NPR News: 09-08-2026 7AM EDT

0:00Line from NPR News in Washington, on Corva Coleman, Republicans head to Dallas this week for an unconventional midterm convention. As NPR's Tamer Keith reports, this is the first convention for Republicans outside of a presidential election year. The convention is centered around President Trump and his policies, so much so that he's headlining the program both nights. There are questions about how many Republican candidates will actually attend, especially those in tight races trying to get some distance from an unpopular president. But Alex Trian Tefilo, chairman of the Ohio Republican Party, says he isn't worried. You know, from the very beginning, you know, we were told that we could use this as an opportunity to rally the troops in the race of money for the party, and those two things have certainly happened. A Democratic Party spokesman is predicting what he calls the worst infomercial in the history of political campaigning. Tamer Keith and PR News. Sue Hampshire is holding its primary elections today.

1:01Candidates are seeking state and federal offices. Five people are dead from yesterday's Amazon cargo plane crash in Miami. The chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, Jennifer Hammondy, says the plane skidded off the runway and crashed into two vehicles. The pilot survived. NPR Shandali's Duster reports, Hammondy says, searchers have recovered the jet's flight data recorders. He said they have teams that are looking at a number of angles ranging from the crew's flight experience to weather conditions that day. As for the crew, Hammondy wouldn't give an update on their status, but she did say that interviews have not been scheduled yet. Hammondy said that she would have more information on the crash, and that would be shared today. NPR Shandali's Duster reporting. Israeli officials say they have a plan for, quote, all-out war if violence continues in the occupied West Bank. Israel's Defense Minister spoke after the stab big of an Israeli in the West Bank and

2:02the death of a Palestinian student in a separate incident. And PR's Kerry Khan has more. Defense Minister Israel Katz 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. Katz 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. The U.S. Ambassador to Israel has decried the rise in Israeli settler violence against Palestinians' quote, terrorism. Kerry Khan and PR News Tel Aviv. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Hurricane Lowell is passing just to the west of the northern Hawaiian Islands.

3:05It is not made landfall, but Lowell's top sustained winds are at 110 miles per hour. The tracking site, PowerOutage.us, says nearly 60,000 customers in Hawaii don't have power. A new study from Pew Research finds more than four in 10 Americans say that Muslims are having a negative effect on the U.S. And PR's Jason DeRose reports, the study examines data collected over the past 25 years, since the September 11 terror attacks. Pew Research finds that views on Islam are now more negative and more partisan than shortly after 9-11. In 2026, just over half of those surveyed, said Islam is more likely than other religions to encourage violence. In 2002, that number was just 25%. More than three-quarters of Republicans this year say the religion promotes violence, whereas fewer than one-third believe that was the case shortly after 9-11. Pew also found that about six in 10 American Muslims say there's a lot of discrimination

4:06against their communities, while just over a third say someone has expressed support for them in the past year because of their religion. Jason DeRose, NPR News. A spokesperson woman for the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC says part of a ceiling collapsed in the performing arts center last Friday evening. President Trump is pushed to add his name to the building and to close the center for two years for renovations. Opponents won a court order this year to force Trump to remove his name from the arts center building. This is NPR. 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.