NPR News: 09-10-2026 6PM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. The Trump administration says it will give certain people enrolled in Obamacare or Affordable Care Act plans $500 rebates. As NPR Selina Simmons-Duffin reports, he aims to use a pool of money that's usually sent to community groups to help people choose a plan and sign up for coverage. Republicans in Congress and President Trump let COVID-Area subsidies expire in the Affordable Care Act marketplaces at the end of last year. On average, premium costs doubled. Even a middle income middle-aged person is probably paying thousands more than they were last year. Cynthia Cox is with KFF, a nonpartisan health research organization. This $500 might do something, but it is small in comparison to the amount that they're having to pay for health insurance premiums. She says it's not clear if the Trump administration has the legal authority to send these payments and points out they won't go to the millions of people who lost coverage as a result of

1:02the premium spikes. Selina Simmons-Duffin and P.R. News An appeals court has upheld a block on President Trump's order to limit mail voting. The decision comes even as the Supreme Court is already considering the same case, and his states are beginning to send out ballots for the midterm elections. Under the plan, the Postal Service wouldn't deliver mail ballots from states that don't get pre-approval for envelope design and submit a list of voters. The U.S. Supreme Court has put a more democratic leaning map back in place for now in Missouri, St. Louis Public Radio's Jason Rosenbaum reports that the high court dealt a blow to a President Trump backed effort to draw more Republican-friendly districts. President Trump successfully pressured Missouri Republicans to redraw their congressional lines in 2025 to House Democratic congressmen Emanuel Cleaver. But redistricting opponents successfully put that map up for a statewide vote, which meant it couldn't be used this year. The U.S. Supreme Court's state of federal judges' temporary restraining order to have the

2:032025 map used in the November elections. Missouri Democratic Party Chairman Russ Carnahan says his party has stood strong against the GOP and Trump. I think there's a bit of relief that we still need to get our elections underway. While a map for a safe seat for Cleaver is in place for now, the case could return to the federal courts. From PR News, I'm Jason Rosenbaum in St. Louis. McClatchy Media Company laid off dozens of journalists at newspapers across the country today, 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 stating that the company was, quote, reshaping its newsroom structure to more closely aligned resources with changing subscriber interests. McClatchy didn't respond to a request for comment. Major U.S. stock index is sank today after oil prices jumped. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Ryanair's CEO disputes claims that a passenger was partly sucked out of an airplane window

3:06in July. The incident happened when a window shattered after takeoff on a flight from Greece to Germany. Witnesses said the passengers' head and shoulders were pulled out of the craft, but CEO Michael O'Leary argues no part of his body exited the plane. He says the passenger deserves compensation, but not, quote, millions. Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated a year ago today, and his death continues to resonate with young conservatives, including those on the campus of Utah Valley University where he was killed as NPR's Alina Moore reports. Kirk's absence is still very much felt by folks, and some argue no one has filled the void he left. Young conservatives are also grappling with many of the same issue divides playing out within the GOP more broadly. Things like the war with Iran, the U.S.' relationship with Israel, these divides go past policy disagreements. Turning board has also seen a slew of conspiracy theories about Kirk's assassination, spread by right wing influencers, and students told me that that narrative has also made it

4:06harder at times to organize on campus. NPR's Alina Moore reporting, the longest road trip in NFL history has brought the San Francisco 49ers and the Los Angeles Rams to Australia this weekend. The 49ers have been there for several days, but the Rams just arrived. They'll spend about as much time traveling to and from Melbourne as they will in the city itself. The Rams say that allows players to keep their sleep schedule and avoid the fatigue of the 17-hour time difference. I'm Ryland Barton, this is 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. This is his view of what guardrails could look like this week on Consider This from NPR.