NPR News: 09-08-2026 5PM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton, Iranian state media says the U.S. attacked multiple Iranian tankers today. It comes after Iranian Navy forces said they captured an unmanned U.S. submarine in the street of Hormuz. The U.S. military said one of its underwater drones had malfunctioned earlier this week, but that it did not collect sensitive information. NPR said Diel L. Schultzhi reports. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps's Navy division said in a statement that it had captured, quote, one of the most modern unmanned U.S. submarines in an operation on Tuesday. Iranian forces released images and video of various angles of a submarine being lifted out of water. On Sunday, Iran said it had targeted a U.S. submarine trying to enter the street of Hormuz, where the U.S. has imposed a naval blockade. In a statement, Senncom said that a U.S. underwater drone had malfunctioned more than a day ago, as it was surveying regional waters. It said that the drone was an older model, and that it did not collect sensitive data,

1:00nor carried any classified sonar or radar equipment. Hadiel L. Schultzhi and PR News is stumble. Canada has levied retaliatory tariffs on about $20 billion of U.S. goods. NPR's Kirk Sigler reports the Trump administration's escalating trade war with one of the U.S.'s closest allies is causing economic anxiety in border states. Canada is Montana's biggest trade partner, accounting for about a billion dollars in cross-border economic activity every year. Farmers here were already dealing with high diesel and fertilizer costs, and now they can expect to pay more for farm equipment. Brigitte Miranda Freer runs the Montana World Trade Center. Canadian companies also purchase Montana cattle, and then they send them up to Canada where they're fed out. And by the way, when they're up there, a lot of times they're eating Montana barley. It's not just farmers bracing for a hit Miranda Freer says, but also small manufacturers and the state's lucrative tourism economy. Kirk Sigler and PR News, great falls Montana.

2:02The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to intervene to revive a federal data system. The administration expanded to check the citizenship of registered voters. NPR's Jude Jaffee Block reports. The data system save has long been used to query the immigration status of foreign-born people. The administration linked it to social security records for the first time, including records for U.S. born American citizens, and made large batch citizenship queries possible. Voting in privacy groups sued, arguing the modified system violated federal laws and inaccuracies in the data would harm eligible voters. A federal judge in DC blocked the use of the modified safe system in June, and an appeals court upheld that decision Friday. The Trump administration is now asking the Supreme Court to stay those rulings and allow the safe system to be used ahead of the midterm elections. Jude Jaffee Block and PR News. This is NPR News from Washington. Election observers from the Department of Justice have been visiting polling places in New

3:05Hampshire during the state's primary election today. The Trump administration says it's monitoring potential violations of election security. New Hampshire Public Radio reports local voting officials are welcoming the extra monitoring. New Hampshire Secretary of State rejected the administration's demand last year to turn over non-public voter roles. Thieves got away with two Renoir paintings from a small museum on the French Riviera, as Rebecca Rossmann reports police say the suspects are still on the loose. Police describe the two suspects as, quote, well-equipped and well-informed. They say that thieves entered the museum early Tuesday by cutting through a fence with an electric knife. They ran off with four Renoir paintings, but had to abandon two of them during their escape. Police arrived within five minutes after the museum's alarm system went off, but the suspects were already gone. The theft comes nearly a year after masked thieves broke into the Louvre Museum in Paris, taking off with crown jewels described as priceless, including an emerald and gold necklace Napoleon gave to his wife.

4:07The event and a string of other recent heists in France have drawn scrutiny of security measures at museums across the country. Rebecca Rossmann and PR News. The creators of satirical cartoon TV show South Park say they've apparently changed the show's name to South America ahead of its 29th season. The renaming appears to target President Trump, who's continued efforts to rename bodies of water like Lake Ontario to Lake America and the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. US stocks sank today after the three-day weekend. You're listening to NPR News. Billionaire Mark Cuban has stared into the belly of the beast of America's healthcare system. I mean, it's so bad you can go through a long list of really quality hospitals and they don't know their costs. So, can Medicare for all be a solution? We take a hard look at the cost of the program along with US healthcare itself. Find this and hear more stories from the indicator from Planet Money on the NPR app.