NPR News: 09-10-2026 1PM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Republicans are holding a second day of a midterm convention dubbed Trump up a lose-up Vice President J.D. Vance takes the stage tonight. So will President Trump, a day after he delivered a lengthy speech during which he unexpectedly promised to pay every American adult $5,000 if Republicans keep control of Congress. As NPR's Tamariki reports, the audience also got a surprise video message from Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, a Democrat who has been critical of his party's left wing. The video was an introduction for Pennsylvania's Republican Senator Dave McCormick, with whom Fetterman has grown quite close. It was filmed in Pennsylvania with Fetterman wearing his trademark black hoodie. That was as close as he got to praising Trump.

1:08In the short video, Fetterman mentioned that he's a Democrat multiple times, while also saying he rejects extremes and socialism. The US Supreme Court dealt a setback in the GOP's attempts to retain the majority in the US House. Justice Breckhaven, I'll blog to Federal Judges ruling on which MAP Missouri should use for congressional districts and an election that's less than two months away. St. Louis Public Radio's Jason Rosenbaum has elated. A MAP that lawmakers approved in 2022 that basically guarantees Democratic Congressman Emmanuel Cleaver wins the election is back on right now. The order says that this case could still move through the Federal Judiciary. I'm going to be cautious by not saying it's over and the Democrats won. Human rights watch is raising concerns over what it calls an unlawful campaign of executions by Iran.

2:08We have more from NPR's Hadeel Al-Shalchi. According to a statement released by Human Rights Watch, at least 59 men were executed by Iranian authorities between mid-March and the end of August, after the US and Israel launched their war on Iran. The human rights organization says at least 29 of those killed were arrested in connection with the nationwide protests which Iranian authorities violently clamped down on before the war. The statement says in many cases the defendants were taken from arrests to the gallows in just five weeks and in many cases the Iranian courts handed down death sentences for non-lethal acts such as throwing stones or breaking into state property. In August, the UN condemned what it called a sharp spike in executions in Iran. Hadeel Al-Shalchi NPR News is stumbled. You're listening to NPR News. Temperatures around the globe were abnormally high over the summer. It broke several records. This has been the hottest summer in the United States in more than a century.

3:13More from NPR's Lauren Summer. It's not your imagination. This summer was hot. In the US it was the hottest summer in 132 years of record keeping in the lower 48 states. August was also the hottest August on record for both average temperature and maximum temperature. That's according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Globally, August was also the hottest month ever recorded, tying with July of 2023. It was about three degrees Fahrenheit hot oven average, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service. The plan is looking at potentially a hot year ahead, too. A very strong El Nino climate pattern is developing, which raises temperatures globally. Lauren Summer NPR News. Author Salmon Rushdie is set to receive a medal for lifetime achievement at the National Book Awards ceremony in Manhattan this November. It is a literary honor reserve for top American writers. The 79-year-old Rushdie has lived in the United States for many years and has been a citizen

4:15for the past decade. Rushdie has published more than 20 books. He is often remembered as the target of a fatwell for his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses. In 2022, Rushdie survived an attack at a New York literary event where he was repeatedly stabbed. Rushdie later published a memoir about his recovery. It's NPR. Want to hear this podcast without sponsor breaks? Amazon Prime members can listen to NPR News now sponsor free through Amazon Music. Or you can also support NPR's vital journalism and get NPR Plus at plus.npr.org.