marauders are somehow representative of the larger population. 80 percent of residents of Turmothaya are Palestinian-Americans, Israel rarely arrests or punishes settlers. Kary Khan and P.R. news in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. A federal judge in Boston has again blocked the U.S. Postal Services plan to follow an order by President Trump that seeks to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm elections. N.P.R. as Hansi Loh Wang reports, the Supreme Court has already set to review the Postal Services plan. The ruling by U.S. District Judge and dear to Wani effectively extends an earlier court

2:02order, stopping the U.S. Postal Service from moving head with key parts of its plan. We should note U.S. PS is a financial supporter of N.P.R. The Postal Services plan involves delivering mail-in ballots only to people on voter lists that the states would have to turn over to the mail agency. Just to why he found that plan is likely illegal because U.S. PS has no authority to control voting by mail. While the legal fight continues, mail-in voting for the midterm general election has officially started with North Carolina just beginning to send out its absentee ballots. Hansi Loh Wang and P.R. news. In a late-9 motion last night, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to provide 48 hours notice before doing anything other than information gathering at the traffic circle where Hansi Loh Wang proposed 250-foot arch in the nation's capital, a group of military veterans and an architectural historian filed a lawsuit to block the construction. You're listening to N.P.R. The Islamic Society of North America is hosting its annual convention this weekend in Detroit,

3:06in August, Rockman of Member Station WDET. Reports it's one of the largest annual gatherings of American Muslims. Speakers at the convention include Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdel Al-Said and the mayor of nearby Durban, a majority-autom American city. Claudia Basie, speaking on behalf of Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield's office, says Detroit is the most fitting place to welcome the Muslim community. Because Detroit is always the city of people who came here carrying something larger than themselves, a faith, a family, and a surviving belief that what we built together can be far greater than what any one of us could build alone. The convention takes place at the home of Detroit's auto show Huntington Place and will feature a mini-auto show of its own. For Ann P.R. news, I'm N.P.R. Han in Detroit. A long-lost Italian portrait, looted by the Nazis, will now be returned to the air of a prominent Jewish art dealer. An Argentine court approved a deal under which the daughter of a fugitive Nazi official gave a perclaim to the painting in order to avoid trial.

4:09The portrait was found last year in her home after Dutch reporters spotted it in an online real estate listing. The portrait belonged to Dutch Jewish dealer Jacques Goedsticker. His collection was seized after Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands in 1940. His air has spent several decades seeking return of that stolen art. I'm Linda Kenyon, N.P.R. News in Washington. As the political landscape shifts beneath our feet, we're all vulnerable to a well-funded distraction economy determined to take our eye off the bomb. Our weekly politics series, if you can keep it, is here to help where our focus is not the horse race, but the state. We tackle the big political stories of the day and why they matter for our democracy. Join me Todd Zwilland and me Jen White on the 1A Podcast from WAMU and NPR.