NPR News: 04-04-2026 7PM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dua Halice, I-Cow-Tow. US forces are continuing their search for an American service member who ejected out of an F-15 jet shot down by Iran on Friday. Another crew member of the pilot was rescued and is being treated. A second US combat plane down near the Strait of Hormuz. Aaron David Miller is a former State Department official and senior fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. It's extraordinary, frankly, in the thousands of sorties that both the Americans and Israelis have flown that this is the first time that you had a down-to-air craft. But it is, I think, tremendously symbolic. It suggests that the Americans don't have total escalation, dominance of the airspace. Iranians still have capacity not to mention the propaganda value of this assuming the Iranians find the Erman. Aaron David Miller, senior fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Russia says it is continuing to evacuate its staff from Iran's lone operational nuclear

1:05plant amid ongoing US-Israeli attacks. The latest exit comes, as Tehran said, its nuclear facility had come under attack, killing an Iranian security guard from Moscow and Paris-Charles-Mains reports. The head of Russia's nuclear energy agency, Ross Adams, Alexei Likachov, said nearly 200 Russian workers departed the Bush Air nuclear facility by bus minutes before the plant was hit. And we're now on route out of Iran. Like a chauve who's been slowly pulling his staff of 700 Russian workers from the nuclear plant since the US-Israeli attacks began over a month ago, suggested a full withdrawal was now imminent. Iran has accused the US and Israel of repeatedly targeting Bush Air, and there have been no registered spikes in radiation levels. The United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency says it's deeply concerned over continuing fighting near the facility. Charles Mainz and Pierre News, Moscow. The attorneys general of California, New York, and Massachusetts say they have concerns about the Trump administration's treatment of unaccompanied migrant girls who are pregnant.

2:08They've outlined their concerns in a letter, marked back in court with the California Newsroom reports. The letter was sent by California Attorney General Rob Bonta in the wake of a six-month investigation by NPR member stations. The story exposed a federal directive to send pregnant migrant children to a single group home in South Texas, beginning last July. Child welfare advocates say the move was intended to detain the pregnant girls in a state where abortion is illegal. A Biden era role requires the government to provide unaccompanied children access to abortion services, but the administration is currently trying to remove that role. The attorneys general say the policy change could keep the girls from getting, quote, life or health-saving abortion care. For NPR News, I'm Mark Bettincourt. In New Iberia, Louisiana, a driver has struck more than a dozen people. This is NPR News from New York City. Nine legendary basketball figures were named today to the 2026 class of the Nazmuth basketball hall of fame.

3:09Greg Ecklin reports on a highlight of the class. The nine consists of four former players, two coaches, one referee, one contributor, and collectively, the 1996 U.S. women's Olympic gold medal winning team. Candace Parker says she learned from 1996 Olympians like Lisa Leslie, a WNBA teammate in her rookie season. She was nicknamed Smooth and Silk by Michael Cooper, and so to be able to play with different generations, I got to feel very lucky because I got to play with the past and the present. In 2008, Candace Parker was the only one in WNBA history to be named rookie of the year and MVP in the same season. The induction ceremony will be in August. Greg Ecklin, NPR News, in India, Vapolis. Again, it is six weeks into the U.S. Israeli war against Iran and today state media there reported that U.S. and Israeli warplanes continued to strike major targets in Iran, including an oil industry hub called

4:12Mashaar Special Petrochemical Zone. Meanwhile, the Islamic Republic's Islamic Revolutionary Guard targeted U.S. tech giant Oracle in Dubai, damaging the multi-structure building, 17 other big U.S. tech companies including Microsoft and Google were named as possible targets days ago in response to further assassination attempts by the U.S. and Israel. This is NPR News.