NPR News: 03-29-2026 5PM EDT
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🗓️ 29 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. Iran is warning the U.S. against a ground invasion after President Trump sent thousands of U.S. troops to the Middle East. |
| 0:12.0 | The country's parliament speaker Mohamed Vagar Galabov says if it happens, it would be met with force. |
| 0:18.4 | Iran also threatened to target American and Israeli universities in the Middle |
| 0:22.3 | East as part of its war efforts. This says ministers from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and |
| 0:27.6 | Egypt met in Islamabad today trying to de-escalate the war. Pakistan also says it will |
| 0:33.0 | hold talks between the U.S. and Iran in the coming days, although earlier Ghalabov dismissed the talks in Pakistan |
| 0:38.6 | has a cover after those U.S. troops arrived in the area. |
| 0:43.5 | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he's widening his country's invasion of southern Lebanon. |
| 0:48.7 | Visiting troops in northern Israel today, Netanyahu says he's creating what he calls a security buffer zone to prevent |
| 0:55.0 | Hezbollah militants from firing rockets into Israel. But Lebanon's government says Israeli attacks |
| 1:00.7 | have killed more than 1,200 people and displaced about a fifth of the country's population. |
| 1:06.5 | And peers Lauren Freyer has more from Beirut. First, Israeli officials said they'd take Lebanese territory up to the Latani River, 10 to 20 miles north of the current border. |
| 1:16.4 | Then they ordered residents out of a zone 10 miles beyond that. |
| 1:21.1 | Colette Sleem is the principal of a school housing displaced people on the boundary of that zone, |
| 1:26.7 | where the roar of Israeli warplanes |
| 1:28.5 | interrupted our interview. Residents are fleeing north in waves, she says, and her shelter is now |
| 1:35.0 | full. Israel has been striking homes, bridges, highways, and fuel stations, forcing people |
| 1:41.2 | from homes that in some cases had only just been repaired from the last Israeli invasion in 2024. |
| 1:47.6 | Lebanon's government says at least 49 people were killed Sunday, including a paramedic. |
| 1:53.0 | Lauren Freyer, NPR News, Beirut. |
| 1:56.1 | TSA workers could see their first paychecks in more than a month as soon as tomorrow, despite the partial government shutdown. |
| 2:03.3 | And peers Eric McDaniel has more. |
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