NPR News: 09-14-2026 8PM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News in Washington, Unriland, Barton. The Supreme Court has rejected President Trump's push for new mail-in voting restrictions for the midterm election, and PR's Hansi-Lowong reports. The Supreme Court ruling means the U.S. Postal Service is expected to continue delivering balance as usual for the midterm general election. At issue was whether the Postal Service has the authority to refuse to deliver mail-in balance to voters in states where election officials do not turn over voter lists to the mailing agency and do not have certain barcodes on their ballot envelopes. The Supreme Court issued a financial support of NPR. The Postal Service issued those requirements in response to an executive order by President Trump. A federal judge in Boston blocked them after finding that U.S. PS has no authority to impose them on states. Now the Supreme Court has decided to keep the judges ruling in place. Voting by mail has already started in some states, including Alabama, North Carolina, and Wisconsin. More states are set to use U.S. PS to mail their balance as planned. Hansi-Lowong and PR News. A Homeland Security whistleblower says federal agents may have broken state laws to pursue

1:00President Trump's voter fraud priorities. NPR's Miles Parks reports the whistleblower's account was made public today by Democratic Senators. The Department of Homeland Security has been ramping up its search for voter fraud in recent weeks. That's been combing state voter rolls the department acquired and checking them against other federal data sources that track citizenship. But the whistleblower reports this has been a rush process that has not taken state law into account. The whistleblower says those investigators were instructed to make false claims on state government websites in order to access data that is only supposed to be accessed by the voter themselves. The report was made public by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Alex Padilla of California. Miles Parks and PR News Washington. President Trump posted online today that the AI industry already has the only guardrail it needs. What he called a strong and smart high IQ president, it comes after AI industry leaders said they were want to slow down the rapid development of the technology. And after several companies disclosed AI-related security incidents as NPR's Shannon Bond reports.

2:04What Anthropics CEO and others in the industry are saying is that where this point or AI is now advancing really fast, so fast that it's hard for safety to keep up. And that is inflaming these fears. Someone that humans could lose control or the AI could be used by bad actors. And we are already seeing these situations where AI is acting in unexpected ways like the hugging face hack. And given the way these AI systems work, you can give them a goal, but it can be really hard to predict what they will do to achieve it. So the industry refers to these efforts to what they call a line AI models with human values. But there are people inside these very companies who are worried about how possible that really is given the pace of advancement. NPR's Shannon Bond reporting AI stocks slid worldwide today after that warning from industry leaders. Meanwhile, major US stock indexes fell the S&P 500 fell nearly half a percent. This is NPR News. A crucial Saudi oil pipeline that was struck in an attack will mostly be out of service

3:05for weeks as the damage is repaired. The East West pipeline is key to Saudi Arabia's strategy of shifting its oil exports to the Red Sea to avoid the Persian Gulf's straight of Hormuz where the Iran war has stifled shipping. Saudi Arabia blamed the attack on drones from Iranian-backed militias in Iraq. The Emmy Awards are tonight hosted by law and order SVU star Mariska Hargate. NPR's Chloe Velman has more on the 78th annual celebration of the best TV, including awards for top-comedy drama series. Popular series like Hax, Abbott Elementary and the Bear are all nominated for the top-comedy award alongside newcomers Widow's Bay and Margot's Got Money Troubles. On the drama side, last year's winner of the pit is facing off against Pluribus, Slow Horses, the Diplomat and more. The television academy already gave out some honors earlier this month. Rob Reiner was posthumously awarded his third Emmy for a guest appearance on the bear. I have consulted for everything from Fortune 500 companies to strip more laundromats.

4:07Hargate, the event's host, won two awards for her documentary, My Mom Jane, about her late mother, Hollywood's 1950 star Jane Mansfield, Chloe Velman and Pianneuse. The Supreme Court will decide this month whether to hear a lobster fisherman's challenge to a requirement for tracking devices on boats. Main lobster fisherman Frank Thompson argues it constitutes unreasonable search and seizure. Authorities say the monitoring program is crucial for understanding lobster populations, which are declining in New England. I'm Ryland Barton, this is NPR News from Washington.