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NPR News: 06-22-2025 5PM EDT

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🗓️ 22 June 2025

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, it's Ian from How to Do Everything.

0:02.6

On our show, we attempt to answer your how-to questions.

0:06.1

We don't know how to do anything.

0:08.3

So we call experts.

0:09.7

Last season, both Tom Hanks and Martha Stewart stopped by to help.

0:13.3

Our next season is launching in just a few months.

0:15.6

So get us your questions now by emailing how-to at npr.org or calling 1-800-424-2935.

0:24.6

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. In a briefing this morning, the

0:30.4

Pentagon says U.S. stealth bombers returned without taking fire in yesterday's strikes on

0:36.3

Iranian nuclear sites.

0:38.1

And here's Quill Lawrence has more.

0:39.8

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the surprise attack included the first use of American

0:43.9

massive ordinance penetrating bombs designed to hit fortified bunkers deep underground like the

0:49.2

Iranian nuclear site in Fordow. He said they appear to have hit their targets.

0:53.5

Hegsteth stressed that U.S.

0:54.9

goals are limited. This mission was not and has not been about regime change. The president

1:00.8

authorized a precision operation to neutralize the threats to our national interests

1:06.9

posed by the Iranian nuclear program and the collective self-defense of our troops and our ally Israel.

1:14.6

General Dan Kane, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said it's too early to see just how effective the strikes were.

1:20.3

U.S. troops on bases in the region where Iran has struck in the past are on high alert for possible retaliation.

1:26.8

Quill Lawrence NPR News.

1:28.5

And Russia is condemning the Trump administration's decision to carry out attacks on its

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