NPR News: 04-20-2026 12PM EDT
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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
What updates are there on U.S.-Iran peace talks?
The Trump administration is dispatching a delegation back to Pakistan's capital soon for a second round of U.S. peace talks with Iran, according to a U.S. official not authorized to speak publicly on the matter. However, the White House has not officially said if Vice President J.D. Vance will also be traveling to Islamabad. A resolution hinges in part on ending a standoff in the Strait of Hormuz, an important route for global oil supplies. NPR's Tamara Keith has more.
The president needs the Strait of Hormuz reopened to stabilize oil markets, but it's a key piece of leverage Iran has gained in this war. Trump also set a red line at Iran's nuclear program. He doesn't want Iran enriching uranium and he wants to take possession of the material Iran still has. But also, Trump is just looking for a way to declare a win and get out of this war. He's been claiming it was nearly over for weeks now. But reality is a stubborn thing and Iran gets a say in whether this conflict ends or not.
NPR's Tamara Keith reporting. A new United Nations report says billions of dollars are needed to rebuild Gaza, including its university buildings destroyed by the Israeli military. Palestinian students with scholarships to study abroad rallied in Gaza today, calling on Israel to allow them to cross Gaza's border with Egypt. Here's NPR's Anas Baba in Gaza.
A Palestinian song plays as hundreds of students rally in Gaza City. They are raising their passports and college acceptance letters above their heads, demanding Israel allow them to leave Gaza. Remus Cake, who's 22, says she has been trying to leave Gaza for two and a half years after being accepted to four universities abroad, including in Canada.
We are students, we are top students, and we are maybe teachers, doctors, engineers, researchers. We just want to continue our dreams, and we want to reach our universities to rebuild Gaza.
Six months into the ceasefire, only small numbers of hospital patients and their companions have been allowed to leave Gaza. Anas Baba, NPR News, Gaza City.
A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck off Japan's northern coast this morning. NPR's Anthony Kuhn has an update.
The quake was felt in buildings swayed in the capital, Tokyo. Residents of some coastal areas in the country's northeast were ordered to evacuate to high ground. Authorities warned of waves up to 10 feet high, but the first to reach shore were about 2.5 feet or less. Some train services were suspended. Nuclear power plants were checked, but no abnormalities were found. The quake struck the same region where a magnitude 9 earthquake and tsunami killed around 20,000 people and caused meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in 2011. Anthony Kuhn, NPR News, Seoul.
From Washington, this is NPR News. The U.S. Supreme Court's agreed to hear out Catholic preschools in the fall over their exclusion from a taxpayer-funded program in Colorado. St. Mary Catholic Parish and the Archdiocese of Denver argue the school's constitutional rights are being violated because of their faith-based restrictions on admitting LGBTQ plus families and children. Colorado says all schools are welcome to participate in the publicly funded program for free preschool, provided they do not discriminate under state law. Millions of Americans wear smartwatches or other devices to track everything from exercise to sleep. Wearable devices are a $100 billion business in the United States. NPR's Alison Aubrey reports there's new guidance from neurologists on the best way to interpret the data.
People with migraine headaches can use data from a wearable device to look for connections between factors such as sleep and small body temperature changes and a migraine flare. Dr. Sarah Benesch with mHealth Fairview in Minnesota and the American Academy of Neurology says sharing data with your doctor can be helpful.
If one of our patients brings in data from the wearable, it expands how much information we can look at.
She says smart watches can help detect serious conditions.
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