US-Iran Strikes Test Talks, Venezuela Quake Search & Rescue, Trump's Immigration Wins
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🗓️ 29 June 2026
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Summary
Search and rescue efforts continue across Venezuela five days after two powerful earthquakes, with the death toll approaching 1,500 and thousands still missing as families dig through rubble themselves.
And President Trump's immigration agenda just got a boost from the Supreme Court, with hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians now told to find new legal status or leave the country, even as a bigger ruling on birthright citizenship is still to come.
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(05:36) Venezuela Quake Search & Rescue
(09:24) Trump's Immigration Wins
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| 0:00.0 | The U.S. and Iran spent the weekend trading fire. |
| 0:05.5 | Iranians attacked two cargo ships. |
| 0:07.4 | The U.S. then struck targets in Iran, and Iran followed that by firing missiles. |
| 0:12.2 | Where does that leave a ceasefire? |
| 0:13.8 | I'm Lela Faudil with Stevenskeep, and this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:20.8 | Coming up, we have an eyewitness account of devastation in Venezuela. |
| 0:25.3 | An earthquake in Caracas knocked down buildings like dominoes. |
| 0:28.9 | Our colleague Hader Peralta is there. |
| 0:31.1 | Also, the Trump administration tells hundreds of thousands of people with temporary protected |
| 0:35.6 | status to apply for a new status or leave. |
| 0:38.6 | Well, I actually give you a plane ticket plus roughly $2,100 to help you reestablish when you get there. |
| 0:44.8 | The administration won its case in court. Did it also win the politics? Stay with us. We've |
| 0:49.7 | got the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:57.7 | The news you need to start your day. The United States in Iran spent another weekend of their ceasefire, not ceasing fire. |
| 1:03.3 | The latest exchange of missiles began in the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 1:06.8 | Iranians say Iran alone has control. |
| 1:09.5 | Iran opposed a UN-backed plan, fired on ships, starting a whole new round of attacks with the U.S. |
| 1:15.6 | The latest missiles yesterday went after U.S. bases in Kuwait and Bahrain. |
| 1:20.1 | And Piers Kari Khan is monitoring all this from Tel Aviv. Hi there, Carrie. |
| 1:23.7 | Hi. |
| 1:24.3 | Okay, I just got to ask, are the ceasefire peace talks, the continuing peace talks, still on? |
| 1:29.7 | We believe so. A senior U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive |
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