NPR News: 09-10-2026 2PM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Vice President J.D. Vance takes the stage on night two of the Republican Party's midterm convention in Dallas. President Trump will close out the event that was organized to energize voters, to help Republicans prevail in this November's contest, including for control of Congress. Trump also delivered the keynote address last night in which he promised $5,000 cash dividends to every American adult if the GOP holds on to the congressional majority. veteran pollster and political consultant Frank Lentz spoke to NPR about the party's challenge to draw key voters who are divided over the president's performance. You have to bring Trump voters who vote for Donald Trump, but don't participate in other elections. You got to get them to vote, but you also have to get independence and they've been moving further and further away. And to them, the combination of the conflict in Iran and the prices at the pump, at the

1:01grocery store, housing, healthcare, it's hard to get both people to agree. A federal appeals panel has refused to allow a U.S. Postal Service plan that could disrupt mail-in voting that's underway for the midterms. The U.S. Timesy Lawong reports a Supreme Court is 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

2:01general election, or at all. On Zila Wong and Pyaar News. Tomorrow marks 25 years since terrorists hijacked and crashed two planes into the World Trade Center in New York City. The mathematics of 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 led out, he wrote his bike south until he found a volunteer center. I just wanted to help. I live in this city and just couldn't stand not being a part of this. For days, Raskin helped with the recovery efforts. 25 years later, he still has a New York Nick stufflebag filled with mementos from that time. I was a school teacher. 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 and I just figured I could have a role in this. Raskin says he wanted to help his city heal. That's Samantha Max reporting. It's NPR News.

3:01Today marks a year since conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated during a Utah Valley University appearance, turning point USA says it plans to hold a memorial at UVU tonight. Global oil prices are pushing higher, up roughly 5.5% and above $106 a barrel. Oil ship and disruptions linked to the US were with Iran. Effect how much people in the US are paying for gasoline. Triple A says today's national average is $4.28 for a gallon of regular gas. Today the British Museum debuts what it expects to be its most popular exhibition ever. It's the Bayotapestry. That's an 11th century piece of embroidery depicting gory scenes from the Battle of Hastings in the Year 1066. Here's NPR's Lauren Freyr. It's a nearly 230 foot piece of embroidery. Bright colors on linen showing horsemen in battle, royal banquets and mythical beasts at the start of the Norman Conquest. When William the Conqueror invaded from France and killed England's king Harold with an arrow

4:05through his eye. That battle in Hastings England changed this country's ethnic makeup. King Charles is a descendant of the victors. The tapestry was sewn in England but taken to France in the late 11th century where it's been ever since, surviving the French Revolution, Napoleon and the Nazis. After transport to London this summer by a refrigerated shock absorber truck, it's on loan, the center piece of a sold out 10-month exhibition on British soil for the first time in more than 900 years. Lauren Freyr and PR News London. This is NPR News.