NPR News: 03-09-2026 3PM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Federal prosecutors say two Pennsylvania men are now charged with trying to provide material support to Islamic State when they lobbed explosive devices during a protest outside the New York City Mayor's resident Saturday. At the time, a far-right influencer was leading a protest which drew a larger counter-protest. Police Commissioner Jessica Tish addressed the public during a news conference a short time ago about the suspects, 18-year-old Amir Balat and 19-year-old Ibrahim Kayumi. After being advised of his Miranda rights and waving those rights, Kayumi said in recorded post-a-rest statements that he had watched ISIS propaganda on his phone and that his actions that day were partly inspired by ISIS. The police commissioner said the two explosive devices hurled near Gracie Manchin over the weekend did not detonate. The army has released the name of the seventh US soldier killed in the war against Iran,

1:04and eighth soldier has also died from non-combat-related causes. NPR's Quill Lawrence has an update. The army says 26-year-old Sergeant Benjamin and Pennington died over the weekend of wound-sustained on the first day of the US and Israeli bombings of Iran. Pennington was deployed with the first space brigade to print Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, and the base came under Iranian drone attack on March 1st. Pennington was from Glendale, Kentucky, and joined the army in 2017. The army said he'll be posthumously promoted to Staff Sergeant. The bodies of six Americans killed in action were flown home over the weekend and received in a ceremony attended by President Trump. The New York Army National Guard has identified a soldier who died of non-combat-related causes in Kuwait on March 6th. As your sorefully devious of Queen's New York was 46 years old, Quill Lawrence and P.R. News. As the US-Israel war against Iran escalates in its second week, the price of oil continued to climb. Brent Crude, the global oil benchmark, surged past $100 a barrel yesterday for the first

2:06time in four years. Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic is suing the Trump administration for designating the company a supply chain risk. NPR's Bobby Allen reports Anthropic says the government is illegally retaliating against the company. Anthropic filed two lawsuits alleging that Trump officials broke the law by placing the company on a contractor blacklist. The company says it came after Anthropic said its powerful AI programs could not be used in lethal autonomous weapons, nor to spy on American citizens. After that, the Pentagon label Anthropic a supply chain risk, a label typically used against foreign adversaries like China. The suits say Trump officials violated the company's free speech and exceeded the law's authority on supply chain rules. The Pentagon would not comment on the suit. President Trump has said he will order all federal agencies to stop using Anthropic's AI tool, Claude, Bobby Allen and P.R. News. This is NPR. Arizona's state Senate president says he has complied with a subpoena he received last week, seeking records from a flawed review of the 2020 election in Maricopa

3:10County. Republican Warren Peterson wrote on X, the FBI has the records. NPR has reached out to the FBI, seeking comment, both the Maricopa County Recorder's Office and Board of Supervisors toll member station KJZZ, they had not received subpoenas. The widely discredited GOP led review, which was launched by the previous state Senate president and followed baseless fraud claims in the crucial swing county, confirmed President Trump's 2020 election loss there. People who take hormone therapy to treat symptoms of menopause are experiencing delays when they go to pick up their prescriptions. NPR's Allison Aubrey reports some manufacturers of estrogen patches acknowledge shortages. After the FDA removed warning labels from estrogen, more women are asking about hormone therapy. Dr. Nora Lansen, the chief medical officer of electric health, says menopause hormone therapy has grown steadily over the last several years and many women now use estrogen patches which deliver the hormone through the skin instead of taking oral estrogen pills.

4:15This transdermal version of estradiol is really a much safer option and that's why there's been such demand. CVS says manufacturers have been unable to provide sufficient supplies of estrogen patches and some manufacturers acknowledge shortages but do not provide a reason. Allison Aubrey, NPR News, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 330 points, it's NPR News.