NPR News: 03-20-2026 8AM EDT
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🗓️ 20 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, on Khorva Coleman, Israel says it has launched fresh air strikes in Iran. There are reports of explosions in Iran's capital, Tehran. NPR's Kerry Kahn says Iran has also fired on its Arab neighbors. Dubai reporting heavy explosions there as its air defense systems engaged incoming missiles and drones. An oil refinery in Kuwait |
| 0:22.4 | was also hit today. And Qatari officials tally damage estimates from an Iranian strike to a major |
| 0:28.7 | natural gas complex there. They say it will top $20 billion in lost revenue. And peers Kerry Khan |
| 0:35.0 | reporting. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has acknowledged an American |
| 0:38.7 | F-35 fighter jet made an emergency and unplanned landing after a combat mission in Iran. A U.S. |
| 0:46.4 | official not authorized to speak publicly says the jet was hit by enemy fire and that the pilot |
| 0:52.3 | is stable after requiring stitches. Mexico's president says |
| 0:56.8 | her country is examining how to resume exports of fuel to Cuba, that says the island struggles with |
| 1:02.6 | energy shortages. The U.S. effectively began blocking fuel shipments to Cuba earlier this year, |
| 1:09.0 | primarily oil tankers from Venezuela. That was to pressure |
| 1:12.6 | the Cuban government. That has now led to power blackouts on the island. Katie Silver has more |
| 1:18.4 | from Mexico City. Claudia Shanebaum says Mexico is sovereign to have a trade agreement with any country |
| 1:24.3 | in the world and that it can provide humanitarian aid to Cubans, |
| 1:27.9 | who are, quote, suffering so much. |
| 1:30.3 | The longtime ally stopped selling fuel to Havana in February. |
| 1:33.8 | Earlier this week, the Caribbean Islands' electricity grid collapsed. |
| 1:37.0 | Shipping data suggests it has only received two small vessels of oil imports this year. |
| 1:42.1 | Meanwhile, a fuel tanker carrying Russian gas is reportedly on route to Cuba, |
| 1:46.2 | expected to arrive on Monday. For NPR news, I'm Katie Silver in Mexico City. In reviewing statements |
| 1:52.1 | from lawsuits against the Trump administration, NPRs found people in Illinois, Oregon, and Minnesota |
| 1:57.6 | who say immigration officers took what appeared to be DNA samples after |
| 2:02.7 | arresting them. NPR's Meg Anderson reports they said they were arrested while protesting |
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