NPR News: 03-05-2026 11PM EST

0:00Live from MPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. President Trump says the United States is successfully destroying Iran's military capabilities. The president provided an update on the nearly week-long conflict or an event at the White House today in Pierre Stanjoe Kertzlapin reports. Trump said he had a message for Iranian military and police. You're going to have a chance after all these years to take back your country, accept immunity will give you immunity and will be giving you really the right side of history because that's what it is. So you'll be perfectly safe with total immunity or you'll face absolutely guaranteed death and I don't want to see that. Earlier in the day, Trump told several news outlets he wants to have a hand in deciding who the next Iranian leader would be. At the White House event, Trump also hinted at future U.S. actions in Cuba, but gave no details. Neil Kertzlapin and Pierre News the White House. On Capitol Hill today, the Republican led House narrowly rejected a resolution that

1:02would have curved President Trump's powers in the Iran War, the Senate defeated a similar war powers resolution along party lines Wednesday. President Trump has fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Nome, head on social media. Trump said he will nominate Oklahoma Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullen for the Post. Mullen told reporters he only found out a little bit before they did. The phone call I got from the President was right before the statement went out. The announcement came after Kristi Nome faced a two-day grilling on Capitol Hill amid criticism of her leadership at DHS, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says a change at the top is welcome. The President has fired Kristi Nome, good ratings, but the problems at this agency, ICE, transcend any one person, the rot is deep, the President has to end the violence and reign in ICE. President Trump says he's moving Nome to a special envoy role for a new security initiative he plans to announce this weekend.

2:03A man who received a presidential pardon for storming the U.S. Capitol and assaulting police on January 6, 2021 has been sentenced to life in prison on new criminal charges. Andrew Paul Johnson repeatedly abused two children when they were 11 and 12 years old. And some of that abuse occurred after President Trump pardoned Johnson for his January 6th case and released him from prison. Trump argued the Capitol riot defendants were treated unfairly. Congressman Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, said Trump bears some responsibility for Johnson's crimes. It was only because Donald Trump let him out of prison that he was able to continue his sickening pattern of child sexual abuse. Now he's going back to prison this time for life. The White House did not respond to NBR's requests for comment on Johnson. Tom Driesbach and PR News. This is NPR, more than 20 states are suing the Trump administration over the president's new

3:04global tear of democratic attorneys general are leading the suit. Arguing President Trump is overstepping his power with planned 15 percent tariffs on much of the world. Trump announced the new tariffs after the Supreme Court struck down the import taxis he imposed last year under an emergency powers law. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has announced that 53 medical schools in the U.S. have agreed to expand their nutrition curriculum. And PR has moved that many experts say is long overdue. Studies show most med schools fall short of the 25 hours of training on nutrition recommended by the National Academies of Sciences. Under the new initiative, participating schools will add 40 hours of instruction. Kennedy says this will bolster doctors' ability to prevent and treat diet-related chronic disease. This is how we implement the Mahal Agenda. This is how we make America healthy again. The move is widely welcome and it's backed by the American Medical Association, among others. But as nutrition policy expert Marion Nestle says,

4:07The devil is in the details. Schools will choose from 71 suggested topics. While some are mainstream, she says others like the use of supplements and healthy people don't have much science to back them up. Maria Gadoe and PR News. Stock markets and Asia tracking Wall Street largely down in Friday, trading amid surging oil prices, oil spiked today to its highest level since 2024 amid the conflict in the Middle East on Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average finished with the loss of 784 points. This is MPR News.