NPR News: 03-07-2026 1PM EST
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm. President Trump will travel to Dover Air Force Base today to attend the dignified transfer of six U.S. soldiers killed in the conflict with Iran. NPR's Franco Ordonez reports.
U.S. soldiers died Sunday when a drone hit a command center in Kuwait just a day after the U.S. and Israel launched airstrikes against Iran. Iran retaliated by firing missiles and drones against Israel and several Gulf states with U.S. bases, including Kuwait. The dignified transfer will take place at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where the remains of U.S. troops killed overseas are returned to the U.S., Their flag-draped transfer cases will be carefully carried off the plane in a largely private ceremony, marking a solemn step in their journey home. President Trump has warned that fighting may continue four to five weeks and that more American lives are likely to be lost. Franco Ordonez, NPR News, the White House.
The president of Iran is apologizing to his neighbors for this past week's attacks. He said Iran will stop striking its Arab neighbors as long as no attacks come from those countries. He's heard here through an interpreter.
The decision made yesterday by the Interim Leadership Council has been conveyed to the armed forces. From now on, they are not to attack neighbouring countries or launch missiles towards them unless we are attacked from those countries. I believe the path forward should be through diplomacy.
As the military campaign enters its second week, questions are being raised about the cost of the war. The think tank the Centre for Strategic and International Studies estimates the first 100 hours of the war cost $3.7 billion, or nearly $900 million a day. Tens of thousands of TSA employees are still working without pay as the Department of Homeland Security remains shut down over a funding dispute in Congress. NPR's Windsor Johnson reports some communities across the nation are stepping up to help.
In Boise, Idaho, people are collecting food donations to help struggling workers and their families. Cameron Kochums, a TSA employee and union leader, says morale is plummeting among his co-workers right now.
People are... struggling because they're worried about when their next paycheck is going to be. They know during the last shutdown that we were kind of forefront to everything, but now there's so many more different things going on in the world, you know, so people are having to, you know, drive Uber after work.
Airport screeners have already received a partial paycheck and are preparing to miss their next one entirely. Democrats and the White House remain divided on DHS funding and how to reform its immigration enforcement practices. Windsor Johnston, NPR News.
This is NPR News in Washington. Powerful storms, including tornadoes, hit the nation's midsection yesterday, leveling homes and bringing down power lines. Officials say four people died in Michigan. A tornado also touched down in Beggs, Oklahoma, near Tulsa, killing two people. The National Weather Service says the risk of severe weather continues today from Texas to the Great Lakes. The National Symphony Orchestra has lost its executive director. The Washington, D.C. Orchestra is the last classical music organization remaining at the Kennedy Center. NPR's Anastasios Lukas reports.
Jean Davidson had planned to stay as the lead administrator of the National Symphony Orchestra until the group's 100th anniversary in 2031. But in a surprise announcement, she says she's leaving to head the Wallace Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, California. She says it's a great personal opportunity, but also, quote, it's no secret that the last year has been really hard at the Kennedy Center. President Trump announced last month he's closing the arts complex for two years for renovations.
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