NPR News: 09-05-2026 4PM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Linda Kenyon. The U.S. says it has struck three Iranian oil tankers after Iran threatened U.S. Navy ships. This is the latest exchange of firepower between Iran and the U.S. after the most intense week of strikes in months. NPR's Kari Khan reports. According to Central Command, U.S. forces hit three Iranian crude oil carriers, one year Iran's vital production facility, Kargailand. The U.S. says Iran had launched missiles toward two U.S. Navy warships, patrolling the Strait of Hormuz. Senkham said in a statement that a U.S. aircraft carrier and a guided missile destroyer evaded unprovoked Iranian missile attacks. Senkham says it then destroyed the oil carriers. One was in waters off a man. Iran had no immediate comment. The year Saturday, an Iranian state news agency said one of its tankers had been hit by U.S. forces. Iran and the United States continue to battle for control over the Strait, which is a critical

1:03transportation passageway for much of the world's oil and energy supplies. Kari Khan and NPR News. The CDC says this summer's record-breaking Cycle Sparias' season is over. But the number of confirmed cases of the intestinal illness is still climbing. NPR is Yuki Naduji reports. The Cycle Spora parasite thrives in warm weather. In the U.S., it season typically runs from May 1 through August. Fueled by a hot summer and giant outbreak traced to Taylor Farms' iceberg lettuce in Mexico, as well as many separate, smaller outbreaks, the official case count of the illnesses reached more than 18,000 for the year. As of delays confirming and reporting cases to the CDC, thousands more suspected cases could push the total number higher for another six weeks. Already, the 2026 case count has shattered the previous record by nearly 10-fold. Yuki Naduji NPR News. Wall Street ended an uneven week of economic news with the split finish yesterday.

2:07The tech-heavy NASDAQ gained 4-10% of a percent for the week, while the Dow slipped about a quarter percent. NPR, Stephen Bessaha, has details. A hotter than expected jobs report Friday showed the U.S. added 162,000 jobs in August. Stock indexes dropped on the news, erasing many of their gains from earlier in the week. That's because a stronger jobs report suggests the Federal Reserve has more room to raise interest rates this month. Treasury yields also continue to rise. Yields for the 10-year Treasury note were at 4.78% Friday. Higher yields increased the cost of borrowing, including for a home. Freddie Mac says the average 30-year fix rate mortgage has pushed past 6.7%. The highs it's been in more than a year. Stephen Bessaha, NPR News. You're listening to NPR. The United Nations General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to adopt a new world map that depicts the true relative size of Africa and several Caribbean nations.

3:11As NPR's dual-bite reports, the U.S. was the only country that voted against that resolution. 164 countries voted in favor of the non-binding resolution, so face out the traditional Makator map of the globe in favor of the equal-ed projection. The resolution was brought by the West African nation of Togo, which argued that the Makator map did not give an equitable representation of the globe's regions, particularly Africa. Critics have long argued that the Makator projection perpetuates ideas of the European superiority by artificially enlarging Western regions. Six countries abstained from the vote, including Ukraine, which said the new map might depict Crimea as part of Russia. The U.S. ambassador to the UN called the resolution a mockery of the organization's work and purpose. dual-bite NPR News Legos Apple has relabeled Lake Ontario as Lake America for U.S. users of its maps app.

4:11The change comes after Google did the same. President Trump ordered a new name for the body of water amid his escalating trade war with Canada. As of Wednesday, Apple Maps shows Lake America for U.S. users, while users outside the U.S. still see Lake Ontario. MapQuest has not made the change. Canadian leaders have rejected the name change, so have indigenous tribes. I'm Linda Kenyon, NPR 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. Meet Todd Zwolland and me Jen White on the 1A Podcast from WAMU and NPR.