Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
President Trump is in Ireland for a two-day visit, where he met today with the Irish
Prime Minister. And here's Franco Ordonia's reports, Trump said he would like to see Northern Ireland reunified with the Republic of Ireland. During a cordial meeting with the T-shirt, where both sides tatted the long working relationship, President Trump waited into some sensitive political waters, saying he'd like to see
Ireland unified. "I don't want to cross any problems, but I won't tell you, I'd love to see it unified." Reunification would involve putting a vote to the people, Northern Ireland's status bird decades of violence, known as the Troubles, ending with the 1998 Good Friday
Agreement.
Reunification would also present practical challenges of combining two different
economic and political systems.
“"I think it's a great country, everybody's cap, it's going to happen eventually."”
The previous EU's president is largely avoided waiting into the Irish unity debate, Franco Ordonia's NPR news, Dublin. In India, a bricks summit is taking place with 11 countries, including Iran and several Gulf nations, who are now at war. The meeting where leaders criticized unilateral tariffs and sanctions represents about
half the world's population and focuses on giving emerging countries a voice. It appears Dia Hadid has more. "Breaks is effectively a forum for emerging economies, it's aimed at countering longstanding Western dominance, and there's leaders from more than a dozen countries who have turned up.
It's quite the gathering. China's president, Xi Jinping, and Russia's president Vladimir Putinahia, but for now, the attention is on those involved in the latest medieval war, because the Iranian president
“is here, and Iran has been striking Gulf countries that are also at the summit."”
Ampere's Dia Hadid reporting from New Delhi. The Justice Department says an Afghan woman accused of supporting an ISIS-inspired, terrorist plot in the US has been deported. Ampere's Ryan Lucas reports the case against the woman was the first ever in a special long dormant court.
U.S. authorities arrested 47-year-old Nazira Hajizata in July at her home in Texas. Hajizata is originally from Afghanistan, but was a legal permanent resident of the US. Last year, her son and son-in-law were convicted for plotting an attack on election day 2024. American authorities say Hajizata supported the plot and worked to radicalize her family.
The Justice Department decided not to charge her, though, and instead brought her before
the alien terrorist removal court, a special court created in 1996, but never before used
by the Justice Department.
“And now the department says Hajizata has been deported after waving her right to challenge”
her detention and agreeing to her removal, Ryan Lucas and B.R. News, Washington. And you're listening to NPR News. In Tennessee, a nonpartisan group of attorneys says it's organizing an effort to protect voter access in Nashville ahead of the November midterm elections. Cynthia Abrams with Member Station WPLN reports this comes over concerns that actions
by the Trump administration could interfere with access to the polls. The group is calling themselves Guardians of Democracy, and since they plan to place trained volunteers outside polls, as well as have local election lawyers on hand to ensure "all those eligible to vote in Nashville should be able to do so without intimidation." The group is nonpartisan, but Nashville's left-leaning mayor has supported the effort
through his pack. The effort comes as Nashville is already at odds with the federal government over the upcoming election. Last month, the city sued the White House over new guidelines that directed cities and states to implement controversial election security measures.
If cities refuse, the federal government says it will withhold already allocated grants. For NPR News, I'm Cynthia Abrams in Nashville. Inflation accelerated last month, the gas prices spiked, in the wake of renewed fighting in the Middle East War, in the U.S. at Round War. The Labor Department says consumer prices rose for tenths of a percent in August, and gas
and diesel prices continue their march higher, and show no signs of easing up. Triple A says the price of a regular gallon of gas is $4.31, the cost of a gallon of diesel, now stands at $6.16, that's a record. I'm Janine Herbst and PR News in Washington. This message comes from the Center for U.S. voters abroad foundation.
U.S. citizens live, travel, and serve all over the world. But wherever they are, they can stay connected to home through voting. All U.S. citizens abroad may request an absentee ballot to vote in the 2026 election, and requesting yours is easy. Keep your connections strong no matter how far away you are.
