NPR News: 09-12-2026 2AM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman. The Navy is providing new details on how much its main supply hub in Bahrain has been damaged by the War with Iran. Steve Walsh with Member Station WHO in Norfolk has our story. NPR has been reporting since April about the evacuation of families and sailors from naval support activity Bahrain and the damage the base suffered. In recent days, the Navy has become more forthcoming, acting Navy Secretary Hunkow told the Epoch Times that Iranian forces blew the hell out of Bahrain and that the Navy is reviewing the future of the base. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Darrell Coddle told sailors in a televised hound hall that the service didn't expect to increase staff at the base any time soon. A Navy official says it is managing more than 1,700 cases of sailors and families who remain dislocated since the beginning of the war in February. For NPR News, I'm Steve Walsh. Data Center anxiety has made its way into the housing market.

1:00NPR's Marissa J. Lang reports on how the giant tech hub next door is affecting your home values. More than ever, large data centers are being built around neighborhoods, prompting real estate agents to ask, what should we tell clients? A new study from the National Association of Realtors, which analyzed nearly 1,500 data centers, found there really isn't a one-size-fits-all answer. Here's lead researcher Nadia Ivangelu. This may be a national conversation, but the actual real estate impact is very concentrated in a relatively small number of local markets. In some regions, data centers seem to correlate with economic growth. In others, researchers saw rising energy costs and land use concerns. The group said it will continue to track markets as the data center footprint expands. Marissa J. Lang and NPR News. An arrest has been made in the death of Tasha Fortune, the black woman who was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi last month. The medical examiner's office officially classified Miss Fortune's death as a homicide.

2:05With that determination, our investigators move quickly. We secure two search warrants and an arrest warrant for Jacques Ratcliffe, also known as Jacques. That's Jacques and Miss Mississippi Police Chief Rishal Brackney. She says the suspect had an association with Fortune, but did not offer more details. She says he was arrested without incident after police saw him walking down the streets. Diesel prices in the U.S. have set a new record for the first time. The national average passed $6, as the U.S. war with Iran continues to disrupt the flow of oil. Triple A says the average cost of a gallon has reached slightly less than $6.06. That's up from $5.85 last week and $371 from this time last year. Diesel is used to transport many goods across the U.S. and higher fuel prices. Many products will also increase in price. This is NPR News. Lawmakers in the UK voted Friday against a bill that would have allowed a terminally

3:05ill adults in England and Wales to choose to end their lives. The vote was close, 286 to 278, it ends a two-year debate in Parliament about assisted dying. Under the measure, adults with fewer than six months left to live would have been able to apply for an assisted death if they had approved approval from two doctors and an expert panel. A new study from the Brookings Institution looked at the effects of cell phone bands in schools after one year, and Paris Sequoia Crillo, as up story. The Brookings recent study on cell phone bands finds that usage of phones in schools by teens increased across the 2025-2026 school year despite nearly all schools having some kind of ban in place. It increases with the smallest in schools with the strictest policies like Beldebel bands versus policies that allowed use during lunch and passing periods. But even in schools with the strictest policies, most teens reported no impact on well-being indicators like happiness or stress. Cell phone bands have swept the country in popularity in recent years, uniting folks

4:06from across the political and geographic spectrum. Sequoia Crillo and Pair News. The process has begun to rename the Nashville International Airport after singer and actor Daly Parton. Parton, who died two weeks ago, in the past she dismissed such offers, the state controlled airport authority voted unanimously for it to make the change in city officials say they're also in favor of that change. The process could take a year or more to complete. Among other issues, they need to work with the estate over profits from merchandise sales. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News. This message comes from the Center for U.S. Voters Abroad Foundation. All U.S. citizens abroad may request an absentee ballot to vote in the 2026 election. Visit registerabroad.com to get started.