Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. The U.S. says it struck missile launch

sites and Iranian speedboats attempting to lay mines yesterday. Iran says it shot down three U.S.

drones. Despite the violence, neither side appears to be pulling back on diplomatic efforts, as NPR's

Aibatrowi explains. These talks are just a Kickstarter for there to be direct talks again between the U.S. and Iran. So this is only an interim deal. But now Iran has leverage. They didn't have before this war. And that's their control over the Strait of Hermuz. And this hardened regime does not trust the Trump administration. Trump withdrew the U.S. from Iran's nuclear deal with the U.S.

in his first term, and then wars were launched on Iran during the last two rounds of nuclear

talks in June and then in February. And now Iran is demanding what they call confidence-building

measures. What they want is they want the U.S. to unfreeze their money that is locked in

accounts in Qatar. NPR's Aibatrowi reporting street drug deaths in the

U.S. continued to drop declining roughly 14% last year, according to the CDC. NPR's O'Brien

Mann reports. U.S. overdose deaths peaked in 2023 with more than 110,000 fatalities in a 12-month

period. They've been plunging ever since. According to the CDC,

roughly 69,900 people died from overdoses in 2025, the lowest number of street drug deaths

in a 12-month period since 2019. Experts say the drop is due to better medications for treating

opioid addiction and wider access to health care.

There's also been progress disrupting the smuggling of illicit fentanyl.

Alabama, New York, and Virginia saw the biggest drops in drug deaths, but there are still problem areas.

Arizona, New Mexico, and North Dakota have actually seen sharp increases in fatal overdoses.

Brian Mann, NPR News. An industrial accident at a paper mill in southwest Washington State this morning has killed

at least one person and injured at least 10 more. Member Station OPB's Eric Newman has more.

Emergency vehicles were coming and going from a paper facility for the company Napan

Dinawave on Tuesday morning.

According to officials, the accident involved the rupture of a tank of a chemical compound called white liquor that's involved in the paper making process.

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