NPR News: 03-10-2026 4AM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. President Trump, reporters in Miami Monday saying the military operation in Iran has been a tremendous success, suggesting the war could ensue. But he also said he wants to be sure Iran cannot develop nuclear weapons in Piers-Moral Alliance. He was declaring victory. At one point he said this was just an excursion. We're close to finishing very, very soon. But he also talked about doing more. He said we could call this a success or go further. We're going to go further. So it's a little bit unclear as to how soon he wants to get out. But this was a declaring victory speech. And we would assume that after you declare victory, you look for an off-rand. President Trump is again expressing hopes that the U.S. will have a, quote, friendly take-over of Cuba. And as NPR's Michelle Kalamon reports, he's put Secretary of State Marco Rubio in charge of making a deal. President Trump says Cuba used to live off help from Venezuela.

1:00But the U.S. cut that off after a military operation earlier this year that ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. Now Trump thinks Cuba needs to make a deal with them. They're down to, as they say, fumes. They have no energy. They have no money. They're deep trouble on a humanitarian basis. Trump says Rubio, whose parents were born in Cuba, is trusted and speaks the language. And Trump says he believes this could be a friendly takeover. Michelle Kalamon and PR News, the State Department. JetBlue is getting back to normal after a brief ground stop. The FAA says it grounded all JetBlue flights due to requests from the airline. JetBlue is blaming what it said was a system outage, but did not provide further details. Artificial intelligence firm Anthropics suing the Trump administration for designating the company a supply chain risk. Anthropics says the government is illegally retaliating against the company as impuars

2:04Bobby Allen reports. 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 Anthropics 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 Anthropics AI tool, Claude Bobby Allen and PR News. A narrow House Republican majority got tighter on Monday. California Congressman Kevin Kylie says he will still caucus with House Republicans, but he is dropping his party affiliation to serve as an independent. Kylie is the two-term congressman facing a tough re-an election battle in California. This is MPR News. A new study finds that social media use can be linked to symptoms of mental health problems

3:07and substance use in children and adolescents. The link between social media use and depression was stronger in kids in their early teens. MPR's Retrochattergy reports. The study was a meta-analysis of more than 150 previously published studies involving nearly 19,000 participants. Researchers found that social media use among children and adolescents was consistently associated with higher levels of depression, self-harm, substance use and behavioral issues. It was also linked to poor academic performance and poorer perception of oneself. The study also looked at impacts of video games on kids and found them to be linked with aggression and other behavioral concerns. Video games were also linked to modest increases in attention and executive functioning. The results are published in JAMA Pediatrics, Retrochattergy and MPR News. Australia has granted asylum to five members of the Iranian women's soccer team. The team was in the country for the Asian Cup tournament when the Iran War began.

4:07Officials say the five players sought asylum because they feared persecution in Iran. The announcement came after President Trump said he had spoken with Australia's Prime Minister. The MBA says it is called off the Atlanta Hawks Plan for a promotional event at a strip club. The league says it's stepped in after hearing concerns from many across the MBA, Fox announced a plan to celebrate Atlanta's Magic City Adult Entertainment Club last month billing it as a tribute to an iconic cultural institution. 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.