NPR News: 09-12-2026 10AM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. President Trump is once again accusing Canada of taking advantage of the United States. Speaking in Dublin this morning, he said without evidence that Canadians are eager to end the escalating trade fight. The United States has been ripped off for 50 years by Canada. We're going to need their product and they need our product. They see all of their business almost with us and they're very little with them. But they've taken advantage of our problems. So Canada wants to make a deal right now. This week, Canada imposed retaliatory tariffs of up to 50 percent on roughly $20 billion worth of American goods. The move matches new U.S. tariffs on Canadian imports that took effect last month. Trump is spending the weekend in Ireland. He's meeting with the country's president and prime minister. On Sunday, he's expected to present the trophy at the Irish Open at his family's golf

1:02resort. Iran says it will sign an agreement Monday to temporarily reopen the Strait of Hormuz. NPR's had the allows Shalty reports the deal will be signed during a meeting with the aerog nations. The agreement between Oman and Iran to temporarily reopen the Strait of Hormuz has been in the works for weeks. It maps out routes that will allow ships to enter the waterway from the Iranian side and exit from the Omani end. In an interview with an Indian media outlet, Iranian president Masoud Pezashkyan said the agreement would be signed at a meeting with Arab states on the Persian Gulf. Iran said that eight foreign ministers will be attending. The Iranian blockade of the Strait has affected global oil supplies. U.S. diesel prices hit a new American high at an average of $6 a gallon. The deal, Al-Shalty NPR News is down. The Justice Department says an Afghan woman accused of supporting an ISIS-inspired terrorist plot in the U.S. has been deported. NPR's Ryan Lucas reports the case against the woman was the first ever in a special, long

2:06dormant court. U.S. authorities arrested 47-year-old Nazira Hajizada in July at her home in Texas. Hajizada is originally from Afghanistan, but was a legal permanent resident of the U.S. Last year, her son and son-in-law were convicted for plotting an attack on Election Day 2024. American authorities say Hajizada supported the plot and worked to radicalize her family. The Justice Department decided not to charge her, though, and instead brought her before the alien terrorist removal court. A special court created in 1996, but never before used by the Justice Department. Now the Department says Hajizada has been deported after waving her rights to challenge her detention and agreeing to her removal. Ryan Lucas and B.R. News, Washington. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. A British Museum has removed an ancient Egyptian mummy from public display in order it says

3:08to respect the wishes of the dead. Nikki Barker reports from London. The Hajizada's Egyptian woman named Asru had been on display in Manchester Museum since 1825 when its layered linen wrappings were peeled away, revealing the mummified body beneath. But now the 2500-year-old remains have been moved into storage with museum managers, saying the removal, quote, aligns most closely with what we understand about her own wishes. The Pitt Rivers Anthropological Museum in Oxford removed all human remains from its displays six years ago. And this week it announced its returning the bones of dozens of indigenous Naga people to their ancestral homes in India and Myanmar. For NPR News, I'm Nikki Barker in London. The Atlantic hurricane season has reached its typical peak without producing a single hurricane. The name's storms have formed, but none has reached the 74-mile per hour hurricane threshold.

4:14This is now the latest arrival of the season's first hurricane in the satellite era. The last Atlantic season to go this late without one was in 1941. That year's first hurricane didn't develop until September 19th. Forecasters say a strong El Nino is suppressing activity, but the season continues through November. This is NPR News.