NPR News: 09-06-2026 7PM EDT

0:00This message comes from Schwab. Investing with Schwab is like a hike with endless trails. Go solo with self-directed investing. Take stops along the way with trading or choose a guide with full service wealth management. Whatever trails you take, you can invest your way with Schwab. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Runren. Russia is calling yesterday's talks highly useful. Yet there is no sign of a breakthrough in America's primary mission negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine. For Moscow, here's NPR's Charles Mainz. Kremlin aid Yuri Shakhov told reporters with Kof and Kushner that outlined a number of ideas regarding possible avenues for a settlement to the war without categorizing the proposals or the Russian reaction. Yet, Shakhov said President Vladimir Putin told the White House on-voice of real progress in the Russian military campaign and again a short Moscow would achieve its objectives. Putin and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky both ordered a three-day pause in attacks on each other's capitals

1:02to allow the Americans save travel, yet fighting continued elsewhere with Russia attacking other regions across Ukraine and key of targeting oil facilities with drones in the southern Russian city of Rustov-Andan. Charles Mainz and Pyaar News, Moscow. The state of Hawaii has declared a state of emergency as hurricane-low-all approaches and could make landfall as soon as Monday. This is the third system over the last month, the threat in Hawaii, and what has been an active hurricane season in the Pacific. Lowell is a category three hurricane with sustained winds of 135 miles per hour. Robbie Lowell is a meteorologist with the National Hurricane Center. He says residents should begin preparing now. We're actually expecting heavy rainfall across the entire state. Lowell is bringing up a pretty large area of moisture from the south, and so we think there could be heavy rainfall totals for all of the Hawaiian islands all the way from Khoi down to the big islands. So whether or not you actually get the winds, we do want folks to understand

2:02that there could be some flooding as we head to the next few days. The Pacific Ocean uses the averages eight hurricanes a year. Michigan Democrats are trying to unify after a divisive primary so they can hold on to a must-win US Senate seat. But healing those fractures is proving somewhat complicated. Here's NPR's Sam Greenglass. Abdul-Elsaid has energized the left as he buys to replace retiring Democratic Senator Gary Peters. Elsaid won the primary in August by roughly a percentage point. But with two months before election day, some parts of the Democratic Coalition are still uneasy. Here's Alissa Slokken, Michigan's other Democratic Senator speaking to the Midland County Democrats. And I know that you're encountering neighbors and people at the door and everything who are not sure. But let me tell you, there are plenty of things that I don't agree with Abdul-Elsaid, but we agree on the really important stuff. President Trump won Michigan in 2024 and Democrats see retaining the seat as key to retake the majority. Sam Greenglass and PR News, Midland Michigan.

3:04The price of a gallon of diesel fuel hit another record today with the nationwide average of 589. According to Trepplea, California has the most expensive diesel, 781 a gallon, its NPR. The National Transportation Safety Board is sending a go team to Miami. After five people were killed today when an Amazon cargo 767 slid off the runway while attempting to land at Miami International Airport. Five others were injured. The plane was in rock from San Juan, Puerto Rico. It slid down the runway, went through a barrier crossed an airport perimeter road and then struck several cars and then caught fire. Several other people are also injured and hospitalized. The primary plane came to rest at the northwest area of the runway near a warehouse. Officials say the traveling into and out of the airport the next several days could be difficult. In a recent study published in the Nature Journal Nature researchers analyzed genetic denata.

4:05Here's NPR's Katie Riddell. Personality is shaped by many factors, including genetics. This study sought to identify genetic variants associated with broad personality traits. Elliott Tucker-Drab is a psychology professor at the University of Texas at Austin and one of the studies leaders. One of the things that our study underscores is that there's not just one gene for extroversion or one gene for neuroticism. Our estimates are that it's probably closer to 20,000 variants per each of the big five. The big five refers to five broad dimensions psychologists use to describe personality. Openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. Although personality can change these traits tend to remain relatively stable during adulthood. Katie Riddell and P.R. News. And from Washington, I'm Dan Ronan and P.R. News. Support for NPR. This message comes from I.X.L, a learning platform for helping kids build confidence and get up to speed fast. One subscription covers math, science, and reading for all children in a household.

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