PNS Daily Newscast PM Update: September 28, 2026

The Supreme Court starts the new term focused on the cost of climate-related disasters, and Wisconsin's childcare woes raise the election stakes, and Idaho healthcare providers are struggling to afford health insurance.

A block party turns bloody in Georgia, with two men dead and 35 people wounded, and election integrity and safety under question by Ohio voters, and Scientists are now using drones to reshape remote Alaska healthcare.

Tennessee's latest botched execution fuels calls for lethal injection transparency, and working but struggling, that's the plight of Alabama households as they try to afford the basics, and a new report finds Iowa's largest utilities fail to meet clean energy goals.

The family of Renee Goode, who was shot and killed by ICE, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, and as Florida downplays global warming, Climate Week pushes back, and new USDA research shows nutritional decline of factory-farmed salmon.

Tennessee halts executions after a second botched execution in a year, and folks in Colorado will face higher health insurance prices in 2027; a spike in pregnancy deaths fuels calls to expand Pennsylvania reproductive care access.

An airline pilot is suspected of trying to crash a Tel Aviv-bound plane in a possible terrorist attack, and US forces withdraw from Iraq after two decades, and national labor leaders rally for workers as Iowa unions struggle, and a mishap at Michigan's Palisades gives opponents new ammunition.

The Supreme Court gives Trump more time to keep deporting immigrants to countries where they have no connections, a new poll shows struggling Kentucky voters losing enthusiasm for the GOP, Wisconsin workers take their trade fight to G20 meeting in Milwaukee.

Trump is critical of British police over the release of 5 men in a suspected bomb plot, data center bans find receptive voice in rural Tennessee, and nationwide, Arkansas organizers step up for Latinos who identify as trans.

Justice Altio announced he will not hear a major climate change case, Admitted child killer Lindsay Clancy returns to court after mistrial, and a new law for California car buyers starts on October the first.

Senator John Kennedy, the Louisiana Republican, says living public officials cannot have public buildings named after them, New York officials want to repeal the HALT Act despite some benefits, and a new report finds that Black and Latino students in San Francisco face a 'silent suspension'.