NPR News: 09-07-2026 10PM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. Israel says it has a plan to set, for quote, an all-out war, if violence continues in the occupied West Bank. The statement from Israel's Defense Minister followed the stabbing of an Israeli in the West Bank and the death of a Palestinian student in a separate incident. And Pierce Kerry-Con has more. Defense Minister Israel Kat says if it's determined that a large-scale attack on military and Jewish settlements is about to happen, troops have been instructed to quote, launch an all-out campaign. That would include targeted killings of senior Palestinian authority figures and evacuating and occupying security zones. Kat says as was done in Gaza. Israel's military says an Israeli farmer was stabbed in the West Bank by a Palestinian assailant who was then tracked down and killed. Separately, a Palestinian university student was killed overnight by Israeli settlers, according to the head of the local village council.

1:00The U.S. Ambassador to Israel has to cried the rise in Israeli settler violence against Palestinians' quote, terrorism. Kerry-Con and PR News Tel Aviv. Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board are in Miami looking into the crash of an Amazon cargo plane that killed five people and injured five others yesterday. If Pierce Jacqueline Diaz has more. Investigators have recovered flight data in the cockpit voice recorder from the crashed plane. The broader work by investigators is just getting started. They are expected to stay on scene for a week. That's according to Jennifer Hamidi, chair of the National Transportation Safety Board. Based on her latest updates, here's some of what we know. The Amazon Prime cargo plane overran the runway and crashed into an airline cleaning company van that was carrying seven people, then hit a car before skidding to a stop. He did not comment on the status of those who were injured. Recovery of the victims is still happening. The cause of the crash has yet to be determined.

2:01Jacqueline Diaz and PR News. The new report finds Native American voters are continuing to face major roadblocks to the ballot box. Impires Hansi LaWong has more. Embare to national statistics, states and counties with larger Native American populations are experiencing higher rates of rejected voter registration applications and mail and ballots. That's according to report by researchers affiliated with the Native American Rights Fund. They analyze recent voter survey data from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission and focus on counties where Native Americans make up at least a quarter of the population and states with the most Native American residents, including New Mexico, Arizona, and South Dakota. Researchers recommend expanding automatic and same-day voter registration and doing more voter outreach in areas with larger Native American populations. The report says, quote, full access to the ballot is not simply a matter of civic engagement. It is a matter of sovereignty, self-determination, and equity. Hansi LaWong and PR News. And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. The Trump administration has again asked the Supreme Court to allow the U.S. Postal Services

3:06plan to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm elections. This as government in an emergency application yesterday urged the high court to clear the way for revised U.S. P.S. rule on federal mail ballots to fully go into effect. For now, key parts of that plan are blocked by a preliminary injunction that a federal judge in Boston granted last week that replaced an earlier temporary order, which the Trump administration had asked the Supreme Court last week to review. The U.S. P.S. is a financial supporter of NPR. A century ago, labor unions fought for eight hour days at a 40-hour work week. Today, they find themselves confronted by AI. As NPR's Andrea Schu reports, for a movement made up of all kinds of workers, it's complicated. With AI on the rise, labor leaders have been calling for guardrails. They want more transparency into how companies are using AI and more say in what that's going to mean for workers. At the same time, some building trade unions have welcomed the growth of AI, and specifically,

4:10the boom in data centers. John Slaiman is with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 26. He says his members are flush with work. We haven't seen this kind of growth for skilled trade people in generations. The union has called on its members to ask their elected officials to oppose any moratoriums on data centers. Local leaders have increasingly issued pauses on new construction as community concerns have soared. Andrea Schu and P.R. News. You're listening to NPR. This week on Newsmakers, after more than a decade in comedy, I wasn't sure that we would get here. Robbie Hoffman is fearless. I had a small feeling I wasn't sure. And fully herself. My line, Lord. Hello? You can go out and flush. Well, I'm not home now. I'm doing something. We plunge into comedy and success with Robbie Hoffman on NPR's Newsmakers.