NPR News: 04-04-2026 4PM EDT
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What threats did President Trump make against Iran?
Another threat from President Trump against Iran, saying on social media today it has 48 hours to open the Strait of Hormuz or, quote, all hell will rain down. He's already delayed that threat twice. This as the search for a missing U.S. service member in Iran continues. Two U.S. military planes were shot down yesterday. Two other crew members were rescued. Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former State Department official, says it shows Iran remains a threat.
It's extraordinary, frankly, in the thousands of sorties that both the Americans and Israelis have flown that this is the first time that you had a downed aircraft. But it is, I think, tremendously symbolic. It suggests that the Americans don't have total escalation dominance of the airspace. Iranians still have capacity, not to mention the propaganda value of this, assuming the Iranians find the airmen.
Speaking there on NPR's Weekend Edition. In Lebanon, at least 23 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes yesterday. About a third of the country is Christian, but the lead-up to Easter has been subdued this year, as NPR's Lauren Frayer reports.
Holy Week services are mixed with funerals and the sound of explosions. Israel's military says it's striking Hezbollah's infrastructure after killing a thousand of its members. Three United Nations peacekeepers have been wounded at their base in the south. The UN says it doesn't know the origin of the explosion. Israel says it was a Hezbollah rocket. Three U.N. peacekeepers were also killed there last week. Meanwhile, as the U.S. and Israel attack Iran and Iran retaliates against U.S. allies in the Gulf, Lebanon has not been hit by Iranian fire. But the U.S. embassy in Beirut says Iran may now target U.S. universities in Lebanon. The American University of Beirut has shifted some classes online. The embassy has also upped its overall warning, telling U.S.
citizens to leave Lebanon now. Lauren Freyer, NPR News, Beirut.
The Trump administration was warned by the mortgage industry last year not to kill a program that was helping military veterans avoid foreclosure. But the VA killed it anyway. And here's Chris Arnold reports the results show that veterans are losing their homes.
More than 10,000 veterans have lost their homes in foreclosure sales since Trump's VA, with no warning, shut down that safety net program last May. That's according to industry data, and it's the highest level in a decade. Also, 90,000 more vets are headed toward foreclosure. The VA is rolling out a new program that could help, but it won't be up and running for months. Steve Sharp at the National Consumer Law Center says vets are losing their homes now.
And we really shouldn't lose those folks to foreclosure, those homes, those families, children, neighborhoods. We should have something in place.
Sharp and some lawmakers are calling on the VA to stop foreclosures on vets until its new program is functional. Chris Arnold, NPR News.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Marmalade, that orange preserve favored by Paddington Bear, may have to be renamed so producers in the UK can sell it in the European Union. Vicki Barker has more from London.
To most Brits, the term orange marmalade is a redundancy. The marmalade on British breakfast tables is invariably orange-flavored. Problem is, the term marmalade is a more generic term in Europe. With the British government close to striking a post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union, well, that cherished marmalade would have to be sold and labeled as, quote, citrus marmalade to conform with EU standards. Back in the 1970s, Britain was able to win a special dispensation from Brussels to grant British marmalade protected status. But with the UK now out of the European Union, its bargaining power is approximately zero. For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London.
NASA says the Artemis II lunar mission is on schedule and that the astronauts will enter the lunar gravitational pull tomorrow.
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