NPR News: 03-08-2026 5AM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Giavone. President Trump says he expects more U.S. service members will be killed in the war with Iran. As NPR's Tamara Keith reports, Trump also says the U.S. is winning the war. Trump spoke with reporters on Air Force One shortly after attending the dignified transfer of six U.S. soldiers killed in the war. He said he would only accept unconditional surrender from Iran. It's where they cry out, or when they can't fight any longer, there's nobody around to cry out. That could happen, too, because we've wiped out their leadership numerous times already. So it's if they surrender, or if there is nobody around to surrender. Asked about sending in ground troops, Trump said it wasn't an appropriate question, but that if it happened, it would have to be for a very good reason. Tamara Keith and P.R. News. The fighting meanwhile continues in Iran. Israeli jets bombed an oil storage facility in Tehran yesterday and set it on fire.

1:05The Israeli military says it attempted to retrieve the remains of one of their soldiers, missing for decades in Lebanon, yesterday morning. But the special forces were ambushed as they landed and withdrew. Lebanese health authorities say 41 people were killed in the airstrikes, including four children, according to a local mayor. N.P.R.'s Jawad Riz Khala reports from Beirut. The soldier they were searching for was Ron Arad, captured in Lebanon in the 1980s, and they said no findings were recovered. The town's mayor, Hamil Musawi, told N.P.R. that residents heard helicopters arriving and were on alert. Armed residents and Hezbollah then attacked the team when they landed at a local cemetery. Israeli aircraft and carried out dozens of airstrikes to cover their withdrawal, killing both combatants and civilians. With Hezbollah losing 10 men, according to a source in the militant group. Jawad Riz Khala and P.R. News. Beirut. Six people are in custody in New York City after a smoke-generating device was thrown

2:06during protests yesterday at the residents of Mayor Zoromam Donny. Police say about 20 anti-Muslim protesters were met with counter-protesters. The city's police commissioner, Jessica Tish. The devices which were a bit smaller than a football appeared to be a jar wrapped in black tape. Importantly, with nuts, bolts, and screws along with a hobby fuse that could be lit. A federal judge has ruled the acting CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, Carrie Lake, was not elevated to that job legitimately, and all her actions were undertaken without legal authority. The ruling declares void all her actions in that role, including mass layoffs and administrative leaves at Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and Radio Free Asia. This is NPR News in Washington. Searchers are sifting through wreckage left by several suspected tornadoes that killed two people in Oklahoma on Friday, and four people in southern Michigan later in the day,

3:11and the Union Lake area three people were killed, 12 others injured, a 12-year-old boy was killed 50 miles southwest, the National Weather Service says there was a strong tornado there. Daylight Saving Time starts today and lasts for another eight months, until we turn the clocks back an hour in the fall. But one Canadian province has turned their clocks permanently, starting a new era of permanent daylight saving, and PR's RetroChadigee reports. The change means darker mornings and brighter evenings throughout the year in British Columbia. Public Health researchers say daylight saving time is linked to more car accidents, more strokes, heart attacks, and obesity cases each year, because the latest start to the day means more people waking up in the dark and going to bed later, which affects our biological clocks and our overall health. Researchers say a permanent shift to daylight saving would also be bad for health, but David Ebie, the premier of British Columbia, says the clock shift is supported by the vast majority of residents. In British Columbia, we tend to wake up in the dark, take our kids to

4:15school in the dark in the winter. We're on the very western edge of the time zone, and so we have dark mornings anyway. People really want that hour at the end of the day. RetroChadigee and PR News At the PGA Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando, Florida, golfer Daniel Berger was two strokes ahead when darkness stopped play yesterday. Ashke Bhattia is just behind Berger. I'm Louise Kivode and PR News. Listen to this podcast sponsor-free on Amazon Music with a Prime Membership, or any podcast app by subscribing to NPR News Now Plus at plus.npr.org. That's plus.npr.org