NPR News: 09-10-2026 10PM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. Republicans are gathered in Dallas for the closing day of the party's midterm convention. The event highlights President Trump's influence on the party, but Vice President J.D. Vance delivered the keynote speech tonight as the administration tries to boost Republican enthusiasm ahead of the midterm election. We got to send a message this November that the country does not belong to the radicals. It does not belong to the bureaucrats. It does not belong to the highest bidder. This country was handed down to us by our parents and their parents before them. We received this national birthright and we are going to fight for it by electing Republicans this November. Yesterday at the convention, Trump promised to send every adult citizen $5,000 if Republicans keep control of the House and Senate. The proposal would likely cost more than $1 trillion and require congressional approval. The federal debt recently crossed $40 trillion. A federal appeals court has refused to allow a postal service plan that could disrupt

1:01mail-in voting for the midterms. As NPR's Hansi Law-Wong reports, the Supreme Court's expected to weigh in soon with its own ruling. The ruling by a three-judge panel of the first U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals keeps the U.S. Postal Service blocked from moving ahead with its new requirements for President Trump's attempt to limit mail-in voting. Under those requirements, U.S.P.S. would refuse to deliver mail-in ballots to voters in states where election officials do not turn over voter lists to the mailing agency and do not have certain barcodes in their ballot envelopes. We should note U.S.P.S. is a financial support of NPR. A federal judge blocked the new requirements twice. After finding that U.S.P.S. has no authority to impose them on states, many election experts are concerned that postal service is not ready to enforce these requirements. After a whistleblower report claimed new U.S.P.S. systems have not been properly tested and could lead to many voters not getting their mail-in ballots in time for the midterm general election or at all. On Zilo Wang, NPR News. A Pennsylvania coroner confirmed two more measles-related deaths last month involving infants in the state. NPR's Maria Gadoi reports the deaths come as the state battles more than 620 cases.

2:04Lancaster County coroner Stephen D'Amentoni says Newborn Ivan Miller tested positive for measles but died on August 14th from a lacerated spleen and measles did not play a role. He said measles did cause the August 18th death of six-week-old Mary Stoltz-Fouce, who had a genetic condition that left her vulnerable to infections. D'Amentoni released the details in response to a records request from a local news station. Our goal as an office is to, you know, objectively provide information to cause a death. That's our job. So it's a shame politics and a reason to it. Health Secretary Robert of Kennedy, Jr. has accused Pennsylvania officials of inappropriately linking the deaths to measles to scare Americans. Ria Gadoi, NPR News. Major US stock index is sank today after oil prices jump to their highest levels since May, the S&P 500 Dow and NASDAQ fell more than half a percent. It's NPR. McClatchy Media Company laid off dozens of journalists at newspapers across the country

3:05today, including the Miami Herald, the Charlotte Observer, the Kansas City Star, the Lexington Herald leader and the Idaho Statesman. Kentucky Public Radio reports that McClatchy management sent an email to employees sitting at the company was, quote, reshaping its newsroom structure to more closely align resources with changing subscriber interests. McClatchy didn't respond to a request for comment. Homebuying is expensive enough before so-called junk fees get involved. NPR's Stephen Basaha reports on a fee some real estate agents are warning about. These fees can be more than a thousand dollars due out of pocket at closing. They also go by different names like admin fees or document storage fees. Hanna Matlock is an Alabama real estate agent and has a different name for them. I go on junk fees. She calls them junk because consumers are often already paying north of ten thousand dollars in commission to agents which should cover those expenses. I think it's unreasonable for it to be automatically on the consumer. That lock does not charge us fee but they are becoming more common in home sales according

4:06to the independent think tank, the Consumer Policy Center. That group recommends challenging these fees before signing a contract. Stephen Basaha and P.R. News Esau Harimoto, the baseball grade who survived the Hiroshima atomic bomb and still holds Japan's hits record has died. He was 86 years old. Nick named the hit machine. Harimoto was the only player in Japan to hit more than 3,000 hits. He was five when he survived the US atomic bombing in 1945. It turned him into an anti-war and nuclear disarmament advocate. This is NPR. This week on Consider This the researcher who just resigned from anthropic while he believes AI is a threat to humanity. Very soon these things are going to be so capable that if they decide to go rogue it's not going to be good. Plus his view of what guard rails could look like. This week on Consider This from NPR.