NPR News: 10-11-2025 5PM EDT
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. Vigils are being held this evening for the presumed victims of an industrial explosion in Tennessee. Blake Farmer of member station WPLN reports no survivors have been recovered.
The explosion occurred Friday at a remote facility operated by Accurate Energetic Systems. The company processes explosives. The search for remains has involved hundreds of responders who must move cautiously. They've warned neighbors that controlled detonations may be needed. A federal team of investigators has joined to help determine the cause. Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis says they will take their time.
Can I say we're going to rule out foul play? We can't answer that. That might be days or weeks or months before we can do that.
Davis says they owe it to the victims to get the investigation right. The company is providing assistance to the families. The CEO appeared in a video to say their hearts are broken and asked for prayers. For NPR News, I'm Blake Farmer in Nashville.
The government shutdown is making a bad situation worse for Midwestern farmers.
What happened during the industrial explosion in Tennessee?
Frank Morris of member station KCUR in Kansas City, Missouri, has more.
Most corn, wheat, and soybean farmers are losing money. Shortages and tariffs have jacked up the price of fertilizer and farm equipment they have to buy. While trade wars are depressing the price of the grain they have to sell, normally in hard times, Missouri farmer Richard Oswald would look to the U.S. Department of Agriculture for a short-term loan.
I've literally done this for 55 years. It's been something that has always been there.
Not this year. The USDA is mostly shut down. President Trump has promised farmers a bailout, but that's delayed. And it's unclear how any assistance program would work absent a functioning USDA. Economists expect farm foreclosures to rise. For NPR News, I'm Frank Morris in Kansas City.
The clock has started on what's expected to be the last hostage prisoner and detainee exchange in the war between Israel and Hamas, which is set to begin on Monday. NPR's Carrie Khan reports hope is cautiously being expressed on both sides of the war.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza began making the long, arduous trek from south to Gaza City. NPR's Anas Baba there says people are on the move assessing the devastation and searching for ways to rebuild.
It feels like I'm witnessing a place being born again. But Gazans here, they don't wait for permission to leave. They carry hope like oxygen.
In Israel, hospitals are preparing to care for and rehabilitate the 20 remaining live hostages to be returned. Dr. Mikhail Steinman heads nursing at Bellington Hospital.
Welcome home. So glad to see you. We are here. We'll take care of you.
President Trump is expected in Egypt and Israel on Monday. Carrie Khan, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. At least 21 children in India are dead. The cause? Cough syrup contaminated with industrial chemicals. That sparked outrage in the country. But as NPR's Gabriela Emanuel reports, it's something that's happened periodically all over the world.
Cough syrups use a liquid solvent, but in this case, it was replaced by a cheaper ingredient that looks similar but is toxic. This substitute, diethylene glycol, is meant to be used to manufacture brake fluids and antifreeze. When ingested, it causes acute kidney injury. Saifuddin Ahmed is at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
This is not some sort of accident. This is intentionally done to reduce the cost of the drug. and to pocket more money.
A new report from the World Health Organization puts blames on criminals, some of whom package this cheaper toxic liquid in containers with the label of the safe solvent. In the recent case in India, officials have arrested the owner of the drug manufacturer.
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