NPR News: 09-10-2026 11PM EDT

0:00Live from MPR News, I'm Trial Snyder. President Trump is back on center stage tonight at his Republican midterm convention in Dallas. So on election day, November 3rd, you got to do me a favor. You got to get out and vote and you're going to pretend I'm on the ballot because in a way I am on the ballot. President Trump delivering closing remarks as he wraps up the two-day event with a second convention speech in as many days. In his own speech, Vice President JD Van Spoke of what he called an American birthright to safety and prosperity that he said Democrats oppose. And I want our children to grow up in a country that doesn't roll its eyes at people who pray, but remembers that this country itself wasn't answered a prayer 250 years ago. Democrats say the convention will not be enough to make voters ignore rising prices. President Trump's promise of a $5,000 dividend to every American adult, every Republicans win in November, is meeting with a mixed response even from Republicans, MPR's Tamer Keith reports from the convention in Dallas.

1:01This isn't President Trump's first promise to send Americans cash payments. This time, the dollar figure is higher, but no more politically realistic. The bill for this proposed dividend would be more than $1 trillion. Meredith Smith from Austin, Texas says she wakes up every morning and thanks God Trump is president, but she's not sold on this. I don't know. I kind of think maybe they should take that and put it into the debt, but a lot of people are going to like that, but it also smacks the other side. So I don't know, I'm mixed feelings. The response from Republican congressional leaders has been cautious. Tamer Keith and PR News Dallas. The decision by the U.S. Supreme Court ends uncertainty over Missouri's congressional districts heading into the November midterms. The Justice's Thursday rejected a new map back by President Trump. It had been drawn up to help Republicans gain an additional seat, but now the state is poised to revert to its former map approved in 2022.

2:03Tomorrow marks 25 years since the 1911 attacks, Samantha Maxx of Member Station WNYC has been following up with New Yorkers who WNYC reporters interviewed at the time. On September 11, 2001, Joshua Raskin was a middle school social study teacher. He told a WNYC reporter at the time that when school lit out, he wrote his bike south until he found a volunteer center. For days, Raskin helped with the recovery efforts. Twenty-five years later, he still has a New York Nick stufflebag filled with mementos from that time. I was a schoolteacher. I didn't have an actual credential to be helpful, but I thought of myself as someone that was good at counseling people and good at crisis management. I just figured I could have a role in this. Raskin says he wanted to help his city heal. For NPR News, I'm Samantha Maxx in New York. This is NPR. The Artificial Intelligence Company Anthropics says it has blocked a misuse of its AI models

3:07for malicious activities such as cyber attacks, surveillance, and research that could have led to biological weapons. Anthropics said Thursday that it found signs of misuse despite adding stronger safeguards and its latest models on Tuesday, an Anthropic Researcher resigned over concerns about irresponsible AI development. California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a package of bills aimed at online protections for children from Member Station KQED, Rachel Myrow reports. It's 13 bills and all. One is a ban on addictive social media features for anyone under 16. New York sets safety rules for AI chatbots used by kids. Thousands of families, schools, and states have soothed the tech industry over harms to young users, AI developers now face their own wave. Newsom said the parents behind these bills, lawmakers among them, all describe the same thing. Exhaustion and frustration, anger, despair, feeling hopeless. Parents can't compete. Can't compete with the engineering.

4:09Can't compete with the algorithms. Some civil liberties groups argue the rules infringe on privacy and free speech, but open AI back the chatbot bill saying it will help teens learn. Frank Pair News, I'm Rachel Myrow. San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams opening their season with a road game. The two teams are in Australia. Having traveled some 16 hours, they're squaring off right now at the Melbourne Cricket Ground with the Niners leading in the final minutes of the game. I'm Trial Snyder, NPR News. This week on Consider This, the researcher who just resigned from anthropic, why 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 guardrails could look like this week on Consider This from NPR.