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Live from NPR News. In Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. President Trump is postponing a threat to hit Iranian power plants until Friday. He cited, quote, productive talks with Iran, but Iran denies the talks are happening. NPR's Emily Feng reports. Some Iranians are anxious the U.S. might end its war against Iran.
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Iran's government continues to maintain a near total telecommunications blackout, but an Iranian living just north of Tehran managed to send a text to NPR that it was, quote, unquote, unacceptable for the US to end the war without toppling Iran's government first. Iranians, they wrote, are, quote, only tolerating war, hoping that it will lead to their freedom. Another Iranian who participated in mass anti government demonstrations this past winter says the government killed three of his friends this January in a crackdown, leading him to believe a popular uprising would never end. The Iranian regime, he says our only hope is that Trump and Bibi, speaking of Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu, make the right moves. Emily Fang, NPR News, Van, Turkey.
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The Senate has confirmed Mark Wayne Mullen as the new Homeland Security secretary. The vote was mostly along party lines. NPR's Elena Moore reports. Mullen takes over an agency that's been partially shut down for more than a month.
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It's been a busy few weeks for Mullen, who was tapped to replace Kristi Noem as secretary of DHS at the beginning of March. He sped through the confirmation process, but now Mullen faces a fresh set of challenges. Congress is scheduled to go on recess at the end of the week, but party leaders remain at odds over how to end the DHS shutdown. Trump is also pressuring lawmakers to prioritize passing the Save America act, which would require proof of citizenship to vote. So if lawmakers go on recess without a deal, Mullen may be taking over a department where nearly half its workers aren't getting paid. Elena Moore, NPR News.
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The partial DHS shutdown means TSA agents who work airport security lines have not been paid for weeks. They've called out, and that's led to some significant wait times at some airports. One of the people caught in the airport security lines was a specialist from the National Transportation Safety Board. She was trying to fly from Houston to a crash scene at New York's LaGuardia Airport. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy says her office had to beg airport authorities to let the specialist through. Regarding the New York LaGuardia crash, Homendy says investigators have the data recorders.
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We have the CVR and fdr. We've also collected and have continued to collect surveillance video We've asked the Federal Aviation Administration, who will be providing that a ASDE replay of the event as the airport surface detection equipment replay of the event.
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They're looking at why an airport fire truck was cleared to cross the Runway just as a jet head had landed. You're listening to npr. Military officials in the South American nation of Colombia say a military plane crash has killed at least 66 people. A military cargo plane went down yesterday after it took off in southwestern Colombia, near the border with Peru and Ecuador. A new study finds the number of abortions in the US was the same in 2025 compared to the year previous. NPR's Selena Simmons Duffin explains there's one major reason why that's true. Despite abortion bans in 13 states, a
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new report from the Guttmacher Institute finds There were 1,126,000 abortions provided by clinicians in 2025.
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That's pretty much unchanged from 2024.
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Isaac Maddow Zimit is one of the report's authors.
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There were shifts, though, in where those abortions were occurring.
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The biggest shift was that there were more abortions in states with abortion bans. That's because the Food and Drug Administration allows abortion medication to be prescribed through telemedicine and sent through the mail. Abortion opponents are trying to end the practice through court challenges and new laws. Selena Simmons Duffen, NPR News.
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Officials in Port Arthur, Texas, have told some city residents to shelter in place after an explosion at a Valera oil refinery. Port Arthur is on the Gulf, close to the border with Louisiana. The Port Arthur mayor says no one was hurt in the blast. Forecasters say parts of California will keep getting record high temperatures today. That warmth is spreading east. Temperatures could get close to 90 degrees from Texas to the Ohio Valley by tomorrow. I'm Korva Coleman, NPR News.
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