NPR News: 04-24-2026 2AM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder, a long night in Inodok, LaHoma, where search and rescue operations are underway following a massive tornado. Rescuers are searching for people who may be trapped and debris. Mayor David Mason says police have been able to get some people out of homes that sustain heavy damage. They were doing search and rescue. We have now backed them out so that OHP can come into a secondary search and do it in quadrants. Mason spoke to KOCO TV. Video posted online shows are rapidly moving, Twister touching down. The Garfield County Sheriff's Office says there are no immediate reports of fatalities and that injuries are minor. Inod is a city of about 50,000 people, about 80 miles north of Oklahoma City. President Trump has ruled out using a nuclear weapon against Iran. Speaking in the Oval Office, Trump also said he has plenty of time to reach a peace deal and stress at his top priority is making sure that Tehran never possesses nuclear

1:05weapons in purest annual Kurt Slaven reports. Trump was testy responding to a reporters question as to whether he'd use a nuclear weapon against Iran. Why would I use a nuclear weapon? We've totally in a very conventional way decimated them without it. No, I wouldn't use it. A nuclear weapon should never be allowed to be used by anybody. Earlier this month, Trump threatened Iran on social media saying, quote, a whole civilization will die tonight never to be brought back again, unquote. Trump also tells reporters now that he is not in a hurry to come to a peace deal with Iran saying, quote, I don't want to rush it. I want to take by time. We have plenty of time. Danielle Kurt Slaven and Pierre News, the White House. President Trump says Israel and Lebanon have agreed to extend a ceasefire by three weeks. The announcement came at the White House Thursday following a meeting between Israel and Lebanese ambassadors. Trump says he expects to meet at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Lebanese President Joseph Ohn in the next couple of weeks.

2:06Federal Safety Investigators say a series of communication failures contributed to last month's deadly crash at New York's LaGuardia Airport impures. Joel Rose reports on the National Transportation Safety Board's Preliminary Report. The firefighter who's truck collided with an air candidate jet on a runway at New York's LaGuardia Airport told investigators he heard an air traffic controller repeatedly saying, stop, stop, stop. But the firefighter said he didn't know that those instructions were intended for his truck until it was already on the runway. That's not the only communication failure detailed in the preliminary report from the NTSB. Investigators also say a crash prevention alert system did not work as intended because the fire truck and other emergency vehicles were not outfitted with transponders. The two pilots of the air candidate jet were killed in the collision. The first deadly crash at LaGuardia in more than 30 years. Joel Rose and PR News. This is NPR News. Federal authorities have charged a special forces soldier involved in the capture of Venezuela and President Nicolas Maduro. NPR's Bobby Allen reports

3:10that prosecutors say the Army official profited on the prediction market site Polymarket. Prosecutors have unsealed an indictment against Ganon Ken Van Dyke, a U.S. Special Forces soldier who helped plan and carry out the arrest of Maduro. Under the username Burden Summix, Van Dyke allegedly placed $32,000 in bets on Polymarket that Maduro would soon be out of power. Those wagers netted him more than $400,000 in profit. Polymarket is an overseas, unregulated exchange where traders are anonymous and bet with cryptocurrency. But federal investigators worked with Polymarket to identify Van Dyke. He's the first person criminally charged in the U.S. over trades on prediction markets, which have seen massive growth in Trump's second term. Donald Trump Jr. is an investor and advisor to Polymarket. Bobby Allen and PR News. Trump administration is reclassifying medical marijuana as a less dangerous drug. The move Thursday does not legalize marijuana under federal law, but it does put licensed medical marijuana on par with drugs that are

4:10less strictly regulated. It marks a first step toward broader federal acceptance and it could boost research. The proposed merger between Paramount and Warner Brothers Discovery has received shareholder approval. Warner Brothers said Thursday that preliminary results show an overwhelming majority voted to support selling the entire business to Paramount for $31 a share. The deal not quite done at face is regulatory review on the merger's impact on competition. I'm Giles Snyder, NPR News. Wanna hear this podcast without sponsor breaks? Amazon Prime members can listen to NPR News now sponsor free through Amazon Music. Or you can also support NPR's vital journalism and get NPR Plus at plus.NPR.org. That's plus.NPR.org.