NPR News: 03-20-2026 5PM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton, Iran is threatening to strike recreational and tourist sites worldwide and insists it's still building missiles. Its Supreme Leader issued another defiant statement today, though he has not been seen in public since the war began. President Trump says the U.S. has taken out Iran's top leaders. We have an hard time, we want to talk to them, and there's nobody to talk to. We have nobody to talk to, and you know what, we like it that way. The White House says Trump has no plans to send troops into Iran, but the U.S. is now deploying more warships and another 2,500 Marines, nearly three weeks into the war, it launched alongside Israel. Israel's Prime Minister says he will not strike any more Iranian oil fields and will follow the direction of President Trump. He also says Iran no longer has the ability to enrich uranium or produce ballistic missiles, claims he did not provide evidence to back up. NPR's Kerry con reports. In a press conference with foreign reporters, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his

1:01comments about Iran's decimated nuclear capabilities in Hebrew. He also said Israel acted alone, striking Iran's south-pars gas field. Iran has since intensified strikes against Gulf energy sites sending oil prices soaring. Netanyahu said Trump, quote, asked us to hold off on future attacks, and we're holding off. Trump also says the U.S. did not know about Israel's oil field attack, however, a person briefed on the matter, told NPR that the U.S. and Israel are coordinated on all targets. Kerry con and PR news Tel Aviv. Former FBI director James Comey has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury months after a separate case against him collapsed. NPR's Kerry Johnson reports President Trump has been eager to see Comey targeted by the justice system. President Trump has called the former FBI director a liar and a leaker needs blame Jim Comey

2:05for an investigation into Trump campaign ties to Russia years ago. Now a grand jury in Florida has issued a new subpoena to Comey, according to a source familiar with the matter. It seems to be part of a broader case focused on U.S. intelligence reports about foreign election interference. Comey's lawyer declined a comment. Also DOJ is fighting to revive a separate case against Comey that a judge threw out after finding the U.S. attorney in Virginia had been appointed illegally. Comey says he's the target of vindictive prosecution, and there's no basis to charge him with any wrongdoing. Kerry Johnson, NPR news Washington. NASA's moon rocket is back on the launch pad following hangar repairs. The rocket could blast off in early April with four astronauts. The first to fly to the moon in more than half a century, they'll fly around the moon in their capsule and then come straight home without stopping. This is NPR news. Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to drop charges against two Louisville officers tied

3:06to the raid that killed Brianna Taylor. The officers have been charged with falsifying parts of the warrant used to enter her apartment in March 2020, police shot and killed Taylor after they broke down her door serving a no-knock warrant and her boyfriend fired at the officers. Thousands of people in towns north of Honolulu have been told to evacuate their homes as flooding from heavy rains intensified in water levels rose behind a 120-year-old dam. Officials have been watching dam levels since a storm last week dumped heavy rain across the state, which led to catastrophic flooding that washed away roads and homes. Once our Chuck Norris has died, he was 86, and PR's Bob Mondello has this remembrance. In a fight, Chuck Norris tended to lead with his right, but the Alba trademarked a roundhouse kick that villains never seemed to see coming. It served him well in more than two dozen films after his pal Bruce Lee gave him his break as one of many villains in 1972's The Way of the Dragon. On TV, Norris played Sergeant Cordell Walker, a decorated Vietnam vet with Cherokee ancestry

4:08and about 200 episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger. Offscreen, he established philanthropies for children and veterans became a nationally syndicated health and fitness columnist and wrote nine books, including the conservative activist handbook Black Belt Patriotism, How To Reawaken America. He was also amused to find himself the subject of Internet memes, Chuck Norris Facts, that celebrated his supposed toughness with hyperbole and exaggeration, Bob Mondello, NPR News. U.S. Stocks, thank you again today, this is NPR News.