NPR News: 04-14-2026 9PM EDT
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone. The U.S. military says no ships have evaded its blockade of Iranian ports. NPR's Quill Lawrence reports a dozen U.S. warships and more than 100 aircraft have been enforcing the naval blockade that began Monday morning.
U.S. Central Command states on social media that no vessels headed to or from Iran have passed the Strait of Hormuz since the American blockade began, and that six merchant ships had obeyed U.S. orders to return back to Iranian ports. CENTCOM says the blockade will be enforced against any nation's ships and allows free navigation in and out of the Persian Gulf, except for Iranian ports. Iran, for its part, has effectively blocked any other commerce through the Strait for weeks, with the mere threat of Iranian mines and drone attacks keeping all but a trickle of shipping anchored in the Gulf. Iran has charged a few ships millions of dollars for safe passage. Now, the U.S. blockade will likely end that practice.
Quill Lawrence, NPR News.
In Washington, the D.C. Court of Appeals has blocked an effort to investigate former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, as well as other top Trump officials for possible criminal contempt. NPR's Ximena Bastillo reports.
The appeals panel ruled two to one that District Judge James Boasberg's attempt to probe the executive branch is a, quote, clear abuse of discretion. The two Trump appointees ruled against Boasberg's content investigation. The third judge on the panel, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, dissented, saying the panel's decision would hurt the future of all federal judges to hold the executive branch to account. Judge Boesberg sought to investigate the administration after he said it defied his orders not to proceed with deportation flights to El Salvador. This is the second time in this case that the courts have blocked any attempt to investigate the Trump administration for contempt. Ximena Bustillo, NPR News, Washington.
The U.S. is experiencing a resurgence of measles with more than 1,700 confirmed cases so far this year. Now a new study finds that rising measles cases come with significant human and economic costs. NPR's Maria Godoy has that story.
Last year, the US confirmed 2,287 measles cases, the highest number in decades. In a new modeling study, researchers at Yale estimated that responding to those cases cost the country some $244 million. The average cost per case was more than $104,000. The researchers also found that even a small 1% drop in measles vaccination rates could result in more than 4,000 hospitalizations and 36 preventable deaths from measles each year. That 1% drop in vaccinations would also cost the nation an additional $1.5 billion per year between now and the year 2030 in related health costs. The findings appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Maria Godoy, NPR News.
On Wall Street, the Dow closed up 317. This is NPR. The International Monetary Fund is warning that the Iran war is likely to push global economic growth lower than last year to a 3.1% rate below a first predicted 3.3%. After years of financial struggles, Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts will close at the end of 2026. From GBH in Boston, Kirk Carapessa reports, the decision comes as hundreds of other private colleges face tough financial decisions.
The alternative liberal arts school with no grades or majors first opened in 1970. Hampshire leaders declined an interview request, saying they're focused on supporting the campus community amid news of the shutdown. Michael Horn is co-founder of the Clayton Christensen Institute, which has long predicted widespread college closures. He says declining enrollment shows Hampshire's offbeat profile wasn't selling with potential students. While they had a unique value proposition, the market was pretty clearly telling them it was a unique value proposition that was not valued. A new analysis from the Huron Consulting Group says, It says more than a quarter of private, non-profit four-year colleges are at risk of closing within the next 10 years.
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