NPR News: 02-26-2026 1AM EST
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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S. is gathering information on the killing of four people who crossed into Cuban waters on a speedboat registered in Florida.
We have various different elements of the U.S. government that are trying to verify elements of the story based on what's been provided to us now.
Rubio is in St. Kitts and Nevis meeting with Caribbean leaders. He says the Homeland Security Department and the Coast Guard are investigating. The Cuban government says the speedboat's occupants began firing when a Cuban border patrol boat approached. In addition to the four people killed, Cuba says six others were wounded. Officials from the U.S. and Iran are preparing to meet for a third round of negotiations on Iran's disputed nuclear program. Thursday's talks are being held in Geneva. President Trump says he wants to make health care a Republican issue heading into this November's midterm elections. But NPR's Selena Simmons-Duffin reports that Trump left out many health-related topics during Tuesday night's State of the Union address.
In this year's speech, President Trump did not mention his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., or the Make America Healthy Again effort.
What recent events in Cuba are being investigated by the U.S. government?
I think it may signal a pivot. away from the high-profile anti-vaccine activism of RFK.
That's political scientist Jonathan Oberlander of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Their actions are not terribly popular with the American public about vaccination, and I think it's a liability going into the 2026 midterms.
Other missing health topics? Measles, abortion, Medicaid cuts, rural health, and scientific research. In a statement, the White House told NPR that health care affordability and MAHA remain top priorities for the Trump administration. Selina Simmons-Duffin, NPR News, Washington.
Former Harvard President Larry Summers will step down from his teaching and administrative posts over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. From Member Station GBH in Boston, Kirk Carrapeza reports.
Harvard says Summers will retire from his academic and faculty appointments at the end of the school year and remain on leave until then. He won't teach or take on any new students to advise. Harvard senior Jessica Wong says that's welcome news.
On one hand, I'm very happy that no female student will have to be advised by him. But at the same time, like, There never should have been a culture that allowed this to happen.
Summers is also resigning from his role leading the Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Business and Government. In a statement, he says his decision to leave was difficult, and he's grateful to the students and colleagues he's worked with. For NPR News, I'm Kirk Carapazza in Boston.
Financial markets in Asia mostly advancing in Thursday trading following a rally on Wall Street. This is NPR. The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee is seeking answers from the Justice Department following an NPR investigation that found some Epstein files are missing from a public database. The files relate to allegations of sexual abuse against President Trump. California Congressman Robert Garcia has sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi demanding that she explain why the files are not among the millions that have been released and whether there is an active investigation into President Trump. Federal regulators have issued citations and fines to three businesses for failing to protect six workers who died by toxic gas exposure at a northern Colorado dairy last year.
Emma Vanden Heide of member station KUNC has details.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration says the dairy, a local dairy equipment servicer, and a local contractor failed to train workers properly on how to detect toxic gases.
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