NPR News: 04-08-2026 8AM EDT
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. President Trump says the U.S. will work closely with Iran to dig up and remove what he calls nuclear dust. Writing online last hour, Trump says his administration has determined Iran has gone through, quote, what will be a very productive regime change. Trump also wrote this morning that any country that supplies weapons to Iran will be immediately subject to U.S. tariffs or of 50 percent. The online postings today are different from yesterday. That's when Trump said Iranian civilization could be wiped out if Tehran did not agree to his demands. NPR's Franco Ordonez says a ceasefire was reached last night.
Trump often uses kind of this belligerent language, and these latest threats were really quite breathtaking even for him. But it's never really a bad thing to avoid the dire scenario that he was painting. But by backing down, Trump does kind of risk damaging his credibility. You know, he's likely to face even more criticism now that he has a reputation of backing down from this most threatening rhetoric.
NPR's Franco Ordonez reporting. Crude oil prices dropped dramatically after Trump announced the two-week ceasefire. The global benchmark for oil, Brent crude, is now trading in the mid-90s. It plunged from around $110 a barrel. NPR's Camille Dominovsky has more.
The near closure of the Strait of Hormuz has massively disrupted global oil trade. The ever-present hope that the strait could reopen has made prices volatile, responding sharply to the headlines. What exactly happens next in the Strait isn't clear. President Trump posted that the ceasefire was conditional on a, quote, complete, immediate, and safe opening, while Iranian leaders said via state media that the U.S., quote, has accepted Iran's control over the Strait. The Energy Information Administration estimates that full restoration of the world's oil flows will take months. Camila Dominovsky, NPR News.
Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanch says the Justice Department is officially launching its new National Fraud Enforcement Division. Blanch says the focus is on prosecuting fraud in taxpayer programs such as in health care and food benefits. NPR's Jacqueline Diaz has more.
Blanche says the Trump administration will not spare any resources in the Justice Department's effort to take down fraudsters. The acting attorney general announced new details of the National Fraud Enforcement Division during a press conference, during which he said the DOJ is looking to bring in 93 prosecutors in every district across the country to focus specifically on fraud cases. Critics have said this new division is redundant to divisions at the DOJ that have done this work for years. But Blanch says this effort will be comprehensive and will involve coordination across the whole government to take down government fraud.
NPR's Jacqueline Diaz reporting. This is NPR. Republican Clay Fuller has won the special runoff election in a Georgia congressional district. He defeated Democrat Sean Harris for the seat once held by Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene. Fuller will finish out Greene's term in office. He'll have to run again this year to win a full two-year term in office. A federal judge is rejecting an effort by the state of Louisiana to to end access to abortion medication through telemedicine. And PRS Selina Simmons-Duffin says that means access will remain in place for now.
The state of Louisiana filed this lawsuit last October, arguing that telemedicine access allows residents to get around the state's abortion ban. Federal Judge David C. Joseph, a Trump appointee, was sympathetic in his ruling to the state's arguments, but he granted a request from the Food and Drug Administration to put the case on hold while the agency does a review of the safety of the medicine, Mifepristone. In the ruling, he wrote, quote, It is FDA, not this court, that possesses the expertise to evaluate scientific evidence and make public health judgments. The judge ordered FDA to report on its progress in six months.
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