NPR News: 03-03-2026 11PM EST

0:00This message comes from Amazon Business. How can you grow your business from idea to industry leader? Bring your vision to life with smart business buying tools and technology from Amazon Business. Simplify how you stock up to get ahead. Go to amazonbusiness.com for support. Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. Voters cast primary election ballots today in three states North Carolina, Arkansas, and Texas, where the most hotly contested races are being held. According to an AP race call incumbent, Texas Senator John Kornin is headed to a Republican runoff against state attorney general Ken Paxton. Four days into a war that President Trump has suggested could last several weeks or longer. Hundreds of people have been killed. Most in Iran, but the Pentagon says six U.S. service members have been killed in an Iranian drone strike and Kuwait. President Trump's reasons for attacking Iran continued to shift NPR's Deep Ashivaram reports. He now says it was proactive. Trump had previously said that the U.S.

1:01acted in Iran because Tehran's nuclear program was close to having missiles that could reach the U.S. Now he says he believed an Iranian attack was coming first, though he did not cite any intelligence to that effect. It was my opinion that they were going to attack first. They were going to attack it. We didn't do it. They were going to attack first. I felt strongly about that. The U.S. struck Iran over the weekend after weeks of building up a large military presence in the region, even as negotiations to try to reach a deal with Iran were ongoing. Trump touted the success of the mission thus far, though he has not outlined how he sees the conflict ending, but he did say that, quote, lots of people are coming forward to negotiate a resolution. Deep Ashivaram and PR News, the White House. Top administration officials were on Capitol Hill Tuesday, meeting behind closed doors with the full House and Senate in making the case to Congress for the Iran War. They included Secretary of State Marco Rubio. You know, we're going to unleash Chang on these people in the next few hours and days.

2:01You're going to really begin to perceive a change in the scope and in the intensity of these attacks, as frankly, the two most powerful air forces in the world take apart this terroristic regime and defend it and take away its ability to threaten its neighbors or hide behind a zone of immunity that allows them to develop their nuclear ambitions. Democrats say President Trump should have sought congressional looks on congressional approval to Senate due to vote Wednesday on a war of powers resolution, the House on Thursday. The leader of California's Democratic Party urging struggling candidates for governor to end their campaigns from Member Station KQED, Guy Marzerati reports. With nine major Democrats running for governor, there's a chance they could split the vote in the June primary and allow two Republicans to advance the November election. Now, Party Chair Rusty Hicks is calling on Democrats to drop out if they lack a viable path to the general election. But hours later, one low polling candidate, former state controller Betty E, officially filed for the ballot. We're undergoing a process of constant assessment

3:01that every time we do that, we just see that this is still a wide open race. Candidates who remain in the race after this Friday will be on the ballot when voting begins in May. For MPR News, I'm Guy Marzerati in San Jose. This is MPR. And Georgia, the father of the Kews gumman who killed two students and two teachers at a high school northeast of Atlanta in 2024 has been convicted of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter. Jurors took less than two hours to convict 55-year-old Colin Gray. Prosecutors say Gray gave his troubled teenage son a rifle for Christmas, enabling him to carry out the shooting at Appalachia High School. Some of the most prominent figures in autism research have curated a group to counter ideas coming from the Trump administration in Pierce John Hamilton has more. It's called the Independent Autism Coordinating Committee. It was formed just weeks after HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. replaced every member of a similar committee

4:01that advises the federal government on autism research priorities. The new group plans to offer alternative guidance. It includes two former directors of the National Institute of Mental Health, leading academic scientists and doctors, a former congressman, and members of advocacy organizations. Most of them have criticized Kennedy's efforts to link vaccines and autism, as well as his support for ideas about the condition that lacked credible scientific backing. The Independent Committee plans to hold its first public meeting on March 19th in Washington. John Hamilton and PR News. With the Iran War widening in oil prices, climbing the regional financial markets and Asia are extending their losses into another day. South Korea's benchmark has plunged 11% in Wednesday trading Japan's Nikkei down more than 3.8% after Wall Street lost ground. This is NPR News. This message comes from Prolon. Feeling heavy and depleted after the holidays?

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