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Live from NPR News, I'm Jail Snyder. Federal investigators are looking into why an Amazon cargo jet ran off a runway at Miami International Airport. The crash happened Sunday. Five people were killed. NPR's Chandelice Duster reports on what National Transportation Safety Board officials are saying. NTSB chair, Jennifer Homody, said the plane landed and then left the runway. The plane first hit a van owned by a cleaning company that services the airport. We learned that there were seven people inside. She said the van was torn apart.

The plane also hit an SUV, mangling the vehicle, but it's still an active recovery scene. The NTSB says the plane's flight recorders have been recovered and that investigators are focusing on whether the plane touched down too late to stop safely. Canada's retaliatory tariffs are now in effect. They impose import taxes on about $20 billion worth of U.S. goods, including steel, aluminum, and cheese. Canada says its tariffs match the taxes President Trump imposed dollar for dollar and rate for rate. Other countries are watching to see what happens. A century ago, labor unions fought for eight-hour days and a 40-hour work week. Today, they find themselves confronting AI.

NPR's Andrea Shoe reports it's complicated for movement made up of all kinds of workers. With AI on the rise, labor leaders have been calling for guardrails. They want more transparency into how companies are using AI, and more say in what that's going to mean for workers. At the same time, some building trades unions have welcomed the growth of AI and specifically the boom in data centers. Don Sleiman is with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 26. He says his members are flush with work.

We haven't seen this kind of growth for skilled tradespeople in generations. The union has called on its members to ask their elected officials to oppose any moratoriums on data centers. Local leaders have increasingly issued positive. on new construction as community concerns have soared. Andrea Shue and PR News. Food giant Campbell's company cutting costs and raising prices. And P.R. Sal Yuc explains why.

Campbell's has been one of the food companies in pretty rough shape. Its sales dropped 8% in the latest quarter, especially on snacks. Its big brands include goldfish, kettle chips, Milano cookies, and Snyder's pretzels. Shoppers have tightened their snacking budgets, and they're not reaching for the name brands as often. Campbell's forecasting of a drop in sales for the full year sent its shares tumbling down. The company is cutting costs by closing two snack plants and laying off 13% of its salaried workers.

It's also slashing the dividend it pays to shareholders and its raised prices up by 4 to 5% across nearly two-thirds of its products, hoping for a financial boost even if people buy fewer of Campbell's offerings. Alina Selyuk, NPR News. This is NPR News. It's not clear when the search for a small plane that's gone missing will resume. Police in the Bahamas say the search has been suspended because of bad weather. The U.S. Coast Guard and Bahamian authorities say the plane carrying four family members back home to Florida and went missing on Monday. Amid President Trump's push for control of Greenland, the European Union is promising a stronger partnership and hundreds of millions of euros in investment.

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen arrived in Greenland on Sunday for a two-day visit saying Greenland's future is for its people and Denmark to decide. The long Labor Day weekend marks the unofficial end of summer and the start-to-school around the country, and Piers Janaki Meta visited in elementary school in Los Angeles. At Mitchell Terena Street Elementary, kindergarteners are starting the year with some big feelings. I'm excited to learn about Kinder. I'm nervous. Excited! That's why Mitchell Terena has a long-standing tradition of older and wiser fifth graders,

welcoming new kindergartners to elementary school. Fifth graders like Gerald Gomez-Rena, who says part of his job is to help the new students with the transition by accessing emotional tools like... Breathing and quiet safe place and garbage can. What's garbage can? Garbage can is when you throw away feelings if you get sad. And he said the idea is to make sure kindergartners start the year off hand in hand with a built-in friend. Janaki Metha and Pier News, Los Angeles.

And I'm Jail Snyder. This is NPR News.