NPR News: 09-15-2026 5AM EDT

0:00This message comes from Wealthfront. Earn a high APY on all your cash in a Wealthfront cash account. No more juggling between checking and savings, just one account that delivers the best of both and makes every dollar work harder. Get started at Wealthfront.com. Cash account offered by Wealthfront brokerage LLC, member Finder SIPC, not a bank. Funds are swept to program banks where they earn the variable APY. Give from NPR News in Washington. I'm Dave Mattinglay. The U.S. Supreme Court is blocking President Trump's mail-in ballot restrictions ahead of the November midterm elections. The 7-2 decision clears the way for states to send election ballots to all registered voters. Then to Berkland with Colorado Public Radio says Colorado was one of the states that sued to block the changes. The Supreme Court says the U.S. Postal Service rule to restrict mail-in voting cannot go into effect for the midterm elections. The rule would have required states to submit voter

1:00lists to the Postal Service to determine who is eligible to receive a mail-in ballot. Colorado is one of eight states that automatically issues mail-in ballots and most vote by mail. Colorado's top Democratic leaders say the decision is a major victory for Colorado and American democracy. Colorado was among two dozen states that sued to block the rule. The Trump administration says it's necessary to prevent voter fraud. In an unsigned opinion, the highest court said the government's case was unlikely to succeed on its merits. For NPR News, I'm Benta Berkland. Conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented. Ukraine's President the Lodimir Zalensky says he's prepared to halt attacks on Russian territory if Moscow will agree not to hit Ukraine's energy infrastructure. President Trump wrote on social media the two sides had reached such an agreement. A day earlier, Trump said he had spoken to Zalensky

2:01about halting missile and drone strikes on Russian oil refineries and diesel facilities, saying those strikes were raising the cost of diesel fuel. The price of diesel in the U.S. had another all-time high overnight. Triple A says it now averages almost $6.27. The U.N. says tens of thousands of people in Yemen have been displaced. As Iranian-backed Houthi fighters continue sweeping through western areas of the country, here's NPR's Aya Batrawe. The U.N. says the hardest hit area of Yemen now is Tais, where some 56,000 people have been displaced in recent days due to fighting between the Iran-backed Houthis and Saudi-backed their Norwegian refugee council's April-Bottom Lee spoke to NPR from Yemen's southern city of Aden, where she says there's not enough aid to support people fleeing the violence. Most of the camps are already full, so they're hoping to find space or they move on or they try to find someone in the local villages that will help them, but people are also sleeping under trees. They're just waiting on the side of the road.

3:01The U.N. says another 2,000 people. Many of them women and children fled Yemen altogether, crossing the Red Sea to Djibouti in past days. Aya Batrawe and Pierre News, Dubai. The HBO Max Medical Drama The Pit won the Emmy for Best Drama. Its star Noah Wiley was honored for outstanding lead actor in a drama series. I grew up in LA, I'm a Hollywood kid, I was raised on a television and movie theaters were my place of worship. This is all I've ever wanted to do and this is the only club I've ever wanted to join. Thank you for accepting me. Actor Michael J. Foxx received the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award. The rapper Mack Lamor

4:03has been dropped from singer Ed Sheeran's US tour and PR's Isabella Gomez Sarmiento has more. Mack Lamor already opened for several shows of Ed Sheeran's stadium tour. While on stage, the rapper made comments in support of people in Gaza and the West Bank and used the phrase free Palestine. He has now been dropped from the remainder of the tour. Sheeran's promoter, Messina Turing, told Rolling Stone that several US venues refused to host concerts with Mack Lamor on the bill. In a statement posted on his Instagram, Mack Lamor claims that Gillette Stadium owner Robert Kraft called Ed Sheeran and told him Mack Lamor would not be allowed at his venue. Kraft allegedly also rallied other venue owners against the performer over his political statements. In his social media post, Mack Lamor writes that he is not a victim and doubles down on his support for Palestinians. Is the bell a Gomez Sarmiento? This message comes from Mint Mobile. If you're tired of spending hundreds on big wireless

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