NPR News: 06-10-2026 7AM EDT
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korova Coleman. The U.S. military says it has struck Iranian ground control stations and surveillance radar sites along the Strait of Hormuz.
What military actions did the U.S. take against Iran?
Yesterday, President Trump blamed Iran for downing a U.S. helicopter. NPR's Aya Batrawi reports the two pilots ejected safely.
U.S. Central Command says the military carried out, quote, self-defense strikes against Iran Tuesday night in response to the downing of an Apache helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz. CENTCOM called the operation a proportional response to recent attacks on U.S. forces and international commercial ships. Iran says among the targets hit by the U.S. are reservoirs that provide drinking water to 20,000 people. Iran says it responded by firing missiles at U.S. forces in Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait. Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqshi did not directly mention the downing of the American helicopter, but he cautioned on X that the best way to avoid accidents and being caught in crossfire is for foreign forces to leave the Gulf.
Aya Bhattarawi, NPR News, Dubai.
The Trump administration is appealing a federal judge's ruling this week. The judge struck down President Trump's $100,000 fee on H-1B visas. From member station KQED, Rachel Miro reports the judge called the fee an illegal tax.
A federal judge in Boston sided with 20 states led by California, which said the fee would hit hospitals and universities, not just the tech firms that use the program most. Two other cases are in play, including one in Washington that went the other way. UC Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says this fight is likely headed for the Supreme Court.
If this is a tax, as the district court said, then the president lacks the authority to impose it. Only Congress can impose a tax.
A White House spokesperson says the program's been abused for decades, the president can decide who enters the country, and the administration is confident it'll win on appeal. For NPR News, I'm Rachel Miro.
A new analysis of the number of abortions in the U.S. in 2025 finds that the overall number increased compared to the previous year. NPR's Selina Simmons-Duffin reports the number has increased every year for the past four years.
The Society of Family Planning launched the We Count Project to measure the number of abortions nationally just before the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion.
So we're now four years after Dobbs, and seeing that people are still getting abortion care, although the ways that they're getting that care have shifted. That's Leah Koenig, who directs the We Count Project. We've seen this really enormous growth in telehealth abortions. which now makes up 29% of U.S. abortions.
Their latest study found that there were 1.13 million abortions in the U.S. in 2025, an increase from the previous year despite many state bans across the country. Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR News.
You're listening to NPR. Four states held primaries yesterday, Maine, Nevada, North Dakota, and South Carolina. In Maine, Democrats picked oyster farmer Graham Plattner to face incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins in the fall. In South Carolina's gubernatorial primary, Lt. Gov. Pamela Evatt and State Attorney General Alan Wilson will go to a Republican runoff. South Carolina GOP Reps. Nancy Mace and Ralph Norman did not make the runoff. The prediction site Kalshi is starting to require traders to reveal their employers as a way of cracking down on insider trading. This comes as the popular betting site faces new pressure to combat market manipulation. NPR's Bobby Allen has more.
Cauchy says putting money down on a company's performance or national security matters like the war in Iran will now mean revealing where you work. Prediction market apps like Cauchy and Polymarket have soared in President Trump's second term thanks to lax regulations allowing virtually anyone to bet on anything, from the color of President Trump's tie to who will be eliminated on the next season of Love Island. But there's growing research that some of the billions of dollars traded every week on the apps is done so using insider intel.
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