NPR News: 04-11-2026 10PM EDT
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. Historic face-to-face talks between the U.S. and Iran have concluded in Pakistan with no agreement to end the war. Vice President Vance says they talked for 21 hours.
We've had a number of substantive discussions with the Iranians. That's the good news. The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement. And I think that's bad news for Iran much more than it's bad news for the United States of America. So we go back to the United States having not come to an agreement. We've made very clear what our red lines are, what things we're willing to accommodate them on, and what things we're not willing to accommodate them on. And we've made that as clear as we possibly could. And they have chosen not to accept our terms.
Speaking there from Islamabad, this day is after a fragile temporary ceasefire was announced. President Trump spoke before the talks ended, downplaying the outcome.
I'm getting a lot of reports. They've been meeting for many hours, as you probably have noticed. We'll see what happens. Look, regardless, we win. Regardless what happens, we win.
Speaking there from the White House before leaving for Florida tonight. And the U.S. military says two of its Navy warships sailed through the Strait of Hormuz today. And talks are planned for next week to discuss another front in the Middle East war that's still going on in Lebanon. President Trump says he asked Israel to scale back its invasion of Lebanon, but Israeli airstrikes are still hitting the southern part of the country. Hundreds have been killed, according to government officials. Lebanon's ambassador in Washington talked to his Israeli counterpart yesterday, the first official contact between the two countries since 1983. The FAA and the Pentagon say they've signed an agreement on the use of counter-drone laser systems at the southern border.
Imperialist Joel Rose reports the deal comes after disagreements about those systems went public.
The FAA and the Pentagon say they've completed a thorough safety assessment of a high-energy counter-drone laser system. and that these systems do not pose, quote, undue risk to passenger aircraft, unquote. But the FAA was not sure about that back in February. The agency briefly shut down the airspace around El Paso after the Pentagon permitted U.S. Customs and Border Protection to use a counter-drone laser system before the FAA had completed its safety review. The FAA later shut down a smaller area in West Texas after a similar incident. In coordinated press releases, the FAA and the Pentagon say they've completed that safety review after watching demonstrations of the system last month. Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington.
The four crew of the Artemis II lunar mission are now in Houston, where they got a big welcome from the NASA team on Earth. NASA Johnson Space Center Director Vanessa Weish.
For the very first time, Orion's life support systems were tested with astronauts on board, an essential mission milestone for deep space when we go there, further and further ahead.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The federal agency that supports the nation's libraries is now guaranteed to continue its congressionally mandated work. Empire's Chloe Veltman reports on the settlement agreement reached this week between the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Justice Department, and the American Library Association, along with the workers' union that fought to preserve the agency.
The agreement resolves litigation from last year, challenging the Trump administration's attempt to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services through executive action. It ensures that grants will continue, workers will keep their jobs, and it puts an end to attempts by the administration to further target the Institute. Sam Helmick is the president of the American Library Association. We now can continue to focus on funding our libraries, showing up for our libraries, and promoting literacy and lifelong learning, which is what we're all about.
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