NPR News: 04-06-2026 8PM EDT
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🗓️ 7 April 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. |
| 0:04.3 | President Trump says he's not at all concerned about committing possible war crimes |
| 0:08.8 | as he threatens to destroy Iran's bridges and power plants. |
| 0:11.9 | If they don't reopen the Strait of Hormuz by tomorrow night, |
| 0:15.1 | he refused to say whether any civilian targets would be off limits. |
| 0:18.4 | We're giving them, we're giving them till tomorrow, 8 o'clock Eastern Time, and after that, |
| 0:26.3 | they're going to have no bridges, they're going to have no power plants. |
| 0:31.6 | Stone ages, yeah. |
| 0:32.9 | Iran rejected a proposal for a 45-day ceasefire, saying it wants a permanent end to the war. Israel and the |
| 0:39.1 | U.S. continued to carry out a wave of attacks on Iran, which responded with strikes on Israel |
| 0:43.8 | and its Gulf Arab neighbors. The Artemis 2 crew has passed the farthest point of their mission, |
| 0:49.6 | and they're on their way back to Earth. The Orion capsule reached that point during a 50-minute period when they |
| 0:55.2 | were out of contact because radio signals were blocked by the moon. Here's mission specialist |
| 1:00.0 | and the first woman to travel to the moon, Christina Cook. Houston, we have you the same, |
| 1:05.8 | and it is so great to hear from Earth again. To Asia, Africa, and Oceania, we are looking back at you. We hear you can look up and see the moon right now. We see you too. |
| 1:17.7 | The astronauts passed a critical milestone today, reaching farther into space than humans have ever ventured. |
| 1:23.6 | It's the first mission to send humans to the moon's orbit in more than 50 years. |
| 1:33.7 | The men's college basketball season concludes tonight as Michigan faces Connecticut for the NCAA tournament title. |
| 1:35.3 | Greg Eklund has this preview. |
| 1:40.7 | Even with Yukon's track record of two national championships in the past three seasons, |
| 1:45.2 | the Huskies were regarded by some experts as the underdog team at the final four, |
| 1:51.5 | but Yukon coach Dan Hurley has been on both ends to know well enough that predictions don't matter. |
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