NPR News: 03-13-2026 1AM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. The FBI is praising a group of ROTC students for bringing a classroom shooting at Virginia's old Dominion University to an end. The FBI Special Agent Dominic Evans. The brave ROTC members in that room subdued him. And if not for them, I'm not sure, you know, what else he may have done. But that's exactly they confronted him and they subdued him and he was no longer able to conduct any further attack. The FBI has identified the government as a convicted Islamic State supporter who was once a member of the Army National Guard, the ROTC students killed him after he patently shot one person and injured two others. The FBI is also investigating Thursday's attack on a synagogue outside Detroit. The suspect was found dead after he crashed his truck into the synagogue. One guard, one guard was injured. The Paris-based International Energy Agency

1:00says the war in the Middle East is creating the largest supply disruption in the history of global oil markets. St. Pierre's Eleanor Beardsley reports. The IEA says oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz have plunged from around 20 million barrels a day to a mere trickle and that Gulf countries have cut total oil production by at least 10 million barrels a day because they cannot ship the oil and storage facilities have filled up. The shots are being felt across the world. In Europe, drivers in border areas are exploiting different government taxation levels. French motorists are driving into Spain for cheaper gas, but Germans are lining up at French gas stations. French oil giant totals says it will freeze prices through the end of March. Gas in France is around two euros a liter, the equivalent of $9.00 a gallon. Eleanor Beardsley in Pierre News, Paris. Israel's military prosecutor has dismissed all charges against a group of soldiers accused of sexually abusing a detainee from Gaza. It was one of the most prominent cases of alleged

2:03abuse that Israeli authorities investigated from the Gaza War in Pierre-Staniel Estrant reports from Tel Aviv. The case made headlines in 2024 when Israeli TV broadcast security footage showing Israeli soldiers leading away a Palestinian detainee, then holding up shields, hiding their actions, as they allegedly severely abused him, including inserting an object into his rectum causing injury. Five soldiers were indicted, causing big demonstrations in support of the soldiers. Then the military's top lawyer admitted to leaking the security camera footage, leading to her resignation. The military's new top lawyer is now dismissing the charges. Among his reasons were that the Palestinian detainee was returned to Gaza, making it hard to prosecute the case. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the charges being dismissed, saying the case made Israel look bad worldwide. Daniel Estrant, NPR News, Tel Aviv. This is NPR News. The US military says rescue efforts are ongoing in Western Iraq, US

3:05Central Command confirming an statement that one of its refueling aircraft went down in an incident that involved another aircraft that was able to land safely. The military says the crash was not the result of hostile or friendly fire. Casualties are unclear. New federal drought data show much of the American West is now experiencing its lowest snowpack in history. NPR's Kirk Siggler reports this comes as record heat is expected to bear down on the region in the next week. March is typically the snowiest month of the year in Colorado, but this year the state is reporting its lowest snow totals on record. The cascades in Oregon and Washington are in a similar dire state. According to new data from NOAA's drought monitor, in California warm temperatures have already caused rapid snow melt and an early spring runoff. Every single river basin in the West has experienced its warmest or second warmest winter on record. Snow is the West's primary water storage and tens of millions of people rely on it for drinking water, food, and power. The federal Bureau of Reclamation now predicts the water

4:10level in Lake Powell may drop so low that the Glen Canyon Dam will cease producing power by December. Kirk Siggler in P.R. News, Boseman Montana. Stocks in Japan tracking Wall Street's declines of benchmark knee K down 1.3 percent in Friday trading as a wrong-board drives oil prices higher. Wall Street finished sharply lower the S&P 500 fell 1.5 percent Thursday the Dow dropped 1.6 percent. I'm Giles Snyder. This is M.P.R. News. This week on Consider this, Warren Ron and a new front in Lebanon. What is the cost in lives and to Americans at home? And in Ukraine after four years the war there grinds on. Is that what Russians want? Our reporters are on the ground with firsthand reporting from Beirut, Moscow. Listen for their stories on Consider this on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.