NPR News: 03-30-2026 5PM EDT
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🗓️ 30 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. |
| 0:04.2 | The FBI says a man who crashed his pickup truck into a Detroit area synagogue earlier this month was carrying out an attack |
| 0:10.9 | inspired by Iran-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah. |
| 0:15.0 | FBI officials say Ayma and Gonzali made a video before the attack, saying he wanted to kill as many of them as I possibly |
| 0:22.7 | can. Gazali exchanged gunfire with a security guard before fatally shooting himself. No one among the |
| 0:28.5 | 150 children and staff were injured. An Iranian missile strike on a base in Saudi Arabia |
| 0:34.1 | wounded as many as 20 U.S. troops. NPR's Quill Lawrence reports Iran also destroyed |
| 0:38.9 | two vital U.S. radar planes. A U.S. official not authorized to speak publicly has confirmed |
| 0:44.3 | to NPR that two E3-century aircraft were damaged in the Iranian missile and drone attack on |
| 0:49.8 | Friday. The E-3 sentries are known as AWACs, which stands for airborne warning and control system aircraft, |
| 0:56.0 | and are crucial along with U.S. drones and satellites to de-conflicting friendly aircraft and detecting threats. |
| 1:02.8 | Iran appears to have targeted the planes precisely where they sat uncovered at the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. |
| 1:09.5 | Also, the official confirmed that the number of |
| 1:11.5 | wounded service members has grown since initial reports, including several injuries described as |
| 1:16.3 | serious. Quill Lawrence NPR News. Russia says one of its oil tankers is now docked in Cuba with |
| 1:22.1 | emergency fuel. It's the first delivery since the Trump administration imposed a blockade three |
| 1:26.9 | months ago. NPR's Charles Maines has more. Russia's Ministry first delivery since the Trump administration imposed a blockade three months ago. |
| 1:27.7 | NPR's Charles Mainz has more. |
| 1:29.4 | Russia's Ministry of Transportation said the oil tanker Anatoly Kolotkin arrived in port early |
| 1:34.8 | Monday, where it was set to unload nearly three quarters of a million barrels of crude oil. |
| 1:39.5 | The move amounted to at least a pause in a U.S. fuel embargo against Cuba, |
| 1:43.5 | buying the island a few more weeks before its fuel reserves run dry. Over the weekend in a U.S. fuel embargo against Cuba, buying the island a few more weeks |
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