NPR News: 03-23-2026 6PM EDT
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🗓️ 23 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. President Trump says the U.S. is negotiating with Iran to end the war. |
| 0:08.3 | Iran has not confirmed that. As NPR's Maria Aspen reports, the announcement sent U.S. stocks surging as oil prices dropped. |
| 0:15.4 | The Dow and NASDAQ both closed up more than one and a quarter percent. |
| 0:18.5 | Wall Street has been swinging sharply up and down this year, especially since the war with Iran |
| 0:23.7 | sent the price of oil soaring. Consumers are paying more at the pump, while investors are worried |
| 0:29.8 | that the oil shock will reignite inflation. President Trump's announcement sent oil prices falling, |
| 0:36.6 | giving investors hope that the economy can avoid a long-term energy crisis. |
| 0:41.6 | Stocks rose broadly, led in part by the airlines and cruise ship companies that use a lot of oil. |
| 0:47.9 | Yet U.S. markets are still in the red for this year, and Wall Street remains on edge. |
| 0:57.0 | Goldman Sachs says the U.S. is now at a greater risk of recession in the next 12 months due to the surge in oil prices. Maria Aspen and PR News. |
| 1:04.3 | Six months after President Trump sent a multi-agency task force to fight crime in Memphis, |
| 1:10.0 | White House officials visited the city today to |
| 1:12.0 | tout its success. As Christopher Blank with member station WKNO reports, overall crime in Memphis is down |
| 1:18.3 | about 43 percent compared to last year, according to local law enforcement data. |
| 1:22.7 | The Trump administration surged thousands of federal personnel in September from more than 30 agencies, including the National Guard. |
| 1:30.3 | You have now developed a reputation as a city that's coming back stronger than any city in the country because of what's happened with crime. |
| 1:39.3 | Local officials and Democrats have warily praised the extra resources, but they've criticized the administration's |
| 1:45.4 | emphasis on immigration arrests and the visibility of National Guard troops. The president |
| 1:50.1 | announced that these troops and other guardspeople deployed in U.S. cities will now receive the |
| 1:54.9 | same military benefits as active duty troops. For NPR News, I'm Christopher Blank in Memphis. |
| 2:00.4 | The Supreme Court may be poised |
| 2:02.1 | to toss out a Mississippi law that allows some mail-in ballots to be counted after election day. NPR's |
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