NPR News: 09-06-2026 2AM EDT

0:00This message comes from the United States Postal Service, dedicated to putting a reliability at the core of USPS ground advantage to help businesses operate smoothly. More at usps.com slash ground advantage. Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman. The US military says it's disabled or destroyed several Iranian ships, the attacks follow an Iranian attack on US forces. The US military says Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or the IRGC launched ballistic missiles toward two US naval vessels. It was an aircraft carrier and a guided missile destroyer. Send-com says both ships were able to evade those attacks and in retaliation, the US struck three Iranian oil tankers destroying all of them. That's NPR's Kerry Con reporting from the Middle East. The US says the Iranian tankers were part of that country's shadow fleet, which sells oil to help fund Tehran's Revolutionary Guard forces. In Southern Lebanon, the Israeli military says it's taking control of a strategic

1:03ridge where it's been fighting the militant Lebanese group Hasbalah for two months. Hasbalah disputes that claim and PR's Jaina Raf has more from Beirut's. On Thursday, Israel released a video saying it had taken operational control of Ali El Tahir and tunnels used by Hasbalah fighters. Hasbalah disputed that Israel now controlled the ridge, saying that Israel was continuing to bomb the location. It noted the video did not show the tunnels. Israel says it now controls. A US-broker planned for Hasbalah fighters and Israeli forces to withdraw and the Lebanese army to take over has stalled. Hasbalah says it won't withdraw from the strategic hill while Israel is in a position to retain control of the area. A ceasefire is officially in effect, but Israeli airstrikes Friday killed at least three people and wound in more than 20, according to Lebanon's health ministry. Jaina Raf and PR News Beirut. Both Democratic and Republican political campaigns are pouring millions of dollars into ads

2:06attacking AI data centers ahead of the midterms, and Pairs Mahamjavati reports. It's rare for political messaging to be aligned across parties, but when it comes to data centers, campaigns for major races have collectively spent more than 45 million dollars airing ads largely opposed to the AI facilities. Data from ad impacts splits that nearly evenly. $22 million backing Republicans, 21 million for Democrats. Olivia Davis of the Democratic Governors Association says data centers are mentioned in political ads so often because of their connection with increases in cost of living, namely, utilities. Republicans have spent more money, but Democrats have aired nearly twice as many ads. Mahamjavati and PR News. Rescue workers in Nepal managed to save two people this weekend, 10 days after massive floods hit the area. A man was pulled out of a 740-foot hydropower tunnel while the woman was rescued from a house. At least 1,300 people were killed by the flood waters, and officials say more than 5,000

3:09other people are still missing. This is NPR News. A Greek Air Force jet crashed at an air show north of Athens Saturday. The planes two pilots were killed in the accident. The crash occurred during a low-level maneuver. Officials say there were no injuries. Among those gathered to see the show, show organizers canceled the rest of the events. New treatments for lung cancer are starting to shift survival rates. NPR's Yuki Naguchi reports on one man living on the cutting edge of treatments. Two years ago, Stanford Medical Professor Bryant-Lin was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. A disease he spent his career fighting. As a patient, Lin has since benefited from a string of recently approved genetic therapies, new combination of drugs, and immune boosting medicines prolonging his life. I think the future is really bright because we're creating all of these personalized, specialized precision therapeutics for lung cancer. My hope is if we're not able to cure

4:12lung cancer, we can at least turn it into a chronic disease. While the survival rate for lung cancer overall has doubled in three decades, it's still only a sobering 30 percent after five years. Yuki Naguchi and NPR News. Kennedy's Center spokesperson says decades of neglect is responsible for causing part of the ceiling to collapse Friday night in the center's Grand Foray. No one was hurt by the collapse. Olympic gold medalist Keen Wen-Jing managed a stunning rally on Saturday to win the final seven games and eliminate number 22 Madison Keys from the US tennis open, Taylor Fritz and Amanda and Asimova were also knocked out. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News.