NPR News: 09-08-2026 2AM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News on Child Snighter. Federal investigators are looking into why an Amazon cargo jet ran off a runway at Miami International Airport. The crash happens Sunday. Five people were killed. NPR Shandali Stuster reports on what national transportation safety board officials are saying. NTSB chair Jennifer Hammady said the plane landed and then left the runway. The plane first hit a van owned by a cleaning company that services airport. We learned that there were seven people inside. She said the van was torn apart. The plane also hit an SUV mangling the vehicle. But it's still an active recovery scene. NTSB says the plane's flight recorders have been recovered and that investigators are focusing on whether the plane touched down too late to stop safely. Canada's retaliatory tear of certain now in effect they impose import taxes on about $20 billion worth of US goods, including steel, aluminum and cheese. Canada says its

1:00tariffs match the taxes. President Trump imposed dollar for dollar and rate for rate. Other countries are watching to see what happens. A century ago labor unions fought for eight hour days and a 40 hour work week today. They find themselves confronting AI. NPR's Andrea She reports it's complicated for movement made up of all kinds of workers. 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 and what that's going to mean for workers. At the same time some building trade unions have welcomed the growth of AI and specifically the boom in data centers. Don Slamen 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 tradespeople 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

2:00concerns have soared. Andrea Shew and PR News. Food giant Campbell's company cutting costs and raising prices in Pearson, Lena, Silio. Explain why. Campbell's has been one of the food companies and pretty rough shape. It sales dropped 8% in the latest quarter, especially on snacks. Its big brands include goldfish, kettle chips, Milano cookies and Snyder's pretzels. Shepherds have tightened their snacking budgets and they're not reaching for the name brands as often. Campbell's forecasting of a drop in sales for the full year sent its shares tumbling down. The company is cutting costs by closing two snack plants and laying off 13% of its salaried workers. It's also slashing the dividend it pays to shareholders and it's raised prices up by 4% to 5% across nearly 2-thirds of its products, hoping for a financial boost even if people buy fewer of Campbell's offerings. Alina, Seluh and PR News. This is MPR News. It's not clear when the search for a small plane that's gone missing will resume.

3:06Police in the Bahamas say the search has been suspended because of bad weather, US Coast Guard and Bahamian authorities say the plane carrying four family members back home to Florida went missing on Monday. The President Trump's push for control of Greenland, the European Union is promising a stronger partnership and hundreds of millions of euros in investment. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen arrived in Greenland on Sunday for a two-day visit, saying Greenland's future is for its people and Denmark to decide. The long-labor day weekend marks the unofficial end of summer and the start to school around the country and PR's Janaki Metta visited in elementary school in Los Angeles. At Michele Torina Street Elementary, kindergarteners are starting the year with some big feelings. I'm excited to learn about Kinder. I'm nervous. Excited! That's why Michele Torina has a long-standing tradition of older and wiser fifth graders,

4:07welcoming new kindergarteners to elementary school. Fifth graders like Gerald Gomez Reina, who says part of his job is to help the new students with the transition by accessing emotional tools like breathing and quiet safe place and garbage can. What garbage can? Grubbage can is when you throw away feelings if you get sad or not. And he said the idea is to make sure kindergartners start the year off hand-in-hand with a built-in friend. Janaki Metta and pair news Los Angeles. Yeah and I'm Jail Snyder. This is NPR News. You count on sunscreen to protect your skin, but that SPF rating on the bottle might not be exactly as advertised. So you can measure an SPF 50 at one lab and an SPF 30 at another. On the Sunday story, is it time to update sunscreen guidance? Listen now to the Sunday story from the Upfirst podcast on the NPR app.