NPR News: 04-01-2026 2PM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The U.S. Supreme Court will now weigh arguments over the future of birthright citizenship. Today, a majority of justices, including some who President Trump nominated, seem skeptical about the administration's effort to limit the constitutional provision. But NPR has carried Johnson reports the outcome remains far from certain. President Trump issued an executive order on day one that would end citizenship to babies born to people who are in the country illegally or here to work or visit on a temporary basis. If the Supreme Court agrees that order could affect 250,000 babies, born in the U.S. each year, and potentially be used to help revoke the citizenship of many others born earlier. Trump attended for the solicitor general's arguments but left as Attorney Cecilia Wong made her case for people challenging his order. Wong told the justices to agree with the president, would radically rewrite the constitution and upend more than 150 years of settled law.

1:02A decision is expected near the end of the Supreme Court term this summer, Carrie Johnson and NPR News. President Trump is expected to address the nation about the Iran War tonight at 9 Eastern. The conflict the U.S. and Israel began against the Islamic Republic is in its fifth week. Thousands of U.S. troops are stationed in the region. But now says the Iranian regime is relenting, but that appears to be very much in dispute and PR's Deepah Shivaram has more. On social media, Trump said Iran's new leader asked the U.S. for a ceasefire. The president said he would consider it if the straight of Hormuz, a critical route for oil, was opened. Until then, Trump said the U.S. would continue its attacks on Iran. But Iran's foreign ministry called Trump's comments saying that Iran asked for a ceasefire, quote, false and baseless. Trump has said the war, which has gone on for a month, should end in the next two to three weeks. Deepah Shivaram and PR News, the White House. The Food and Drug Administration approved another obesity pill today, this one from drug

2:04maker Eli Lilly. NPR Sydney Lepkin reports on how this medicine is different. Eli Lilly's new pill is called Fendio. Although this is the same company behind Zepbound, the blockbuster injectable obesity medicine, Eli Lilly decided not to take Zepbound's main ingredient and make it in pill form. Instead, the company developed a new ingredient, or for glipron. Daniel Skavronsky, the company's chief scientific and medical officer, says until now, all of these GLP-1 drugs have been peptides, meaning they need to be taken as injections or as a pill with restrictions. Makes something as simple as possible. That means we had to rely on more complicated science. Lilly hasn't announced a list price yet, but it says people with commercial insurance could pay as little as $25 a month, and for people paying cash, the lowest dose will cost $149 a month. Sydney Lepkin and PR News. Artemis II astronauts are heading to the launch pad for a historic trip around the moon

3:06and back. NASA is preparing to launch four people from Florida's Kennedy Space Center for the first lunar mission in 54 years. Or before has a black man or a woman flown on such a mission, but in PR's Katie Riddle reports that lately, NASA has not been talking much about these firsts. When the crew was first announced a few years ago, NASA officials were proud to highlight these achievements. But that was before President Trump returned to office in signed executive actions targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts across federal agencies. Since then, NASA has removed language from their website, celebrating the crew's diversity. AJ Link is from the group Black and Astro. I think it's really important to explicitly highlight the inclusion of not just Black folks, but other marginalized folks have been left out at the industry and to back away from that or to erase that, I think, is wrong. After this mission, NASA is planning for another possibly returning to the moon surface.

4:07Katie Riddle and PR News. Hershey knows not everyone's sweet on its Reese's products these days, who it's going back to basics. Brad Reese, whose grandfather invented Reese's peanut butter cups, didn't like it when Hershey took the cost-saving measure of replacing milk, chocolate, and peanut butter with cheaper ingredients he made his feelings known in a public letter on Valentine's Day. Well, today, Hershey said it will go back to classic recipes for all Reese's products starting next year. The Dow is up 324 points. It's NPR News. According 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 dot NPR dot org. That's plus dot NPR dot org.