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"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Skivone.

Federal aviation investigators are on the scene in Miami, after an Amazon cargo plane crashed

at the Miami International Airport yesterday, killing five people leaving at least five

others injured. The plane overshot the runway during landing and slammed into multiple vehicles, and PR Shondalee's duster has the latest. "Experts say investigators will likely look in the several factors, such as possible mechanical failure, flight crew performance, or weather conditions.

Videos posted on social media of the landing shows the cargo plane landed hard and fast midway down the runway. So we can expect investigators to be looking into what caused that landing. There were also thunderstorms and winds in the area at the time, but it's unclear whether that played a role in the crash."

NPR Shondalee's duster A Trump Act super PAC has begun spending money in the toss-up

Texas U.S. Senate race, MAGA Inc has hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank, and

PR Stephen Fowler reports. Trump's MAGA Inc, along with top Republican Party-aligned committees, are sitting on massive piles of cash that they could spend to help shape the midterms, but over the summer the question shifted from where they would spend it to if they would spend at all.

Over the weekend, the super PAC disclosed its first spending $10 million in Texas.

But money is split between ad-supporting Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxon and opposing Democrat James Tolerico, who has largely had the airwaves to himself for much of the summer in the tightly contested race. Stephen Fowler, NPR News The Trump administration has filed a third emergency request for the U.S. Supreme Court

to clear the way to empower the U.S. Postal Service to restrict mail-in voting under the Trump plan the Postal Service would refuse to deliver mail-in ballots to voters and states where election officials do not turn over voter lists and do not have certain barcodes on their ballot envelopes. Nepal is observing a day of mourning for the victims of last month's devastating floods

nearly 1,400 people were killed, and thousands of others are still missing. On Carcandecca reports, after two weeks, only three people have been found alive. Over the weekend, Nepali Army rescued a Chinese worker from inside a 225-meter tunnel buried in mud after a wall of ice and rock tore through a Himalayan valley last month. Another video they shared showed soldiers carrying a disoriented man into a helicopter.

Authorities said the man had mild hypothermia but was largely stable.

Local newspaper Gutman to post reports that Nepali authorities are also planning a $15 million

dollar project to train four glacier lakes at risk of overflowing. Home Carcandecca and Peat News, New Delhi. Gas prices in the U.S. have hit a record high for Labor Day weekend, averaging 4-14 per gallon. This is NPR News in Washington. Hurricane Lowell is closing in on Hawaii as a category 3 storm with sustained winds of 115 miles an

hour. A hurricane warning is in effect for Kaui County where four castors are warning of damaging winds, flooding, and mudslides through tomorrow. Researchers estimate that thousands of genetic variants help shape personality. NPR's Katie Riddle reports on a recent study published in the journal Nature. Psychologists frequently describe personality using five broad dimensions. Openness, conscientious, extroversion, agreeableness, and eroticism.

A new study identified more than 1,000 genetic markers associated with these traits, and suggests that thousands more may contribute a very small effect. Elliott Tucker Drop is a psychology professor at the University of Texas at Austin and one of the study's leaders. If we were to focus on one, and anyone that we focus on would have a very small effect by itself, it's really the effects that work in aggregate that matter.

Genetics is only one influence on whether someone is relatively introverted or extroverted, for example. Environment, culture, and life experiences also help shape personality. Katie Riddle, NPR News. Intentious defending women's and men's champions have cleared the hurdle to the quarter finals at the U.S. Open in New York. Women's top ranked arena sublenca overpowered tailored towns into advance, while Carlos Alcaras beat Tommy Paul and straight sets.

Sublanka will next play Lyndon Oscova, who won Wimbledon early this year, tonight it's Coco Gough and Alexander Svarev. I'm Louise Skivoni, NPR News, Washington.

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Oh, that's a great question. I'm thinking I want to think about that question for the rest of my life. Good question. This is Tonya Mosley, co-host a fresh air, and the questions are only the half of it. Listen to fresh air on the NPR app, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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