NPR News: 09-08-2026 6AM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corvac Olman. Canada imposed muscular tariffs on certain U.S. products overnight. The tariffs up to 50 percent are in retaliation for President Trump's decision to lever U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods, such as steel and dairy. Reporter Peter Armstrong says Canada means ensensed over its treatment by the Trump Administration. Little drive-up costs and hurt businesses on both sides of the border. The expectation, of course, is that the U.S. is going to respond. And we all know this isn't going to have a huge impact on the macro economy in the U.S. But where this hits, it hurts. Kentucky bourbon makers, California wine makers, tourism in all these areas that used to be so frequented by Canadian tourists, that's cost billions of dollars. The auto industry spent like $110 billion on tariffs and tariff-related costs. Canada's the biggest market for U.S. cars. U.S. auto exports to Canada plummeted 22 percent since all this started. Peter Armstrong reporting from Toronto. Saudi authorities say cross-border Houthi attacks have wounded more than 70 people overnight.

1:04And Pierre's A.A. Betrowe says women and children were also hurt when Houthi's targeted four regions in southwest Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia said it affirms the right to defend its sovereignty and safeguard its assets following Houthi attacks on civilian and economic sites. The Houthi ballistic missile and drone attacks raised the specter of renewed war in Yemen following several years of tenuous truce. The Houthis say they struck a rampco oil sites and economic zone and an airbase in southwest Saudi Arabia in response to a hundred and twenty-one Saudi air strikes across Yemen in the past three days, including one that struck a prison Monday. The Houthis say women and children were killed in that attack. Fighting between Saudi-backed Yemeni forces and the Houthis has also intensified near the Bebba-N-Mandab shipping corridor. The Iran-backed Houthis are also targeting Saudi tankers in the Red Sea, forcing the Kingdom to reroute oil shipments through a much longer route. A.A. Betrowe and Pierre News, Dubai. In the U.S., investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board are in Miami.

2:05They're looking into the crash of an Amazon cargo plane that killed five people and injured five others. And B.S. 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. Comments he did not comment on the status of those who were injured. Every of the victims is still happening. The cause of the crash has yet to be determined. Jacqueline Diaz and Pierre News. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. French political leaders are stunned by some of this weekend's election results in neighboring Germany, a far-right party that is also pro-Russian, won the vote in a small

3:11Eastern German state, shocking German leaders too. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley says French elections are in seven months, and far-right candidates are leading French polls. Writing on X, French foreign minister Jean-ouard Barreau said the crushing victory of a neo-Nazi anti-European pro-Putin party in Germany illustrates the strength of the far-right wave unfurling across Europe. He called the AFD's program, which includes making separate classrooms for migrant and handicapped children, a betrayal of the European spirit and an exaltation of xenophobia. He called on Europeans to resist the banalization of extremist ideas, leftist politicians evoked parallels between Germany and France, but Marine Le Pen's National Rally Party was largely silent. Considered less extreme than the AFD, it severed ties with them in the European Parliament in 2024, following their ambiguous statements about the role of the SS during World War 2. NPR has worked to mainstream her party over the last decade.

4:11Eleanor Beardsley and Pierre News, Paris. You count on sunscreen to protect your skin, but that SPF rating on the bottle might not be exactly as advertised. So you could 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 Up First podcast on the NPR app.