NPR News: 04-09-2026 1AM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. The two-week ceasefire between the U.S., Iran, and Israel has started to look fragile less than 24 hours since it was brokered by Pakistan. NPR's D. Parvaz has more. The spokesman for Iran's Revolutionary Guard posted on next that a wrong wall quote, not leave our brothers in Hezbollah alone, adding that the IRGC Navy has started blocking ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, reopening the Strait for two weeks was part of the ceasefire deal. This game after Israel launched what it called Operation Eternal Darkness against Iranian backed Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon. The White House maintains that the claims that the Strait is closed are completely false. Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Adolfi said on next that quote, the U.S. must choose ceasefire or continue war via Israel. It cannot have both. The world sees the massacres in Lebanon, the ball is in the U.S. court, and the world is watching whether it will act on its commitments. Hezbollah, NPR News, Vaughn, Turkey.

1:01And a late night post on social media, President Trump said U.S. military ships and aircraft will remain in place surrounding Iran, and threaten that the U.S. will start shooting again, unless Iran fully complies with the deal reached with the United States. A new report finds artificial intelligence is reshaping the workplace, but not evenly by gender as NPR's Windsor-Johnston reports. New data from Lehman, a nonprofit focused on women in the workplace, show men are slightly more likely to use AI at work. About 78 to 73 percent of women. Cerelle Friedler, a computer science professor at Haverford College says how AI is used and judged can vary. Different types of work are going to be more or less appropriate to use AI to support or supplement parts of your job. With respect to gender, the gap goes beyond usage. Women report less encouragement from managers, less recognition for using AI, and greater concern will be judged negatively or seen as cutting corners. Researchers warn those patterns could widen as AI becomes more embedded in the workplace.

2:06Windsor-Johnston and NPR News. The Artemis 2 Moon Mission Astronauts have unveiled a special item on board their capsule as they return to Earth. On a video link with Mission Control in Houston Wednesday, Mission Commander Reed Weisman said the crew took with them an American flag that was to have landed on the Moon with the Apollo 18 astronauts, whose mission in 1973 was canceled. We are honored to carry the torch from Apollo through Skylab, through the Space Shuttle, through our beloved International Space Station, and now back further than humans have ever gone around the far side of the Moon and safely home back to Houston. Artemis 2 remains on track for a splashdown on Friday in the Pacific of San Diego. On Monday, the astronauts reached a record-breaking distance from Earth, topping the previous record held by Apollo 13. This is NPR. A federal judge has handed down a sentence of 15 years in prison to a woman who pleaded guilty to selling actor Matthew Perry

3:08that ketamine that killed him in 2023. 42-year-old Jesphine Sangha is the third defendant to be sentenced of the five who pleaded guilty in Perry's death. In court, filings prosecutors cast her as a ketamine queen who had an elaborate drug operation that catered to high-end clients. The famed master's golf tournament is set to tee off Thursday, and Augusta, Georgia, and a couple of big names, including five-time winner Tiger Woods will not be there. From member station WABE in Atlanta, Alex Helmock has more. Woods issued a statement after his car crash last month in subsequent DUI arrest that he was taking a break to get treatment. Three-time winner Phil Mickelson also withdrew. He cited a family health matter. Meantime, Roy McRoy looks to defend his master's title after completing a career grand slam, winning all four majors. Also, Breakaway League Live Golf will have 10 former PGA players in the tournament, five of which have won the green jacket before.

4:09With no rain expected, tournament officials will be able to control how hard the greens are, and ultimately the difficulty of the course. For NPR News, I'm Alex Helmock. The ceasefire announced Wednesday, triggered a rally in global markets. All three US indexes advance more than 2 percent in what's being called a relief rally. However, with cracks appearing in the truth between the US and Iran, stocks in Asia down, oil prices upnudged back above $97 a barrel. This is NPR News. Each store you hear on Planet Money starts with a question. What happens if we refund tariffs? Why are groceries so expensive? At NPR, we stand for your right to be curious because the forces shaping our world can be hard to see. Follow NPR's Planet Money wherever you get your podcasts and start seeing how the economy really works.