NPR News: 05-08-2026 6PM EDT
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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. The U.S. military says it has disabled two more Iranian oil tankers. |
| 0:08.8 | NPR's Quill Lawrence reports the Trump administration says ongoing attacks do not mean the ceasefire is over. |
| 0:14.6 | Sentcom posted video on social media showing the massive Iranian tankers as their smokestacks burst into flames from precision U.S. |
| 0:22.1 | strikes. Centcom says the tankers were empty and approaching Iranian ports despite the U.S. |
| 0:27.3 | blockade. For its part, Iran continues to effectively block all commerce through the Strait of Hormuz, |
| 0:33.2 | stopping oil, gas, and fertilizer shipping for a significant part of the globe. |
| 0:42.4 | This comes after Iran and U.S. forces traded attacks this week, but the White House maintains that a four-week-old ceasefire continues and therefore congressional approval is not needed for the war. |
| 0:48.4 | Iranian negotiators haven't announced a reply to the latest U.S. proposal to end the war, |
| 0:53.4 | and the demands of both sides |
| 0:54.8 | still appear far apart. Quill Lawrence NPR News. New York State is set to ban ICE agents from |
| 1:00.6 | wearing masks and prohibit state and local officials from formally cooperating with immigration |
| 1:05.4 | enforcement. NPR's Jasmine Garst reports. The bills include a ban on ICE agents covering their |
| 1:10.7 | faces, on ice using local jails to house detainees, |
| 1:14.0 | and on searching New Yorkers' homes, hospitals, churches, or schools without a warrant signed by a judge. |
| 1:20.1 | Immigration enforcement is a federal authority. |
| 1:22.9 | Democratic-led states like California and New Jersey have also tried to prohibit ice agents from wearing masks |
| 1:29.3 | and have been sued by the Justice Department. California's ban was struck down earlier this year. |
| 1:35.9 | Tom Homan, President Trump's Bordersar, has said if New York passes this legislation, |
| 1:41.2 | quote, we're going to flood the zone. You're going to see more ice agents than you've |
| 1:45.2 | ever seen before. Jasmine Garst, NPR News, New York. The online academic platform, Canvas, is back |
| 1:52.5 | online after a data breach during the height of college final exams. NPR's Rachel Treesman has |
| 1:58.0 | this update. Students and professors at thousands of universities lost access to their course materials, communications, and grades during the canvas outage on Thursday. That prompted a number of schools, including the University of Illinois, Penn State, and UT San Antonio, to postpone some final exams or cancel them altogether. Many are now urging students to be extra vigilant about |
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