NPR News: 03-27-2026 12AM EDT
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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. President Trump has delayed a threatened U.S. strike on Iranian energy infrastructure and extended a deadline for reopening the Strait of Hormuz until April 6.
What recent actions has President Trump taken regarding Iran?
Trump says talks with Iran are going well and Iranian leaders are begging to make a deal. NPR's Aya Batraoui reports on back-channel messages.
Egypt's foreign minister actually met with some reporters in Cairo on Wednesday, and he told our producer and the other journalists there that actually it was President Trump who asked Egypt to reach out and get this going. So it was actually... It doesn't seem to be that Iran was the one that asked for this, but rather it was the White House, President Trump himself, who asked for this.
Iran has said it is not engaged in talks with Washington and has rejected a 15-point ceasefire proposal as one-sided and unfair. With Congress struggling to reach a deal funding the Department of Homeland Security, President Trump says he will sign an order to pay TSA workers... as they face another missed paycheck on Friday. Lawmakers are preparing to leave town this weekend for their spring recess. Federal courts in parts of the country straining under an unprecedented flood of habeas corpus petitions from people trying to get released from immigration detention. NPR's Martin Costi reports that in some courts, the immigration petitions are delaying other court business.
Last year, the Trump administration restricted detainees' right to post bonds to get out while their cases were pending. Many are now turning to federal courts. In California's Eastern District, home to three ICE detention centers, Judge Troy L. Nunley says he and his colleagues are getting hundreds of habeas corpus requests a month.
That's a liberty interest. A liberty interest is very, very important. And if someone is unlawfully detained and they make their case to the court, we would be remiss if we waited to get them out of custody.
He says most petitioners win their release, but the time to process them is interfering with the federal court's other cases. Martin Koste, NPR News.
Ohio Democratic Congresswoman Joyce Beatty is asking a federal court to force the Trump administration to stop calling the Kennedy Center the Trump-Kennedy Center. NPR's Anastasia Siolkas reports.
Beatty filed a motion asking a federal circuit court judge to demand Trump and the rest of the arts complex's current board and staff stop calling it the Trump-Kennedy Center. In the filing, Beatty's attorneys argue the new name directly contradicts congressional legislation, which designated the arts center as a living memorial to late President John F. Kennedy. It's part of a larger suit Beatty filed in December against Trump and many members of the center's board. In a statement to NPR, a press representative for the center wrote, quote, We're confident the court will uphold the board's decision on the name change and the desperately needed renovations, which will continue as scheduled. The center is planned to be closed in July for renovations that are expected to last two years.
Anastasia Tsilkas, NPR News, New York. This is NPR.
Transgender women athletes are being excluded from Olympic events. The International Olympic Committee agreed Thursday to a new eligibility policy that aligns with President Trump's executive order on women's sports ahead of Los Angeles Games in 2028. The IOC says eligibility for female events at the Games or any other IOC event is now limited to biological females. California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a bill renaming the Cesar Chavez state holiday to Farm Workers Day. Newsom signed the bill Thursday after state lawmakers approved it earlier in the day. The change came after sexual abuse allegations against Chavez. For decades, whether the U.S. gave foreign aid for family planning has depended largely on whether Republicans or Democrats control the White House.
And Pierce Jonathan Lambert reports a new study suggests which parties in charge influences maternal mortality around the world.
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