NPR News: 03-24-2026 6PM EDT
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🗓️ 24 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. A New Mexico jury has found that Facebook |
| 0:06.4 | parent company META violated state consumer protection laws that it failed to disclose the risk of |
| 0:12.1 | its platforms on mental health and didn't adequately monitor for child sexual exploitation. The |
| 0:17.6 | verdict comes with a $375 million penalty. Meta says it tries to weed out harmful content and experiences, but acknowledges some bad material gets through. |
| 0:28.4 | Citing national security concerns, the FCC is banning foreign-made routers, the devices that connect computers, phones, and smart devices to the internet. NPR's John Rewich has more. |
| 0:38.2 | The FCC says it's added consumer-grade routers made overseas to a list of telecoms |
| 0:43.4 | equipment prohibited from being imported into the United States. |
| 0:47.1 | The rule applies to new devices, not routers already in the U.S. |
| 0:50.9 | It says the move follows findings from an interagency body that such routers pose unacceptable |
| 0:56.3 | national security risks. That includes a severe cybersecurity risk. It says could be leveraged to disrupt |
| 1:02.5 | critical infrastructure or harm Americans. The FCC says the Department of Defense and Department |
| 1:07.4 | of Homeland Security can grant conditional approval for routers to be imported if they're determined not to pose a security risk. |
| 1:14.7 | John Rewich, NPR News. |
| 1:16.3 | A series of Trump administration policies are ratcheting up the pressure on U.S. farmers. |
| 1:21.1 | NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben reports these challenges may test the patience of rural Trump supporters. |
| 1:26.4 | The war on Iran and the resulting closure of |
| 1:28.3 | the Strait of Hormuz have spiked the costs of nitrogen fertilizer and fuel. All of that comes |
| 1:33.1 | after deportations thinned out the agricultural labor force and tariffs both pushed input prices |
| 1:38.2 | higher and disrupted normal trading relationships. Illinois farmer Dave O'Brien is fed up with |
| 1:43.5 | the Trump administration's messaging. |
| 1:45.2 | It bothers me with these statements about, well, there's going to be a little hurt to be spread |
| 1:49.1 | around, but that'll all get better. That's almost an insult. But we're supposed to take it in the ribs, |
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