NPR News: 09-06-2026 10PM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Roman. Five people died today when a cargo plane crashed at Miami International Airport. As NPR's Ping-Wong reports, local officials say the scene is chaotic. Just before 2pm on Sunday afternoon, an Amazon cargo plane crashed as it tried to land at the busy Florida airport. Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero Stutz says it overran the runway. It came to rest at a field adjacent to the airport. At this time we can confirm that we have at least five deceased individuals and we have multiple individuals that were transported to local hospitals with unknown injuries. Video posted on social media shows the Boeing 767 with its tail over the airport's fence and thick black smoke rising from the aircraft. Local officials said there was a fuel leak they were working to mitigate. It's unclear so far what caused the crash, though the National Transportation Safety Board says they're sending a team to the site and launching an investigation. The airport is open again, but passengers have been warned to expect long delays in cancellations.

1:02Ping-Wong and P.R. News. White House envoys Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner are describing their first face-to-face meeting with Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelensky as positive. Whitkoff says he's very encouraged by the direction of talks to end. Russia's foreign to half your long war against Ukraine. The meeting followed an earlier session of the Kremlin with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kushner spoke with reporters. These are some of the hardest problems that's in the world. And I think that you have to try and you have to bring to it. Obviously, Steve and I bring different approaches to these things, but we work very well together as partners, but we're not bringing our approaches. We're really representing President Trump and we're doing it the way that he wants to see these things done. For his part, President Zelensky insisted before the meeting that any peace agreement must include security guarantees for Ukraine and what he called a dignified post-war peace. The Trump administration says hundreds of thousands of seniors have signed up for access

2:03to discounted obesity drugs through a Medicare program. NPR's Sydney Lupkin has the story. The Medicare Bridge program got its start with the Trump administration's drug pricing deals announced last fall. Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly agreed to sell their obesity drugs to Medicare for $245 a month. Beginning July 1st, the bridge program began offering them for a $50 monthly copay to patients who qualify. Dr. Mehmet Oz, who leads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, gave this update at a White House event. Now we have 600,000 seniors already just in two months have signed up to get these medications that we project will actually be able to save money. He says that's because patients will have fewer obesity-related health complications. But even with the price discounts from drug makers, it's likely the direct cost to Medicare for the drugs will exceed a billion dollars. Sydney Lupkin and PR News And you're listening to NPR News. Canada Tuesday is expected to unveil its counter-terrorist to the ones imposed last month by President

3:06Trump. Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney is promising a dollar for dollar response to the earlier US actions. One of the largest annual gatherings for American Muslims is wrapping up its talks for the Labor Day weekend. As Naga's Ramon of Member Station WDET in Detroit reports, the Islamic Society of North America presents a space to create a sense of belonging for some during a time of growing anti-Muslim rhetoric in this country. Thousands of people gathered over Labor Day weekend at Huntington Place in Detroit, where speakers talked about overcoming challenges like anti-Muslim racism. Bilal Erfman came to network with American Muslims involved in political, social, and educational life. He says young people are concerned about where they belong. There's a lot of feelings about, kind of, are these safe spaces for us? Where do we cultivate those spaces? So it's not, it's kind of offering that kind of space for a lot of these Muslims that want to feel community, want to feel someplace that we can organize together. Saturday night, Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul Al-Said and Derburem Merrill,

4:10Abdul Ahamud told the crowd, American Muslims are a vital part of the country. Friendlier news, I'm Naraqis Rahman in Detroit. With the National Football League season set to begin this week, Commissioner Roger Goudell's contract is being extended for four more years, this until March of 2031. Members of the new contract have not been released, but Goudell was paid $63 million annually in 2021. I'm Dan Rohn, NPR News. Support for in- 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.