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0:45 Голос 3 I'm Ayesha Roscoe. Good morning. The war with Iran is disrupting global oil markets.

0:59 More people are dropping off the apps and trying to find love IRL.

1:03 Голос 5 When I've interviewed people about this, when I survey them, they are often talking about missing that magical element, that moment of seeing someone across the room and really starting to feel that connection.

1:15 Голос 3 And a new movie about vengeance and bees in the American West. It's Sunday, August 23rd. News is next.

1:23 Голос 6 Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Amy Held. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is expected to announce new aggressive sanctions on Iran tomorrow, President Trump calling it Economic D-Day. Iran says any country that participates in these efforts will be considered an enemy and targeted. NPR's Hadil El-Shalji reports.

1:43 Голос 1 President Trump has warned that the U.S. will wage new economic warfare against Iran this week. Iran has spent almost half a century weathering the weight of U.S. sanctions with ordinary Iranians bearing the brunt of the consequences. consequences trump didn't outline details of the new punishment but said that they would be quote unprecedented and aimed at forcing iran to open the strait of hormuz in an interview on state tv iran's new security chief said that iran would quote harm the interests of surrounding countries

2:11 Голос 6 if they join trump's new economic war iran has been targeting u.s military installations in

2:16 Голос 1 the gulf and jordan since the beginning of the war hadil al-shalji npr news istanbul a trade war

2:23 Голос 6 War is upending decades of free trade between the U.S. and Canada. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says they will, quote, attack back after President Trump imposed 50 percent tariffs on wide-ranging goods. The detainment by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents of a five-year-old boy and his father is sparking controversy. Texas Public Radio's Jerry Clayton reports.

2:44 Голос 1 Five-year-old Liam Tadeo and his father, Victor Martinez Nieto,

2:49 Голос 2 are being held in a family detention center in Dilley, Texas,

2:51 Голос 1 after being picked up by ICE last week in Austin on the way to a soccer game. U.S. Representative Greg Kassar of Austin took to social media and called for the release of the pair,

3:02 Голос 2 along with all children at the facility, urging for what he called the trailer prison to be shut down. Because kids should be playing soccer, going to school, living their lives, not being arrested on the streets. Kassar pointed to a similar case when a five-year-old Minnesota boy was sent to and detained in Dilley,

3:23 Голос 1 sparking a nationwide outcry. I'm Jerry Clayton in San Antonio.

3:27 Голос 6 The main event kicks off this hour in the nation's capital, hosting its first ever IndyCar race. In celebration of 250 years of America, NPR's Ava Berger reports from the track at the National Mall. At 8 a.m., fans were already sprinting into the National Mall. Not for the museums, for the cars. Decked out in American flag pants and a Freedom 250 shirt and hat, Cameron Graves already had a front row seat by 8.15 a.m. He described the feeling at the Freedom 250 Grand Prix.

4:00 Голос 2 Oh, man. Patriotic and electric.

4:04 Голос 6 IndyCar drivers started their practice laps at 9.15 a.m. president donald trump is expected to wave the green flag around 1 15 p.m to start the 250 mile race ava burger npr news washington this is npr news and this is member supported hawaii public

4:24 Голос 1 radio aloha i'm bill dorman with an update on tropical storm mocha storm is now mostly holding steady parts of the east side of hawaii island are starting to get some rain this morning with more coming, but the overall movement has been slower than some of the earlier expectations. National Hurricane Center's latest update says the center of the storm is now about 300 miles south of Hilo, with maximum wind speeds of 45 miles an hour. That's down from its peak in the lower range of a tropical storm, and the path is expected to stay well south of the islands, but it is the rain that is our focus, and the main concern for folks on Hawaii Island, of course, especially in areas made extra vulnerable by the damages and soaking of Lala. A flood watch is in effect in several parts of the Big Island, mountain summits on the east side from Lapa Hoi Hoi south to Hilo and down and over to Volcano. Also on the west side a bit, National Weather Service calls it Kona Kahala in the Big Island interior, saying in particular that flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible for windward and southeast Big Island. Again, this is a watch, a cautionary indicator, not a warning, no call for anyone to go anywhere.

5:40 Голос 4 In fact, it's a good idea to stay off the roads this morning for a lot of the Big Island,

5:45 Голос 1 especially in those vulnerable areas. Overall rain estimates remain what they've been for a while. It could be 5 to 10 inches of rain on Hawaii Island, up to 15 inches in some areas. There is the potential for flooding and mudslides. Eastern Maui could see 3 to 6 inches of rain, with the rest of the islands getting an inch or two over the next couple of days.

6:06 Голос 5 You can find out a lot more, including links to websites with more detailed information,

6:10 Голос 1 at our website, which we're continuing to update this morning at hawaiipublicradio.org. I'll be back in an hour with another update. Right now, we'll take you back to NPR's Weekend Edition on HPR 1.

6:23 Голос 6 Next time on the New Yorker Radio Hour, our Pod Save America's John Lovett

6:27 Голос 1 gets really worked up about the midterm elections. We just haven't had a moment in which a bunch of Democrats put their talents on display.

6:36 Голос 6 We just, we're missing the talent show.

6:37 Голос 1 We need the swimsuit portion. Spin the batons, do the juggling, let's go.

6:42 Голос 6 John Lovett joins me next time.

7:02 Голос 3 This is Week in Edition from NPR News. I'm Ayesha Roscoe. Thanks for tuning in this morning. The U.S.-Iran war has caused the biggest disruption in oil supply on record, according to the International Energy Agency. That's mostly due to Iranian restrictions on the Strait of Hormuz imposed after the U.S. and Israeli attacks in February. The U.S. had been hoping for a deal to reopen the strait, but that now looks unlikely.

7:31 Голос 4 What we are going to see over the next two years, the strait's going to become irrelevant.

7:35 Голос 5 It is going to become just another body of water.

7:39 Голос 3 That's Treasury Secretary Scott Besant striking a hopeful note as regional allies scramble to build pipelines. NPR's Jane Araf joins us now from Amman. Hi, Jane. Hi, Aisha. So the Treasury Secretary says between half and almost three quarters of the oil that normally moves through the Strait will go through pipelines instead. How likely is that? In the next two years, not very likely, according to leading global energy analysts. So these pipelines aren't being built in the Gulf, but they're at varying stages, and the biggest could take years, will take years to be completed. Some of those alternative routes as well, they're still within firing range of Iran and its Yemeni Houthi allies.

8:32 Голос 6 Here's David Goldwyn. He's a global energy expert who's a former assistant secretary of energy and State Department energy envoy.

8:40 Голос 1 I think that we have to accept that this crisis in the Strait of Hormuz, the constraints on exports, are going to be a somewhat permanent feature for the next few years. Prices will be higher. New supply will have to come from elsewhere. It will take time, I think, both to build alternatives from the Strait, but also for new supply to come online.

9:01 Голос 3 And then not everything that is being blocked at the Strait of Hormuz goes through pipelines like liquefied natural gas, which is widely used to heat homes in the U.S., isn't transported that way.

9:13 Голос 6 And there are commodities like fertilizer. A shortage of fertilizer has already led to higher food prices globally.

9:20 Голос 3 So just to paint a picture, for years, oil producing countries in and around the Gulf, some of the world's biggest oil producers have pumped oil and then loaded it onto tankers that are now running up against these choke points in the Gulf and from the Houthis near the Red Sea. Oil producers have been hit hard, both by attacks and the loss of access to the strait. How have they responded?

9:47 Голос 6 Well, they're scrambling for different export routes, and some of that includes building alternate oil terminals. But mostly, we're talking pipelines, not just in the Gulf, but Iraq as well to Turkey. Now, these are huge, multi-billion dollar projects. Here's Robert McNally, former energy advisor in George W. Bush's administration.

10:09 Голос 4 administration. The pipeline projects won't be finished in time to help consumers if Hormuz doesn't open, period. And even if all of them were built, even if all of them were built on time,

10:21 Голос 1 which is impossible, but even if they were, they could still be hit by Iran. So McNally says it's

10:27 Голос 3 good to have diversity, have these options, and it will help, but it won't completely offset higher prices. You've also been in touch with the International Energy Agency. What is it saying about these pipeline alternatives. Well, it also points out that some of these projects could take several more years, and it notes that even when they're finished,

10:49 Голос 6 the Strait of Hormuz could still be needed

10:51 Голос 3 to export around half of pre-war levels. They say what's really needed is a long-term regional settlement. All of this does kind of sound like a wake-up call. Are these supply problems for fossil fuels giving a boost to renewable energy?

11:08 Голос 6 Well, David Goldman says a lot of countries are looking harder at those alternatives because they don't rely on imports, so they're better for energy security. But still.

11:17 Голос 1 I think you are seeing a significant push for renewables, both in the developed world and the developing world, for energy security reasons, but it will not relieve any of those countries of the medium-term risk of fossil fuel prices, petroleum product prices, because they're not easily substitutable in the next five, maybe to eight years, if that.

11:40 Голос 6 And then they're mostly substituting electricity. So that still leaves a gap for transportation, particularly heavy equipment and a gap in developing countries.

11:52 Голос 3 That's NPR's Jane Araf. Jane, thank you so much. Thank you.

11:58 From the Palisades fires and Guadalupe River flooding in 2025 to this month's fires in Spokane, along with January's massive winter storm and April's severe weather across the central U.S., President Trump's second term has had its share of disasters worthy of federal aid. And yet, in many cases, FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has struggled to keep up. The doge attempts at government efficiency in 2025 reduced FEMA staff by the thousands. And as Politico reports, President Trump has denied aid at much higher rates to states led by Democrats than Republicans. Now FEMA has a new administrator, Cameron Hamilton. So we'll turn now to Thomas Frank, who covers extreme weather for Politico, to see what effect Hamilton's appointment may have on federal disaster response. Thomas Frank, welcome.

13:00 Голос 2 Thank you for having me. Great to be here.

13:02 Голос 3 So tell us what you know about Hamilton.

13:05 Голос 2 Well, he's a very interesting and unique person for a lot of reasons. The biggest one is that he held this job before. He was the FEMA acting administrator from the beginning of Trump's term to early May when he was fired by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem. A couple things to understand about Cam Hamilton is that, first, he doesn't really have an emergency management background. Second, he was extremely well-liked at FEMA in his first four and a half months there. and he ended up being a huge supporter of FEMA who really took the time to understand the organization, its mission, its people, and was fired, I think largely because he was not going along with what was then seen as the agenda of trying to abolish FEMA. And so the fact that he is now back is the strongest signal I think you'll ever see that FEMA is not going anywhere.

14:04 Голос 3 So what else does this nomination tell us about the Trump administration's approach to emergencies?

14:12 Голос 2 I think that President Trump started out his term as very passionate, very loud, clear and repeated criticism of FEMA. I haven't heard him say anything like that for more than a year. And I think at this point, he is at what is a sort of familiar position for presidents, which is sort of like the Hippocratic Oath. FEMA should do no harm.

14:38 Голос 3 Quantify like what happened under Doge, that staff shrinkage at FEMA. Is there a connection or a straight line between that and how the agency has performed during the second Trump administration?

14:52 Голос 2 There may be a straight line, but let me just first fill out what you had said about staff losses. So FEMA has lost 22 percent of its staff since President Trump took office. has gone from 26,000 to just a tad over 20,000. That's a huge staff loss. FEMA and really the entire country has gotten a little bit lucky so far in that FEMA has not been tested the way it was tested in 2024 when you had Hurricane Helene and Milton at the same time, or other times like Katrina when you really find out what FEMA is capable. So right now it's operating, it's in its

15:32 Голос 3 comfort zone. How about your reporting on President Trump rejecting aid requests to states with Democratic leadership? What effect has that had on the ground? And do you think that Cameron Hamilton will have any effect on that dynamic? The main consequence has been uncertainty.

15:53 Голос 2 And what Trump is doing is he is denying aid that any president, including Trump in his first term, would have approved without a second glance. But now that he's denying supposedly qualifying disaster requests, nobody knows, and he's not giving any reasons. And a lot of people like me are spending a lot of time trying to figure it out. And the one pattern I saw is that there was a huge disparity between his approval rate for states with Democratic governors and two Democratic senators senators compared to Republican states with a Republican governor and two Republican senators.

16:32 Голос 3 What happens when the federal government doesn't approve this funding? Do states have the money

16:38 Голос 2 to step in? It depends on the state. It depends on the disaster. There are some states, small states that don't have a lot of money, that don't have much in the way of disaster response. And then you've got states like Florida and Texas and California, which are huge states and have a lot lot of experience with disasters. But places like Kentucky really stands out as a place that gets a surprising amount of really damaging flooding. And it's one of the lowest income states in the

17:06 Голос 3 country. Do you think that this, you know, signifies maybe Trump going back to picking people who are more maybe institutionalists and less, you know, just loyalists? Or do you think

17:20 Голос 2 that FEMA is a special case? I think that President Trump floated a trial balloon at the beginning of second term about killing FEMA. And that trial balloon got shot down by members of his own party, his own senators from places like North Carolina, Missouri, his own governors. And I think he basically realized you can't just kill FEMA, that for better or for worse, it is an institution that plays a vital and familiar role. And if you want to try to shrink it, that's a long-term job.

17:54 Голос 3 That's Thomas Frank of Politico. Thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for having me.

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20:58 Голос 3 This is Week in Edition from NPR News. I'm Ayesha Roscoe. In 2024, the Freedom Caucus won a majority of the Wyoming House of Representatives, and it was a chance to show what it could do with control of a legislative chamber. The caucus had an expansive agenda, opposing abortion rights, making deep cuts in government, and increasing voting requirements, among other things. But last week, many members in the statehouse lost primaries to more moderate Republicans. Wyoming Public Media's Jordan Uplinger looks at what happened. The Wyoming Freedom Caucus made national headlines after taking power.

21:40 Голос 2 The caucus was focused on invalidating driver's licenses for immigrants without documentation, on bathroom laws for trans people in state buildings. it targeted DEI initiatives, sought to ban certain books in school libraries, and make deep cuts in property taxes. But public sentiment could be changing. Here's Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Wyoming, Ryan Williamson.

22:02 Голос 1 You shouldn't be too terribly surprised to see the Freedom Caucus struggle as public sentiment shifts slightly towards the center or the left. This year, after Republican Governor Mark Gordon submitted his budget,

22:15 Голос 2 the caucus went for deep cuts, trying to eliminate a summer food program for kids,

22:20 Голос 5 cut money for state agencies, and the University of Wyoming, including Wyoming Public Media.

22:25 Голос 2 Republicans said they heard complaints from voters and they restored the money. Here's Williamson again.

22:30 Голос 1 The appetite for some of the more hardline conservative positions, when they run on those positions, they're going to struggle.

22:37 Голос 2 On top of that, the caucus faced what became known as CheckGate.

22:40 Голос 1 Members were seen on the floor of the House accepting campaign donations from a right-wing activist.

22:46 Голос 3 Some of them were among the more than a dozen Freedom Caucus-aligned members who lost in this year's primaries for House seats or trying to switch to the Senate.

22:54 Голос 1 Wyoming is still a conservative state that voted heavily for Trump in all three of his runs for president, and Republicans still control the State House of Representatives.

23:03 Голос 3 But Freedom Caucus Republicans are no longer the majority. The incoming crop of winners includes Republican State Representative-elect Jessica Crowder.

23:12 Голос 5 I can certainly tell you that the number one question that I received while visiting with constituents and the people in my community was, are you Freedom Caucus?

23:21 Голос 1 Crowder, owner of an agricultural consulting firm, won with more than 60 percent of the vote over a Freedom Caucus incumbent.

23:29 Голос 6 incumbent. So it's certainly on everyone's mind. And it looks like there's a shift across the state

23:34 Голос 3 just based on the results of the night. NPR reached out to several Freedom Caucus members,

23:40 Голос 1 but they didn't respond with a comment. Some are returning. They were unchallenged or won their primaries. The caucus released a statement saying the results won't undo their policy

23:49 Голос 5 achievements and quote, we exist for the people of Wyoming, not any particular legislature or

23:55 Голос 2 or candidate. We will never stop fighting for Wyoming, America's last hope.

23:59 Голос 5 For NPR News, I'm Jordan Uplinger in Laramie, Wyoming.

24:07 Голос 3 When it comes to finding love, people are ghosting dating apps. Match Group, the company that owns Tinder, Hinge, and OkCupid, recently reported drops in the total number of paying users across its platforms. The popular dating app Bumble, owned by a different parent company, has also lost subscribers. Catherine Caduto is a social scientist and associate professor at Boston University University who studies online dating, and that must be very interesting. She joins me now. Good morning. Good morning. How are you? I am good. Now, why are people ditching dating apps?

24:48 Голос 5 There are a couple of different reasons, and I think one of the big ones has to do with overall technology fatigue. When you look at the world, especially since COVID, a lot of things went online. And I think people have missed connecting in real life. And dating is one of those things that people are very concerned about. They romanticize it, of course. And so when they look at what from their lives they might put back in person, dating is one of the first things to happen. And so that has really led to an increase in interest in in-person connection rather than

25:21 Голос 3 focusing on the dating apps. Can you put this drop in context? Like how big is it? And is it

25:28 Голос 5 steeper among certain demographics? I think this is a great question. And what I think we're seeing is a relatively steady drop overall. But that's not to say that people are done with dating apps. A lot of people will still download them. They'll keep them on their phones as an option because they're really easy. But what you're especially seeing are drops in people who are paying. So a lot of people will decide to keep their free app, maybe one that is ad supported, but they're tired of paying for subscriptions or for kind of a la carte options in the apps. Gen Z and millennials, they have always been a higher rate of user overall, and they're the ones who are starting to drop off a little more.

26:12 Голос 3 Okay. So, and the apps, I mean, they can make dating feel mechanical. You often hear people saying that it can feel like you're a commodity and like, okay, I don't like this one. I'll just, you know, there are 10 more I can just swipe on. Is that part of what people are kind of maybe rebelling against a little bit, that they're missing the excitement of

26:35 Голос 5 and mystery of connecting? Absolutely. I think you use so many great words in talking about it, because I feel like when I've interviewed people about this, when I survey them, they are often talking about missing that magical element, that moment of seeing someone across the room and really starting to feel that connection. And the The apps, that was part of what made them popular at first was that sense of gamification that instead of having to really look at someone's profile, instead of having to answer a lot of questions about yourself, instead, you could focus on this virtual card deck and swipe and swipe and swipe. And what has happened is that that novelty has really worn off and now people feel like they're being really shallow, honestly.

27:16 Голос 3 Well, if people aren't meeting on the apps as much, where are people looking for love these days?

27:23 Голос 5 if you look, there has been an uptick in interest in speed dating events. So I'm in Boston and there are more and more of these events around here, but also just people joining clubs where they might have mutual interests. So there's a lot of recent research looking at things like running clubs where you might go and say, this is something I enjoy. I would like to connect with people who also have this interest. Yeah. They say that the running clubs are all about

27:47 Голос 3 About hooking up. No. Yes.

27:50 Голос 5 Yes. And that's what's been coming out more and more. And it makes a lot of sense because in my own research, one of the most important things that comes up as people look for partners is a sense of similarity, is having something in common that you can talk about, that you can do together. And so we are definitely seeing more people, especially, again, Gen Z and millennials, turn to these in-person options. And the other thing, too, is that if you decide to pay for a speed dating event, you are at least guaranteed FaceTime with people. whereas if you pay on a dating app you're still not guaranteed a match no or to meet up in person

28:23 Голос 3 a lot of people just love to stay in the apps all day they never ask you out you never they never but i'll just ask myself i'm that type of person i would just be like hey you want to go you want to go somewhere that's what you have to do that's exactly what you have to do i'm not looking for a pen pal um but a lot of complaints that we hear about dating apps it's really about how people people behave on dating apps like the ghosting and the catfishing and the not wanting to take you on no dates and just want to take you back to their house and all this stuff like the apps won't be able to address that right like fundamental like mismatches in in what people expect exactly

29:03 Голос 5 and I again I think it's part of why it's such an interesting industry to follow and to study because so many of the complaints that people have while some are based on the technology and how the technology makes you maybe think about people or dating, there are other complaints that are going to happen regardless of whether you meet someone online or in person, because there are going to be those mismatches. Now, I do think dating apps make a behavior like ghosting a little easier, but that's not something that's really on the dating apps. They cannot force you to message every single person that you match with. And so it is really interesting to see how people think Think about burnout with dating apps, but the burnout could also just come from dating overall.

29:45 Голос 3 That's Catherine Caduto, an associate professor at Boston University. Thank you so much for joining us.

29:51 Голос 5 Thanks for having me.

29:52 Голос 3 People in South Asia, like India and Pakistan, power through their morning with chai, tea boiled in milk with sugar, masala chai if it's spiced, like with ginger and cardamom. It's so tightly woven into the culture that the Internet is replete with people like the Indian-born celebrity chef Padma Lakshmi losing it over folks ordering chai lattes or chai tea.

30:22 Голос 6 It's not chai tea. Chai tea is like saying tea tea.

30:26 Голос 3 So for our summer series on breakfast around the world, NPR's Dia Hadid investigates chai and its rather surprising history.

30:39 Голос 6 Good that Allah's got another order for chai in the Karachi alleyway where he runs a tea hotel, Pakistani slang for a tea cafe. He jiggles a gallon-sized pot of milk on the boil, throws in a spoon of tea leaves, sugar, pours some of the brew in his hand, licks it, adds more sugar.

30:58 A cup lands before an armature lock. He's only got one name.

31:03 He says without tea, our brains don't work.

31:09 He says he knows about chai because he's from a town famous for it. It's called Quetta. It's 400 miles away.

31:18 Naumatullah says he's travelled to Karachi with his 10-year-old son, Khaled.

31:25 They're here to get medical tests. Naumatullah says doctors are worried his son has cancer. He asks us to pray for his son and sips the last of his chai. Chai has long been a comforting drink here, but its rise across South Asia has a lot to do with a years-long and expensive marketing campaign. Five generations ago, my relatives probably had no access to tea. Nilitha Afridi is a Pakistani food anthropologist.

31:55 Голос 3 The British introduced tea, as you and I call it tea, chai, to South Asians.

32:02 Голос 6 The British who ruled these lands loved tea, but China kept a near monopoly on the global tea trade. The huge trade imbalance sent British silver flowing into China. By the late 1700s, the British were selling opium to offset that trade deficit with China. Still, the British wanted their own tea and years later, a Scottish botanist snuck into China and he basically stole tea seedlings. Lizzie Collingham writes on food and the British Empire. She says soon the British were growing their own tea in India and... The British realised they could be selling all this tea they're growing to Indians, but they've got to persuade the Indians then to drink tea. So they start the most incredible campaign. This really takes off during the 1930s. They employ a lot of people to distribute tea around. Salesmen to go to grocers and persuade them to take some tea. Tea vendors are sent to factories, to railway stations, to hawk this new drink. Then, with the outbreak of the Second World War, some two million Indian men fought alongside the British.

33:07 Голос 4 From every corner and province of India have come these gallant, sturdy warriors.

33:11 Голос 6 Tea trucks follow Indian forces, and they have...

33:14 Голос 3 And a letter writer for the Indian soldiers, so that they can get somebody to write a letter home, and they get given a cup of tea.

33:21 Голос 6 After the war, they bring it, a liking for tea, back with them to India. Marketers chipped away at middle-class Indians by dispatching women to sell tea to housewives. They quite literally go from door to door. They make a cup of tea, distribute it to everybody,

33:38 Голос 3 and then leave little packets of tea, hoping that they'll make their own tea.

33:42 Голос 6 And?

33:43 Голос 3 They actually managed to get Indians to drink tea.

33:46 Голос 6 Except it wasn't quite how the British hoped, because Indians made very milky tea. It didn't use a lot of tea leaves. early on Collingham says there's even an account by a tea inspector who comes across a tea merchant

34:00 Голос 3 who is making what we think of as chai tea leaves mixed with water milk sugar spices cardamom

34:08 Голос 6 cinnamon black pepper and simmering it until it's thick and gloopy and sweet and spicy food writer Afridi says it's milk forward flavor that emerged because for the working classes It might be the only fortifying meal, so to speak, that you can look forward to. Back in Karachi, a man calls for donations over a loudspeaker.

34:34 And in a tea hotel, Banu is perched on a wooden daybed. She's around 60.

34:42 She says she asked a stranger to buy her breakfast, and he got her chai.

34:50 She's been begging on the street since she injured her leg a few months ago and had to leave her cleaning job. She says she's grateful for this chai.

35:03 Bano says she won't eat again today. That's okay. This chai will last her all day. Dee Hadid, NPR News, Karachi.

35:19 Голос 3 You're listening to Week in Edition from NPR News. One of this year's top fashion items could be buried deep in your dresser. Old t-shirts with graphic elements, superheroes, business logos, college mascots, band names, funny slogans, anything really, are filling runways and red carpets. Christian Allaire is a senior fashion and style writer at Vogue and he joins us now. now. Good morning. Good morning. Okay, so I'm wearing one of my favorite t-shirts today. It is X-Men, a big picture of Rogue kissing Gambit. I hear you're also wearing one of your like beloved graphic tees. Can you describe it? I am. I'm wearing a Britney Spears circus tour

36:09 Голос 4 t-shirt circa 2009. It has a big B on the front and the B is wearing a top hat. Oh my goodness.

36:16 Голос 3 is okay that sounds really cool we love britney exactly what makes a good graphic tee i think a

36:24 Голос 1 good graphic tee draws the eye in you know you might see a total stranger wearing it and if

36:29 Голос 4 you're compelled to look at it maybe even talk to them about it then i think a graphic tee has done

36:34 Голос 3 its job it's a conversation starter when did the graphic tee trend take off and i guess like in this this latest iteration of it?

36:43 Голос 4 Well, I mean, yeah, graphic tees have been around since who knows when. They really have been pervasive in fashion forever. But this past fall season is when we really saw it have a big presence on the runways. You know, I think of, you know, a big show like Chanel, for instance. The pre-fall show was shown here in New York. The designer, Mathieu Blasé, showed these sort of sequined I Love New York t-shirts on the runway. And they were styled with, you know, his signature tweeds. skirt suits. And another show, for instance, Stella McCartney, she had this tank that said, my dad is a rock star because obviously her father is Paul McCartney. But she showed that with these really bejeweled, multicolor, fancy jeans. So I think there's this juxtaposition of

37:26 Голос 3 high and low that we're seeing on the runway. And I also read now that the older and more worn out your t-shirt is the better. And that's kind of like reminiscent of the acid wash jeans from the 80s or the heroine chic era of the 90s. Like, why does fashion continue to gravitate toward this messy, thrown-together aesthetic?

37:50 Голос 4 Well, I think there's this big obsession with vintage in fashion. I mean, you look at any red carpet and all the celebrities are wearing archive. The older, the better. And so it only kind of makes sense then

38:01 Голос 1 that that also translates to graphic tees. I think people want very rare or very old graphic tees.

38:07 Голос 4 It just symbolizes something special or something no one else has. You know, I think of a store like What Goes Around Comes Around, which specializes in vintage. They have a whole section of archival graphic tees that can go for hundreds and hundreds of dollars.

38:22 Голос 3 Is there any concern in fashion, you know, kind of like there is in movies or on TV, where it's like we're constantly going back to the old and revamping it? Like, is there any concern that, you know, we're not getting new ideas?

38:35 Голос 4 is we just keep recycling the old stuff. I mean, yes, fashion is cyclical, for sure. I think nothing is ever really new. It's always building on a trend that's already happened. But I think that's not necessarily always a bad thing. I mean, clearly, it proves that people still want to wear graphic tees in the year 2026. You know, I think of like, the 80s, when Catherine Hamnet, she was one of the OG pioneers of the graphic tee, and hers were very political. But now they're, you you know, a little bit more fun and a little bit more cheeky and lighthearted. So the trend evolves, and it's never the same. So I think that's what keeps it exciting.

39:12 Голос 3 That's Christian Allaire, a writer for Vogue. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you.

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41:58 This is Week in Edition from NPR News. I'm Ayesha Roscoe. Republicans are known for talking about religious issues on the campaign trail. Not so much with Democrats, but that's definitely not the case for two Democratic nominees running in separate U.S. House races in Iowa. Iowa. NPR religion correspondent Jason DeRose reports on Christian clergy on the campaign trail.

42:26 Голос 1 On a humid Sunday afternoon in the western suburbs of Des Moines, Sarah Trone-Garriott is canvassing for votes.

42:32 Голос 6 I'm Sarah Trone-Garriott. I'm state senator for Dallas County and I'm running for Congress,

42:37 Голос 5 so I'm just coming by to say hi. Hi, how are you doing? I'm a minister. I'm a state senator.

42:42 Голос 1 One of the doors Trone-Garriott knocks on in her bid to represent Iowa's third congressional district belongs to Stephen and Casey Hendrickson. The big issue for them? The rising cost of everything. We just went grocery shopping and just it's

42:55 Голос 4 amazing how you can get like 20 items and it costs a hundred bucks.

42:58 Голос 1 The couple isn't especially religious but when I ask their thoughts on clergy

43:02 Голос 5 running for office? I think they have an ability to work with people more so than

43:07 Голос 2 others. They've actually seen people go through things and are willing to help people.

43:13 Голос 1 The moral compass will be on the higher side. Talking with voters in and around Des Moines this Sunday afternoon is the second shift for Tron Garriott.

43:28 The ordained pastor began her day in the chancel of Grace Lutheran Church, wearing a white robe and red shoes.

43:34 Голос 6 Lift up your heads to see and hear the proclamation of the good news made flesh in Jesus Christ.

43:40 Голос 1 Trone Garriott is a supply pastor, filling in while the regular minister here is away. She doesn't lead a congregation full-time. She's served in the Iowa Senate since 2021. This morning, she's preaching on a passage from the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus' description of God's reign, like a mustard seed, yeast, a hidden treasure?

43:59 Голос 6 The kingdom of heaven challenges what we have come to expect or learned to accept.

44:10 Голос 1 One of the people in worship is retired chemist and longtime member Rich Snyder. During coffee hour, he tells me he's not naturally inclined to want clergy in politics. I'm skeptical until I get a chance to listen to their expressions of faith and how they view their calling. And when it becomes a calling rather than a prescription or a bully pulpit, then I'll start to listen. Ann Snyder likes what he hears from Trone Garriott, who hears her call to politics in the Gospel of Luke.

44:41 Голос 6 Jesus tells the parable of the Good Samaritan.

44:44 Голос 4 Everyone is your neighbor.

44:45 Голос 6 Anyone who is overlooked and left behind and forgotten, that's who you are called to help.

44:52 Голос 3 And that is the calling of government.

44:54 Голос 1 Many democratic people of faith frame their politics this way. Use government to improve lives. But Tron Gary, its political opponents, have sometimes criticized the way she carries out her ministry. A few years ago, as part of a public storytelling project, she recalled a seminary internship experience when her supervisor asked her to assist at a wedding for two people who said they were Satanists. Her opponent, incumbent GOP Congressman Zach Nunn, says the incident shows she's out of touch with everyday Christians. Here he is on WHO Newsradio 1040 in Iowa.

45:29 Голос 4 And she talks about the situation like it was some kind of a charming story. She even joked about picking Bible verses so that Satanists could build more at home.

45:37 Голос 1 But Trone Garriott says her participation in the wedding allowed her to bring God's word to this couple, and may have changed their hearts.

45:45 Голос 6 It's a story about the power of scripture. And I believe it spoke to that couple in that moment who seemed like the wrong people in the wrong place. And it was speaking to me.

45:57 Голос 1 Trone Garriott is one of at least half a dozen ordained clergy running for federal office as Democrats in the midterms. But Democrats speaking about faith face a challenge. Less than a third of their party says religion is very important to them, according to Pew Research. So connecting on other issues is crucial.

46:17 Голос 6 Yes, yes. Well, good to see you. We're going to make some rounds, but we'll come back and say hello.

46:21 Голос 1 About two hours northeast of Des Moines is the small town of Waverly, Iowa. On a steamy Monday evening, another clergy candidate is shaking hands at the Bramer County Fair.

46:31 Голос 5 Hi, Lindsay James, running for Congress. Nice to meet you, and you are?

46:36 Голос 1 Lindsay James is a Presbyterian chaplain, a four-term state house representative, and the Democratic nominee for Iowa's second congressional seat.

46:45 Голос 4 I've seen your ads quite a bit.

46:47 Голос 2 Oh, have you? Oh, good.

46:48 Голос 1 Among the potential voters she meets while touring 4-H exhibits and sampling cheese curds is Lindley Sharp. She works in public health and worries about budget cuts. It's going to mean less money for local public health down the line after some of their federal funds are gone. Standing nearby is Kip Ladegi, who works in emergency medical services. Look at the Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement that we get because we're getting posed here.

47:16 Голос 4 If we have a $600 call, we're lucky to get $140. I've got all the charts.

47:21 Голос 1 While neither ambulances nor public health may seem like religious issues, for Lindsay James, they're deeply moral ones. And they're why she decided to run for the U.S. House. After the Big Beautiful Bill was passed from D.C. and about 27,000 Iowans were at risk of losing their health care in just Iowa's 2nd Congressional District. James says she knew what that loss would mean for people because of her work as a chaplain.

47:47 Голос 6 It's about showing up for people. It's about listening without judgment. It's about offering hope. And it's about telling the truth. And there is a level of accountability that is needed when we see corporate greed run rampant and harm people.

48:03 Голос 1 Talk like that doesn't sit well with her opponent, Republican Joe Mitchell. Like many Republicans, he describes opposition to restricting trans rights as anti-Christian. Here he is at the conservative Evangelical Family Leadership Summit this summer, criticizing both Lindsay James and Sarah Trone Garriott.

48:22 Голос 4 I call them pinos, pastors in name only, because they're not real pastors, right? They don't profess the true gospel of Jesus Christ.

48:29 Голос 1 James responds by pointing to the Gospel of Luke, the parable of the Good Samaritan, who cares for a man lying hurt by the side of the road. Specifically, an interpretation by Martin Luther King Jr.

48:42 Голос 6 He talked about the road being notorious for people getting harmed and hurt,

48:46 Голос 1 and that we had a moral obligation not just to pick up the person who's hurting,

48:51 Голос 6 but to actually fix the road.

48:52 Голос 1 That road in rural Iowa today, says James, is underfunded health care. and repairing it is what her faith looks like in public life. Jason DeRose, NPR News, Waverly, Iowa.

49:11 Голос 6 Howdy, boys. Howdy.

49:12 Голос 3 It's a warm Friday night somewhere under the stars of rural Oklahoma. And the band standing around a plastic picnic table at Ulysses Drive-In Restaurant is starting to tear it down.

49:36 impromptu performance sets the tone for the rest of the new movie, The Rivals of Amziah King. Amziah is a local beekeeper and musician known for his country one-liners and delicious honey. He's played by Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey. But one day, Amziah's hives are stolen. His former foster daughter, Kateri, played by first-time actress Angelina Lookingglass, starts a quest to hunt down the culprits. The Rivals of Amziah King is directed by Andrew Patterson, who joins us now from his home in Edmond, Oklahoma. Thank you so much for being here.

50:18 Голос 4 Excited to be here. Thank you, Aisha.

50:20 Голос 3 So let's start with the relationship between Amziah and his former foster daughter, Kateri. Where do we find them at the start of the film?

50:30 Голос 4 well they've been separated for somewhere in the range of 10 12 years he was her foster father before and she has had her own journey and they reconnect in a cafe when he bumps into her as a

50:44 Голос 3 waitress the thing about this movie is it's funny and at times like really almost a little slapstick but there's also this like quiet wisdom in it and you know of course i'm thinking of the potluck scene in particular when's the last time you've been to a potluck i don't know if i ever have

51:07 Голос 4 oh dear sweet jesus let me just tell you something for as long as i can remember i've always wanted

51:12 Голос 3 to walk someone through a potluck food displayed out on a table is a higher point in my lifetime

51:17 Голос 4 traditionally admit because there's there's truth and there's lies in every potluck you see there's

51:23 Голос 3 a story in every dish now the the brilliant matthew mcconaughey goes on to explain each dish and which ones to grab and which ones to avoid and the truth and the lie and each one like what is he trying to teach kateri there i think it doesn't come from a place of being

51:45 Голос 4 him trying to teach her something it's more of a way for me to see the two of them build a dynamic dynamic as a father and a daughter anytime you're going to create a movie where you want people to care about a relationship you have to build the dynamic in front of the viewer and we do that for 10 or 15 minutes with these two but this is sort of the start of that dynamic and the potluck became kind of a vehicle in which to put a bunch of random things that that were all probably my

52:13 Голос 3 came from my mind at one point or another and it also taught about the community there's the woman who's taking care of her mother who can't see and keeps walking into those glass doors now was that

52:25 Голос 4 your idea yes it was because the lady that cleaned my grandparents home in west texas they were employing her well past her prime and she was getting to be i don't know pushing 90 and they had sliding glass doors for whatever reason in a lot of their house and she would just round the corner and just slam into one and just bam and we would we would just be kids you you know, and this lady was just absolutely. And I had that written down. I had that written down. I had a bunch of little tales that I thought would be fun texture to get in the right movie.

53:03 Голос 3 Yes. Music is a huge part of this movie. Obviously, Amzaya, he's a musician and and almost every scene is like filled with music. Is that something that is a part of your life?

53:18 Голос 4 I did and can play piano. Now, in this movie, the music you're probably talking about is the live music, the diegetic stuff played in scene. And I would just say that that's a result of me feeling like I wanted to see a movie that utilized music in a new way, that sort of grafted in and out very organically. And I wrote this in a window when nobody was making movies with me. This is before I broke into the movie industry or Hollywood, as people say. I was in a kind of a weirdly safe place creatively because I had nobody telling me what to do. And I just sort of wrote something that I wanted to see. I wanted to feel these pieces of music influence the story, come in and out of the tale, change the dynamics of the characters. and so I've always had this incredible relationship to music kind of a weird one and that I can produce it I can identify what I think is special songs are special and am able to utilize all that to synthesize it hopefully into something that moves people yeah well I you know I have to say

54:30 Голос 3 I have not seen a lot of films about beekeepers or beekeeping crime what was your inspiration to kind of set this story in the the honey industry initially it was just because one of my

54:45 Голос 4 best friends and their family owned a beekeeping operation and i reached out to them and said hey what happens in this world that would cause drama that would that would put people at a disadvantage

54:59 Голос 3 and you draw these parallels between the community of the people in the film and the communities of of the bees. Talk more about that connection. And it also seems like you were using a lot of your community in this. So were you thinking about that as well? I will say this. Some of

55:18 Голос 4 those things emerge without them being intentional, if that makes sense. There are definitely parallels to the way I grew up or the way that a potluck looked like at the church. And those themes weren't something that I attacked and thought, all right, I'm going to make a movie about about community. It came out naturally as I wrote it. And then the parallels became very clear in a certain draft where I was like, oh my goodness, a room full of humans eating food, a room full of humans making music, a room full of humans sharing at an event looks a whole lot like a hive, looks a whole lot like a colony. I sort of was surprised I hadn't seen it earlier. And then just sort of thanked the script writing gods for helping me identify it.

56:05 Голос 3 And there is this scene where Matthew McConaughey has thousands of bees landing on him. How did you do that?

56:16 Голос 4 Because I'd done a little bit of this before, I knew how to pull this off. The reality is I was not going to bring either character on, either actor on. And that included Matthew, unless we were going to work with real bees. And the best part was when I said to him, now, you know, there's real bees in this movie. and he just looks and he says well i just figured i was gonna do it and i said okay good and yes matthew got stung one time in pre-production and turned out he was allergic oh no he got stung in the forehead now he looks like a basset hound or a pumpkin you can't see it all and so we start to learn okay if we're going to do this we have to be very careful about it what do you hope that

56:58 Голос 3 people will learn about your home state from watching the movie i would say it's almost stated

57:03 Голос 4 in the movie i think mzi says something like say they're not all bad or all good you know they're

57:10 Голос 3 not just one thing

57:23 Голос 4 I think any place where you go interact with the humans, you're going to find nuances like that. And I don't agree with everything that everybody in Oklahoma says or believes, but when I'm with them and I'm reasonable, I actually think that there is more nuance to all of it. And so if I was to say that the thing I want people to know about where I'm from and that world is that we're not all one thing.

57:49 Голос 3 that's Andrew Patterson he's the director of The Rivals of Amziah King in theaters now thank you so much for joining us

57:57 Голос 4 loved it thank you

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58:52 On this week's Wait, Wait, Jeopardy! host, Ken Jennings, admits he never used to like those short interviews with contestants.

58:59 Голос 2 Even as a kid, I would sometimes have to leave the room during a boring story. It's like Jeopardy! stops for a second and Curb Your Enthusiasm begins.

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