NPR News: 04-09-2026 12AM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. The ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran is under strain following Wednesday's Israeli attacks in Lebanon said to be the deadliest day of the war. Lebanon says more than 250 people were killed, and in response, Iran says it has closed the strait of her moves again. And Iran back has blam militias as it will continue firing rockets until the attacks stop. Iran's foreign minister just posted on social media about what he called massacres in Lebanon. He pointed to the Pakistani Prime Minister's initial description of the ceasefire as including Lebanon, and said the ball is in the U.S. court that the world is watching. The White House has said it does not consider Lebanon to be part of the ceasefire President Trump told PBS he considers it, quote, a separate skirmish. The White House says Vice President Vance is heading to Pakistan for talks Friday about the ceasefire. But Iran has suggested those talks might be cancelled because of today's violence.

1:00UN Secretary General Antonio Cotarish is condemning the Israeli strikes in Lebanon, and in a statement he called on all parties to cease hostilities, Australia's Prime Minister says Lebanon must be included in the ceasefire. Lebanon has declared Thursday a national day of mourning. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says Democrats will force a war power's vote to put Republicans on the record with the U.S.-Iran conflict. Here's impures Claudia Griselas. Democrats started forcing the Senate votes to limit President Trump's war powers before they left for a two-week recess. Now, Democratic Leader Schumer says they'll try again when Congress returns next week. Congress must reassert its authority, especially at this dangerous moment. No president, Democrat or Republican should take this country to war alone. Schumer argued the conflict was a, quote, colossal failure that has made global conditions worse for the U.S. and its allies. Democrats need to build support on the GOP side only one Senate Republican.

2:04Kentucky's Rand Paul has supported past attempts to limit Trump's military actions in Iran. Claudia D. Salis and B.R. News. Now to Utah where measles cases are climbing, the state has confirmed 583 cases since the outbreak started last summer. Sean Higgins with Member Station K.U.E.R. has more. State epidemiologist Dr. Lee Shannoulin says while the outbreak started in a small community along the Utah Arizona border, it's quickly spreading. It is now hitting people from all different areas of the state with all different practices, from all different kinds of communities. It isn't limited to any specific group anymore. According to the state health department, more than 80% of cases are among unvaccinated people. Nolan says it's hard to know when the outbreak could slow down, but warmer weather could help, as people spend less time inside. For NPR News, I'm Sean Higgins in Salt Lake City. This is NPR News. I know in Oregon, an appeal score it has handed a notable victory to a major West Coast

3:06electric utility, Oregon Public Broadcasting's April Erlock has more. In 2023, a jury found Pacific Corp grossly negligent for keeping its lines charged during a wind storm, potentially sparking four different wildfires across Oregon in 2020. Since this was a class action lawsuit, the verdict meant thousands could claim damages against the Berkshire Hathaway owned utility. But an appeals court now says the jury in that lawsuit received bad instructions, as jury members were told to assume that all evidence applied to all class members, but these were separate wildfires in different parts of the state. This decision could ultimately shrink how much Pacific Corp pays to people harmed in the 2020 Oregon wildfires. So far, that price tag has soared past $1 billion. For NPR News, I'm April Erlock in Portland. A long island architect accused in a string of unsolved murders dating back to the 1990s, facing life in prison. Rex Hormann entered guilty, please, Wednesday, admitting in court that he killed eight women

4:07in a case at Stymied investigators until DNA evidence led to his arrest. Crimes are known as the Gilgo Beach Killings, authority say Hormann killed the women after over a 17-year span. A jury in Hawaii has returned a guilty verdict. In the case of Dr. Gerhard Kohnig, a jury convicted Kohnig, there's day of trying to kill his wife during a high-class year. He was accused of trying to push her off a cliff, beating her with a rock, and then trying to inject her with a syringe that jury deliberated for about a day before a convicted Kohnig of attempted manslaughter. This is NPR. I want to understand the reason and the meanings of the narratives that led us here and maybe had a head them off at the pass. That's on the media's specialty. I'm Brooke Gladstone, host of WNYC's On the Media. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.