NPR News: 09-09-2026 5AM EDT
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What is the opening overview of today’s NPR news broadcast?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Kristen Wright. Republicans will gather in Dallas today for the party's first ever midterm convention. Over two days, the party is looking to rally and unify ahead of the midterm elections. The stakes are high this November with Republicans and Democrats battling for control of the Congress. Texas Senator Ted Cruz says voters have a choice between two visions.
One vision, I think, is a common sense vision. Low taxes, low regulations, lots of jobs, secure the border, lock up violent criminals and protect our families. I I think that's where most Texans agree with that. I think most Americans agree with that. On the other side, I I look at what's happening to the Democrat Party, and and they're getting more and more extreme.
Why is President Trump delivering the keynote at the first-ever Republican midterm convention?
Party conventions are usually held during presidential election years. President Trump pushed for a midterm convention convention amid the war with Iran, high prices, and trade wars. He'll deliver the keynote address tonight. New Hampshire's battleground Senate race is set. Former Republican Senator John Sununu and Democratic Congressman Chris Pappas will face off for the seat being vacated by Democrat Jean Shaheen. Sununu served as senator in the early two thousands and lost his seat to Shaheen. Papis, a moderate, beat a member of the Democratic Socialists of America to win his nomination. Election observers from the Justice Department monitored several polling locations in southern New Hampshire. New Hampshire Public Radio's Lao Lao Go Guzmont reports.
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Johnson says she's been the election moderator at Beach Street Elementary School in Manchester for as long as she can remember.
Who are the candidates in New Hampshire’s battleground Senate race and what are the early results?
She says the operations were smooth, even when federal observers came to watch voting at her polling place. It was totally uneventful. They asked a few questions, they just sat here, watched what was going on for a little bit, and I didn't have much engagement with them. Poll workers across Manchester and neighboring cities echoed that sentiment, reporting a steady stream of voters and no major disruptions, despite the federal oversight. For NPR News, I'm Lao Guzman
in Manchester. The US is hitting back at Canada's retaliatory tariffs. The White House says it's banning Canadian motorcycles, dairy, and alcohol products. MBR's Emily Fang has more.
Citing what it called discriminatory measures against American cheese, the White House announced it was stopping most Canadian alcoholic beverages, dairy, and motorcycles. The Trump administration has also threatened potential fifty percent tariffs on Canadian assembled and made cars that could kick in this coming January, despite a free trade agreement signed during Trump's first term exempting such cars from tariffs.
How is the U.S. responding to Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on American goods?
Earlier this week, Trump also wrote on a social media site he was forbidding Canadian origin products from the GSA. That's the federal government's procurement platform which handles hundreds of billions of dollars of orders and contracts for goods and software and other services that support federal offices.
Emily Fang reporting, this is NPR. An announcement from OpenAI says it has solved one of Mathematics' most famous unanswered problems, NPR's Katie Riddle reports.
The question is known as the Nevee Stokes existence and smoothness problem. It's one of seven Millennium Prize problems designated by scholars in 2000 to highlight some of the most important challenges in mathematics. OpenAI says one of its unreleased models took just 88 hours to produce a possible solution. The problem concerns equations used to describe how fluids move, including in weather models. Scientists use versions of them to model everything from weather and ocean currents to airflow around airplanes and blood moving through the body. But the unanswered question is largely theoretical whether the equations always behave predictably or can break down under extreme mathematical conditions.
What breakthrough did OpenAI claim in solving the Navier‑Stokes existence and smoothness problem?
Katie Riddle in PR
News. Almost all of the Hawaiian island of Kauai is without power. Hurricane Lowell pelted Hawaii's western islands as a category two storm.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the opening overview of today’s NPR news broadcast?
0:00–0:46
2
Why is President Trump delivering the keynote at the first-ever Republican midterm convention?
0:46–1:37
3
Who are the candidates in New Hampshire’s battleground Senate race and what are the early results?
1:37–2:39
4
How is the U.S. responding to Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on American goods?
2:39–3:52
5
What breakthrough did OpenAI claim in solving the Navier‑Stokes existence and smoothness problem?
3:52–4:36
6
What damage has Hurricane Lowell caused on Kauai and what are the forecasts for recovery?
4:36–5:03