NPR News: 09-14-2026 8AM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News in Washington, on Corv. Coleman, President Trump is downplaying calls by artificial intelligence industry leaders for a slowdown in AI research. Trump says he does not want the U.S. to seed any ground to China. Beijing is also investing heavily in AI research. And fears Jude Jaffee Block reports it's not clear what slowdown the AI company leaders will agree upon. Anthropics CEO Dario Amade called for pacing the frontier, which means slowing down cutting a GI development so risk prevention can keep up. Amade called for labs to embed third-party evaluators and for international cooperation. Sam Altman of OpenAI chimed in quickly, saying he would also use independent evaluators. That idea was also something Satya Nadella, Microsoft said he welcomed. Elon Musk said Amade was right, but in other posts he specified the oversight he wants to see is peer review by competitors. Google's Demis Hassabis said Amade's essay points towards the right path forward, but

1:01said the details still need to be worked through. Jude Jaffee Block and P.R. News. Anthropic, Google and Microsoft are among NPR's financial supporters. Iran says a planned meeting it was going to attend with other Gulf nations now won't happen, saying this was at the request of Saudi Arabia. They were supposed to talk about the straight of Hormuz, but this comes as Houthi rebels in Yemen gain ground at the expense of Saudi Arabia. The Houthis are allied with Iran, and P.R. Hadeel Al-Shalj explains the Houthis have now claimed more control over a different waterway, the Bab Al-Mandab straight at the bottom of the Red Sea. The straight is a waterway, which is in the Red Sea, and an alternate route that Saudi Arabia uses to ship its oil. So the Houthis capture of a port in the Bab Al-Mandab straight on Friday, and more strategic islands today, is the group's latest move to control that choke point. The Houthis have also been attacking Saudi oil facilities over the past month to keep

2:03pressure on global markets. And P.R. Hadeel Al-Shaljee reporting. President Trump says he expects a trade deal with Canada soon, but as Dan Carpenecek reports from Toronto, the Canadian trade minister says there are no plans to resume talks. Speaking to journalists on his trip to Ireland Saturday, Trump was optimistic about a trade deal with Canada getting done. His comment came less than a week since Ottawa's retaliatory measures went into effect after he slapped more tariffs on Canada three weeks ago. He then added new tariffs to take effect Tuesday, and even bans on Canadian dairy and alcohol to kick in at the end of September. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, hailed with his cabinet on Friday, planning out Ottawa's next move. There's been no mention yet of more countermeasures. His minister of Canada U.S. trade, Dominic Leblanc, said although he's been in touch with the American side, there are no plans to resume formal talks. You're listening to NPR. The Washington Post is reporting that the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts could

3:05close as soon as tomorrow in Washington, D.C. The newspaper cited internal documents claiming the arts center is broke. The Center's board of directors reportedly wants to try again to put President Trump's name on the building to try to raise funds. When Trump's name was installed on the facade earlier this year, a federal court ordered it removed. Health officials in Pennsylvania are reporting the death of a woman due to complications from measles. And PR's Kristen Wright says her death comes, amid a resurgence of the highly contagious virus. Pennsylvania's Jefferson County corner says the woman was 40 years old and a resident and also confirms to NPR she was never vaccinated for the measles. Pennsylvania officials have now announced three deaths related to measles. The Lancaster County corner said the first two were infants. Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr initially said maybe the two deaths were fabricated. And now the Center's for Disease Control and Prevention says it needs to review the deaths and hasn't added them to its official count tracking fatal cases.

4:08No other states have announced measles deaths this year. Pennsylvania's Health Department reported a significant spike in the measles last week and a total of 676 cases across most counties. Kristen Wright, NPR News. Forecasters say it will remain hot today from southern Indiana down to the Texas Gulf coast. It could feel above 100 degrees today from Paduca, Kentucky to Brownsville, Texas. I'm Corvac Olman, NPR News in Washington. The Lindsey Clancy trials shined a light on how little we know about postpartum psychosis. I went sort of from feeling a little off all day to suddenly believing people were watching me. On the Sunday story how the Clancy trial sparked a new conversation about maternal mental health. Listen now to the Sunday story from the Up First Podcast on the NPR app.