Tuesday, 6 October 2026
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NPR News · 05:57
Jim Bakker, who built 'PTL Club' televangelism empire, has died at 86 ↗Jim Bakker, along with his first wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful "The PTL Club" TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes. (Image credit: Lou Krasky)
NPR News · 08:51
Morning news brief ↗With just weeks to go, a look at where the midterm elections stand, Saudi-backed forces in Yemen launch a major counter-offensive, Paramount and Warner Bros. begin operations after merger.
NPR News · 09:00
Democrats' advantage is clear with less than a month to go in the midterm elections ↗President Trump is facing low approval ratings, and voters are blaming him for rising costs. Republicans are likely to pay the price at the ballot box next month. (Image credit: Finn Gomez)
NPR News · 09:00
Wildfire smoke affects animals in unique ways. Scientists are trying to understand it ↗The new field of "smoke ecology" examines how wildfire smoke perturbs wild places and animals — and what might be done to prevent its worst mayhem. (Image credit: Ari Daniel)
NPR News · 09:00
New Hollywood era begins with an epic mega merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. ↗The Paramount and Warner Bros. merger has survived court challenges, public protests and regulatory scrutiny. Now, the Hollywood heavyweight, named Skydance, begins operating. (Image credit: David Becker)
NPR News · 09:00
FBI's spy hunting squads hit with deep cuts even as foreign espionage threats soar ↗The cuts come as a consequence of President Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel's focus on violent crime and immigration, leaving other priorities understaffed. (Image credit: Win McNamee)
NPR News · 09:00
'We could all hear her breathing': Witnessing the failed execution of Christa Pike ↗Catherine Sweeney was in the witness room when Tennessee attempted to execute Christa Pike on Sept. 30. An attempted execution in May had also failed. Here's what Sweeney saw and heard. (Image credit: George Walker IV)
NPR News · 09:00
Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey's new Pentagon roles raise ethics worries ↗Musk's company, SpaceX, and Luckey's company Anduril, could potentially benefit from recommendations made in the study about future autonomous weapon systems. (Image credit: Carolyn Kaster)
NPR News · 09:17
Disney, ABC battle Trump's FCC in court over free speech protections ↗President Trump has repeatedly called for Disney's ABC to fire late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel, for mocking him. Trump has also routinely denounced ABC's The View , accusing it of being unfair. (Image credit: Mario Tama)
NPR News · 10:16
Francis Halzen wins Nobel Prize in physics for work on high-energy neutrinos from space ↗The 82-year-old scientist, originally from Belgium, is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research into capturing neutrinos at the South Pole dates back to the 1980s. (Image credit: Angela Weiss)
NPR News · 11:00
What voters in 6 key states could tell us about the 2026 midterms ↗Morning Edition is heading to Maine, Texas, North Carolina, Georgia, Ohio and Michigan to hear what voters say is shaping their choices ahead of the midterm elections. (Image credit: Tom Brenner)
NPR News · 11:00
A history of presidents naming things after themselves (It's short. They rarely do) ↗While Trump pushes to get his name on the Kennedy Center and other public sites, history shows that sitting presidents have almost always avoided putting their brands on government assets. (Image credit: Alex Wroblewski)
NPR News · 11:19
Dems have edge in midterms, poll shows. And, Paramount-Warner Bros. merger to close ↗Polls are showing that Democrats have a clear advantage heading into the midterms, but that doesn't tell the whole story. And, today, a mega merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. is set to close. (Image credit: Tom Brenner)
NPR News · 11:31
Ex-spy chief is arrested in Germany on suspicion of trading state secrets and treason ↗A former head of Germany 's foreign intelligence service was arrested on suspicion that he had passed state secrets to a foreign intelligence service, the federal prosecutor's office said. (Image credit: Michael Kappeler)
NPR News · 11:38
Vietnamese police arrest 12 suspected of prowling city streets at night, snatching cats for meat ↗State media cited investigators who said the network recruited people to ride motorcycles through neighborhoods at night, trapping up to 10 cats a night. (Image credit: Humane World for Animals)
NPR News · 11:44
What to know about nationwide protests in India over voter list changes ↗The campaign is led in part by India's "Cockroach" youth movement, which previously forced the education minister to resign. (Image credit: Rafiq Maqbool)
NPR News · 14:30
Here are the finalists for the 2026 National Book Awards ↗Three-time National Book Award finalist Edwidge Danticat and debut novelist Morgan Thomas are up for the fiction prize. Nonfiction books cover the prison system and music, and queer parenthood.
NPR News · 18:05
France's police fire tear gas and water cannons as school protests sweep the country ↗More than a quarter of a million people rallied nationwide to support school students demanding more education funding, according to government figures, with thousands of arrests. (Image credit: Jeremias Gonzalez)
NPR News · 18:31
Cornell names former acting U.S. attorney general to review rape case ↗Cornell University names Sally Yates, former acting U.S. attorney general and career federal prosecutor, to lead an independent review into how the school handled a former student's rape allegations. (Image credit: Steven Senne)
NPR News · 22:45
Actress Eva Marie Saint, who won an Oscar for 'On the Waterfront,' dies at 102 ↗On the Waterfront was Eva Marie Saint's first film job after years of theater and TV.'/> Saint won an Oscar for her portrayal of Edie, a Catholic schoolgirl whose longshoreman brother is murdered. She went on to star in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest. (Image credit: Columbia TriStar)