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NPR News: 04-20-2026 2AM EDT

20 Apr 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

1.297 - 3.66 Dale Willman

Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman.

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Chapter 2: What incident did President Trump report regarding the Iranian cargo ship?

4 - 12.87 Dale Willman

President Trump says the U.S. has seized an Iranian cargo ship after it attempted to violate the U.S. blockade in the Strait of Hormuz. NPR's Eric McDaniel has more.

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13.09 - 31.951 Eric McDaniel

Amid peace talks and a looming end to the ceasefire, President Trump posted to social media that a U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer, quote, blew a hole in the engine room, end quote, of an Iranian-flagged cargo ship, the Tuska. Trump says Marines then took control of the vessel and moved to investigate its cargo. He said the Iranian flagship was under existing U.S.

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31.971 - 45.748 Eric McDaniel

Treasury Department sanctions. Earlier on Sunday, Trump alleged that Iran had violated the ceasefire by firing at other ships transiting the waterway. The incident is sure to complicate planned peace talks in Pakistan this week. Eric McDaniel, NPR News, the White House.

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45.897 - 64.125 Dale Willman

Police in Shreveport, Louisiana are still trying to make sense out of one of the country's deadliest mass shootings in several years. They say a man killed eight children, including seven of his own, and wounded their mother and another woman early Sunday. Shreveport Police Corporal Chris Bordelon says they still don't understand why the shooting took place.

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64.265 - 79.39 Chris Bordelon

This is a horrible act of violence, unlike anything we've ever seen in our city. This whole community is hurting, and as police officers, we want to do what we can to support our community. But our officers are hurting. The officers that responded in this scene, every one of them, we've never seen anything like this.

79.851 - 86.925 Chris Bordelon

This amount of evil violence that happened, and that's what it is, it's evil, is something that's disturbing and it's going to take a long time for this community to recover.

87.366 - 111.645 Dale Willman

Our audio comes courtesy of KSLA News 12 in Shreveport. A refund system for businesses that paid tariffs on imported goods is scheduled to launch Monday. In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court struck down the Trump administration tariffs in February. Officials with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection say importers and brokers can begin claiming refunds online starting at 8 a.m. Eastern.

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The Trump administration has released new data on the country's HIV-AIDS work overseas. As NPR's Gabriela Emanuel reports, these are the first numbers to show the effect of massive cuts and changes to the U.S. flagship Global Health Initiative.

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Officials are trumpeting the HIV treatment numbers, which show the U.S. supporting 20 million people as of last September, about the same number as a year prior. Jeremy Lewin is with the State Department.

Chapter 3: What details emerged about the mass shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana?

208.117 - 220.092 Dale Willman

Tens of thousands of runners and athletes will be in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, Monday to stand at the starting line of the 130th Boston Marathon. Esteban Bustillos with Member Station GBH News has more.

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220.112 - 244.544 Esteban Bustillos

30,000 participants are expected to make the 26.2-mile journey from the cozy New England town of Hopkinton to Boston's Copley Square for the marathon. Residents of 123 different countries are set to participate in the big race. This year's Grand Marshal is Jack Foltz, who won the Boston Marathon in 1976 in what became known as the Run for the Hoses.

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245.145 - 255.842 Esteban Bustillos

Temperatures in the 90s that year saw many runners drop out and spectators cool off runners with water hoses. For NPR News, I'm Esteban Bustillos in Boston.

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255.822 - 279.484 Dale Willman

The old-timers won at the box office this weekend. The Super Mario Galaxy movie took first place for a third week, bringing in another $35 million at North American theaters. Its international total has now reached $747.5 million. Project Hail Mary was in second, bringing in $20.5 million in its fifth weekend in the theaters, and The Mummy debuted in third. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.

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280.274 - 303.666 Brittany Luce

This year, for the first time in NPR's history, public media is operating without federal funding. That means NPR needs your support now more than ever. I'm Brittany Luce from It's Been a Minute. Please do your part to keep independent, reliable news coverage strong and support the podcasts that get you through the day by making a gift for public media giving days. Head over to donate.npr.org.

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