NPR News: 03-30-2026 6AM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News in Washington, on Corvo Coleman, President Trump says he's thinking about seizing Iran's main oil terminal on Kharag Island. He gave an interview to the Financial Times yesterday where he said maybe the U.S. would take Kharag Island, or maybe it wouldn't, and that he had a lot of options. Trump flew back to Washington yesterday aboard Air Force I. He told reporters then, Iran has decided to allow some oil tankers to sail through the strait of Hormuz last week, and will allow a few more to pass. And today they gave us another present. They gave us 20 boatloads of oil. That starts being shipped tomorrow. We're having very good meetings, both directly and indirectly. He says the tankers are a quote sign of respect. But Iran says it is not holding direct talks with the U.S. Meanwhile, Pakistan says it will host talks between the U.S. and Iran in coming days. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is widening his country's invasion of southern Lebanon, calling it a security buffer zone. It's intended to stop

1:01Hezbollah militants from firing rockets into Israel, and Pierce-Lorne Freyr has more from Beirut. First, Israeli officials said they'd take Lebanese territory up to the Latani river 10 to 20 miles north of the current border. Then they ordered residents out of a zone 10 miles beyond that. Collette Sleem is the principal of a school housing displaced people on the boundary of that zone, where the roar of Israeli warplanes interrupted our interview. Residents are fleeing north in waves, she says, and her shelter is now full. Israel has been striking homes, bridges, highways, and fuel stations, forcing people from homes that in some cases had only just been repaired from the last Israeli invasion in 2024. Lauren Freyr and PR News Beirut. Lebanon says Israeli attacks have killed more than 1,200 people and displaced about a fifth of the population. TSA agents have now gone without pay for more than a month that's triggered historic wait times at airport security checkpoints. But as NPR's Joe Hernandez reports, the Trump

2:06administration says TSA workers could be paid as early as today. The Trump administration says it's using funding within the Department of Homeland Security budget to pay TSA workers. That's after Congress failed to reach a deal to fund DHS. Lawmakers have disagreed over calls for tighter restrictions on immigration enforcement. It's unclear exactly how the Trump administration's funding plan for TSA will work. The agency is seeing its longest wait times in history, with some travelers stuck four hours or more in airport security lines. Federal officials say some airports have had more than 40 percent of TSA workers call out during the lapse in funding. Meanwhile, White House borders are Tom Homan told multiple media outlets ICE agents sent to airports could stay there even after TSA officers are paid. Joe Hernandez and PR News. You're listening to NPR. The conservative political action conference or CPAC has concluded its annual conference near Dallas. About 1600 attendees cast votes in a straw presidential poll. The winner

3:11was Vice President Vance, with about 53 percent. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was second with 35 percent, but that's a huge jump from last year when Rubio pulled at just 3 percent at CPAC. A new study by the University of Colorado Boulder says there is less ICE in the ocean than ever before recorded. The researchers say sea ICE is disappearing because of global warming. NASA officials say preparations are going smoothly for a Wednesday launch attempt for the Artemis 2 mission. As NPR's Nell Greenfield voice reports, its goal is to send astronauts around the moon for the first time since the 1970s. The four person crew is in quarantine at Kennedy Space Center, where a 322-foot tall rocket is being readied at the launch pad. The crew includes a few firsts for a moon mission, the first person of color, the first woman, and the first non-American, a Canadian Space Agency astronaut named Jeremy Hansen. At a press briefing, Hansen said their flight

4:15is actually a collaboration with lots of international partners. It's not just three Americans in a Canadian. It is people literally around the world and it's a beautiful thing. Their space journey is expected to last about 10 days. They'll test out their capsule systems close to Earth, and if all looks good, they'll go on a looping trip around the moon and back. Nell Greenfield voice, NPR News. This is 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.