NPR News: 09-12-2026 12AM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman. President Trump is heading to Ireland, where he'll meet with that country's president in Prime Minister this weekend. Before boarding Air Force One on Friday night, Trump once again told reporters that Republicans will do well in the November midterm elections. We're going to have a big, I believe, you know, you never know. You look at statistically when you're the president, Republican or Democrat, for some reasons, where things happen in the midterm. But I think we're going to have a great win in the midterm. Trump also said thousands of people were turned away from the Republican Convention in Dallas this week, even though cameras showed many empty seats during the events. For decades, the automotive supply chain in the U.S. and Canada has been tightly woven together, but as NPR's Willa Rubin reports, the renewed trade war is putting pressure on the companies that make auto parts. All kinds of parts are made by businesses that take other parts, machine them into something new, and sell them to big car makers who turn them into a car.

1:04And for decades, because many of North America's car supply chains have been built as one ecosystem, parts have moved across the border fairly easily, but new tariffs make that more expensive. Here is Jim Jerald, the CEO of the Canadian manufacturing company, Linemar. Putting tariffs into the process is like putting like a bunch of total boosts every few miles on the same highway, right? President Trump wrote on Truth Social that if the U.S. and Canada don't reach a trade deal by January 1st, tariffs on cars and auto parts coming from Canada will rise to 50 percent. Willa Rubin and PR News. The Justice Department says an Afghan woman accused of supporting an ISIS-inspired terrorist plot in the U.S. has been deported. The case against the woman was the first ever in a special Long-Dormant Court, NPR's Ryan Lucas reports. 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.

2:08year. 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 Beer News, Washington. Stocks rose across the board on Wall Street Friday, the S&P 500 snapped a four-day losing street, climbing 9-10s of a percent. The Dow finished the day up 1 percent and the Nasdaq also rose by 1 percent. You're listening to NPR News. A senior British defense official says more than half a million Russian troops have been killed in Ukraine since Moscow's full-scale invasion in February of 2022.

3:10That's almost 10 times the number. U.S. forces killed during the entire Vietnam War. The U.K.'s defense staff says the dead are part of one and a half million Russian casualties, as that news has released Russian drones, targeted gas stations and key for a second straight day. A new study in JAMA Network Open finds that laws requiring age restrictions on social media apps aren't effective, and PR's Redu-Chattergy reports. British has looked at nearly 40 published studies on the effectiveness of various social media-related legislations across the world and the United States. In the U.S., two-thirds of 11 and 12-year-olds use social media despite a minimum age requirement of 13. Study author Dr. Jason Nagata is a pediatrician at the University of California San Francisco. He says age verification is crucial to protecting miners from the harms of social media. There's a lot of other strategies are really dependent on the fact that we can identify underage or minor users. He says social media companies are already using sophisticated algorithms for targeted content,

4:11and they could also use them for age verification of miners. Redu-Chattergy and PR News. In college football, Bob Rebolo threw three first quarter touchdown passes as number 25 Virginia rolled over Northwark State Friday night 59-3. After 24, Louisville had little problem with Villanova winning 59-13, and number 23 Missouri pulled away at the end in one of the offensive battle to saw the lead changing hand several times over Kansas 38-21. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News.