NPR News: 03-30-2026 9PM EDT
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. Lines at major airport security checkpoints are starting to shrink. As Marlon Hyde of member station WABE reports, Transportation Security Administration officers are beginning to receive paychecks after President Trump signed a memo ordering the Department of Homeland Security to pay them.
After days of long security lines at Atlanta-Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, a spokesperson says wait times are now under 10 minutes at all checkpoints. 65-year-old Carol Knowles just arrived back to Atlanta. She says the security lines look unrecognizable from last week.
Well, I was getting ready to take some pictures myself. Like, is this the same airport? That's how good it looks.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are still around, even checking IDs at security checkpoints, with no word on when that deployment will end. The union representing TSA officers says that while employees are starting to receive pay for previous weeks, it is not everything they are owed. For NPR News, I'm Marlon Hyde in Atlanta.
The FBI says an attack on a Detroit-area synagogue earlier this month was an act of terrorism inspired by the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah. Michigan Public Radio's Colin Jackson has more.
On March 12th, a man armed with fireworks, gasoline, and weapons rammed his truck into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield. Ayman Ghazali exchanged gunfire with a security guard before fatally shooting himself. Federal agents say Ghazali had been posting and consuming pro-Hezbollah content online. U.S. Attorney Jerome Gorgon says it does not matter whether the attack was directed or inspired.
There's no legal difference whether a Hezbollah commander called this man and said, go do this attack, or whether this man consumed Hezbollah propaganda and heeded the call within the propaganda to go do an attack.
The FBI says it doesn't have any evidence of co-conspirators. For NPR News, I'm Collin Jackson in Detroit.
Palestinians can now face the death penalty in Israel and its occupied territories, according to a new law passed by Israeli lawmakers. It's an initiative from Israel's far-right cabinet ministers that received the support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu despite condemnation from European countries.
NPR's Daniel Estrin reports. The new law makes the death penalty by hanging the default sentence for Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis in what Israel classifies as terrorism cases. Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir championed the law. He celebrated its passage toasting with lawmakers. Critics say the law is written in a way to not impose the death penalty against Jewish Israelis convicted of killing Palestinians. The bill had drawn opposition among Israeli national security and foreign affairs officials. The UK, France, Germany, and Italy had urged Israel not to pass the law, calling it discriminatory. A civil rights group has already filed a court challenge. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
This is NPR News. Spain has closed its airspace to U.S. planes involved in the Iran war after earlier saying the U.S. couldn't use jointly operated military bases there for operations related to the conflict. Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has been one of Europe's most critical voices of the U.S., and Israeli military actions in the Middle East. Colorado's Department of Transportation is requesting millions of dollars in unspent snowplow funds to prepare state roads for wildfire season, as Emma Vandenheide reports.
Up to $12 million of snow contingency funds could be used to clear fuels along roads, but officials caution they'll need more to handle the season ahead. Bob Pfeiffer is the deputy director of operations for the Colorado Department of Transportation. He says this is the first time they've been able to request these funds due to the record lack of snowfall.
We've actually hit our peak snowpack about two weeks ago, which means that's the most snow our mountains will see, which was not very much.
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