NPR News: 03-27-2026 11AM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News in Washington, on Corva Coleman, President Trump is delaying his deadline for Iran to fully reopen the state of Hormuz, or the U.S. will attack Iranian power plants. The latest deadline is April 6th, and Pierre Zemeli-Fang reports the U.S. and Israel continue to strike Iran. Israel's military said it had struck a missile in sea-mine production facility in Yazd province in the middle of Iran. Overnight, it also said it targeted ballistic missile and aerial defense system production sites in Tehran. A handful of social media posts have made it out of Iran's near-total telecommunications blackout, and they show strikes on Tehran and the Iranian city of Isfahan. Hours earlier, Iran's revolutionary guard said it had struck U.S. bases in the UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait in the Gulf using missiles in drones. Emily Fang and Pierre News, Van Turkey. The Senate passed legislation overnight to fund part of the Homeland Security Department and end the partial shutdown. Before the Senate voted for the measure, President Trump said he'd take executive action

1:00to pay TSA workers doing security at airports. Maggie Sabatino is a local union leader with the American Federation of Government employees and a TSA agent. She wanted to know why Trump took so long. It makes you think hard. If he can order DHS to pay us now, why wait 42 days? Why wait the last time 43 days? Why have a four-day stint in between? Why wasn't this done automatically? But she has advice for Congress too. Do your job. Get it together. You are playing with people's lives. People who come to work, they do their job. Working class American citizens. The funding bill now goes back to the House. It's not clear when they might vote on it. Survivors of sexual abuse perpetrated by Jeffrey Epstein are suing the Justice Department and Big Tech Company Google. The class action lawsuit filed in California claims their private information is spreading

2:00after the government released thousands of unredacted files. And B.R.'s Christian right explains. The group of Epstein survivors says the Justice Department publicly shared personally identifiable information without permission. The files included full names, images, contact information, and where they live. DOJ said last month it's fixing the redaction errors, but the federal complaint alleges Google is continuously republishing the information through its search engine and AI search tool. The survivors say they're getting calls, emails, and threats from strangers. They must prove, among other things, that the information was not of legitimate public concern. They argue while there is public interest in the Epstein case, the publication of their individual information by Google doesn't meet that privacy law standard. The survivors are asking the court to order the tech giant to remove the information. They're also seeking damages from DOJ and a jury trial. Washington. Google is a financial supporter of NPR. You're listening to NPR.

3:00The House Ethics Committee has determined a Florida Democratic Congresswoman has violated more than two dozen House rules and ethics standards. Congresswoman Sheila Scherfeles McCormick is accused of taking millions of dollars from her family's Florida health care business. That was after the state overpaid the business about $5 million in disaster relief funds. She has denied wrongdoing. Online streamer Netflix is going to raise prices. All of Netflix's plans will see increases. The lowest tier with ads will go up a dollar from $7.99 a month to $8.99. The premium Netflix plan will go up $2 a month to $26.99. The suspects have gotten an unprecedented look at the birth of a sperm whale and as NPR's Nate Roth reports they found it involved a surprising amount of teamwork. Eleven sperm whales had gathered closely in the Caribbean Sea and from a boat, not far off, marine biologist Shane Garrow knew something was up.

4:02And then suddenly there was this gush of blood. An attack by predators he feared until this little head pops out and then splashed these little floppy flukes like this little tiny tail. The labor birth and hours after were all recorded by aerial drones and underwater microphones. And in two studies published in the Journal Science and Scientific Reports, Garrow and colleagues detail how even whales that weren't related to the birth mother helped her and the calf. Showing Garrow says that sperm whales live rich and complicated social lives. Nate Roth and P.R. News And you're listening to NPR 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