NPR News: 06-27-2026 7PM EDT
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. For the second straight night, the U.S. military says it conducted airstrikes on multiple targets in Iran in a direct response to what it says was an Iranian attack earlier in the day on an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. Central Command says the tanker, a Panama-flagged ship, was attacked by a one-way Iranian attack drone. The U.S.
What immediate U.S. military response was announced after the Strait of Hormuz tanker attack?
's commercial vessels, though, continue to transit through the strait. The death toll from the twin earthquakes in Venezuela has risen to more than 1,400. And Piers Ada Peralta reports, now the race is on to try to find survivors.
It has now been nearly 72 hours since two earthquakes of 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude shook Venezuela. Acting President Delcy Rodriguez has militarized the state of La Guayra just north of the capital, Caracas. She says the priority right now is to find survivors. The government, she said, is mobilizing heavy equipment. Residents of La Guayra, however, say the help is insufficient. Many are digging using picks, shovels, and bare hands. Experts say the greatest chance of finding survivors comes within 72 hours of a quake. The fear is that many are still left under the rubble. Family members are reporting thousands of people missing. Eder Peralta, NPR News, in La Guayra State in Venezuela.
President Trump says he's nominating a former Oklahoma State trooper to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The agency has been without a Senate-confirmed director since 2017. NPR's Shondalise Duster has more.
President Trump said in a social media post that he has chosen Lance Scheuer to be the next Immigration and Customs Enforcement director. Scheuer is senior advisor to Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen. and has been overseeing coordination of immigration enforcement, according to the agency. He previously worked at the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety, was an Oklahoma State Trooper, and served as a U.S. Marine. Shoyer's nomination must be approved by the Senate. If confirmed, he would replace acting ICE Director David Venturella. ICE has not had a Senate-confirmed director since President Obama's administration.
How have Venezuelan authorities and residents responded after the 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes?
Shondalese Duster, NPR News.
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshar has declared a state of emergency after flash floods that left at least one person dead, inundated multiple counties. Curtis Tate from Member Station WEKU has more.
Beshar said parts of Kentucky had already received six to seven inches of rain Saturday, and he warned people to stay off the roads. He also said search and rescue teams were on the ground. Thank you to all the first responders out there. We've seen dozens upon dozens of rescues. Multiple counties have declared states of emergency. Beshear said Madison County, which is just south of Lexington, was especially hard hit. He encouraged people to avoid calling 911 for updates on road conditions and directed them to KY.gov instead. For NPR News, I'm Curtis Tate in Richmond, Kentucky.
You're listening to NPR News. The Department of Health and Human Services says 5 million people have dropped out of health care coverage through the Affordable Care Act. This as subsidies expire and costs rise after President Trump and Congress allowed Obamacare premiums to rise double on average from last year's. This year, health care experts predict even more people will cancel their plans to allow them to lapse because of the cost. For more than a century, federal Indian boarding schools worked to break tribal bonds by isolating children from their families and forcing them to abandon their culture. But one still operational school in Santa Fe followed a different path. Empire Sequoia Carrillo has more.
Santa Fe Indian School, like many boarding schools of its kind, has a painful history. Being first established in 1890 as a Native American boarding school, which we still are a boarding school, just not in the way that people would think a boarding school is. That's Kyle Shativa, a junior at the school. Located in the middle of Santa Fe, it wasn't quite as isolated as other Native boarding schools.
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