NPR News: 03-27-2026 11PM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman. The Wall Street Journal reports that 10 American military personnel were wounded when an Iranian missile hit a shared base in Saudi Arabia. Two of them were in serious condition, NPR's independently confirmed that the attack did take place. President Trump is ordering the Department of Homeland Security and Office of Management and Budget to pay TSA agents. As NPR's Danielle Kurtz-Leban reports, the order comes as Congress again failed to end the DHS shutdown. In the memo, President Trump says the slowdowns at airport security and low morale among TSA workers, quote, constitute an emergency situation, compromising the nation's security, end quote. The memo states that 60,000 TSA employees are currently not being paid. Since federal agents killed two Americans in Minneapolis earlier this year, Democrats have refused to fund DHS without limits on immigration enforcement tactics. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has rejected a Senate pass bill that would fund DHS minus ice and border patrol.

1:01Johnson called the bill a joke. Danielle Kurtz-Leban and P.R. News, the White House. House Democratic leader Hakim Jeffrey says the better way forward in the budget showdown is to have the House vote on the funding measure passed by the Senate Thursday night that compromise bill would restore funding for much of DHS, including FEMA, the Coast Guard and TSA. House Democrats are prepared to support the bill to end the Trump Republican shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. Make sure TSA agents are paid, stand up for FEMA and for the Coast Guard and for our cyber security professionals. Democrats have been holding up the funding because they want ice agents to stop wearing face masks, wear the same identification other police agencies use, and to stop conducting raids around schools and other sensitive places. Secretary of Defense Pete Hagueceth has intervened to stop the promotions of six military officers and P.R. Squill Lawrence reports that they were black or female and untracked become one-star

2:01generals. Since he took office, Pete Hagueceth has fired many prominent black and female officers. Now U.S. officials familiar with the matter, but not authorized to speak publicly, told NPR that Hagueceth made the highly unusual move of interfering in the regular promotion process to block three female and three black officers from becoming generals. A different U.S. official confirmed that Hagueceth has been weeding out senior officers who are deemed ideologically incompatible. Before his appointment by the Trump administration, Hagueceth wrote books disparaging the U.S. military as woke and suggesting that diversity in the ranks has weakened the force. While Street finished its fourth straight-losing week on Friday, with all major indices finishing down its the Marcus Longest Losing streak in almost four years, the Nasdaq was hurt the most losing 2.15% on the day, the Dow finished 1.73 points down. You're listening to NPR News. Secretary of State Mark Rubio says Ukraine's president was lying when he said this week

3:05that the U.S. wants his country to hand over territory in order to receive American security guarantees. Rubio says he told Ukraine that Russia wanted the land exchange, but that the U.S. is not advocating for that in ceasefire talks. The last talks between the U.S. and Ukraine took place last week in Florida. Confer Tiger Woods was arrested on suspicion of DUI today after a crash near his home on Jupiter Island, Florida. Sophia Bautadano, member station WLRN, has more on our story. The Morning County Sheriff's Office say would show signs of impairment at the scene of the crash in which he struck another vehicle and rolled over. Authorities say Woods and the other driver were not injured. Woods is also facing another misdemeanor charge of refusal to submit a lawful test. While Woods took a breath analyzer test, which registered nothing, police say he refuses to submit a urine sample. The accident marks the third time Woods has been involved in a car crash. In February 2021, his SUV ran off a coaster road in Los Angeles, causing multiple leg and

4:08ankle injuries. He was also arrested on a DUI charge in 2017 when South Florida police found him asleep behind the wheel. For NPR News, I'm Sophia Bautadano in Miami. Notre Dame guard Hannah Hidalgo had 31 points, 11 rebounds and 10 steals as Notre Dame slip passed Vanderbilt fried a 67 to 64, Sarah Strong meanwhile had 21 points and 10 rebounds as defending champion Connecticut beat North Carolina 63 to 42. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News.