NPR News: 03-30-2026 6AM EDT

Live from NPR News in Washington, on Corvo Coleman, President Trump says he's thinking about

seizing Iran's main oil terminal on Kharag Island. He gave an interview to the Financial

Times yesterday where he said maybe the U.S. would take Kharag Island, or maybe it wouldn't,

and that he had a lot of options. Trump flew back to Washington yesterday aboard Air Force

I. He told reporters then, Iran has decided to allow some oil tankers to sail through

the strait of Hormuz last week, and will allow a few more to pass.

And today they gave us another present. They gave us 20 boatloads of oil. That starts being

shipped tomorrow. We're having very good meetings, both directly and indirectly.

He says the tankers are a quote sign of respect. But Iran says it is not holding direct talks

with the U.S. Meanwhile, Pakistan says it will host talks between the U.S. and Iran

in coming days. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is widening his country's

invasion of southern Lebanon, calling it a security buffer zone. It's intended to stop

Hezbollah militants from firing rockets into Israel, and Pierce-Lorne Freyr has more

from Beirut.

First, Israeli officials said they'd take Lebanese territory up to the Latani river 10

to 20 miles north of the current border. Then they ordered residents out of a zone 10 miles

beyond that.

Collette Sleem is the principal of a school housing displaced people on the boundary

of that zone, where the roar of Israeli warplanes interrupted our interview.

Residents are fleeing north in waves, she says, and her shelter is now full. Israel has

been striking homes, bridges, highways, and fuel stations, forcing people from homes that

in some cases had only just been repaired from the last Israeli invasion in 2024.

Lauren Freyr and PR News Beirut.

Lebanon says Israeli attacks have killed more than 1,200 people and displaced about a

fifth of the population.

TSA agents have now gone without pay for more than a month that's triggered historic

wait times at airport security checkpoints. But as NPR's Joe Hernandez reports, the Trump

administration says TSA workers could be paid as early as today.

The Trump administration says it's using funding within the Department of Homeland Security

budget to pay TSA workers. That's after Congress failed to reach a deal to fund DHS.

Lawmakers have disagreed over calls for tighter restrictions on immigration enforcement.

It's unclear exactly how the Trump administration's funding plan for TSA will work.

The agency is seeing its longest wait times in history, with some travelers stuck four

hours or more in airport security lines. Federal officials say some airports have had

more than 40 percent of TSA workers call out during the lapse in funding. Meanwhile,

White House borders are Tom Homan told multiple media outlets ICE agents sent to airports

could stay there even after TSA officers are paid. Joe Hernandez and PR News.

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The conservative political action conference or CPAC has concluded its annual conference

near Dallas. About 1600 attendees cast votes in a straw presidential poll. The winner

was Vice President Vance, with about 53 percent. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was second

with 35 percent, but that's a huge jump from last year when Rubio pulled at just 3 percent

at CPAC. A new study by the University of Colorado Boulder says there is less ICE in

the ocean than ever before recorded. The researchers say sea ICE is disappearing because of global

warming. NASA officials say preparations are going smoothly for a Wednesday launch attempt

for the Artemis 2 mission. As NPR's Nell Greenfield voice reports, its goal is to send

astronauts around the moon for the first time since the 1970s.

The four person crew is in quarantine at Kennedy Space Center, where a 322-foot tall rocket

is being readied at the launch pad. The crew includes a few firsts for a moon mission,

the first person of color, the first woman, and the first non-American, a Canadian Space

Agency astronaut named Jeremy Hansen. At a press briefing, Hansen said their flight

is actually a collaboration with lots of international partners.

It's not just three Americans in a Canadian. It is people literally around the world and

it's a beautiful thing.

Their space journey is expected to last about 10 days. They'll test out their capsule

systems close to Earth, and if all looks good, they'll go on a looping trip around the

moon and back. Nell Greenfield voice, NPR News.

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