NPR News: 09-22-2026 4PM EDT
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What is the opening focus of NPR’s 4 PM news update?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Trump says he has a big decision to make on Iran. Does he make a deal with them or quote annihilate the Islamic Republic? And PRS Michelle Kelleman reports on Trump's address to the UN General Assembly today.
President Trump says he has some options on Iran. He says he thinks they'll make a deal after the US midterm elections. But he's also warning Iran that the US could quote drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope for future greatness for generations. The US launched the war without international backing, and many countries are looking to the US and Iran to de-escalate and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. But the Iranian backed Houthis in Yemen are threatening another key trade route in the Red Sea. And the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says it's time to resolve this. Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, the United Nations.
After the speech, Trump said officials from the US and Iran met today for three hours. Trump also praised the US's military operation in Venezuela earlier this year and its control of oil. To the victor belong the spoils, Trump told the international body.
How is President Trump framing the United States’ options on Iran?
Contradicting decades of US rhetoric and UN principles not to explicitly connect foreign intervention with the acquisition of resources. The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee spoke out today on prospects of For gun violence prevention after the midterms, NPR Zeric McDaniel reports Congressman Jamie Raskin Is calling for a universal criminal background check for gun purchases.
If Democrats take control of the House in the next Congress, Jamie Raskin would be chairman of the committee with primary jurisdiction over gun violence legislation. In keynote remarks he made at a forum put on by The Trace, a newsroom that covers gun violence, Raskin celebrated the violent crime decline in the United States since the pandemic, but also noted that there was still work to be done to understand what exactly has driven it. If Democrats do take the reins, Raskin says he'll work to advance policies supported by bipartisan majorities of the public, including bump stock regulation and safe gun storage laws. He also says he doesn't know how the Supreme Court will rule on an assault weapons ban case in its coming term, but that he doesn't have high hopes that gun violence prevention advocates will prevail.
Eric McDaniel and Pierre News Washington.
Nolanwell's parents say they're not giving up on finding out exactly how he died. At a news conference today, his mother Christine Wance Lee expressed frustration with investigators. The grand jury that determined There was not enough evidence that the eighteen year old Mississippi student's death was likely the result of criminal conduct.
Elmore and I do not believe that Nolan simply and accidentally drowned. And nobody saw anything.
What gun‑violence legislation does Congressman Jamie Raskin propose if Democrats control the House?
And no one knows anything.
Wells was found dead two days after he and his friends went on a boating trip to Horn Island for the july fourth holiday. From Washington, this is NPR News. A South Carolina coroner finds that actor Hayden Penetier died from an accidental overdose. Involving fentanyl and other drugs. The Grammy and Golden Globe nominated actor died last month. She was thirty six years old. A federal court is clearing the way for the US Fish and Wildlife Service and SpaceX to move ahead with a land swap in South Texas, where the objections of tribal and environmental groups. Under the arrangement, SpaceX gets seven hundred fifteen acres of wildlife refuge land in exchange for parcels of privately held land. Critics warn a land swap could have implications for public lands across the US.
The country singer Ella Langley has set a new all time Billboard chart record, and PR Stephen Thompson reports she's taken the throne from Mariah Carey, though perhaps not for long.
This week, Ella Langley's Choosing Texas is the number one song in the country. He's
choosing Texas, I can tell.
The track has now spent 23 weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100 that's never been done before.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the opening focus of NPR’s 4 PM news update?
0:01–1:13
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How is President Trump framing the United States’ options on Iran?
1:13–2:47
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What gun‑violence legislation does Congressman Jamie Raskin propose if Democrats control the House?
2:47–4:15
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Why are investigators and the family still questioning the cause of Nolan Wells’ death?
4:15–4:54
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How did Ella Langley break Billboard records and what does that mean for country music?
4:54–5:03